Archive for September 2020
The American Dream hides somewhere along the U.S.-Mexico border
Alex Rouhandeh’s investigative journalism on the US-Mexico border was funded by the Honors Program and the SOURCE. Rouhandeh won first place in the Places category for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s Student Magazine Contest. According to a contest judge, Rouhandeh’s work merits “[A] standing ovation: It was a privilege to read…
Read More‘Black Lives Matter Is a Continuum of Black Protest Over Centuries’
Danielle Smith is a professor of African American studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Renée Crown University Honors Program. “For more than 400 years, Black people have expressed in countless ways that Black Lives Matter. ‘Black Lives Matter’ was articulated through the responses of the enslaved as they resisted sheer…
Read MoreStudents from California watch from afar as wildfires jeopardize homes
Wildfires have already burned millions of acres across California, Oregon and Washington in what’s been one of the worst years for wildfires on record. Although SU students on campus are thousands of miles away from the wildfires along the West Coast, some … are still feeling the effects. (Excerpt from story by Madison Tyler, Assistant…
Read MoreMaxwell in Washington
Learn how Washington (policy making) works and explore careers through a semester in DC with Maxwell in Washington! Information Session Wednesday, September 16 @ 5:00pm via Zoom Hear from Past Participants Meet the Director Ask Questions Apply for Spring 2021 by Sunday, September 27 Join Zoom Meeting https://syracuseuniversity.zoom.us/j/99789332498?pwd=T2JySEkyemNkTHVBbnV1d1YxdnJjQT09 Meeting ID: 997 8933 2498 Passcode: 449928…
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