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“The Soul of Central New York” Book Talk, Signing on Feb. 24 with Author Sean Kirst

Thursday, February 16, 2017, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Local author Sean Kirst will discuss his new book, “The Soul of Central New York: Syracuse Stories” at an event on Friday, Feb. 24, from 3 – 5 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons (Room 114) of Bird Library. Co-hosted…

Arts & Culture

Woody Register on ‘The Muckers’: Lecture, Book Signing and Seminar

Wednesday, February 15, 2017, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Historian Woody Register will give a talk and reading from his book, “The Muckers: A Narrative of the Crapshooters Club,” on Thursday, March 2,  at 4:30 p.m. in the Hillyer Room on the sixth floor of Bird Library. Register will…

Health & Society

Africa Initiative Hosts Kwame Dixon Talk, Book Signing

Tuesday, January 31, 2017, By Renée K. Gadoua

Kwame Dixon, assistant professor of African American studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, will discuss Afro-Brazil and the global struggle for human rights from 5:30-7:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 2, in 319 Sims Hall. The event, “The Afro-Brazilian Experience…

STEM

Physicist to be Recognized by National Academy of Sciences

Thursday, January 26, 2017, By Rob Enslin

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…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse Recognizes Longtime Faculty Member Maria Russell with Scholarship in Her Name

Friday, January 13, 2017, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The Newhouse School, working with a group of alumni and communications industry leaders, has established the Maria P. Russell Graduate Scholarship in Public Relations Leadership in honor of longtime public relations faculty member Maria Russell. The announcement was made Friday…

STEM

Biology Professor Recognized for Innovative Teaching

Wednesday, January 11, 2017, By Elizabeth Droge-Young

Biology Associate Professor Jason Wiles received the annual Teaching Excellence Award from the Association of College and University Biology Educators (ACUBE), the second national award he was given this past fall. The award recognizes innovation in teaching biology at the…

Health & Society

IDD&E offers new program in designing digital instruction

Tuesday, January 3, 2017, By Jennifer Russo

In response to the growing demand for instructional designers—from both on campus and off—the School of Education’s Department of Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation (IDD&E) has created an online certificate of advanced studies in Designing Digital Instruction. “This CAS will…

Health & Society

YWCA Recognizes Two from University with ‘Spirit of American Women’ Honors

Friday, November 4, 2016, By Jaclyn D. Grosso

Two Syracuse University leaders were honored at the YWCA of Syracuse and Onondaga County’s “Spirit of American Women” Awards on Nov. 3 at the Genesee Grande Hotel. Liz Liddy, dean of the School of Information Studies, and Tatiana Williams ’16 G’17,…

Arts & Culture

CRS Department to Have Significant Presence at Annual National Communication Association Convention

Friday, November 4, 2016, By Erica Blust

Sixteen faculty and graduate students from the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies (CRS) in the College of Visual and Performing Arts will be participating in the 102nd Annual Convention of the National Communication Association (NCA) in Philadelphia Nov. 10-13….

STEM

Nangia Lab’s Blood-Brain Barrier Research Recognized at International Conference

Tuesday, October 25, 2016, By Matt Wheeler

Assistant Professor Shikha Nangia’s research on blood-brain barrier tight junctions was recognized at the International Conference on Tight Junctions and Their Proteins in Berlin this September. Her research team’s poster was selected from more than 40 other posters from around…