Maxwell School News
Gift Supports Professorship to Inspire Generations of Engaged Citizens
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From the Dean: Winter 2022
One of the joys of being the dean is sharing the myriad ways the Maxwell community is making a difference. In this edition you will read about graduates who broadened human rights in Afghanistan over the last 20 years, faculty research that is shaping national health care policy and students who are active in their communities here in Syracuse and around the world.
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A Pledge to Transform Education
A gift by Ben ’84 and Marcia Baldanza ’86 inspires a joint initiative aimed at closing the achievement gap by diversifying teachers.
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Couple’s Gift Seeks to Ease the Burden of First-Generation Students
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In Memoriam: Joseph Strasser, ‘Forever an Important Figure in our History’
He was among the Maxwell School’s most generous benefactors.
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Maxwell School Announces Montonna Professor, Dean’s Award Recipients
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Three Faculty Members Named O’Hanley Scholars
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Gift Honors Professor, Seeks to Broaden Connections to Asia
Internship Brings ‘Full Circle’ Moment
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
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In Memoriam: Sid Lerner '53, Benefactor of Maxwell's Lerner Center, Dies at 90
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Cademartori bequest supports Maxwell School undergraduates
Alumnus Dominick Cademartori ’52 B.A. (Econ) left a $30,000 gift to Maxwell School for undergraduate students majoring in history or economics in his will, which is intended to extend the legacy of his own studies as a first-generation American and first-generation college student for whom college was nearly discontinued owing to financial hardship.
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Alumnus’s undergraduate scholarship gift serves as Mother’s Day honor
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Rallying Cry
“This is a time to rally the troops—to say, ‘Your appreciation of and affection for Maxwell matters now more than ever. We need your vote of confidence,’” says David M. Van Slyke, dean of the Maxwell School, about seeking donor funding.
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Elliot J. Stamler ’60 makes legacy gift to support academic excellence
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Gift funds research, training on international health care
The Health Management Faculty Development Fund, established from a gift by David Dean '76 M.S.Sc./'78 Ph.D. (SSc), will support research and teaching by a soon-to-be-hired faculty member, who will focus on health care policy and management.
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Tenth Decade Fund supports new scholarly projects
The Maxwell School’s Tenth Decade Project provides seed funding for worthy scholarly projects that have the potential to produce significant external research funding and high-impact publications. Since it was created, the Tenth Decade Project has attracted nearly $850,000 in gifts from 267 individual donors, including a lead gift from long-time Maxwell supporters Gerry and Daphna Cramer.
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SoldierStrong donation to VA hospital to help veterans battling PTSD
A unique arrangement between Syracuse University, the Syracuse Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and SoldierStrong has resulted in the donation of a groundbreaking virtual reality system to treat veterans experiencing post-traumatic stress. SoldierStrong co-founder Chris Meek '92 B.A. (Econ/PSc)/'18 E.M.P.A. says "it is both clinically effective and it reduces the stigma that many service members feel about seeking treatment for their post-traumatic stress," of the effectiveness of virtual reality treatment.
Worthy Endeavors
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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Historian Junko Takeda named first Daicoff Faculty Scholar
Junko Takeda, an associate professor of history at Maxwell who focuses on European and global histories, has been named the inaugural Daicoff Faculty Scholar. The five-year appointment recognizes Takeda’s contributions as a teacher and mentor, productive researcher, and engaged citizen and leader at the school.
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