SYRACUSE, New York, Aug. 11 -- Syracuse University issued the following news: George Saunders Not one, not two, but three books by bestselling author and professor of English George Saunders were included in The New York Times list of The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Saunders, who teaches in the creative writing M.F.A. program in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), was joined on the list by three former M.F.A. faculty: Junot Diaz, Mary Gaitskill and Sigrid Nunez. The rankings were  more PR

SYRACUSE, New York, Aug. 11 -- Syracuse University issued the following news: David Popp David Popp, professor of public administration and international affairs and Caroline Rapking Faculty Scholar in Public Administration and Policy, is helping lead a National Academy of Sciences committee studying the role and impacts of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs at the U.S. Department of Energy. The ad hoc committee will study how  more PR

SYRACUSE, New York, Aug. 11 -- Syracuse University issued the following news: Several Maxwell School faculty have been promoted to leadership roles, including Junko Takeda, who has been named chair of the Citizenship and Civic Engagement (CCE) Undergraduate Program after serving in an interim role since July 2023, and Leonard M. Lopoo, who began as chair of the Public Administration and International Affairs Department in July 2024. Junko Takeda Takeda, professor of history, was named interim more PR