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Commencement Speech by New Yorker Editor David Remnick
Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, delivered the Commencement address for Syracuse University’s 160th Commencement ceremony.
Meet the Men Behind Creation of the Fisher Center
Winston Fisher and James Kuhn are the driving force behind Syracuse University’s New York City academic home in midtown Manhattan. This video provides some insight on the two men who made it all happen. Here’s a transcription of the story:…
Seeking First-Generation Faculty/Staff Members
As part of SU’s growing support for first generation college students, we are looking to identify first-generation faculty and staff members on campus. We are gathering information in hopes of starting a first generation connection/mentoring-type program to help ease the…
Matthew Huber Wins Maxwell School’s Moynihan Award
Matthew Huber, assistant professor of geography, has received the 2014 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award for Teaching and Research. The award, established in 1985 by former senator and Maxwell faculty member Daniel Patrick Moynihan, is made annually to an outstanding untenured…
Professor Recognized by American Philosophical Society
Nearly 30 years ago, Wayne Franits, now a professor of art history in the College of Arts and Sciences, arrived on the Syracuse campus fresh out of New York University with a Ph.D. in hand. Today, Franits is a world-renowned…
Strauskulage, Usman Honored by Goldwater Foundation
Junior Luke Strauskulage has been named as a 2014-15 Goldwater Scholar. Sophomore Samantha Usman was recognized with a Goldwater Honorable Mention. Goldwater Scholars are selected on the basis of academic merit from a field of mathematics, science and engineering students…
Chiefs of Police Honor Three Syracuse University Officers
The Central New York Association of Chiefs of Police honored three Syracuse University Department of Public Safety (DPS) personnel and a New York State Department of Corrections officer for their bravery and action during unexpected events at the University. The…
iSchool Hosts Workshop for NSF-Funded Social Computing Researchers
Faculty members at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) recently hosted a one-day workshop for New York researchers doing National Science Foundation-funded work in the area of social-computational systems. Research Associate Professor Nancy McCracken and Associate Professor Carsten Oesterlund organized…
ESF to Confer Degrees at Commencement on May 11
The SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) will confer up to 575 degrees during joint Commencement exercises with Syracuse University May 11 in the Carrier Dome. The ceremony will begin at 9:30 a.m. During the ceremony, ESF will…
Student Chapter of ACM Growing Upward, Outward at iSchool
A new student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, is in its second year at the School of Information Studies (iSchool), and is experiencing growth with the spring induction of…