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🎨 Giorgio Vasari's writings helped immortalize Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael. Vasari himself, though, has ...
10/14/2026

🎨 Giorgio Vasari's writings helped immortalize Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael. Vasari himself, though, has long had a reputation as a bad artist, one that Sally Cornelison, a professor in Art & Music Histories, Syracuse University, says he doesn't deserve.

Her interest began in 2012 with an effort to authenticate a small painting attributed to Vasari's circle. "I got the Vasari bug," she says.

That research led to her new book, "Vasari and the Sacred Image," about a group of altars and altarpieces Vasari designed for the church in his hometown of Arezzo, Italy, where he was baptized and buried. Those works were later removed or destroyed in a 19th-century renovation.

Cornelison, who also directs the Syracuse University Florence Master’s Program in Italian Renaissance Art, created interactive online StoryMaps so anyone can explore Vasari's Arezzo and his art.

Read more and take a virtual trip to Vasari's hometown ➡️ https://go.syr.edu/as/Vasari

📚 For generations of children, the stories of Elena Fortún were part of growing up. At their heart is Celia, a curious i...
10/13/2026

📚 For generations of children, the stories of Elena Fortún were part of growing up. At their heart is Celia, a curious imaginative child full of questions.

A new exhibit at Bird Library explores the history behind those books, including Fortún's exile to Argentina after the Spanish Civil War and the censorship publications faced under the Franco dictatorship.

"Celia: A Story that Persists" was curated by Juliana Acosta Gil G'27, a graduate student in the Department of Languages Literatures and Linguistics (LLL). It's on view in the Biblio Gallery, on the library's fourth floor, through Nov. 1.

"Thank you for being well." 🧡 That's the meaning of Nya Weñha Skä•noñh, the Onondaga phrase that names the Native Studen...
10/12/2026

"Thank you for being well." 🧡 That's the meaning of Nya Weñha Skä•noñh, the Onondaga phrase that names the Native Student Program's annual luncheon for Indigenous students.

At this year's gathering, Chancellor J. Michael Haynie shared a milestone: Syracuse's Indigenous student community is now the largest in University history. Sixty-three new Indigenous students joined this year, bringing the total to 481.

Two A&S | Maxwell students are among the program's peer mentors helping welcome them.

Mac Schmidt ’28, a psychology student minoring in Native American and Indigenous studies, helps mentees navigate campus life, academic and otherwise. One of her favorite activities is Beading Night, which she calls "a wonderful way to get in tune with our culture."

Shayla Benedict ’29, a journalism and environment, sustainability and policy dual major, answers new students' questions about the program, campus events and dorm life. "The generation before me inspired me to attend Syracuse, and it's become the perfect fit," she says.

10/06/2026

🔥 A pair of barbecue tongs helped A&S biologists make a record-breaking discovery.

Ph.D. candidate Beryl Rappaport and her team used them to collect samples from a narrow steam in California's Lassen Volcanic National Park. Back in Syracuse, those samples turned up a new species of amoeba that kept dividing at 145°F, a new record for complex life.

Scientists had long assumed complex cells couldn't survive above roughly 140°F. The team named their find Incendiamoeba cascadensis, Latin for "fire amoeba from the Cascades."

💬 "Seeing organisms that maybe no one has seen before is just an incredible feeling," Rappaport says.

As winter approaches, many plants are about to start keeping track of the cold 🌱They need to live through a long enough ...
10/05/2026

As winter approaches, many plants are about to start keeping track of the cold 🌱

They need to live through a long enough stretch of winter before they'll flower. It's a safeguard that keeps a warm spell from tricking them into blooming, only for a late frost to kill them.

Heather Meyer, assistant professor of biology, just received a five-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to study how plants remember that cold. Her focus is a class of flexible proteins once thought to serve no real purpose, which may turn out to help plants hold on to that memory.

💬 "We can physically put the whole plant under the microscope, expose them to different environmental conditions, and watch how these proteins behave in real time," Meyer says.

What her lab learns could eventually help scientists develop crops that hold up better to unpredictable winters and a changing climate.

🔬 For some Syracuse high schoolers, getting to a summer research program could mean upwards of two hours on a bus, round...
10/02/2026

🔬 For some Syracuse high schoolers, getting to a summer research program could mean upwards of two hours on a bus, round trip. So Syracuse University covers that.

For the fifth summer, SU-SHIP gave 12 students from The Syracuse City School District (SCSD) six weeks of hands-on physics research, complete with a $6,000 stipend, daily meals and free transportation.

"Transportation is one of the biggest barriers for these students," says Jennifer Ross, professor of physics and the program's founding director. "You don't want to make it harder for someone to pursue this path."

Students spent up to 40 hours a week in the lab, tackling projects on bacteria biofilm mechanics, origami mechanics and even a simulation of black holes tearing apart stars.

Making friends and finding real connection can be one of the hardest parts of starting college, and it's not just in you...
09/30/2026

Making friends and finding real connection can be one of the hardest parts of starting college, and it's not just in your student's head. A 2026 national survey found more than half of college students report feeling lonely.

This fall, A&S is launching The Relationship Lab, a new two-day immersive residency where students learn the science behind healthy relationships, including communication, boundaries, conflict repair and attachment 🫂

Led by Tristan Martin, assistant teaching professor of marriage and family therapy, the program is designed for students across every major.

"For students who may be looking for a greater sense of connection and belonging on campus, a residency built around discussion, interaction, activities and small-group engagement can be particularly valuable," Martin says.

A new academic year means new faces on campus 🏫Meet the 13 new professors joining A&S this fall, representing fields as ...
09/24/2026

A new academic year means new faces on campus 🏫

Meet the 13 new professors joining A&S this fall, representing fields as varied as structural geology, quantum information theory, auditory neuroscience and creative writing ➡️ https://go.syr.edu/as/NewFacultyFA26

09/22/2026

Fall is officially here 🍂

💭 What can dreams teach us about who we are, and who we might become?That's the question behind this year's Syracuse Sym...
09/21/2026

💭 What can dreams teach us about who we are, and who we might become?

That's the question behind this year's Syracuse Symposium, "Dreams," a collection of free, public events hosted by the Syracuse University Humanities Center. The programming spans storytelling, film, music, activism and cultural tradition, all pointing toward the same idea: dreams as a way of understanding both where we come from and where we're headed.

Highlights include a conversation with celebrated Hmong-American author Kao Kalia Yang on Sept. 24, a discussion on the quinceañera tradition and coming-of-age identity on Oct. 22, and a choral celebration marking America's 250th anniversary on Nov. 15.

See the full fall lineup, including a film screening, an activist workshop and more ➡️ https://go.syr.edu/as/Dreams

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