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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…
SU Physicist Develops Model for Studying Tissue Pattern Formation
Professor Lisa Manning wants to know if embryonic tissue behaves more like a solid or liquid—and why A team of scientists, including M. Lisa Manning, assistant professor of physics in The College of Arts and Sciences, has developed a model…
Black & Banned: Community Read-Out Planned
The Black Syracuse Project in the Department of African American Studies is organizing Black & Banned, a Community Read-Out for Banned Books Week, Sept. 22-28. This year’s event is a “town-gown” collaboration with the Beauchamp Branch of the Onondaga County…
SU, Partners to Study Black Holes and Neutron Stars
Professor Duncan Brown receives NSF grant to help establish astrophysics network Physicists in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences have received a major federal grant to create the tools needed to understand the collisions of black holes and neutron…
‘Are Psychopaths Morally Responsible?’ Is Topic of Anbar Lecture
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Duke University ethicist, will deliver the sixth annual Anbar Family Lecture at Syracuse University and Temple Adath Yeshurun. His SU lecture, titled “Are Psychopaths Morally Responsible?” is Monday, Sept. 30, at 4 p.m. in the Killian Room (Room 500) at the Hall of Languages. The previous day,…
George Saunders Kicks Off Fall 2013 Raymond Carver Reading Series
George Saunders G’88, one of this year’s most celebrated American writers, will kick off Syracuse University’s Fall 2013 Raymond Carver Reading Series at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18, in Gifford Auditorium. A question-and-answer session will precede the reading from 3:45-4:30…
SU Signs Asset Transfer Agreement with SRC’s Bioforensics Group
The Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute (FNSSI) in The College of Arts and Sciences has signed an asset transfer agreement with SRC Inc., a nationally recognized independent, not-for-profit research company. The agreement calls for the transfer of the SRC…
Dympna Callaghan Appointed Interim Director of SU Humanities Center
Shakespearean scholar has ‘deep commitment’ to humanities and liberal arts Dympna Callaghan, the William L. Safire Professor of Modern Letters and a renowned Shakespearean scholar in The College of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed interim director of the…
SU Mathematician Wins Simons Fellowship
J. Theodore Cox to use fellowship to study probability theory J. Theodore Cox, professor of mathematics in The College of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed a 2013 Simons Fellow. Cox will use the $110,000 award, along with support from…