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SU’s Mark Bowick to Be Honored as New Steele Professor Oct. 31
Mark Bowick, professor of physics in The College of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed the new Joel Dorman Steele Professor of Physics. The Steele Professorship is one of the University’s oldest and is named for the 19th-century SU trustee….
Common Differences
Professor Chandra Talpade Mohanty was a graduate student at the University of Illinois in 1983 when she and her colleague, Ann Russo, developed the idea for an international women’s conference on feminist perspectives from the Global South and North. It marked the start of her scholarly life in social justice.
Dympna Callaghan Awarded Bogliasco Fellowship
Dympna Callaghan, the William L. Safire Professor of Modern Letters and interim director of the Syracuse University Humanities Center, administered by The College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded one of the coveted fellowships offered annually by the Bogliasco…
Poet Baker to Speak at Oct. 16 Raymond Carver Series Event
The poet David Baker is the next speaker in this semester’s Raymond Carver Reading Series at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16, 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…
SU hosts Commutative Algebra, Algebraic Geometry Conference
More than two dozen mathematicians from New York State and Ontario will converge at Syracuse University for the 23rd annual “Route 81 Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry.” The conference, which is attended primarily by mathematicians from SU, Cornell…
Sternlicht to Lecture on Singer
Sanford Sternlicht G’62, professor of English in The College of Arts and Sciences, will present a lecture on the life and times of Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer at 10 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 13, at Temple Adath Yeshurun….
A Conversation with George Saunders
Seats are still available for Friday morning’s conversation with George Saunders, a professor in The College of Arts and Sciences and renowned author whose 2013 Convocation address recently went viral. Saunders will discuss the creative process and his teaching Friday…
Internet Expert Viktor Mayer-Schonberger to Speak
In early June, British newspaper The Guardian reported that the U.S. National Security Agency had been collecting the telephone records of millions of Americans under a secret court order. The source was Edward Snowden, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton,…
Etgar Keret Presents Raymond Carver Lecture Oct. 9
Etgar Keret, the popular Israeli writer and filmmaker, will present this semester’s second Raymond Carver Reading Series at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, in Gifford Auditorium. A question-and-answer session will precede the reading from 3:45-4:30 p.m. The event is free…
Biologists Confirm Role of Sperm Competition in Formation of New Species
‘Current Biology’ article marks culmination of six years of research Biologists in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences have confirmed that reproductive isolation, a critical step in the formation of new species, can arise from diversifying sperm competition. Their…