BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 14.4//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Karen DeYoung\, an award-winning senior national security corre spondent and associate editor for \;The Washington Post\, will deliver the Maxwell School’s graduate convocation address on May 9 in Hendricks C hapel. \;During her nearly four decades at the paper\, DeYoung has ser ved as bureau chief in Latin America and London\, and as a correspondent c overing the White House\, U.S. foreign policy\, and the intelligence commu nity. \; She has also been assistant managing editor for national news \, national editor\, and foreign editor."Karen DeYoung's remarkable career as an international journalist and author offers a unique opportunity for our graduates and their families and friends to gain insight into the exc iting world into which they are about to embark\," says Maxwell School Dea n James Steinberg. \;DeYoung is the author of the widely acclaimed&nbs p\;Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell. \; The 2005 biography details Po well’s rise from humble roots growing up in the Bronx as the son of Jamaic an immigrants to his meteoric rise through the military ranks\, culminatin g with his term as secretary of state in the Bush administration and his r ole in making the case for war with Iraq.  \;The New York Review of Bo oks \;called the book “sympathetic\, but not uncritical… It doesn’t pu ll punches.”DeYoung has won a number of awards\, including a 2002 Pulitzer Prize she shared with several \;Washington Post \;colleagues for national coverage of the war on terrorism\; the 2003 Edward Weintal Award for Diplomatic Reporting\; and Sigma Delta Chi awards for investigative re porting and foreign reporting. \; In 2013\, she was a Pulitzer Prize f inalist for national reporting on how American drones have become a perman ent weapon of war.The convocation on Friday\, May 9\, at 10:00 a.m. in Hen dricks Chapel is open to all members of the Syracuse University community.  \;A reception in Maxwell Foyer will follow at 11:30 a.m. DTEND:20140509T153000Z DTSTAMP:20240329T085129Z DTSTART:20140509T140000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Graduate Convocation UID:RFCALITEM638472846899975471 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Karen DeYoung\, an award-winning sen ior national security correspondent and associate editor for \;The Washington Post\, will deliver the Maxwell School’s graduate convocati on address on May 9 in Hendricks Chapel. \;
During her nearly fo ur decades at the paper\, DeYoung has served as bureau chief in Latin Amer ica and London\, and as a correspondent covering the White House\, U.S. fo reign policy\, and the intelligence community. \; She has also been as sistant managing editor for national news\, national editor\, and foreign editor.
"Karen DeYoung's remarkable career as an international journ alist and author offers a unique opportunity for our graduates and their f amilies and friends to gain insight into the exciting world into which the y are about to embark\," says Maxwell School Dean James Steinberg. \;< /p>
DeYoung is the author of the widely acclaimed \;Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell. \; The 2005 biography details Powell’s rise from humble roots growing up in the Bronx as the son of Jamaican immigrant s to his meteoric rise through the military ranks\, culminating with his t erm as secretary of state in the Bush administration and his role in makin g the case for war with Iraq.  \;The New York Review of Books&n bsp\;called the book “sympathetic\, but not uncritical… It doesn’t pull pu nches.”
DeYoung has won a number of awards\, including a 2002 Pulitz er Prize she shared with several \;Washington Post \;collea gues for national coverage of the war on terrorism\; the 2003 Edward Weint al Award for Diplomatic Reporting\; and Sigma Delta Chi awards for investi gative reporting and foreign reporting. \; In 2013\, she was a Pulitze r Prize finalist for national reporting on how American drones have become a permanent weapon of war.
The convocation on Friday\, May 9\, at 1 0:00 a.m. in Hendricks Chapel is open to all members of the Syracuse Unive rsity community.  \;A reception in Maxwell Foyer will follow at 11:30 a.m.