News

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  William Knuth, assistant professor of applied music and performance (violin and viola) in the Setnor School of Music, was invited to perform this summer as part of the AIMS Festival Orchestra in Graz, Austria, as well as give chamber music performances throughout Graz and Southern Austria.

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  Lynn Greenky, associate teaching professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, has authored the new book "When Freedom Speaks: The Boundaries and the Boundlessness of Our First Amendment Right" (Brandeis University Press). Using real-world examples, people, and dramatic legal principles that illuminate First Amendment principles, the book makes the concepts easy to understand and shows how they are clearly applicable to our lives.

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  Meri Page, assistant professor of communications design in the School of Design, was selected to attend the National Endowment for the Humanities' summer institute The Revolution in Books. Using Florida Atlantic University’s large collection of Revolutionary-era pamphlets and books, she and a select group of scholars are studying the history of the book with a focus on books as historical objects and products of the labor of a diverse group of Americans during the period of the Revolutionary War.

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  Natalie Draper, assistant professor of composition, theory, and history in the Setnor School of Music, recently had her choral setting of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Bells" premiered by Beth Willer and Peabody's NEXT Ensemble as part of their commissioning initiative to celebrate 150 years of composition at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

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  Elisa Dekaney, professor of music education in the Setnor School of Music and School of Education and VPA's associate dean of research, graduate studies, and internationalization, recently delivered the keynote speech "Utilizing Multiple Research Methodologies to Examine the Intersections of Music, Race, and Food in Brazilian Culture: Applications to Choral Research" at the 2022 American Choral Directors Association Symposium on Research in Choral Singing. Read More...

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  Isabel Prochner, assistant professor of industrial and interaction design in the School of Design, is joining the editorial board for the Sciences du Design, the major Francophone design journal with university affiliations across Europe and Quebec. The name translates to the "science of design" and the journal is termed "the international journal of reference for French-language design research."

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  Andrew Saluti, assistant professor and program coordinator of museum studies in the School of Design, was quoted in the New York Times story "Taking the Museum Experience Outdoors."

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  Diane Grimes, associate professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, had her article "Can the Communication Discipline Critically Engage with Mindfulness?" published in the Western Journal of Communication. She also co-edited the special section of the journal that follows this introductory article. Lead author and editor; co-authors/editors are Shinsuke Eguchi and Bernadette Calafell.

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  Kelly Gallagher, assistant professor of film in the Department of Film and Media Arts, worked on the animation for two films that will be screened in June at the Tribeca Film Festival: After Sherman, directed by Jon-Sesrie Goff, and Body Parts, directed by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan.

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  Anne Laver, assistant professor of applied music and performance (organ) in the Setnor School of Music and University organist, gave a featured solo concert for the Eastman School of Music’s Women in Music Festival and gave the world premiere of Natalie Draper’s “Pattern Dances for Meantone Organ" with choreography by 25 dance students from the School of the Arts, a high school in the Rochester City School District. Draper is an assistant professor of composition, theory, and history in the Setnor School.

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  Seyeon Lee, associate professor of environmental and interior design in the School of Design, received the Presidential Award from the Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC). The award honors meritorious service by an IDEC member or non-member to the IDEC or interior design education. It is intended to recognize sustained and notable contributions over and above that expected by virtue of appointment or relationship to IDEC.

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  Emily Nolan, professor of practice in the Department of Creative Arts Therapy, co-authored the report "Social Media and Art Therapy Services: Adapting and Evolving" in Art Therapy (ahead of print). The brief report explored how using action research can help art therapy programs to pivot during unprecedented times.

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  Jennifer DeLucia, Emily Nolan, and Rochele Royster, faculty members in the Department of Creative Arts Therapy, will be presenting an interactive discussion, "The Art of Connection: Building Community through Art & Praxis," at the Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in June 2022. This conference speaks to create and sustain personal and community action towards building a more equitable society.

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  Keven James Rudrow, assistant teaching professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, has been invited onto the editorial board of the Quarterly Journal of Speech, the oldest and most venerable flagship journal in the discipline. Rudrow was also recently recognized by Syracuse University's Office of Multicultural Affairs with its Black Rose of Appreciation in honor of Black History Month. Read More...

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  Susan D’Amato, associate professor of studio arts in the School of Art, is showing work in “Drawing Discourse,” an international juried contemporary drawing exhibition at UNC Asheville’s Tucker Cooke Gallery.

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  Sylvia Sierra, assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, was quoted in the Elephant Magazine story "The Trite Stuff: The Rise and Fall of 'Live, Laugh, Love.'"

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  Wendy K. Moy, assistant professor of music education in the Setnor School of Music and School of Education, was selected to present three special sessions at the 2022 Eastern Division American Choral Directors Association Conference in Boston. Read More...

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  Sharif Bey, an associate professor of studio arts in the School of Art, was named a 2022 USA Fellow by United States Artists, an organization that illuminates the value of artists to American society and addresses their economic challenges. USA Fellowships are $50,000 unrestricted awards, with a year of financial planning, that recognize artists for their contributions to the field and allow them to decide how to best support their lives. Read more about Bey and this honor.

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  Melissa Crespo, associate artistic director at Syracuse Stage, which has a partnership with the Department of Drama, was the subject of an American Theatre article. She is currently directing the East Coast premiere of "Yoga Play" at Stage. Ricky Pak, assistant professor of acting in the department and an actor in "Yoga Play," was quoted.

• Alumni News

  Peter Jack Hartsock '19, a film alumnus of the Department of Film and Media Arts and founder of Fantasma House Films, received a $10,000 grant from the New York State Council on the Arts for a short film to be produced in the region this winter. Hartsock will work with a crew of other Syracuse University Blackstone LaunchPad alumni who met as film and animation students. Read More...