The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs on Feb. 10 named Syracuse University a Fulbright Top Producing Institution for U.S. students. This recognition is given to the U.S. colleges and universities that received the highest number of applicants selected for the 2022-23 Fulbright U.S. Student Program cohort.
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Shaw Center Stories
Shaw Center Leadership Intern and Lender Center Student Fellow Nadia Larissa Lyngdoh-Sommer Involved in Social Justice AI Research
These days, it’s hard to go anywhere without encountering artificial intelligence (AI).
Predictive text offers to finish our web searches and our text messages. AI learning-based software can produce everything from research papers to poetry, solving complex math equations to writing computer code. AI can be used to write algorithms, collect data on which areas experience the most gun violence and dictate which neighborhoods receive access to vital resources.
This year, five students who make up the 2022-24 Lender Center for Social Justice Fellowship Project will set out to investigate how AI weapons systems transform war and surveillance, and they will also analyze how AI accentuates our social and political vulnerabilities to violence.
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Collaboration for Change with Gettinger Family Foundation
The Mary Ann Shaw Center and the Syracuse University Literacy Corps (SULC) gives our gratitude to the Gettinger Family Foundation for their continuous support.
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Shaw Center Leadership Intern and SUITE Coordinator Thomas Cheng is a 2023 VPA Scholar
Twelve seniors in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) have been named VPA Scholars, the college’s highest undergraduate academic honor.
The VPA Scholars program was established to recognize the achievements of the college’s top seniors. Students are selected based on academic performance, creative/scholarly work and service to the college and the community.
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Networking, Professional Development, and the School Spirit Award: Former Shaw Center Leadership Intern Maddy Baker Recaps the Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo
Each year, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics holds the Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo (FNCE). The Academy comprises the largest group of food and nutrition professionals in the world, and each year members from around the country travel to experience everything FNCE has to offer.
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Leadership Intern Iona Volynets Selected as Inaugural Voyager Scholar
Three Syracuse University students have been selected as recipients of the Voyager Scholarship: the Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service, a new award for juniors committed to public service funded by the Obama Foundation.
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Alumni Spotlight: Leadership Intern Pat Riolo ’20 G’21
Patrick Riolo ’20 (ECS), ’21 MBA always had an interest in health care, and a desire to create things that “would give value to people.” This led him to pursue a degree in bioengineering at Syracuse University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science. However, the entrepreneurial atmosphere he discovered on the University campus led him to the Whitman School where, in his sophomore year, he decided to combine engineering and entrepreneurship through the H. John Riley Dual Engineering/MBA Program. Today, this up-and-coming professional is using both skill sets as a marketing leadership development program associate at Hillrom, now a part of Baxter International Inc.
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Shaw Center Celebrates 2022-23 Remembrance Scholars
This year the Shaw Center celebrates the incoming Remembrance Scholars. We want to recognize Dara Drake, Jaime Heath, Maggie Sardino, and Riley Moore for their impact on Shaw Center with their skills, passion, and commitment to service. Special thanks to Shaw Center Leadership Intern Jared Welch for his work with Engineering Ambassadors!
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Graduate Scholar: Anny Pérez ’20, G’22
Despite the prevalence of bilingual households in the United States, little research has been done about how growing up learning and speaking two languages impacts a child’s learning ability. Anny Pérez ’20, G’22 hopes to change that.
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SULC Tutor Andy Guzmán ’22 on the Transformative Power of the Atrocity Studies Minor
Directed by Julia M. White, associate professor in the Department of Teaching and Leadership, the School of Education’s atrocity studies and the practices of social justice minor is an interdisciplinary program that examines violations of humanitarian law and other human rights issues in an effort to “confront the past and transform the future.” Andy Guzmán ’22, an international relations and policy studies major, will graduate with a minor in the program this May.
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