Giving News

Scholarship Fuels Focus on Academics and Access to Rewarding Opportunities

October 25, 2022

A dual major in international relations and television, radio and film, David Barbier Jr. is taking advantage of academic opportunities and seeing the world—thanks, in part to the generosity of those like Jeff Scruggs.

Paying it Forward

June 15, 2022

Louise Gartner Birkhead ’52 M.P.A. has made a gift to help ease the financial burden of current and future students.

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Gift Supports Professorship to Inspire Generations of Engaged Citizens

January 31, 2022

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Couple’s Gift Seeks to Ease the Burden of First-Generation Students

October 22, 2021

Kenneth ’80 and Mindy Sosne ’81 have pledged $100,000 to establish an endowed scholarship at their alma mater. The Kenneth and Mindy Sosne Scholarship will be awarded to first-generation students at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. “We’ve made a path for ourselves, professionally and financially, and now we want to give back,” says Mindy. “We want to make others’ lives easier.”

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Four Maxwell Students Named 2021 Boren Fellows

July 9, 2021

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Internship Brings ‘Full Circle’ Moment

June 14, 2021

University alumnus and Maxwell Advisory Board member David Kelso ’68 made a gift to support internships in the Syracuse Police Department.

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Gift From SU Trustee Launches Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Training

February 10, 2021

The gift from SU Trustee Christine Larsen and Vincent Dopulos will support training for graduate students at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs over the next five years.

Alumnus’s undergraduate scholarship gift serves as Mother’s Day honor

April 15, 2020

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Elliot J. Stamler ’60 makes legacy gift to support academic excellence

November 6, 2019

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Worthy Endeavors

September 1, 2019

As undergraduate programs have become more visible, Maxwell donors—many of them alumni of the undergraduate majors themselves—have grown more eager to support those programs.

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Baldanza gift supports undergraduate research

February 9, 2018

Challenge Will Fund Undergrad Research

January 1, 2018

A new gift to Maxwell will help underwrite undergraduate research and scholarship, potentially to the tune of $125,000.

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Gerry's Gang

September 1, 2008

The Cramers made a remarkable, $2-million gift to SU’s Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT), in which Maxwell and SU’s College of Law are partners.

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