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King’s 1965 Speech in Sims Hall Still Inspires
For Fern Durand, one conversation last week turned a familiar corridor turned into something else. He was in the Shaffer Arts Building, walking past the SUArtGalleries, when a stranger approached him and asked if he knew this story: In 1965,…
The Science of Shipwrecks
On New Year’s Eve in 1862, the USS Monitor sank in a violent storm at Cape Hatteras, off North Carolina’s windswept coast. Sixteen of her 62 sailors perished. One survivor, a surgeon named Grenville Weeks, lost three fingers and the…
The Life Path Of A Visionary: Christopher Gentile ’81
It may not be the final frontier, but with modern virtual reality technology, we can certainly “explore strange new worlds” and “boldly go where no man has gone before.” Today’s virtual reality can trick our minds into believing that we…
Physicist to be Recognized by National Academy of Sciences
A physicist in the College of Arts and Sciences is being recognized by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for his “outstanding leadership” of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Scientific Collaboration. Peter R. Saulson, the Martin A. Pomerantz…
Michael Frasciello Appointed Interim Dean of University College
Michele G. Wheatly, vice chancellor and provost, and J. Michael Haynie, vice chancellor for strategic initiatives and innovations, today announced that Michael Frasciello, director of online learning at the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS), has been named interim…
Financial Wellness Webinar to Kick Off New Year
New Year, new you! Many times this phrase refers to making changes to eating or physical activity routines, but not in this case. The results of the 2016 faculty and staff wellness survey indicated that 50 percent of survey respondents…
Former Syracuse Religion Scholar Huston Smith Mourned
Ten years after the renowned religion scholar Huston Smith left Syracuse University’s Department of Religion, he updated his popular book “The Religions of Man” (1958) to include a chapter on indigenous traditions. Smith, who died Dec. 30 at age 97,…
Reminder: Office of Civil Rights Representatives on Campus Today, Tomorrow
As a reminder, today representatives from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) will be on campus to assess Syracuse University’s processes for handling of complaints of sexual violence or harassment. This is standard protocol: these OCR…
LIS Student Becky Fitzgerald Receives NYLA’s Dewey Scholarship
Becky Fitzgerald, a graduate student in the master’s program in library and information science – school media in the School of Information Studies (iSchool) is one of seven students to receive the 2016 Dewey Scholarship award from the New York Library…
Information and Communication Technology Accessibility Policy Available for Open Comment
Among the short-term recommendations made by the Chancellor’s Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion was the adoption of a Universitywide policy on information and communication technology (ICT) accessibility. A broad-based University committee has met monthly since April 2015 and completed a…