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Health & Society

Coronavirus and Chinese New Year Celebrations – What To Expect

Friday, January 24, 2020, By Daryl Lovell

Many Chinese New Year celebrations have been banned or postponed in China’s major cities as officials do everything they can to contain the ongoing coronavirus scare. This week authorities implemented travel restrictions to quarantine roughly 25 million people. Gareth Fisher…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Architecture Announces Spring 2020 Visiting Critics

Thursday, January 23, 2020, By Julie Sharkey

Each semester, upper-level architecture students participate in the visiting critic program that brings leading architects and scholars from around the world to the School. Five studios will be held this spring. Benjamin Vanmuysen (Boghosian Fellow 2019–2020) Benjamin Vanmuysen will teach…

Arts & Culture

Light Work Presents 2020 Transmedia Photography Annual

Tuesday, January 21, 2020, By Cjala Surratt

Light Work announced the 2020 Transmedia Photography Annual exhibition of photographs by seniors from the art photography program in the Department of Transmedia in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The exhibition runs through Saturday, March 7, at Light…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University Doctoral Alumna Honored with Top Dissertation Prize in National Competition

Tuesday, January 21, 2020, By Eileen Korey

Kishauna Soljour ’13, G’19 came to Syracuse University with a passion for storytelling. At first, she thought it would lead to a career in journalism. She never dreamed her academic journey would culminate in a doctoral dissertation that has brought…

STEM

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Student Xinyi Zhou Selected as First Recipient of the Pramod K. and Anju Varshney Endowed Graduate Scholarship

Tuesday, January 21, 2020, By Alex Dunbar

Computer and information science Ph.D. candidate Xinyi Zhou was selected as the first recipient of the Pramod K. and Anju Varshney Endowed Graduate Scholarship. Zhou’s research covers machine learning, data (text and graph) mining, social media mining and social computing…

Arts & Culture

New Exhibitions Curated by Arts and Sciences Faculty and Student Represent Different Epochs in American History

Tuesday, January 21, 2020, By Dan Bernardi

The quote, “Art is not what you see but what you make others see,” by French artist Edgar Degas, can also be said for art exhibitions. The curator selects a theme, a concept and specific art pieces to convey a…

Arts & Culture

Designing for the United Nations

Tuesday, January 21, 2020, By Paula Meseroll

It was a coincidence that resulted not only in a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) design students, but a first for the college’s School of Design itself. Rebecca Kelly, assistant professor of communications design, was…

Arts & Culture

‘Black Subjects in Modern Media Photography’ Examines Complexity and Paradoxes of Black Visual Modernity

Friday, January 17, 2020, By Syracuse University Art Museum

“Black Subjects in Modern Media Photography: Works from the George R. Rinhart Collection” is on display through March 13 at the Syracuse University Art Galleries in the Shaffer Art Building. The exhibition of 145 photographic images includes work by news…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University Boosting Efforts to Increase Faculty Diversity through Enhanced Central Funding, New Hiring Initiative

Friday, January 17, 2020, By Kathleen Haley

To bolster faculty diversity, Syracuse University is increasing funding aimed at competitive recruitment of faculty from underrepresented minority groups for open positions. The Diversity Opportunity Hires initiative builds on the University’s existing efforts within the signature and cluster hires programs…

Campus & Community

School of Education Hosts 16 Fulbright International Teachers for Spring 2020 Semester

Friday, January 17, 2020, By Jennifer Russo

For the second consecutive year, the School of Education is hosting recipients of the Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Program for International Teachers (Fulbright DAI), which brings international primary and secondary teachers to the U.S. for a semester to pursue…