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Alumni Dan and Kathy Mezzalingua Support University, Student Scholars through $5.25 Million Gift
University Trustee Dan Mezzalingua ’60 and his wife, Kathy G’62, are generously supporting future generations of high-achieving students at Syracuse University through a $5.25 million gift for undergraduate financial aid. Their support is directed to the Invest Syracuse Initiative, a $40…
Physics Professor Eric Schiff Takes on State Fair Games
While many play the Midways Games of the State Fair for fun and prizes, Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences Physics Professor Eric Schiff sees them as a learning opportunity- and a way to find an easier win, he…
Raymond Carver Reading Series This Fall Hosts Six Novelists, Poets
The fall semester of the 2017-18 Raymond Carver Reading Series begins Wednesday, Sept. 20, with poet Solmaz Sharif. All events in the series take place in Huntington Beard Crouse Hall’s Gifford Auditorium, with a Q&A at 3:45 p.m. and an…
Professor Duncan Brown Quoted In Quanta Magazine
As many eyes were trained on the solar eclipse, another astronomical event took place, as Quanta Magazine detailed with comments from Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences Physics Professor, and LIGO Scientific Collaboration member, Duncan Brown. “If you get…
Songs of India: Ethnomusicologist Carol Babiracki Partners with Legendary Mukund Nayak
When Mukund Nayak found out he had won this year’s Padma Shri, one of India’s highest civilian awards, he immediately called Carol Babiracki to offer his congratulations. “No, no. The congratulations should go to you,” replied his longtime friend and colleague, who…
A Taste of Science
Area students got a taste of science, thanks to members of the Department of Chemistry. Gary Bonomo G’10, a lab supervisor and general chemistry lab instructor, and Deborah Maley, the department’s budget administrator, led a hands-on chemistry workshop in Syracuse’s historic Burnet…
Going Places
Santiago Quiñones ’90 has a knack for being in the right place at the right time—a quality that has served him well in television and film. Thus, it is fitting that he began his career as a location scout, tasked…
Student Discovers Tuberculosis DNA in Dental Plaque of Smithsonian’s Anatomical Collection
In a collection of historic skeletal remains at the Smithsonian, microscopic signs of a serious contagion lurk in an intriguing place in a sample of individuals from 100 years ago. Student researcher Soleil Young ’17, a member of the Renée…
4 Questions for Lab Manager Sam Sampere on Solar Eclipse
On Monday, a wide swath of the United States will be within view of a total solar eclipse, in which the moon blocks out the sun. With Syracuse and Central New York in the path of this unique occurrence, we…
Syracuse Shines at American Sociological Association Meeting in Montreal
More than two-dozen researchers from the Department of Sociology are on the world stage at the American Sociological Association (ASA)’s 112th Annual Meeting in Montreal. The theme of this year’s meeting is “Culture, Inequalities and Social Inclusion Across the Globe.”…