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University Lectures Launches 18th Season with Authors George Saunders and Margaret Atwood, Artist Robert Shetterly

Thursday, August 30, 2018, By Kevin Morrow

This fall, the University Lectures series welcomes distinguished authors George Saunders (“Lincoln in the Bardo,” “Tenth of December”) and Margaret Atwood (“The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Alias Grace”) and—in collaboration with the Tanner Lecture Series on Ethics, Citizenship, and Public Responsibility—accomplished portrait…

Media, Law & Policy

Syracuse University Among Hollywood Reporter’s Top 25 American Film Schools

Wednesday, August 22, 2018, By Erica Blust

For the sixth consecutive year, Syracuse University was ranked by The Hollywood Reporter (THR) on its list of the “Top 25 American Film Schools.” The 2018 list, which THR compiled after consulting with educators, industry professionals and alumni, ranks Syracuse…

STEM

Bend Or Break? ECS 101 Students Test Wood Bridge Designs

Monday, December 11, 2017, By Alex Dunbar

Designing a wood bridge is one thing. Actually building it knowing a series of 19-pound weights will be placed on it is another. Teams of first-year students from the College of Engineering & Computer Science in ECS 101 had about a week…

Arts & Culture

New Biography ‘A Swoony Valentine’ to Joni Mitchell

Monday, November 27, 2017, By Renée K. Gadoua

A review in The Nation magazine calls David Yaffe’s new biography about the Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell “a swoony valentine to Mitchell, or at least to the effect that her music can have on the spirit.” Yaffe is unapologetic about…

Arts & Culture

Light Work Presents Suné Woods: ‘To Sleep With Terra’

Monday, August 21, 2017, By News Staff

Light Work will present “To Sleep With Terra,” featuring the work of photo-collage and multi-channel video artist Suné Woods. This will be Woods’ first solo exhibition with Light Work since her tenure as an artist-in-residence in 2016. The exhibition will be…

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Ralph Zito is interviewed about the Drama Department being ranked in the top 5 by Hollywood Reporter

Thursday, June 1, 2017, By Ellen Mbuqe

Ralph Zito, professor of acting and chair of the Drama Dept. in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, was interviewed by WSYR radio about VPA’s top 5 ranking in Hollywood Reporter.

Arts & Culture

Hollywood Reporter Ranks Drama Department Among Top Five for Undergraduate Study

Friday, May 26, 2017, By Erica Blust

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) has ranked the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Drama among the top five schools for undergraduate study in its May 24 issue.  The department was ranked no. 4, jumping four spots from its…

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Assistant Professor Sarah Woolf-King on her Research Studying Trauma and Parents’ Mental Health

Wednesday, February 22, 2017, By Ellen Mbuqe

Sarah Woolf-King, assistant professor of psychology, was the subject of a MyCentralJersey.com story “After her baby’s heart surgery, researcher studies impact on parents’ mental health.”

Arts & Culture

Woody Register on ‘The Muckers’: Lecture, Book Signing and Seminar

Wednesday, February 15, 2017, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Historian Woody Register will give a talk and reading from his book, “The Muckers: A Narrative of the Crapshooters Club,” on Thursday, March 2,  at 4:30 p.m. in the Hillyer Room on the sixth floor of Bird Library. Register will…

Arts & Culture

VPA’s Setnor Named a Top Music School by Hollywood Reporter

Monday, December 12, 2016, By Erica Blust

The College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music was ranked No. 21 on the Hollywood Reporter’s (THR) list of the “Top 25 Music Schools of 2016.” The article noted that Crouse…