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Arts & Culture

VPA’s Ralph Zito Receives Juilliard School’s President’s Medal

Thursday, October 26, 2017, By Erica Blust

Ralph Zito, professor and chair of the Department of Drama in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, received the Juilliard School’s President’s Medal at the 50th anniversary celebration of Julliard’s Drama Division on Oct. 9. Zito, an alumnus of…

Campus & Community

Zhuang, Now a Remembrance Scholar, Inspired by Remembrance Events during First Year

Wednesday, October 25, 2017, By Kenneth Mintz

Sudan Zhuang of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management and the School of Information Studies recalls attending a Remembrance event for the Pan Am 103 tragedy during the first semester of her freshman year. “When such a tragedy happens, restoring faith in humanity becomes…

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…

Health & Society

Christopher Barley ’89 Puts Heart and Mind into International Relief Work

Friday, October 20, 2017, By Renée K. Gadoua

When Christopher Barley ’89 learned a 7.8 magnitude earthquake had hit Nepal in April 2015, he quickly traveled there to provide medical assistance in the region near the capital city of Kathmandu. “Little towns were just rubble,” he says. “Every…

STEM

Duncan Brown Named to Internet2 Board of Trustees

Friday, October 20, 2017, By Cyndi Moritz

Duncan Brown, the Charles Brightman Endowed Professor of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named to the Internet2 Board of Trustees. His three-year term will begin Nov. 1. A Syracuse faculty member since 2007, Brown has…

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…

Washington Post

Humanities Degrees Are Still Necessary

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Sawyer Kamman

Gerald Greenberg, associate professor of Russian and Linguistics and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the College of Arts and Sciences, talks to the Washington Post on the importance of a humanities degree. “The value of a college education…

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,…

STEM

Syracuse Physicists Usher in a New Golden Age of Astronomy

Monday, October 16, 2017, By Carol Boll

Syracuse University physicists are among a global team of scientists to make a revolutionary discovery confirming the origins of gold and other heavy metals whose presence in the universe has been a long-standing mystery.

STEM

Peter Saulson: ‘Astronomy Will Never Be the Same’

Monday, October 16, 2017, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The Martin A. Pomerantz ’37 Professor of Physics, Peter Saulson has devoted much of his career to searching for gravitational waves. Here, he reflects on the importance of the latest discovery of these so-called “ripples in spacetime,” and what it…