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Getting to Know: Peggy Pappas
You won’t find one of the biggest fans of SU’s football and basketball teams sitting in the stands at the Carrier Dome. Most likely, you’ll find Peggy Pappas out on the court or the playing field. “I do bleed orange,”…
Ann Grodzins Gold Awarded Two Prominent Fellowships
A 20-year veteran of the University faculty, Ann Grodzins Gold has racked up dozens of awards and fellowships during her career. Recently, Gold, a professor in the Religion Department in the College of Arts and Sciences, who also holds a…
Twelve Seniors Named as 2014 Syracuse University Scholars
Twelve graduating seniors have been named as the 2014 Syracuse University Scholars, the highest undergraduate honor that the University bestows. University Scholars will represent the entire graduating class at the May 11 Commencement ceremony. On Thursday, April 24, the scholars…
Anthropologist Wins Arts and Sciences’ Wasserstrom Prize for Graduate Teaching
Douglas V. Armstrong, a Syracuse University professor in the Maxwell School for Citizenship and Public Affairs and The College of Arts and Sciences, has been tapped to receive the latter’s William Wasserstrom Prize for the Teaching of Graduate Students. He…
Ellen Bryant Voigt to Close Out Spring Carver Series
The poet Ellen Bryant Voigt will close out the spring 2014 Raymond Carver Reading Series at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, in Gifford Auditorium. A question-and-answer session will precede the reading from 3:45-4:30 p.m. The event is free and open…
Charles Clotfelter: ‘Colleges and Their Customers: The Market for Baccalaureate Education in the Age of Merit and Disparity’
EFAP – Jerry Miner Lecture Series April 24, 3:30-5 p.m., 426 Eggers Hall, Center for Policy Research Charles Clotfelter is Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy Studies and Professor of Economics and Law at Duke University, where he has…
A Catalyst for Change
Leave it to Karin Ruhlandt, newly appointed interim dean-designate of The College of Arts and Sciences, to put a global spin on things. In 1999, when the Department of Chemistry was retooling its Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, the…
SU Symphony, Concert Bands to Perform
The Syracuse University Symphony Band and Concert Band will present their final concerts of the season this week in the Rose and Jules R. Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College. Both concerts are free and open to the public. On Friday, April…
New Meredith Professors to Be Named During Faculty Recognition Event
Milton L. Mueller, professor in the School of Information Studies, and Ravi Dharwadkar, professor in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, will be named as the 2014-15 Laura and L. Douglas Meredith Professors of Teaching Excellence at a ceremony…
Online Student Ratings Open Monday, April 21
A recent survey found that nearly 80 percent of Syracuse University instructors use the feedback they get from student ratings to revise their courses. Faculty members in the survey described how they have added or removed topics, adopted new ways…