Arts & Culture
Stephanie James Named Founding Director of VPA’s School of Art
Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) has appointed Stephanie James the founding director of the college’s future School of Art. James is a fine artist and currently associate dean and head of the School of Visual Arts…
The Lasting Legacy of a Teacher, Mentor and Friend
Professor Mary Marshall would have been proud to receive the warm recognition of those gathered for the dedication of the honors program’s library that now bears her name. “She was the finest of mentors,” said Edward Menkin G’67, G’72, L’77. “She would be thrilled to see so many young women and men here today and deeply touched by this dedication.”
LaToya Ruby Frazier G’07 Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
LaToya Ruby Frazier G’07 has been named a 2014 recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in photography in the United States and Canada competition. Frazier earned a master of fine arts degree in art photography from the College of…
Architecture Students Create Parti Wall Installation over 72-Hour Period
Over the course of the weekend of April 4-6, teams of Syracuse Architecture students, led by faculty members, worked together to develop a performative installation within a nine-square space frame in the atrium of Slocum Hall.
Sternlicht to Lecture on Jewish Literature in Nation’s Capital May 19
New York City’s Lower East Side, as seen through the eyes of early Jewish American writers, is the subject of a special presentation by a Syracuse University professor at the Library of Congress. Sanford Sternlicht G’62, professor emeritus of English…
Anthropologist Wins Arts and Sciences’ Wasserstrom Prize for Graduate Teaching
Douglas V. Armstrong, a Syracuse University professor in the Maxwell School for Citizenship and Public Affairs and The College of Arts and Sciences, has been tapped to receive the latter’s William Wasserstrom Prize for the Teaching of Graduate Students. He…
Tony Award-Winning Rock Musical ‘Spring Awakening’ Closes SU Drama Season
Winner of eight Tony Awards, “Spring Awakening” is a hard-hitting rock musical adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s expressionist play. Set in late-19th-century Germany, the story follows Wendla Bergmann, Moritz Stiefel, Melchior Gabor and their peers as they struggle to understand the…
Ellen Bryant Voigt to Close Out Spring Carver Series
The poet Ellen Bryant Voigt will close out the spring 2014 Raymond Carver Reading Series at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, in Gifford Auditorium. A question-and-answer session will precede the reading from 3:45-4:30 p.m. The event is free and open…
Cruel April Series Concludes with Poetry Readings by Caturelli, Colasacco
Point of Contact’s annual poetry series Cruel April will conclude on April 24 with readings by Celia Caturelli (in its original Spanish with English translation) and John Colasacco. Part of Point of Contact’s annual poetry series Cruel April, the readings…
A Catalyst for Change
Leave it to Karin Ruhlandt, newly appointed interim dean-designate of The College of Arts and Sciences, to put a global spin on things. In 1999, when the Department of Chemistry was retooling its Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, the…