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Health & Society

Professor Charles Driscoll on Impact of U.S. Pulling Out of Paris Accord

Thursday, June 1, 2017, By Keith Kobland

The decision by the Trump administration to pull out of the Paris climate accord is being met with disappointment by one of Syracuse University’s leading authorities on climate change. University Professor of Environmental Systems and Distinguished Professor Charles Driscoll believes…

Business Insider

Can a member of congress serve if they are convicted of a crime? William Banks weighs in.

Thursday, June 1, 2017, By Ellen Mbuqe

William Banks, Board of Advisors Distinguished Professor at the College of Law and Director of INSCT, was quoted in a Business Insider story “We asked legal experts if Greg Gianforte can serve in Congress if he’s convicted of assault in…

Arts & Culture

Musicologist Goes ‘Beyond Boundaries’ with New Book, Trans-Atlantic Research

Tuesday, May 30, 2017, By Rob Enslin

Amanda Eubanks Winkler knows a thing or two about pushing boundaries. Still basking in the success of her latest edited book, “Beyond Boundaries: Rethinking Music Circulation in Early Modern England” (Indiana University Press, 2017), the musicologist is preparing for a…

Health & Society

Monmonier Explores Advances in Mapping under U.S. Patent System

Friday, May 26, 2017, By News Staff

Mark Monmonier’s newest book, “Patents and Cartographic Inventions: A New Perspective for Map History,” examines how developments in the U.S. patent system in the 19th and early 20th centuries have shaped innovations of map use. Monmonier reveals that devices and…

Arts & Culture

Hollywood Reporter Ranks Drama Department Among Top Five for Undergraduate Study

Friday, May 26, 2017, By Erica Blust

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) has ranked the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Drama among the top five schools for undergraduate study in its May 24 issue.  The department was ranked no. 4, jumping four spots from its…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell Professor Asks, Where Have Congressional Moderates Gone?

Thursday, May 25, 2017, By Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers

When journalists and pundits talk about the bitter partisanship in Congress today, they tend to point to three culprits: gerrymandering, the influence of big money and primary systems that favor more ideologically pure candidates. But when scholars have tested these…

STEM

University of Naples Confers Honorary Degree on Syracuse Mathematician

Wednesday, May 24, 2017, By Rob Enslin

A professor in the College of Arts and Sciences is the recipient of an honorary degree from the Federico II University of Naples. Tadeusz Iwaniec, the John Raymond French Professor of Mathematics, received the “Doctor Honoris Causa in Mathematical Engineering”…

Campus & Community

Combating Graduate School Stress, One Click at a Time

Monday, May 22, 2017, By Elizabeth Droge-Young

Like all of Luka Negoita’s Ph.D. work on plant biology, his latest venture began with an experiment. But this time he didn’t investigate the vegetation of central New York, he turned the microscope on the Ph.D. process. “Grad school is…

Campus & Community

New Members Inducted into Phi Beta Delta Honor Society

Monday, May 22, 2017, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University inducted 56 new members and two honorary members into the Alpha Sigma chapter of the Phi Beta Delta International Honor Society during the spring semester. The induction ceremony took place in Hendricks Chapel, during which the new members…

Campus & Community

Students Present on Variety of Topics at ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference

Friday, May 19, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

Six students with a variety of research projects—such as community attachment resilience in a deindustrialized city, the effects of using different basketballs in NCAA play and 3D flow visualization in virtual reality—represented Syracuse University at this year’s ACC Meeting of…