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Campus & Community

Vera House Recognizes Barry L. Wells with 2017 Sister Mary Vera Award

Friday, June 2, 2017, By Shannon Andre

Recognizing his long-standing advocacy and commitment to the work of Vera House, Barry L. Wells, special assistant to Chancellor Kent Syverud, will be presented the 2017 Sister Mary Vera Award at Vera House’s annual summer luncheon. The Sister Mary Vera…

Arts & Culture

SU Brass Ensemble to Perform at Gettysburg Brass Band Festival

Friday, June 2, 2017, By Kevin Morrow

The 35-member Syracuse University Brass Ensemble (SUBE) is one of 14 groups from six states invited to perform June 8-10 at the 2017 Gettysburg Brass Band Festival in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The SUBE Euphonium Ensemble has also been invited to give…

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…

Campus & Community

Campus as a Laboratory for Sustainability Program Awards Nearly $75,000 to Projects

Thursday, June 1, 2017, By Rachel May

Syracuse University’s Campus as a Laboratory for Sustainability (CALS) funding program has completed its second round of applications and awarded nearly $75,000 in funding to faculty and students. The call for proposals sought projects that address climate disruption and offer…

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…

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…

Campus & Community

Students Selected for Summer Research and Mentorship Opportunity

Tuesday, May 23, 2017, By Carol Boll

Twenty Syracuse University students from across the disciplines have each won a $2,000 stipend to conduct research and other creative projects this summer under the guidance of a faculty mentor. The competitive research opportunity was made possible through a partnership…

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…

Jurist

Roy Gutterman Writes an Op-Ed on the FCC and Late Night Satire

Saturday, May 20, 2017, By Ellen Mbuqe

Roy Gutterman, associate professor and Director of The Tully Center for Free Speech, provided a guest colmn for Jurist.org titled “Jokes, Indecency and the Federal Communications Commission.”