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Arts & Culture

5 Faculty Awarded New York State Council on the Arts Grants

Wednesday, December 21, 2022, By Diane Stirling

Five Syracuse University faculty members have won highly competitive awards from the New York State Council on the Arts—a record in the number of awards in a single year for Syracuse University in its 20 years of participation with the…

Campus & Community

Future TV Journalists Partner With Future Diplomats for Joint Exercise on Public Affairs

Tuesday, December 20, 2022, By News Staff

More than a dozen students from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs made a field trip to the television studios at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications this fall for a hands-on lesson in how to make…

Media, Law & Policy

A Gift to Create Agents of Change in Visual Storytelling

Wednesday, December 14, 2022, By Eileen Korey

When Xin Liu was awarded an Alexia grant more than 30 years ago, it accelerated her career in ways she could not have imagined as a child growing up in China. Today, with her extraordinary $2 million gift to the…

Arts & Culture

‘Active Repair’ Exhibition Launches

Tuesday, December 13, 2022, By Anya Woods

Organized around the theme of “repair,” the School of Information Studies (iSchool) and Humanities Center are excited to announce, in conjunction with the Syracuse Symposium, “Active Repair: Works from the Social Justice Sewing Academy (SJSA),” running now through Friday, Feb. 17,…

Arts & Culture

Community Folk Art Center Celebrates 50 Years of Community, Service and Collaboration with Award Ceremony and Ailey II Performance

Tuesday, December 13, 2022, By Cameron Kline

The Community Folk Art Center (CFAC), a unit of the Department of African American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, continued its 50th anniversary celebration recently by honoring its community and supporters and highlighting the creative arts with a…

Campus & Community

SABR Award Leads to Major League Job for Sport Analytics Student

Monday, December 12, 2022, By Matt Michael

Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca is credited for saying that “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” In other words, we make our own luck. And that’s exactly what Falk College sport analytics major John Asel ’23 did this…

Campus & Community

Maggie Sardino Named a 2023 Marshall Scholar

Monday, December 12, 2022, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Maggie Sardino, a senior majoring in writing and rhetoric in the College of Arts and Sciences and citizenship and civic engagement in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, has been named a 2023 Marshall Scholar. Founded in 1953,…

Media Tip Sheets

Britney Griner is Free, but did it take a “dance with the devil” to make it happen?

Thursday, December 8, 2022, By Ellen Mbuqe

Reporters looking for experts to discuss the issues around the release of WNBA star player Britney Griner from a Russian penal colony in exchange for a convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout, please see comments from Syracuse University professors. Brian Taylor,…

Campus & Community

EES Professor Recognized by the Geological Society of America

Wednesday, December 7, 2022, By Dan Bernardi

Christopher Scholz, professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES), is the recipient of the 2022 Israel C. Russell Award from the Geological Society of America’s (GSA’s) Limnogeology Division. Presented to only one researcher each year, the award recognizes outstanding research,…

Media Tip Sheets

War Crimes in the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Friday, December 2, 2022, By Ellen Mbuqe

Yesterday, U.S. President Joe Biden and French President Emanuel Macron pledged to hold Russia accountable for “widely documented atrocities and war crimes” in Ukraine, the two leaders said in a statement issued after their White House meeting. (Reuters) Also this…