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Arts & Culture

Syracuse Ethnomusicologist Lands Literary Honors

Wednesday, November 29, 2017, By Bianca Laury

A new book by an ethnomusicologist in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) is earning critical acclaim. Sydney Hutchinson, associate professor of music history and cultures, is the author of “Tigers of a Different Stripe: Performing Gender in Dominican…

BBC Earth

Biology Expert Details Whale Research

Friday, November 17, 2017, By Sawyer Kamman

Susan Parks, an Associate Professor in the Biology department of the College of Arts and Sciences, does unique research with some of the biggest animals on Earth, whales that roam beneath the ocean’s surface. She was featured in a BBC…

Campus & Community

Live Virtual Conference: ‘Accessing Higher Ground: Accessible Media, Web, and Technology Conference’

Thursday, November 9, 2017, By Christopher C. Finkle

All University faculty, staff and students are invited to the Accessing Higher Ground Virtual Conference, a live, web-based conference focused on accessible media, web and technology, presented by the Association on Higher Education And Disability (AHEAD). The 20th annual main conference…

Health & Society

Registration Now Open for Fall ’17 Technology Accessibility Training Workshops

Thursday, September 28, 2017, By Christopher C. Finkle

Syracuse University seeks to ensure that all people, regardless of individual ability or disability, can effectively access University communications and technology. Information Technology Services (ITS) is accepting registrations for six training workshops that will build faculty and staff awareness of,…

The Guardian

New Technology to Better Understand Black Hole Collisions

Wednesday, September 27, 2017, By Sawyer Kamman

A new technology has been discovered that uses gravitational wave detection to show the after-effects of a black hole collision.  These ripples can now be shaped using this new technology, a large advancement in science, though some things are still…

Arts & Culture

OnStage Ranks Syracuse Among Top 10 for Theater Design and Technology

Thursday, September 14, 2017, By Erica Blust

The blog OnStage has ranked Syracuse No. 6 on its list of the “Top Ten BFA Theatre Design & Tech Programs in the Country for 2017-18.” The University’s theater design and technology program is located in the College of Visual…

Campus & Community

Residence Life Diversity & Inclusion Committee to Host 18th Annual Students of Color Leadership Retreat

Wednesday, September 13, 2017, By Rachel Friedman

The annual Students of Color Leadership Retreat is scheduled for Oct. 20-22 at the Oswegatchie Educational Center in Croghan, New York. The retreat is organized by the Office of Residence Life Diversity & Inclusion Committee to give students of color…

Arts & Culture

Songs of India: Ethnomusicologist Carol Babiracki Partners with Legendary Mukund Nayak

Friday, August 25, 2017, By Rob Enslin

When Mukund Nayak found out he had won this year’s Padma Shri, one of India’s highest civilian awards, he immediately called Carol Babiracki to offer his congratulations. “No, no. The congratulations should go to you,” replied his longtime friend and colleague, who…

Health & Society

Syracuse Shines at American Sociological Association Meeting in Montreal

Monday, August 14, 2017, By Rob Enslin

More than two-dozen researchers from the Department of Sociology are on the world stage at the American Sociological Association (ASA)’s 112th Annual Meeting in Montreal. The theme of this year’s meeting is “Culture, Inequalities and Social Inclusion Across the Globe.”…

STEM

Geologist Offers New Clues to Cause of World’s Greatest Extinction

Monday, July 31, 2017, By Rob Enslin

James Muirhead, a research associate in the Department of Earth Sciences, is the co-author of an article in Nature Communications titled “Initial Pulse of Siberian Traps Sills as the Trigger of the End-Permian Mass Extinction.”