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Arts & Culture

Two Syracuse Alumni Garner Oscar Nominations for Screenwriting

Wednesday, January 24, 2018, By News Staff

Aaron Sorkin ’83 H’12 received his third Oscar nomination for “Molly’s Game,” while Michael H. Weber ’00 was recognized as co-writer of “The Disaster Artist.”

The Post Standard

Roy Gutterman Writes Op-Ed on Trump and Libel Laws

Friday, January 19, 2018, By Sawyer Kamman

Newhouse Associate Professor and Director of the Tully Center for Free Speech Roy Gutterman recently wrote an opinion piece for the Post Standard regarding President Trump’s recent threat to “open up libel laws.” For Gutterman, a free-speech expert, this is…

STEM

Britton Plourde Works to Develop Tools for Quantum Computer

Thursday, January 18, 2018, By Cyndi Moritz

Britton Plourde, professor in the Department of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received a new grant from the National Science Foundation to work on developing tools for building a quantum computer. This is a collaborative project…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse Journalists Work the Beat to Tell Personal Stories of Minority Police Officers

Thursday, January 11, 2018, By Wendy S. Loughlin

A group of eight journalism students from the Newhouse School spent the 2016-17 academic year examining a national issue with local implications: police-community relations.

Arts & Culture

SUArt Galleries Presents ‘Kiki Smith and Paper: The Body, the Muse, and the Spirit’

Tuesday, January 9, 2018, By Syracuse University Art Museum

The Syracuse University Art Galleries will present “Kiki Smith and Paper: The Body, the Muse, and the Spirit” beginning Jan. 18. Organized by the Oklahoma State University Museum of Art and guest curated by Wendy Weitman, former curator in the Department of…

Veterans

Veterans Express Themselves in Writing Group

Tuesday, December 19, 2017, By Amy Manley

Once a month, veterans meet in the Syracuse University Writing Center to share stories of their armed service experience and learn how to craft those narratives into more polished written works.

Campus & Community

The Spirit of the Season

Monday, December 18, 2017, By Keith Kobland

Members of the Syracuse University community recently took part in an adopt-a-family program in one example of getting into the spirit of the holiday season.

Arts & Culture

‘Film Tasting’ Celebrates Entrepreneurial Spirit of SU Creatives

Thursday, December 7, 2017, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit of Syracuse University student filmmakers at a “Film Tasting” event to sample some of this season’s best student films and animations, from shorts to featurettes. The popup student film and animation showcase will take place at…

STEM

SU, FBI Host Gathering of Stakeholders Involved in Biosecurity Response

Friday, December 1, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

The University’s Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute (FNSSI), along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate (WMDD), Washington, D.C., sponsored a recent workshop on campus that brought together researchers, local, state and federal law…

Arts & Culture

VPA Junior Named YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund National Merit Scholarship Finalist

Thursday, November 30, 2017, By Erica Blust

Annie Carson, a junior fashion design major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Design, was named one of eight 2018 National Merit Scholarship finalists by the YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund (FSF), an international nonprofit organization composed of…