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selective liberal arts college at the heart of an international research
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The College Facts
The College of Arts and Sciences is Syracuse University’s oldest and largest college, founded in 1870
A selective liberal arts college at the heart of an international research institution, with more than 4,000 undergraduate students and 590 faculty members
More than 170 tenured and tenure-track faculty members appointed in the last seven years
Embodiment of Scholarship in Action, with emphasis on faculty excellence, civic engagement, and interdisciplinary research and education
Life Sciences Complex, largest academic construction project in SU history, opens in 2008 with biology, chemistry, and biochemistry under one roof
Home to SU’s new Center for the Public and Collaborative Humanities; the Central New York Humanities Corridor, with Cornell University and the University of Rochester; and the Imagining America consortium, committed to public scholarship in the arts, design, and humanities
Noted faculty members include George Saunders (English), a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2006 MacArthur Fellow; Linda Martín-Alcoff (Philosophy/Women’s Studies/Political Science), one of Hispanic Business magazine’s “100 influentials” for 2006; back-to-back CAREER award winners Tewodros Asefa (Chemistry) and Britton Plourde (Phyiscs); Gary Radke (Fine Arts), curator of the 2007-08 “Gates of Paradise” national exhibition; and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Mary Karr (English)
Administrative home of all-University programs including The Renée Crown University Honors Program; The Soling Program, which organizes MayFest; and the nationally recognized SU Mock Trial Team
Founder of the First Year Seminars, a new academic writing experience featuring SU’s first postdoctoral fellows in the humanities
Home to psychology, SU’s most federally funded academic department, whose doctoral program in clinical psychology ranks in the nation’s Top-20
