Shaw Center Stories

Menschel Award Empowers Students

Janaisa Walker (left) completed an internship with Professor Marsha Weissman at the Center for Community Alternatives in Syracuse.

Betsey A. Brairton |

Following a summer internship with an environmental nonprofit in Idaho, Erica Jenson ’21 is confident of her primary career goal: “I want to be able to ‘do well’ and ‘do good’ at the same time. No matter what sector I’m in,” she says.

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Food Busters wins 2020 Orange Circle Award

By John Boccacino ’03 |

Transforming people’s lives through access to affordable housing, improving literacy in some of Syracuse’s most impoverished communities, using the art of step to give back, increasing public health awareness at an area high school, and providing essential medical supplies to a hospital at the epicenter of the coronavirus—five unique endeavors that highlight the Syracuse University community’s commitment to make the world a better place.
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Cultural Competence Leads to Leadership Opportunities

By Danielle Llewellyn |

For two Leadership Interns at the Shaw Center, Sarah Millward, a junior in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, and Ahlam Islam, a senior in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, eighteen-hour flights are no foreign concept. Continue Reading