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SU junior receives prestigious 2012 Goldwater Scholarship

Wednesday, May 2, 2012, By News Staff

Ryan Badman, a junior math and physics major in The College of Arts and Sciences, received a 2012 Goldwater Scholarship. The highly competitive, national award is presented to outstanding students who are pursuing careers in the fields of mathematics, the…

SU English professor wins prestigious Shattuck Prize in criticism

Tuesday, April 17, 2012, By Rob Enslin

David Yaffe, a nationally renowned arts critic and assistant professor of English in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the prestigious Roger Shattuck Prize in criticism. Named for the late American critic and scholar who authored…

Landscape of Urban Education Lecture Series to screen ‘Precious Knowledge’ with panel discussion April 2

Thursday, March 29, 2012, By Jennifer Russo

The School of Education will screen the film “Precious Knowledge” as part of its Landscape of Urban Education series on Monday, April 2, at 4 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3. The film will be followed by…

SU’s Jaklin Kornfilt co-edits prestigious linguistics journal

Friday, February 10, 2012, By Rob Enslin

Jaklin Kornfilt, professor of linguistics in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, believes learning has no boundaries. Witness her recent involvement with Lingua (Elsevier, 2011), an international journal devoted to problems of general linguistics. A majority of the editorial…

Prestigious journal reviews book co-authored by Peter Blanck

Tuesday, January 3, 2012, By News Staff

The December 2011 issue of The American Historical Review includes a book review of “Race, Ethnicity, and Disability: Veterans and Benefits in Post-Civil War America” (Cambridge University Press, 2010), authored by Burton Blatt Institute chairman and University Professor Peter Blanck…

Arts & Culture

‘Fuddy Meers’ presents hilarious antics in a world where nothing is what it seems

Monday, October 31, 2011, By News Staff

With moments like a wild carnival ride, throwing the characters back and forth between perception and reality, playwright David Lindsay-Abaire masters off-beat humor in “Fuddy Meers” with a colorful cast of characters consisting of a lisping, limping man; a pot-smoking…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse School’s Shannon Bowen receives prestigious prize

Wednesday, October 19, 2011, By News Staff

Shannon A. Bowen, associate professor of public relations in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, was awarded the Jackson Jackson & Wagner Behavioral Science Prize by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Foundation at the PRSA 2011 International…

Whitman maintains prestigious AACSB International accreditation

Tuesday, April 5, 2011, By News Staff

The Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University has maintained its business accreditation by AACSB International—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Today, 620 business schools in 38 countries—less than five percent of business schools worldwide—maintain this distinguished hallmark…

STEM

LCS’s Dacheng Ren given prestigious NSF CAREER Award to study biofilms

Wednesday, March 30, 2011, By News Staff

Dacheng Ren, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering in Syracuse University’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, has been given the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award by the National Science Foundation (NSF)…

Syracuse University awarded prestigious Beckman Scholars Program for undergraduate student research

Monday, March 28, 2011, By News Staff

The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation named Syracuse University an institutional recipient of the 2011 Beckman Scholars Program. The highly competitive grant supports select students interested in chemistry, biochemistry and the biological and medical sciences. “We are honored to be…