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Campus & Community

Amnat Chittaphong ’99, G’02 Dedicates Career to Effecting Change

Wednesday, April 24, 2019, By John Boccacino

Out of one of the darkest, most painful moments of his life, Amnat Chittaphong ’99, G’02 turned the hatred and anger he felt into a career serving underrepresented students. In the process, he reconnected with his Asian American roots in…

Media, Law & Policy

Supreme Court Scholar Thomas Keck Named a 2019 Carnegie Fellow

Tuesday, April 23, 2019, By Dana Cooke

Thomas M. Keck, professor of political science and the Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics in the Maxwell School, has been named a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. As recipients of the so-called “brainy award,” each Carnegie Fellow…

Campus & Community

Friday Premiere Party Planned for Inclusive Micro-Short Student Film ‘Third Shift’

Tuesday, April 23, 2019, By News Staff

The creative micro-short film “Third Shift”—co-produced by The Blackstone LaunchPad at Syracuse University Libraries, InclusiveU and College of Visual and Performing Arts film and design students—will have its world premiere on Friday, April 26, at 1 p.m. at a year-end…

Campus & Community

Remembering Bobbi Harris: Nursing Alumna, Professor Emerita Served at Syracuse for 33 Years

Tuesday, April 23, 2019, By Valerie Pietra

Barbara “Bobbi” Lee Harris ’61, Ph.D. ’90, Syracuse University alumna and professor emerita of nursing, passed away in February 2019. Harris was born in 1939 on Long Island and spent much of her adult life living in Syracuse. She earned…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University Press Presents First Volumes in Critical Arab American Studies Series

Monday, April 22, 2019, By News Staff

Syracuse University Press has released the two inaugural volumes in its new Critical Arab American Studies series. This groundbreaking series features innovative scholarship and cutting-edge theoretical work that extends the study of Arab Americans beyond Orientalist and Islamophobic paradigms. The…

Campus & Community

Anthropology Professor Hans Buechler Marks 50 Years of Service

Monday, April 22, 2019, By Mary Elizabeth Horsington

Hans Buechler is an anthropologist at heart. He is fascinated by people and their stories—where they come from, what they do in their working lives and how it shapes their world view. When Syracuse University honored the Maxwell School anthropology…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University to Award Four Honorary Degrees at 2019 Commencement

Monday, April 22, 2019, By Kathleen Haley

An international diplomat and champion for human rights; a global executive and philanthropist; an expert economist and leader in U.S. monetary policymaking; and a successful family business entrepreneur and social justice philanthropist will be awarded honorary degrees at Syracuse University’s…

Media Tip Sheets

Experts in French Architecture and History for Notre-Dame Fire

Wednesday, April 17, 2019, By Ellen Mbuqe

Reporters looking for insight on the architecture or French history after the fire on the Notre-Dame cathedral, please see comments from two Syracuse University faculty members. Samantha Herrick is an associate professor of history and specializes in the Middle Ages and is the…

Arts & Culture

VPA Names Pianist, Scholar Milton Laufer New Setnor School of Music Director

Tuesday, April 16, 2019, By Erica Blust

The College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) has announced that Milton Rubén Laufer, a pianist and scholar and current director of Western Carolina University’s School of Music, has been named director of the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S….

Health & Society

Canadian Physiologist, Mount Everest Expert Speaking Today

Tuesday, April 16, 2019, By Jennifer Russo

Trevor Day, associate professor of physiology at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is giving a lecture today (Tuesday, April 16) hosted by the Department of Exercise Science in the School of Education. His talk, “Cerebral Blood Flow Regulation…