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Syracuse University Students Learn How Forensic Science Is Still Identifying 9/11 World Trade Center Victims 20 Years After The Attack

Thursday, September 9, 2021, By Lily Datz

Mike Marciano, research assistant professor and Director for FNSSI Research Forensic Science in the College of Arts and Sciences, was interviewed by WAER for the story “Syracuse University Students Learn How Forensic Science Is Still Identifying 9/11 World Trade Center…

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What do seatbelt laws and vaccine mandates have in common?

Thursday, September 9, 2021, By Ellen Mbuqe

Throughout the United States, there are people who have come out strongly against mask or vaccine mandates. But Syracuse University assistant professor Kyla Garrett Wagner, who studies the relationships between public health and the First Amendment, says that laws and…

Campus & Community

Concessions Upgrades at the Stadium to Enhance the Game Day Experience for Fans

Thursday, September 9, 2021, By Jennifer DeMarchi

When the Carrier Dome opened back in 1980, the game day experience was different. Simple. Bare bones. You drove to the game, parked, watched the game, got back in your car, went home. “In the 1970s and 80s, there was…

Arts & Culture

James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr. Debate Begins the Syracuse Stage 2021/2022 Season

Thursday, September 9, 2021, By Joanna Penalva

Syracuse Stage reopens its doors for public performances with a fully staged professional reading of “Baldwin vs. Buckley: The Faith of Our Fathers,” a “theatricalization” by Stage’s resident playwright Kyle Bass of the 1965 debate between writer and civil rights…

Campus & Community

CTLE’s Partnership for Inclusive Education Pairs Faculty and Students for Mutual Learning

Thursday, September 9, 2021, By Ellen de Graffenreid

The Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence (CTLE) launched the Partnership for Inclusive Education in the Fall 2020 semester. The program’s goal is to create culturally responsive learning environments for all students and open dialogue on how students and faculty…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell Professor Reflects on U.S. Policy in Middle East Post-9/11

Thursday, September 9, 2021, By Matt Michael

Less than one month after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush launched Operation Enduring Freedom, the American-led international effort to oust the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and destroy Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network. Within two months,…

Arts & Culture

Discovering Intersectionality and Celebrating Hope with Latinx Hispanic Heritage Month

Wednesday, September 8, 2021, By Gabrielle Lake

The campus community is invited to the annual celebration of Latinx Hispanic Heritage Month (LHHM), celebrated nationally between Sept. 15 and Oct. 15. Hosted by the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) in close partnership with the LGBTQ Resource Center and…

Arts & Culture

School of Architecture Announces Fall 2021 Visiting Critics

Wednesday, September 8, 2021, 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. Three studios will be held on campus this fall. The School of Architecture is also offering…

BBI Receives $6.2 Million Award for Southeast ADA Center to Advance Understanding of Disability Rights, Responsibilities

Tuesday, September 7, 2021, By Eileen Korey

For the third time in 15 years, the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) has been awarded a five-year, $6.2 million grant to advance and support understanding of rights and responsibilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) through its Southeast ADA…

Arts & Culture

Linguistics Professor Receives National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

Tuesday, September 7, 2021, By Dan Bernardi

The proliferation of politically powerful languages like English and Hausa in African countries like Nigeria has come to threaten many of the over 500 languages spoken throughout the country. Christopher Green, assistant professor of linguistics, seeks to describe and document…