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Campus & Community

Student Ratings Opening Dec. 5

Wednesday, November 30, 2016, By News Staff

Loved your history class? Have a suggestion for your art professor? Wish something were done differently in your biology lab? Let your instructors know! Nearly 80 percent of Syracuse University instructors use the feedback they get from student ratings to…

Health & Society

Falk College Students Host Makeup Drive for Transgender Community Dec. 1

Tuesday, November 29, 2016, By News Staff

The Falk College Department of Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) is hosting a makeup drive to benefit the Syracuse-area transgender community  on Thursday, Dec. 1, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Schine Student Center. The drive was organized by…

Las Vegas Sun

Did Foley get the name right? Depends on a lot more than local appeal, experts say

Tuesday, November 29, 2016, By Ellen Mbuqe

The Vegas Golden Knights will play their first game in the National Hockey League next season without the full moniker of the city in which they reside. “I get why they did it,” Patrick Walsh, assistant professor of sport management…

Alexander McKelvie

Professor of Entrepreneurship, Interim Dean at the Whitman School of Management
Campus & Community

Law Enforcement Officers Take Part in Training on Implicit Bias

Wednesday, November 23, 2016, By Ellen Mbuqe

Public safety personnel from all over Central New York met for a unique training seminar at Syracuse University to tackle the issues of unconscious bias. The training was led by minister, researcher, master teacher and human developmentalist Bryant T. Marks….

Arts & Culture

Music Historian’s Work Brings New Life to Restoration Shakespeare Plays

Wednesday, November 23, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

The foreboding words of the Three Witches in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” conjure up the general’s kingly aspirations and bloody demise. Their presence throughout the Bard’s tragedy is mostly known to modern audiences through spoken poetic verse. But what would the theatrical…

Health & Society

‘A Moral Obligation to Stand with the People’

Monday, November 21, 2016, By Renée K. Gadoua

Ahmed Abdel Meguid was out with friends in Istanbul on July 15 when members of the Turkish military initiated a coup attempt. Abdel Meguid, an assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Religion, spent the summer…

STEM

Four Questions with Professor of Linguistics Jaklin Kornfilt

Monday, November 21, 2016, By Keith Kobland

Linguistics Professor Jaklin Kornfilt, a member of the Languages, Literatures and Linguistics (LLL) faculty since 1983, specializes in syntactic theory, theoretically informed linguistic typology, and the syntax—morphology interface, with special emphasis on the syntax and morphology of Turkish and of…

STEM

National Awards for Students in Auditory Research Lab

Monday, November 21, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

In the Auditory Electrophysiology Research Lab of Associate Professor Kathy Vander Werff, students play an important role in the research being done. Their commitment to the field of communication sciences and disorders is clear to their mentor—and now their academic…

Arts & Culture

Hallas Awarded Howard Foundation Fellowship

Thursday, November 17, 2016, By Liam Sullivan

Associate Professor of English Roger Hallas of the College of Arts and Sciences has been awarded $33,000 from the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation to complete his book project titled “A Medium Seen Otherwise: Photography and Documentary Film.”…