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News-2023

Audie Klotz portrait.

(May 10, 2023)

Audie Klotz Receives 2023 Wasserstrom Prize for Graduate Teaching

The prize memorializes William Wasserstrom, a noted professor of English at Syracuse University.

Cerri A. Banks and Kathleen Walters and David MacDonald, from left to right.

(May 9, 2023)

Three Members of the A&S Community Receive Honorary Degrees

Alumnae Kathleen A. Walters and the late Cerri A. Banks, and Community Folk Art Center co-founder David R. MacDonald, receive the prestigious designation at 2023 Commencement.

Hall of Languages in the 1870s, left, and today, right.

(May 8, 2023)

Celebrating a Legendary Landmark

Syracuse University’s Hall of Languages turns 150.

Graduates facing the Hall of Languages

(May 4, 2023)

2022-23 A&S Awards and Honors

Explore the academic year-end list of A&S students and faculty acknowledged for their outstanding achievements.

Aerial view of the 2023 Undergraduate Research Festival

(April 28, 2023)

Annual Research Festival Showcases Impressive A&S Undergraduate Work

Over 100 A&S students honed their professional speaking experience by presenting their findings to faculty, peers and guests.

(April 28, 2023)

A&S Professor Claudia Miller Awarded Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute Research Professorship

Miller will study singularities in geometry at the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute in Berkeley, California in spring 2024.

Graphic of seven Fulbright Award winners with the Arts and Sciences lockup.

(April 26, 2023)

Seven Arts and Sciences Students and Alumni Receive Fulbright Awards

The prestigious assistantships support their teaching efforts in different parts of the world.

Kerrie Marshall portrait.

(April 25, 2023)

A&S Communications Team Welcomes Second Communications Specialist

Kerrie Marshall brings over 15 years of writing, marketing and public relations experience to A&S.

Margaret Atwood, left and Mona Awad, right, both seated.

(April 24, 2023)

Famed Author Margaret Atwood Calls Creative Writing Professor Mona Awad Her ‘Literary Heir Apparent’

The authors were interviewed for a feature titled 'This Woman's Work' in The New York Times Style Magazine.

Students at conference

(April 21, 2023)

Impact Through Research

Human Development and Family Science graduate students present at prestigious child development conference.

Lois Agnew portrait.

(April 14, 2023)

College of Arts and Sciences’ Lois Agnew Appointed Associate Provost for Academic Programs

Agnew will support efforts to develop a curriculum that effectively meets the changing needs of students in today’s higher education landscape.

George Saunders holding an open book.

(April 14, 2023)

Is Kindness Still Relevant?

10 years after his Convocation speech went viral, acclaimed author George Saunders G’88 revisits its message.

This year’s Winston Fisher Seminar participants pose at Fisher Brothers, a real estate firm.

(April 6, 2023)

Students Learn Career Possibilities Through Winston Fisher Seminar

The annual immersion trip helps A&S | Maxwell students gain a competitive edge in their careers.

(April 5, 2023)

A Giant in Her Field

Colleagues remember Professor Emerita Alice Sterling Honig.

Humanities Corridor logo

(April 5, 2023)

“Moving Forward”: 10-Minute Performances on the Quad April 13

Expanded Performing Identities Across Cultures a CNY Humanities Corridor Signature Event

Dalit history month lecture

(April 5, 2023)

Raising Awareness to End Caste Discrimination

April marks Syracuse University’s second Dalit History Month campus observance with a lecture and graduate student workshop bringing visibility to caste-based oppression.

Debra Adama Simmons headshot.

(March 29, 2023)

Debra Adams Simmons ’86 Named A&S | Maxwell Convocation Speaker

National Geographic executive will reflect on her journey from CNY reporter to industry leader.

Robert Doyle sitting in a lab.

(March 29, 2023)

A&S Chemistry Professor Presents New Research on Anti-Obesity Drug

Professor Robert Doyle shared findings at the ACS spring meeting about a potential new drug which offers steady weight loss without common, unwanted side-effects.

Students sitting at a table writing.

(March 28, 2023)

Uniting the Community in the Pursuit of Environmental Justice

The Environmental Storytelling Series of CNY brings together faculty, students and local community partners to address the climate crisis through creative outlets.

Mosab Abu Toha portrait

(March 23, 2023)

‘My Poetry is a Record of What Happened’

Mosab Abu Toha finds mentors, refines his craft in A&S’ Creative Writing Program.

Graphic representation of a DNA strand.

(March 20, 2023)

‘Fishing’ for Biomarkers

A team of researchers, including Syracuse University physics professor Liviu Movileanu and postdoctoral researcher Mohammad Ahmad, have developed a broadly applicable nano-sensor capable of single-molecule precision.

(March 17, 2023)

Rewriting Kenyan History

A&S grad student Joy Nyokabi Karinge advocates for access to unsanitized history of Kenya and beyond.

Courtney Conte ’23 (left) and Bochum town archivist Andreas Froning (right) with the Stolpersteine, or stumbling stone, honoring Holocaust survivor Bob Hyman.

(March 15, 2023)

A&S Student Honors Holocaust Survivor through Research Project

Courtney Conte ’23 helped prepare a “stumbling stone” to remember Bob Hyman’s life.

alumnus Brennen Ferguson (right) and fellow Haudenosaunee External Relations Committee members Kenneth Deer (middle) and Clayton Logan (second from right).

(March 10, 2023)

Sacred Indigenous Objects Find Their Way Home

In “an international act of diplomacy,” Syracuse University alumnus Brennen Ferguson ’19 helps repatriate ceremonial Native American items from a museum in Geneva, Switzerland.

Mona Awad portrait

(March 8, 2023)

Film Rights to Mona Awad’s Novel Bunny Purchased by Bad Robot Productions

The 2019 bestselling novel has become a viral phenomenon on TikTok, with book-related posts garnering over 4.1 billion views.

Behzad Mortazavi headshot.

(March 7, 2023)

Behzad Mortazavi Named Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences

Mortazavi, who will officially be installed as dean of the College July 1, comes to A&S from the University of Alabama’s College of Arts and Sciences.

Aerial view of the study region in the Argentine Andes.

(March 3, 2023)

Rare Isotopes Help Unlock Mysteries in the Argentine Andes

Researchers from Syracuse University’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences published a study documenting erosion rates in the Andes Mountains.

Images of Tripti Bhattacharya Alison Patteson and Olga Makhlynets and Rachel Steinhardt from left to right

(March 2, 2023)

A&S Faculty Collect Top National Awards and Grants

EES professor Tripti Bhattacharya, physics professor Alison Patteson and chemistry professors Olga Makhlynets and Rachel Steinhardt are recognized for their innovative and noteworthy research.

Olga Makhlynets portrait.

(Feb. 21, 2023)

Chemistry Professor Recipient of NSF CAREER and NIH Grants

With grants from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation, Olga Makhlynets is researching next-generation hydrogels and protein design.

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