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Going Places
Santiago Quiñones ’90 has a knack for being in the right place at the right time—a quality that has served him well in television and film. Thus, it is fitting that he began his career as a location scout, tasked…
‘Equality, Peace and Compassion in the Archives: A Showcase of Rare Documents’
On Aug. 18, Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center will hold an open viewing of materials from its collections that document the efforts of people who championed equality, peace, kindness and compassion. The viewing will be held noon to…
Student Discovers Tuberculosis DNA in Dental Plaque of Smithsonian’s Anatomical Collection
In a collection of historic skeletal remains at the Smithsonian, microscopic signs of a serious contagion lurk in an intriguing place in a sample of individuals from 100 years ago. Student researcher Soleil Young ’17, a member of the Renée…
Newhouse Students Win at NABJ Salute to Excellence Awards
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) held its annual gala in New Orleans on Aug. 12, announcing the winners of its Salute to Excellence Awards, which included three Newhouse School students. According to the NABJ, “The Salute to Excellence…
New York Times Lens Blog Credits Newhouse Professor for Making a Difference
The New York Times’ Lens blog about photography, video and visual journalism featured multimedia photography and design professor and Alexia Tsairis Chair for Documentary Photography Mike Davis in their feature about photo editors who have made a difference. Davis hired…
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…
Syracuse Shines at American Sociological Association Meeting in Montreal
More than two-dozen researchers from the Department of Sociology are on the world stage at the American Sociological Association (ASA)’s 112th Annual Meeting in Montreal. The theme of this year’s meeting is “Culture, Inequalities and Social Inclusion Across the Globe.”…
SUArt Galleries Presents ‘Meant to Be Shared: Selections from the Arthur Ross Collection of European Prints’
The Syracuse University Art Galleries will present “Meant to be Shared: Selections from the Arthur Ross Collection of European Prints at Yale University Art Gallery,” on view beginning Aug. 17. Organized by Suzanne Boorsch, the Robert L. Solley Curator of…
ECS SummerStart Students Build Solar Ovens Using Recycled Materials
The challenge is both simple and complicated. Build an oven capable of baking a chocolate chip cookie—but it has to be solar powered and use everyday recycled items like cardboard boxes, plastic wrap and newspaper. For incoming engineering and computer…
Alumna Is First Woman to Get Full Philosophy Professorship at MSU Denver
As a doctoral student in philosophy, Carol V.A. Quinn G’02 studied Hebrew for two years and traveled to Israel, where she interviewed Holocaust survivors. She concedes she took a nontraditional approach to researching her dissertation, Considering the Nazi Data Debate:…