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STEM

iSchool Students Select Renee Hill, Jeff Rubin for Professor of the Year Honors

Monday, May 16, 2016, By Diane Stirling

It’s often many years after graduating before college students recognize the impact their favorite professors have had in their lives. At the School of Information Studies (iSchool), however, graduates each year use convocation to honor the teachers who have been…

STEM

Garcia-Murillo Awarded Fulbright Grant for Research in Spain

Monday, May 16, 2016, By J.D. Ross

School of Information Studies (iSchool) Professor Martha Garcia-Murillo has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant for the spring of 2017. The grant will allow Garcia-Murillo to conduct research at the Institut Barcelona d’EStudis Internacionals (IBEI) in Barcelona, Spain. She will…

Campus & Community

New Members Elected to University’s Board of Trustees

Monday, May 16, 2016, By News Staff

Syracuse University is pleased to announce that Richard M. Alexander L’82, Neil A. Gold ’70 and Deborah (Gluckman) Leone ’86, G’87 have been elected as members of the Syracuse University Board of Trustees at the recent Board meeting. Steven W….

Campus & Community

Commencement Weekend Parking Information

Friday, May 13, 2016, By Keith Kobland

Due to convocation activities on Saturday, May 14, home lot parking permits for the main Quad lots will be honored on a space-available basis. On Commencement day, Sunday, May 15, parking lots will be restricted to special event passes until…

Campus & Community

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Commencement

Friday, May 13, 2016, By Rob Enslin

When John G. Thomas G’69 was completing his Ph.D. at Syracuse University, the last place he thought he would end up was an Army base in San Antonio. “In 30 hours, I went from being a graduate student in the…

Media, Law & Policy

Deans Clarke, Steinberg Leave Lasting Legacy

Friday, May 13, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

As the school year wraps up, College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) Dean Ann Clarke and Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs Dean James Steinberg are concluding their time leading their respective schools. But their impact as leaders…

Campus & Community

WellsLink Program Receives National Recognition for Retention Efforts

Thursday, May 12, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

During her first year on campus, Alexis Peña ’16 got a disappointing grade on a math test. She texted her Wellslink academic consultant, Jessica Santana ’11, G’13, to tell her the news. “That same day she picked me up and…

STEM

Chemists Add Color to Chemical Reactions

Tuesday, May 10, 2016, By Rob Enslin

Chemists in the College of Arts and Sciences have come up with an innovative new way to visualize and monitor chemical reactions in real time. Members of the Maye Research Group in the Department of Chemistry have designed a nanomaterial…

Arts & Culture

Padgett Receives Continuum + Arthur Pulos Award

Tuesday, May 10, 2016, By Erica Blust

William Padgett, an associate professor of communications design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) School of Design, has been named a recipient of the Continuum + Arthur Pulos Award, which recognizes innovation in interdisciplinary design education at…

Media, Law & Policy

Robert Rubinstein, William Horrace Named Distinguished Professors

Tuesday, May 10, 2016, By Carol Boll

Robert Rubinstein, professor of anthropology, and William Horrace, professor of economics and chair of the Department of Economics, both in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the College of Arts and Sciences, have been named Distinguished Professors…