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Arts and Sciences Appoints New Director of Graduate, Undergraduate Recruitment
Karin Ruhlandt, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), announced that she has promoted Christopher Noble Anderson G’15 to director of graduate and undergraduate recruitment. Previously associate director of undergraduate recruitment, he succeeds Denny Nicholson, who is the…
Professor Emerita Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Professor Emerita M. Cristina Marchetti has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, in recognition of her original research into soft and living matter. The theoretical physicist is part of a 100-person cohort, 40 percent of whom are women—the most elected…
A&S advisor, Syracuse Football Star Scott Freeney ’97 Helps Students Win in the Classroom
Hannah, a first-year student in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), can’t decide on a major. Sitting across from her advisor in a cozy, book-lined office in the Hall of Languages, the 19-year-old admits she’s at a crossroads. “I’m good…
Ammonium Fertilized Early Life on Earth
A team of international scientists—including researchers at the University of St. Andrews, Syracuse University and Royal Holloway, University of London—have demonstrated a new source of food for early life on the planet. Life on Earth relies on the availability of…
iSchool, Arts and Sciences, Libraries Collaborate on Art of Romanticism Course
As part of Professor Romita Ray’s Art of Romanticism course this past semester, Ray, her students, School of Information Studies (iSchool) Professor Daniel Acuna and Elizabeth Novoa, president of Unika Analytics, designed the website Romanticism at Syracuse University. It features…
Northern Lights In Rare Spots This Week – This Is Why
Those looking up at the sky in northern U.S. states and most of Canada may catch a glimpse of the northern lights this week. Sam Sampere is a physics lab manager at Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Below,…
Pellow Receives Wasserstrom Prize for Graduate Teaching
Deborah Pellow, professor of anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) and the Maxwell School, is the 2019 recipient of the William Wasserstrom Prize for the Teaching of Graduate Students. A&S Dean Karin Ruhlandt conferred the prize on…
Syracuse University Establishes New Institute for Autonomous Systems Policy
From self-driving cars to drone delivery systems, from robotic underwater vessels to smart-home technologies, the increasing reliance on autonomous systems poses complex social, ethical and legal questions that demand interdisciplinary, multifaceted research. At Syracuse University’s inaugural Autonomous Systems Policy Symposium,…
Syracuse University Libraries, Department of Chemistry Collaborate to Identify Chemical Composition of Plastics Artifacts Collection
Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collection Research Center (SCRC) and the Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences have collaborated on a first-of-its-kind project. Courtney Asztalos, the Libraries’ plastics pioneers curator of plastics and historical artifacts, partnered with…
Conversations About Beauty: New Book by Dean’s Professor Harvey Teres Probes ‘Unseen Power of Aesthetic Experience’
People’s encounters with beauty is the subject of a new book by Harvey Teres, Dean’s Professor for the Public Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S). “Conversations about Beauty with Ordinary Americans: Somebody Loves Us All” (Common Ground…