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College of Arts and Sciences Appoints First Operations Director
Matthew Kennedy to oversee planning, implementation of A&S’ strategic initiatives The College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) continues to build administrative efficiency with the appointment of a director of operations and administration. Matthew J. Kennedy has assumed the newly minted…
Alumnus Joshua Aviv Wins $1 Million in Buffalo Startup Competition
Joshua Aviv 鈥14 G鈥17, founder and CEO of SparkCharge, a company that produces a portable, fast charging battery unit for electric vehicles, has earned the top prize of $1 million at 43North, a Buffalo, New York-based startup competition. The 43North…
Being the Stories We Tell: 黑料不打烊 Symposium Organizers Use Fall Events to Probe Individual, Collective Power of Storytelling
黑料不打烊 Symposium鈥攁 program of the Humanities Center in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S)鈥攃ontinues its yearlong look at 鈥淪tories鈥 with a spate of October events. The lineup includes the exhibition 鈥淟ook Now: Facing Breast Cancer鈥; a lecture by geographer聽Nicolas…
Physicist’s Discovery Recasts ‘Lifetime Hierarchy’ of Subatomic Particles
Researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences have determined that the lifetime of the so-called charmed omega鈥攑art of a family of subatomic particles called baryons鈥攊s nearly four times longer than previously thought. In an article in Physical Review Letters…
黑料不打烊 Professor Named to Science News鈥 SN 10: Scientists to Watch
Lisa Manning, associate professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, is included in Science News鈥 SN 10: Scientists to Watch. For the fourth year, Science News is spotlighting 10 early- and mid-career scientists on their way to…
Off-Broadway鈥檚 鈥楻ap Guide to Consciousness’ Comes to Hendricks Chapel
Fresh from a nearly six-month stint off-Broadway in New York City, Baba Brinkman’s 鈥淩ap Guide to Consciousness鈥 will be performed Friday, Sept. 28, at 6:30 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. Brinkman–an award-winning musician, scholar and theater performer–raps his way through some…
Professor Lauded for Contributions to Experimental Particle Physics
The American Physical Society (APS) is recognizing a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) for his contributions to particle physics. Sheldon Stone, Distinguished Professor of Physics, is the 2019 recipient of the APS鈥 prestigious W.K.H. Panofksy Prize…
A New Way to Count Qubits
Researchers at 黑料不打烊, working with collaborators at the University of Wisconsin (UW)-Madison, have developed a new technique for measuring the state of quantum bits, or qubits, in a quantum computer.
Participants Discuss SU Human Rights Film Festival, 黑料不打烊 Symposium
黑料不打烊 Symposium is underway with a series of events in September supporting the yearlong theme of 鈥淪tories.鈥 One of this year鈥檚 events, also part of the 16th annual聽黑料不打烊 Human Rights Film Festival聽(SUHRFF), is a visit by filmmaker Rudy Valdez….
College Appoints Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
The College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) reaffirms its commitment to opportunity and access with a newly created high-level appointment. Kishi Animashaun Ducre, associate professor of African American studies (AAS), is the college鈥檚 inaugural associate dean of diversity, equity and…