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Arts & Culture

Disability Cultural Center Hosts Reading with Professor Steve Kuusisto

Wednesday, March 7, 2018, By Rachel Friedman

The Disability Cultural Center is hosting an engaging, accessible and inclusive book launch on Monday, March 19, as part of the Disabilities as Ways of Knowing series. Starting at 7:30 p.m. in Watson Theater, there will be a reading from…

STEM

Biologists Discover Link Between Protein in Brain, Seizure Suppression

Tuesday, March 6, 2018, By Rob Enslin

Seizure suppression is the focus of an original research article by two members of the Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences—and they have the pictures to prove it. James Hewett, associate professor of biology, and Yifan Gong,…

STEM

Huang Awarded NSF I-Corps Grant for Technology Commercialization Research

Tuesday, March 6, 2018, By J.D. Ross

School of Information Studies (iSchool) Assistant Professor Yun Huang has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps program to explore commercialization of Bluetooth Low Energy Beacon technology that she has developed. The I-Corps program prepares academic researchers to extend their…

Arts & Culture

CRS’s Kendall Phillips Publishes Book on Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema

Tuesday, March 6, 2018, By Erica Blust

Kendall Phillips, professor of communication and rhetorical studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, has published the book “A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema” (University of…

Campus & Community

Celebrate National Nutrition Month

Tuesday, March 6, 2018, By News Staff

National Nutrition Month is a nutrition education and information campaign celebrated annually in March by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. “Go Further with Food” is the theme for 2018 and faculty and staff are encouraged to join in celebrating…

Campus & Community

MSNBC Political Analyst/Host Joy-Ann Reid to Speak for University Lectures in April

Tuesday, March 6, 2018, By Kevin Morrow

In addition to her work on MSNBC, including hosting “AM Joy”  Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to noon ET, Reid is a columnist for The Daily Beast and teaches the Newhouse School course Race, Gender and Media at SU’s Fisher Center in Manhattan.

Herb Ruffin II

Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Department of African American Studies
Hudson Reporter

iSchool Assistant Professor Jeff Hemsley Explains Propaganda and Politics

Sunday, March 4, 2018, By Sawyer Kamman

Jeff Hemsley, an assistant professor at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, who specializes in fake news and viral events, talked to the Hudson Reporter about the fake news that swirled around Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla after he was…

Arts & Culture

Herb Ruffin on Black Panther’s Historical Context and Impact

Sunday, March 4, 2018, By Scott McDowell

With buzz and excitement building for Marvel’s “Black Panther,” we asked some of our SU faculty who were planning to see the film to offer their thoughts afterward. Here is what they had to say (conversations have been edited for…

Rebecca Ortiz

Assistant Professor of Advertising