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Middle Eastern Studies Program Names New Director

Thursday, October 30, 2014, By News Staff

Karin Ruhlandt, interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and James Steinberg, dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, have announced that Assistant Professor of Political Science Yüksel Sezgin has been named director of the Middle Eastern…

STEM

Faculty to Present Research at Cybersecurity Conference

Thursday, October 30, 2014, By Matt Wheeler

The College of Engineering and Computer Science has had three papers accepted by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Conference on Computer and Communications Security, a prestigious security conference that will take place this November in Scottsdale, Ariz. It is a notable…

STEM

Ryan Milcarek’s NASA Experience Fuels Inspiration

Thursday, October 30, 2014, By Matt Wheeler

Ryan Milcarek spent mornings over a long weekend in May dining with astronauts. There were brief introductions—Where are you from? What do you study?—But the conversation quickly turned to combustion and fuel cells. Over eggs and coffee, veteran astronaut Jerry…

@SyracuseUNews Tips

Thursday, October 30, 2014, By Keith Kobland

Syracuse University faculty discuss the explosion of an unmanned NASA rocket and Hawaiian lava flow.

Arts & Culture

Professor Explores Critical Response to Lloyd Webber’s ‘Phantom of the Opera’

Wednesday, October 29, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Critical response to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera,” within the political and economic milieu of the Thatcher/Reagan era, is the subject of a scholarly article by a professor in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Amanda…

FNSSI Launches M.S. Program in Medicolegal Death Investigation

Wednesday, October 29, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Medicolegal death investigation (MDI) is the focus of a new graduate program in the Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute (FNSSI), administered by the College of Arts and Sciences. The first of its kind in the nation, the master’s degree…

CNY Humanities Corridor Awarded $3.55 Million from Mellon Foundation

Wednesday, October 29, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Syracuse University, Cornell University and the University of Rochester—founders of the Central New York Humanities Corridor, a large-scale interdisciplinary project—have received grants totaling $3.55 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Syracuse Scholar: Joyce LaLonde ’17

Monday, October 27, 2014, By News Staff

Joyce LaLonde is a sophomore majoring in broadcast journalism in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and in international relations in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. A native of…

Poet Daisy Fried to Share Work in Carver Reading Series

Friday, October 24, 2014, By Renée K. Gadoua

Award-winning poet Daisy Fried will participate in the Fall 2014 Raymond Carver Reading Series with a reading Wednesday, Nov. 5, in Gifford Auditorium. A question-and-answer session is from 3:45- 4:30 p.m., followed by the reading, which begins at 5:30 p.m….

South Asia Center Receives $1.3 Million ED Grant

Friday, October 24, 2014, By Rob Enslin

The South Asia Center has been awarded a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education (ED). The grant renews the center’s designation as a National Resource Center and provides funding for graduate and undergraduate students, course development, Hindi…