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Disability Rights Expert Earns Fulbright Research Award
Associate Professor of Law Michael Schwartz has received a Fulbright Award for study at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland for the spring 2015 semester. Schwartz, who is deaf, is an expert on disability law and international human rights, and…
Commencement Speech by New Yorker Editor David Remnick
Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, delivered the Commencement address for Syracuse University’s 160th Commencement ceremony.
Burman Named Inaugural Holder of Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics
Public finance and tax policy expert Leonard E. Burman has been named the first holder of the Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Burman is currently professor of public administration and…
Chemists Design Molecules for Controlling Bacterial Behavior
Chemists in the College of Arts and Sciences have figured out how to control multiple bacterial behaviors—potentially good news for the treatment of infectious diseases and other bacteria-associated issues, without causing drug resistance. Yan-Yeung Luk, associate professor of chemistry, has…
Chemist to Receive BASF Lifetime Achievement Award
A chemist in the College of Arts and Sciences will be presented with a lifetime achievement award from the Germany-based BASF Corp., the world’s largest chemical company. In June, James Dabrowiak, professor of chemistry, will receive the International Precious Metals…
iSchool Hosts Workshop for NSF-Funded Social Computing Researchers
Faculty members at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) recently hosted a one-day workshop for New York researchers doing National Science Foundation-funded work in the area of social-computational systems. Research Associate Professor Nancy McCracken and Associate Professor Carsten Oesterlund organized…
Chemist Earns Humboldt Research Fellowship
A chemist in the College of Arts and Sciences has received a major research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, known for promoting academic collaboration among scientists and scholars from Germany and around the world. Ivan V. Korendovych, assistant…
ESF to Confer Degrees at Commencement on May 11
The SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) will confer up to 575 degrees during joint Commencement exercises with Syracuse University May 11 in the Carrier Dome. The ceremony will begin at 9:30 a.m. During the ceremony, ESF will…
Student Chapter of ACM Growing Upward, Outward at iSchool
A new student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, is in its second year at the School of Information Studies (iSchool), and is experiencing growth with the spring induction of…
Live Webinar Series: ‘Access to Instruction’
All SU faculty and staff are invited to the AHEAD to You Spring Webinar Series, “Access to Instruction: #thegrowingimperative,” three interactive webinars focused on electronic and information technology (E&IT) accessibility at colleges and universities, produced by the Association on Higher…