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The Rise of Misinformation and AI: Developing Tools to Detect What’s Real and the Impact on Upcoming Elections (Podcast)

Tuesday, October 29, 2024, By John Boccacino

With the increase of misinformation and disinformation on the internet and social media, our brains struggle to process what we’re seeing and whether an image, a video clip or a story is real or not. Faculty members Jenny Stromer-Galley and…

Arts & Culture

Architecture Students Win Visionary International Design Competition

Monday, October 14, 2024, By Julie Sharkey

A team of fifth-year School of Architecture students have won first prize at this year’s Home of the Next Century: Home2124 international design competition for their project, “The Domestic Nomad,” which reimagines domesticity in a contemporary context. In this fourth…

Arts & Culture

School of Architecture Receives Graham Foundation Organizational Grant

Tuesday, September 10, 2024, By Julie Sharkey

As part of its 2024 grant cycle funding, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts recently announced 33 new grants, totaling $390,000, in support of projects led by organizations around the world—including a publication by the Syracuse…

Campus & Community

School of Architecture Announces Fall 2024 Visiting Critics

Tuesday, August 27, 2024, 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. Four studios will be held on campus this fall. Alessandro Arienzo and Isabel Abascal (LANZA) Arienzo…

Health & Society

Warehouse Display Honors Design Alumnus for Innovative Headwear, Protective Sports Equipment

Thursday, June 6, 2024, By News Staff

Witnessing a helmet-to-helmet collision sparked an idea for School of Design alumnus Bert Straus ’59, setting off a series of evolutions in headwear and protective sports equipment. Straus remembers watching the collision during a televised sports game. An image of…

Campus & Community

School of Architecture Faculty Receive 2024 Graham Foundation Grants

Tuesday, June 4, 2024, By Julie Sharkey

As part of their 2024 grant cycle funding ideas to expand architecture and design, the Chicago-based Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts recently announced 56 new grants, totaling $519,500, to individuals, including two School of Architecture faculty,…

STEM

A&S Biologist Calls for Protection and More Studies of Natural Time Capsules of Climate Change

Wednesday, May 29, 2024, By News Staff

Packrats, also known as woodrats, are the original hoarders, collecting materials from their environment to make their nests, called middens. In deserts throughout western North America, for instance, packrat middens can preserve plants, insects, bones and other specimens for more…

Campus & Community

Architecture Student Named to Future100 List in Metropolis Magazine

Thursday, April 25, 2024, By Julie Sharkey

Linxi (Jenny) Zhang ’24—a fifth-year bachelor of architecture degree student in the School of Architecture—has been selected for Metropolis magazine’s Future100, an elite group of architecture and interior architecture students from the United States and Canada. Launched in 2021, the…

Arts & Culture

Albert Williamson-Taylor Named School of Architecture Convocation Speaker

Sunday, April 21, 2024, By Julie Sharkey

The School of Architecture has announced that world-renowned engineer Albert Williamson-Taylor, director and co-founder of international engineering firm AKT II, will address graduates at the 2024 Convocation ceremony on May 11 at 10 a.m. in Hendricks Chapel. Williamson-Taylor grew up…

Campus & Community

Two School of Architecture Alumni Elevated to AIA College of Fellows

Friday, March 15, 2024, By Julie Sharkey

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) recently elevated 96 member architects and two honorary international members, including two School of Architecture alumni, to its prestigious College of Fellows. Ann Marie Borys G’88 and Jeffrey J. Pastva ’06 have received this…