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Recent Clips
July 10, 2008
Jeffrey Stonecash, professor of political science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and The College of Arts and Sciences, and SU vice president for public affairs Kevin C. Quinn were quoted in an Inside Higher Ed article on the polling and consulting activities of faculty at colleges and universities.
July 9, 2008
Jason Fridley, assistant professor of biology in The College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted by Discovery.com about climate change’s effect on unproductive grasslands.
July 8, 2008
Mary Karr, Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature in The College of Arts and Sciences, wrote about the poems of Terrance Hayes in her “Poet’s Choice” column in the Washington Post's Book World.
Jason Fridley, assistant professor of biology in The College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in an article in New Scientist about climate change’s effect on unproductive grasslands.
June 30, 2008
Mary Karr, Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature in The College of Arts and Sciences, wrote about Czech poet Miroslav Holub in her “Poet’s Choice” column in the Washington Post’s Book World.
Robert McClure, professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and The College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in a Sunday Post-Standard article on Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney.
Grant Reeher, associate professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and The College of Arts and Sciences, authored an op-ed in Sunday’s Post-Standard about British politics and the U.S. presidential election.
“The Whipping Post,” a photography exhibition at the Community Folk Art Gallery, was reviewed in Sunday’s Post-Standard “Stars” magazine.
June 26, 2008
Mehrzad Boroujerdi, associate professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and The College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted on Iran's leadership in a Reuters story.
June 23, 2008
Mary Karr, Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature in The College of Arts and Sciences, wrote about the poet John Keats in her weekly "Poet's Choice" column appearing in the Washington Post's Book World.
Gustav Niebuhr, associate professor in The College of Arts and Sciences and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, will lecture at the Chautauqua Institution, as noted in a Jamestown Post-Journal article.
June 20, 2008
Mehrzad Boroujerdi, associate professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and The College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in Egypt's Al-Ahram Weekly on sanctions against Iran.
June 19, 2008
Mary Warner Marien, professor of fine arts in The College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in a New York Times story on family home videos.
Kristi Andersen, professor of political science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and The College of Arts and Sciences, commented on female supporters of Hillary Clinton in a Reuters story.
Mary Karr, Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature in The College of Arts and Sciences, answered reader questions during an online Q&A at the Washington Post 's website.
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Associated Press, the Post-Standard and News 10 Now reported on political polling by Jeffrey Stonecash, professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and The College of Arts and Sciences. Stonecash was interviewed on WSYR radio.
The Post-Standard reported briefly on an award received by John Caputo, professor in The College of Arts and Sciences, for his book "What Would Jesus Do? The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church." The book won the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award.
June 18, 2008
The Post-Standard reported on political polling by Jeffrey Stonecash, professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and The College of Arts and Sciences.
June 17, 2008
Mehrzad Boroujerdi, associate professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and The College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in an Associated Press article on the European Union and stronger sanctions on Iran.
An interview with Bill Coplin, professor of public affairs in the Maxwell School and Arts and Sciences, was featured in the June 2008 issue of the Greentree Gazette.
Soft matter research by Liviu Movileanu, assistant professor of physics in Arts and Sciences, and colleagues was cited in a VerticalNews technology article.
Mary Karr, Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature in The College of Arts and Sciences, wrote about fathers and the poetry of Edward Hirsch and Michael Milburn in her weekly "Poet's Choice" column appearing in the Washington Post’s Book World.
June 16, 2008
Barbara Fiese, professor and chair of the psychology department in The College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in a Northwest Herald (Illinois) article on a father’s approach to parenting sons versus daughters.
The Post-Standard reported on the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems (Syracuse CoE) announcement of six research grants. Charles Driscoll, distinguished professor in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) and a grant recipient, was quoted. Edward Bogucz, Syracuse CoE executive director, also commented in the article. Other grant recipients included Yan-Yeung Luk, assistant professor of chemistry in Arts and Sciences, Michael Sponsler, associate professor of chemistry in Arts and Sciences, Ren Dacheng, assistant professor of biomedical and chemical engineering in ECS and Don Siegel, professor of earth sciences in Arts and Sciences, who were also mentioned as research grant recipients.
Brantley Carroll’s “The Whipping Post” exhibition at the Community Folk Art Center was reviewed in a Post-Standard article. Carroll, a Marcellus artist, is a recipient of the 2007 Light Work Grants in Photography. A video blog can be viewed here.
June 13, 2008
Gustav Niebuhr, associate professor in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and The College of Arts and Sciences, commented on interfaith dialogue in a Raleigh News and Observer story on an interfaith student trip sponsored by Duke University.
June 10, 2008
Gwendolyn Pough, associate professor in The College of Arts and Sciences, was profiled in the Post-Standard
Gustav Niebuhr, associate professor in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and The College of Arts and Sciences, authored a piece in the Washington Post 's "On Faith" column on Barack Obama and religion in America.
The upcoming exhibition “Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth” (at SUArt Galleries and the Palitz Gallery at Lubin House) was featured in American Artist’s Drawing magazine, spring 2008 issue.
June 6, 2008
The current issue of the New Yorker (June 9 and 16) contains three SU authors: Creative Writing faculty and Macarthur Fellow from the College of Arts and Sciences George Saunders ("Hypocrites"), and former A&S faculty Tobias Wolff ("Winter Light") and Mary Gaitskill ("Don't Cry").
June 5, 2008
The obituary of Walter H. Diamond, taxation expert, world-renowned economist and an SU alumnus of The College of Arts and Sciences, appeared in The New York Times.
June 3 , 2008
Michael Barkun, professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and The College of Arts and Sciences, commented in a Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report article on Shepherd’s Chapel televangelist and pastor Arnold Murray.
Mary Karr, Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature in The College of Arts and Sciences, wrote on poet Jason Shinder’s “One Day I Will Die” in her weekly "Poet's Choice" column appearing in the Washington Post’s Book World.
The Post-Standard reported on the appointment of George M. Langford as new dean of The College of Arts and Sciences.
Grant Reeher, associate professor in The College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and director of SU Abroad’s Politics and Media in Britain program, wrote a column in the Sunday Post-Standard, on the race for the Democratic nomination and gender and race issues in American politics.
May 27, 2008
Marvin Druger, professor of biology and chair of science teaching in The College of Arts and Sciences, was profiled in Saturday's Post-Standard.
May 19, 2008
Two nontraditional SU degree recipients, Donald Oken and Clifford English, were mentioned in a Chronicle of Higher Education commencement roundup.
May 12, 2008
The Post-Standard reported on two nontraditional students receiving
degrees at Sunday's Commencement ceremony: 83-year-old Clifford English
and 80-year-old Donald Oken.
May 9, 2008
Grant Reeher, associate professor in The College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, discussed Senator Hillary Clinton's campaign for president on WSYR Radio.
May 7, 2008
Steven Diaz, associate professor of mathematics in The College of Arts and Sciences, was interviewed in a WSYR-TV report on gas discount cards given to buyers of Chrysler cars.
May 6, 2008
Robert McClure, professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and The College of Arts and Sciences, commented on Hillary Clinton's appeal to Indiana voters in a Buffalo News story.
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