Ze Zeng ’23 Advocates Diversity and Inclusion for International Students

Ze Zeng ’23 is a Whitman student from China studying finance, supply chain and business analytics. He was a recent recipient of an Orange Circle Award which recognizes altruistic members of the Syracuse University community who have done extraordinary things in the service of others. Read more about Ze’s accomplishments here.

Xiamoen (Ava) Hu is a Broadcast Digital Journalism major at the Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Communications. She is one of the two recipients of the Great China Alumni Endowed Scholarship for the academic year 2021-22. 

Makana Chock, David J. Levidow Professor of Communications in the Newhouse School, has been awarded a $75,000 research grant to explore the impacts of augmented and virtual reality on bystander privacy in two countries with disparate cultural norms—the U.S. and South Korea. Chock will work with a Newhouse doctoral student from Korea, Se Jung Kim.

Mi Hoang Tran ’19, an alumna from Vietnam, discovered her interest in entrepreneurship after participating in the Orange Tank Pitch Competition and the Panasci Business Plan Competition while pursuing her MBA at the Whitman School. That interest led her to remain at Whitman to pursue her doctorate focuses on the impact of psychological vulnerabilities and gender on the well-being of entrepreneurs.