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LaToya Ruby Frazier G’07 Named 2015 MacArthur Fellow
Photographer and video artist LaToya Ruby Frazier G’07, a graduate of the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Transmedia, has been named a 2015 MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Frazier, who earned…
Alumni to Receive Eggers, Generation Orange Awards During Orange Central
Syracuse University will recognize the extraordinary contributions of both its senior alumni and its younger alumni during Orange Central homecoming during the weekend of Oct. 22-25. The Melvin A. Eggers Senior Alumni Award will be presented to Molly Corbett Broad…
Alumni to Be Posthumously Honored during New York Film Festival
The films of Albert Maysles, ’49, a pioneering documentary filmmaker who graduated from the College of Arts and Sciences, will be featured during a special tribute co-hosted by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Maysles family. Maysles, who…
Bob Costas ’74 to Be Enshrined in WAER Hall of Fame
Legendary broadcaster Bob Costas ’74 will be inducted in the Hall of Fame of Syracuse University radio station WAER at a ceremony and tribute event Monday, Sept. 21, at 6:30 p.m. in Studio 9C at 30 Rockefeller Center in New…
Atlanta Program Helps Students Discover Heart of the South
It was an exciting spring for Syracuse University in Atlanta, as alumni and friends welcomed 14 students from the College of Arts and Sciences to their city for its inaugural immersion program. The trip combined a variety of cultural activities…
Reminder: Tickets for Syracuse University Day at Citi Field Available Until Game Day on June 28
A reminder that tickets for Syracuse University Day at Citi Field will be available until game day, which is June 28. If you would like information on bus rides from campus or any other details, email sumets@syr.edu. Tickets for the…
Award-Winning Poet and Memoirist Mary Karr to Give 2015 Commencement Address
Karr will also be awarded an honorary degree, a Doctor of Humane Letters, at the 161st Commencement exercises.
New Documentary ‘Answers the Call’ for Syracuse Alumnus
When Bryce Renninger left Syracuse University with a dual degree in English and textual studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and Television, Radio and Film in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, he had already laid out…
Spelman College Names Syracuse University Alumna as Next President
Syracuse University alumna Mary Schmidt Campbell was selected as the 10th president of Spelman College in Atlanta, according to an announcement by the college’s board of trustees March 28. Campbell G’73, G’80, G’82, who is dean emerita of the Tisch…
20th Anniversary of Historic Day for Space Program and University Alumna
Feb. 3, 1995, is a day Eileen Collins ’78 is unlikely to forget. It was on that day that Collins piloted the shuttle Discovery into outer space and into the history books all at once. Collins became the first female…