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Bill Orzell understands the promise. It is reinforced for him by the sheer power of a statue in Billings Park in downtown Syracuse, across the street from the abandoned grandeur of the old Central High School. The statue portrays an…

Syracuse University’s Remembrance Scholar Selection Committee has chosen the 35 students who will be the 2017-18 Remembrance Scholars. The scholarships were founded as a tribute to—and means of remembering—the 35 students who were killed in the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing…

NCC News, The Stand, The NewsHouse and WAER student broadcasters all were among the winners announced at this year’s Syracuse Press Club Awards ceremony on Saturday at Drumlins. In total, there were 10 first place winners, plus seven second place…

Gerard Martin ’78 remembers when Syracuse University almost expelled him—for studying. “I was caught in the chemistry library at two in the morning,” says the renowned pediatric cardiologist, speaking by phone from his office in Washington, D.C. “They couldn’t figure…

Ed Riley swings open the door to suite 830 at the Marriott Syracuse Downtown, known for decades as the Hotel Syracuse. The rooms inside still contain much of the detail from the 1924 opening of the hotel, restored by Riley’s…

First in four-part series about humanities research at Syracuse   Michael Ebner anticipates a busy summer. When not in his office in Eggers Hall, fulfilling his duties as chair of the Department of History, the Syracuse University professor will spend…

Great music, classics, comedy, a carnivorous space alien and a high-flying partnership with New York’s 2 Ring Circus highlight the Syracuse University Department of Drama’s 2017/18 season. From Gershwin to Chekhov, from Paula Vogel to Isabel Allende, the season offers…

Sanjay Chhablani, professor in the College of Law, and Jackie Orr, associate professor of sociology in the Maxwell School and the College of Arts and Sciences, have been named the 2017-20 Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professors for Teaching…

Three Syracuse University nominees for the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship have been recognized. Jordan Barrett, a junior physics and mathematics major in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Maizy Ludden, a sophomore majoring in biology in the College of Arts…

Ralph Ketcham, one of the longest-serving and most beloved and influential professors in the history of the Maxwell School, died on Wednesday, April 26, after a brief illness. He was 89. A steadfast champion of the Maxwell approach to citizenship…