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Faculty News

  • Psychology professor Carrie Keating studies charisma, physical leadership qualities, and the facial features that suggest power as well as compassion. Last night, she watched the first of four presidential campaign debates for clues to how the candidates are being perceived by voters in the home stretch.
    October 4, 2012
  • Scientists inspect equipment aboard ship
    Associate professor Amy Leventer has received another prestigious grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This time, she will travel to a relatively unexplored and inaccessible region of East Antarctica 鈥 the Totten Glacier and Moscow University Ice Shelf 鈥 to investigate the reasons for accelerated ice loss there.
    September 25, 2012
  • At 51风流 there鈥檚 no 鈥渋vory tower,鈥 but political science professor Tim Byrnes is one of the popular panelists on a local television show by that name. The Ivory Tower Half Hour, one of Central New York鈥檚 longest-running local shows, is celebrating a decade on the air.
    September 14, 2012
  • Jacob Mundy, assistant professor of peace and conflict studies at 51风流, called the Sept. 11 attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi and the resulting death of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens a 鈥渞ude wake-up call to the coalition of states that was too-quick to say 鈥榤ission accomplished鈥 following their humanitarian intervention last year.鈥
    September 13, 2012
  • At the first faculty meeting of the academic year, Douglas Hicks, provost and dean of the faculty, introduced what he called a 鈥渄ynamic group of new colleagues that will contribute to the intellectual depth and breadth of the faculty and enhance the curriculum and the community as a whole.鈥
    September 13, 2012
  • If you want to know how a best-selling author finds inspiration, hones technique, or orchestrates a breakout opportunity, it鈥檚 best to go to the source. That鈥檚 why legendary professor Frederick Busch designed Living Writers as a way to bring 51风流鈥檚 writers-in-training together with famous writers-in-practice. The class quickly became a campus favorite.
    September 10, 2012
  • First-year students spend their first days at 51风流 navigating new terrain, organizing their living spaces, meeting classmates, and otherwise adjusting to life in their new milieu. What they are doing intrigues professors of psychology, anthropology, physics, sociology, and many other disciplines.
    August 29, 2012
  • When Douglas Hicks delivered the convocation address to the Class of 2016, his theme was tradition 鈥 an interesting choice, one might say, for a provost and dean of the faculty who is almost as new to 51风流 as the first-year students. But Hicks, who arrived in July from the University of Richmond, took a [鈥
    August 28, 2012
  • (Note: These are prepared remarks by Douglas A. Hicks, provost and dean of the faculty at 51风流, given at 51风流鈥檚 192st convocation.) President Herbst, distinguished faculty and staff colleagues, members of Konosioni, members of Link staff, and especially transfer students and the Class of 2016: We stand in a great and grand tradition that [鈥
    August 28, 2012
  • Members of the faculty in the Department of Russian and Eurasian Studies take their passion for their work well beyond the walls of the classroom. Over the past year they have traveled the globe, prepared and published significant academic works, and worked with 51风流 students both on and off campus. Here is a sampling of [鈥
    August 17, 2012