Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

08/31/2026

When Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed from cardiac arrest during a 2023 Monday Night Football game, the team's physician was right there. Dr. Marc Fineberg ’89 helped save his life.

"I'm proud of how we responded and of all the good that has come from the tragic event," he says, pointing to a subsequent spike in interest in CPR training.

Fineberg, who majored in biology at A&S, has served as the Bills' team doctor since 2015. His job includes providing on-field coverage during games and practices, performing surgeries, conducting physicals and assessing player availability and performance, all while coordinating the team's emergency action plans.

Fineberg credits Syracuse University with teaching him skills like critical thinking and time management, ones he still relies on today.

Fineberg is one of several Syracuse graduates working across the Bills' front office, including data analysts, a video producer and the team's director of communications ➡️ https://www.syracuse.edu/stories/buffalo-bills-syracuse-alumni/

08/28/2026

From the Dean's Desk: A welcome to the A&S community and a look at the career-building opportunities that make this college different 🍊

08/26/2026

In the North Syracuse Central School District, students are exploring the Holocaust and its literature in novel ways, through direct discussion with the Syracuse University students studying it too.

That's a snapshot of Traveling Teaching, an initiative created by Professor Harvey Teres that's placed A&S students in four Central New York high school classrooms this year, covering subjects like Holocaust literature, Shakespeare and Indigenous studies.

There's also a full-circle moment here. The Nottingham High School teacher who partnered with the Shakespeare course, Sinead Feeney O'Connor, is a 2025 SU graduate who took that same class herself as a student, and is now bringing its hands-on approach to her own students.

"It was wonderful to see my students with thoughtful questions about college and life after high school, and to see SU students so willing to interact with them and share honest reflections about their experiences," says Dan Jordan, an English teacher in the Hannibal Central School District.

Read about the Indigenous studies partnerships too ➡️ https://go.syr.edu/as/ConnectingClassrooms

08/23/2026

Welcome home, Class of 2030! 🍊

08/20/2026

08/17/2026

The first day of classes is one week away! 🍊

We know this time of year comes with a lot of feelings—excitement, pride, maybe a few nerves—not just for new students, but for families too.

Our full Welcome Week guide has everything you need to know, so you and your student can start the semester feeling ready ➡️ https://go.syr.edu/as/WelcomeWeek

08/13/2026

Meet OlaRose Ndubuisi ’29, a rising sophomore in A&S who has turned one of the hardest parts of her life into poetry, music and a nonprofit now reaching kids around the world.

At 14, Ndubuisi was diagnosed with severe scoliosis. She wore a brace nearly around the clock for a year and a half, and surgery complications later left her in a wheelchair for months, causing her to miss half of her sophomore year of high school.

She channeled it all into writing, art and music. Her poetry about the experience earned her the title of New York State Youth Poet Laureate for 2024-2025. She also founded the Finding Scoliosis Kindly (FiSK) Project, a nonprofit whose educational survey has reached more than 25 states and 19 countries, and a fundraiser has helped pay for free scoliosis screenings in underserved communities.

"Scoliosis has been a really difficult and painful challenge for me, but it's also shaped me into who I am," Ndubuisi says. "It's definitely made me even more resilient and strong, even more compassionate through meeting other kids with scoliosis and being able to share my story."

08/11/2026

🐋 Ever wonder what a whale is actually doing while it sings? A new A&S study has an answer.

Biologist Julia Zeh and her team attached small, non-invasive recording tags to 16 humpback whales off the coast of Maui to find out. What they discovered: specific parts of a whale's song consistently line up with specific parts of its dive.

If scientists can figure out what a whale is doing, and how deep it is, just by listening to a recording, they'd have a powerful new way to keep tabs on whale populations without ever needing to physically track them, including knowing when they're being disturbed by boat traffic or ocean noise.

Some of these whales even sing the same song for up to 16 hours without stopping! 🎧 Want to hear one? Give it a listen ➡️ https://go.syr.edu/as/WhaleSong

08/10/2026

💃 This summer, about 40 elementary and middle school girls from the Syracuse area spent three weeks learning coding and engineering, through dance.

STEM From Dance, a program at the Community Folk Art Center led by A&S professor Tanisha Jackson, uses movement to make STEM subjects click. This year, that meant learning to code by comparing it to dance choreography.

Nine-year-old Aubrey Campbell already has her eyes on the future: "I am excited to be an engineer so I can make my own inventions myself."

Now in its fourth year, the program is helping girls build confidence and start picturing themselves in STEM, one summer at a time.

About 40 elementary and middle school girls from the Syracuse area are taking part in STEM From Dance at Syracuse’s Community Folk Art Center. The three-week summer program, now in its fourth…

08/07/2026

🪰 Have you ever squashed a spotted lanternfly on sight? A&S researchers might have found a new way to fight back.

While studying how different bugs reproduce, biologists in Scott Pitnick's lab noticed something strange about lanternflies. In many species, s***m cells team up and swim together, kind of like a rowing crew. Lanternfly s***m doesn't do that at all. Instead, each s***m cell gets wrapped in a thick, mysterious coating, and scientists don't even know how it's able to move.

That mysterious coating might be exactly what makes lanternflies vulnerable. If researchers can figure out how to disrupt it, it could give us a targeted way to stop them from reproducing, without harming helpful, non-invasive insects.

Read more about the discovery ➡️ https://go.syr.edu/as/ReproductiveSuccess