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Robert Thompson

Director, Bleier Center for Television & Popular Culture; Trustee Professor of Television, Radio and Film
Arts & Culture

Professor Tej Bhatia Gives Plenary Addresses at Two Conferences

Wednesday, December 7, 2016, By Cyndi Moritz

Tej K. Bhatia, professor of linguistics in the College of Arts and Sciences and director of South Asian Languages, has given plenary addresses at two distinguished conferences this fall. The first was at the 2016 Indo-French International Conference on Hindi…

STEM

Haythornthwaite Named Director of Library Science Program

Tuesday, December 6, 2016, By J.D. Ross

Elizabeth D. Liddy, dean of the School of Information Studies (iSchool), has named Professor Caroline Haythornthwaite as the next director of the school’s library and information science graduate program. The program includes master’s degrees in library and information science and library…

Campus & Community

Chancellor, Provost Approve Senate-Recommended Revisions to Faculty Manual

Tuesday, December 6, 2016, By Carol Boll

Chancellor Kent Syverud and Provost Michele Wheatly have approved revisions to Syracuse University’s Faculty Manual regarding titles of full-time, non-tenure-track faculty personnel and the process of making dean emeritus appointments. The revisions were made on the recommendation of the University…

Health & Society

Historian Finds Gritty Story of Child’s Life Documented in Special Collections

Tuesday, November 29, 2016, By Sean Kirst

“The Muckers,” published by Syracuse University Press and found among the papers in the Special Collections Research Center, tells of boys living life rough in New York City over a century ago.

STEM

Stanford’s Carla Shatz to Deliver Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture Dec. 8

Wednesday, November 23, 2016, By Rob Enslin

Syracuse Symposium continues its yearlong look at “Place” with a visit by world-renowned neurobiologist Carla Shatz. A professor of biology and neurobiology at Stanford University, Shatz will deliver this year’s Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture in the Sciences and Humanities titled…

Arts & Culture

Music Historian’s Work Brings New Life to Restoration Shakespeare Plays

Wednesday, November 23, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

The foreboding words of the Three Witches in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” conjure up the general’s kingly aspirations and bloody demise. Their presence throughout the Bard’s tragedy is mostly known to modern audiences through spoken poetic verse. But what would the theatrical…

Health & Society

‘A Moral Obligation to Stand with the People’

Monday, November 21, 2016, By Renée K. Gadoua

Ahmed Abdel Meguid was out with friends in Istanbul on July 15 when members of the Turkish military initiated a coup attempt. Abdel Meguid, an assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Religion, spent the summer…

Arts & Culture

Hallas Awarded Howard Foundation Fellowship

Thursday, November 17, 2016, By Liam Sullivan

Associate Professor of English Roger Hallas of the College of Arts and Sciences has been awarded $33,000 from the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation to complete his book project titled “A Medium Seen Otherwise: Photography and Documentary Film.”…

Arts & Culture

University Shines at Statewide TESOL Conference

Tuesday, November 15, 2016, By Rob Enslin

Syracuse University was front and center at the 46th annual New York State Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (NYS TESOL) Conference, recently held at Crowne Plaza Syracuse. Dozens of students and faculty members, mostly from the Department…