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Arts & Culture

VPA Dean Michael Tick Appointed Treasurer of International Council of Fine Arts Deans

Wednesday, October 25, 2017, By Erica Blust

Dean Michael S. Tick of the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) was appointed treasurer of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans (ICFAD) at the council’s recent annual conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Tick, who is serving…

Media, Law & Policy

Professor Ian Gallacher Receives Legal Writing Award

Tuesday, October 24, 2017, By Martin Walls

Director of Legal Communication and Research and Professor in the College of Law Ian Gallacher has been awarded the 2018 Thomas F. Blackwell Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Legal Writing by the Association of Legal Writing Directors…

WNPR

Invasive Species Are Destroying New England Forests

Tuesday, October 24, 2017, By Sawyer Kamman

Across New England, trees are being decimated and killed on a daily basis. The source of the damage comes from insect pests and other diseases, the newest perpetrators of a continues invasive species cycle. For WNPR Radio, Arts and Sciences…

STEM

American Physical Society to Honor Professor Lisa Manning

Tuesday, October 24, 2017, By Rob Enslin

A professor in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) is receiving a major early-career award from the American Physical Society (APS). Lisa Manning, associate professor of physics, is the 2018 recipient of the APS’ Maria Goeppert Mayer Award. This…

Campus & Community

Taste of Upstate NY

Monday, October 23, 2017, By News Staff

On Wednesday, Oct. 25, Food Services is collaborating with the Sustainability Division to host a Taste of Central New York dinner in the dining centers and Goldstein Dining. The dinner celebrates our local food history and showcases some of our…

Arts & Culture

Backstage Names VPA’s Musical Theater Program One of 10 ‘You Should Know’

Thursday, October 19, 2017, By Erica Blust

Backstage has listed the musical theater program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Drama as one of “Ten Musical Theater College Programs You Should Know.” According to Backstage, the list, which does not numerically rank the…

Arts & Culture

Poets Explore Theme of Disability as a Way of Knowing at Oct. 24 Event

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

Poets Ona Gritz and Daniel Simpson will share verses from their book, “Border Songs: A Conversation in Poems,” at a reading Tuesday, Oct. 24, in celebration of Disability Awareness Month. The event, part of Disabilities as Ways of Knowing: A…

Media, Law & Policy

Students to Document Lives of Syracuse Residents this Week as Part of Newhouse School’s Annual Fall Workshop

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Over 100 graduate, undergraduate and military visual journalism students from the Newhouse School’s Department of Multimedia Photography and Design (MPD) will spend Oct. 19–22 documenting the lives of Syracuse residents as part of the school’s annual Fall Workshop. The students…

STEM

Falk Professor Receives Grant to Investigate Anaerobic Digestion

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Michele Barrett

Despite a significant number of animals on smaller dairy farms in New York State and the northeastern United States, the vast majority of research on the benefits of anaerobic digester (AD) technologies only relates to larger livestock farms. That is…

STEM

Physicists at Forefront of Multinational Experiment

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Rob Enslin

Physicists in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) continue to make inroads on the world stage. The High-Energy Physics (HEP) group in the Department of Physics recently hosted the 85th Large Hardon Collider beauty (LHCb) Week in Lake Placid,…