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Parking During Men’s Basketball Games
As a reminder, Syracuse University men’s basketball games are scheduled to occur while classes are in session on the following dates: Tuesday, Jan. 24, vs. Wake Forest Monday, Feb. 13, vs. Louisville Wednesday, Feb. 22, vs. Duke For academic purposes,…
Biology Professor Recognized for Innovative Teaching
Biology Associate Professor Jason Wiles received the annual Teaching Excellence Award from the Association of College and University Biology Educators (ACUBE), the second national award he was given this past fall. The award recognizes innovation in teaching biology at the…
Student Veterans Perform at Syracuse Stage in ‘Separated’
For one night only on Jan. 18, Syracuse Stage, in partnership with Hendricks Chapel, the Syracuse University Student Veterans Association and the Syracuse University Office of Veterans and Military Affairs, presents “Separated,” a theater performance based on the personal experiences…
First Known Use of Mary Poppins’ Best-Known Word? Not in London but in DO
Peter Amster figures he heard the word for the first time when he was 14 or 15, a teenager in the darkness of a Long Island movie theater. He was a serious kid, already reading Sarte and Kierkegaard, but…
Physics Chair Honored for Innovation, Education, Leadership
A. Alan Middleton, professor and chair of the physics department in the College of Arts and Sciences, was recently elected a 2016 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The honor recognizes an individual’s distinguished efforts…
Rock and a Hard Place
When Brian Patterson heard the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) was being delayed and possibly rerouted, he let out a whoop of joy. For him and thousands of others, particularly those at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in the snow-covered Dakotas,…
University Selected to Become Pat Tillman Foundation University Partner
Syracuse joins 14 other University Partners, including Columbia University, George Washington University and Georgetown University.
English Department Establishes Memorial Fellowship
Joseph Hughes liked big words—so much so that his brother often consulted a dictionary while talking to him. “Joe was a bright man with a promising future,” he told the Daily Orange shortly after Hughes’ untimely death at age 32….
University Lectures Hosts Humans of New York Founder, Pulitzer-Winning Authors
The 16th season of the University Lectures will continue in the spring semester with Jhumpa Lahiri (“Interpreter of Maladies”), Sonia Nazario (“Enrique’s Journey”) and Brandon Stanton.
Crowston, Sawyer Take Best Paper Award at ASIS&T
School of Information Studies (iSchool) faculty members Kevin Crowston and Steven Sawyer, along with colleague and former iSchool professor Rolf Wigand, were presented with a Best Paper Award by the Association for Information Science and Technology’s Social Informatics special interest…