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Arts & Culture

New Exhibition at Art Museum Features Photographs by Gordon Parks

Monday, August 19, 2024, By Syracuse University Art Museum

A new exhibition featuring the work of renowned photographer, writer, poet, musician and composer Gordon Parks will open at the Syracuse University Art Museum on Aug. 22 and be on view through Dec. 10. “Homeward to the Prairie I Come”…

Campus & Community

Professor Receives NIH Grant to Study Biofeedback Technologies for Speech Therapy

Friday, August 16, 2024, By News Staff

One of the most common speech errors in English is making a “w” sound instead of the “r” sound. Although most children grow out of these and other errors, 2%-to-5% exhibit residual speech sound disorder through adolescence. Research has shown…

Campus & Community

The Great New York State Fair: Everything You Need to Know

Thursday, August 15, 2024, By Christine Grabowski

It is officially that time of year; summer is coming to an end, and with fall just around the corner, that can only mean one thing in Central New York: it is time for the Great New York State Fair!…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse University Wind Ensemble to Release Album in Remembrance of Pan Am Flight 103

Thursday, August 15, 2024, By News Staff

Unveiling two world premiere recordings, the Syracuse University Wind Ensemble will release an album, “Angels Rising: Music of Remembrance and Light,” on Friday, Aug. 16, dedicated to the 270 lives lost in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over…

Arts & Culture

Green Teaching Summit: A Humanities Approach to Climate Education

Wednesday, August 14, 2024, By Dan Bernardi

Can religion, philosophy, history, English and writing help tackle issues of climate change, environment and ecology? Absolutely, says Mike Goode, professor of English and outgoing William P. Tolley Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities. Through his Tolley professorship, a role…

Health & Society

New Research Published on Disability and Mortality Disparity

Wednesday, August 14, 2024, By Ellen Mbuqe

Earlier this month, Associate Professor of Sociology Scott Landes published a new study entitled “Disability Mortality Disparity: Risk Of Mortality For Disabled Adults Nearly Twice That For Nondisabled Adults, 2008–19” in the August edition of Health Affairs journal. The report is…

Media, Law & Policy

Law Professor’s Research Uses Artificial Intelligence to Improve Fairness of Criminal Court Scheduling

Wednesday, August 14, 2024, By Diane Stirling

A College of Law professor who is an expert on criminal court pretrial appearance is partnering with computer science faculty to see if artificial intelligence tools and optimized data analysis can improve fairness and efficiency in scheduling defendants’ court dates….

Campus & Community

Celebrating 80 Years of the Goon Squad Welcoming New Students to Campus (Podcast)

Wednesday, August 14, 2024, By John Boccacino

When the Goon Squad first formed in 1944, its original purpose was to reinforce Syracuse University’s campuswide policy requiring all new students to wear beanie caps during their first semester on campus. Sue Weber ’68 fondly recalls wearing her beanie…

Campus & Community

Packing Essentials and Words of Wisdom From Upperclass Students to First-Year Students

Wednesday, August 14, 2024, By Christine Grabowski

As you prepare to come to Syracuse next week, you may be thinking, what do I really need to bring with me to campus? SU News spoke to a pair of upperclass students, Ryan Nkongnyu ’25, a communication and rhetorical…

Campus & Community

‘A Lovely Legacy’: Falk College Remembers Professor Emerita Sarah ‘Sally’ Short  

Tuesday, August 13, 2024, By Matt Michael

By 1975, Sarah “Sally” Short, Ph.D., Ed.D., was already a legend on the Syracuse University campus. But on Jan. 3, 1975, she became world famous when an article appeared in The New York Times describing her unique teaching methods. The…