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The Road to Intellectual Freedom
Renowned classical scholar and author, Michele Valerie Ronnick will present “14 Black Classicists: The Politics of American Learning” on Thursday, Sept. 21, at 5:30 p.m. in Bird Library’s Peter Graham Scholarly Commons (Room 114). The lecture is part of the 2017…
Raymond Carver Reading Series This Fall Hosts Six Novelists, Poets
The fall semester of the 2017-18 Raymond Carver Reading Series begins Wednesday, Sept. 20, with poet Solmaz Sharif. All events in the series take place in Huntington Beard Crouse Hall’s Gifford Auditorium, with a Q&A at 3:45 p.m. and an…
Faith, Family, Football: A Tribute to ‘Coach Mac’
In the 1980s, Coach Richard F. “Dick” MacPherson breathed new life into the Syracuse University football program. He confidently built teams that competed in several bowl games (including the 1988 Sugar Bowl), posted an undefeated regular season, and notched stunning victories…
Remembering William ‘Bill’ Pooler: He Made an Impact Locally and Around the World
As a sociologist, William “Bill” Pooler studied many different facets of society on the local, national and global levels. He was involved in dozens of diverse projects over his 45-year career, from developing reorganization procedures for an Onondaga County jail,…
Students Awarded Top Prizes for Honors Capstone Projects
For students in the Renée Crown University Honors Program, the honors capstone project can be a challenge to complete. The project typically requires intensive research, writing, professional or creative work over the course of already busy junior and senior years….
White House Controversy: “A Protracted, Festering Mess”
Anthony D’Angelo, Professor at Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and Director of the Communications Management Program, offers some advice to the Trump White House for managing their current PR crisis. “As another week brings new White House denials of…
Community Science Outreach Goes Swimmingly
Local elementary and middle school students dove head first into science with help from Syracuse biologists—and a few fishy friends. Associate professor Katharine Lewis and lab members brought a bevy of zebrafish to the Westcott Community Center this May as…
Students Present on Variety of Topics at ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference
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…
Syracuse Hosts Inaugural Zebrafish Conference
On a recent Saturday biologists from the region—and as far afield as Toronto—gathered at Syracuse University with one mission: to talk about all things zebrafish. “The conference was invaluable for facilitating research collaborations, building community, and exposing students to areas…
’Cuse Cast for Week of May 8
Isabel Sanchez G’17 anchors this week’s ’Cuse Cast, with details on extended hours at SU Libraries, Commencement Weekend 2017 and the Lewis Hecker Drama Showcase.