A&S' Scott Manning Stevens joined scholars from Harvard, Darmouth and Minnesota at a Smithsonian symposium on Indigenous perspectives during the Revolution, presenting on the Haudenosaunee Confederacy's wartime diplomatic and military decisions.

Indigenous Perspectives on the Nation’s Founding

Selected to present at a Smithsonian symposium commemorating the nation’s 250th anniversary, A&S Professor Scott Manning Stevens is helping ensure Indigenous histories are part of the story America…

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🧪 Global lithium demand for clean energy is projected to more than quadruple by 2030, but scientists don't fully understand why it concentrates where it does. Earth sciences professor Adam Cawood is studying that question in Nevada's Clayton Valley with a new NSF grant.

Exploring Earth’s Resources for a Clean Energy Future

Earth sciences professor Adam Cawood is finding solutions that support the energy transition while making geoscience more accessible to researchers and students worldwide.

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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 🏫 ➡️ go.syr.edu/as/NewFacult...

Fall is officially here 🍂

💭 The Humanities Center's 2026-27 Syracuse Symposium, "Dreams," opens its fall programming this Thursday with a conversation featuring Hmong-American author Kao Kalia Yang. See the full lineup of free, public events ⬇️

Dreaming Into Being

The Syracuse University Humanities Center's fall lineup explores dreams’ relation to memory, identity and imagination through storytelling, film, music and activism.

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🧪 A 60-million-year missing link, uncovered: A&S professor Zunli Lu and collaborators at @ox.ac.uk and @ucph.bsky.social found that sea levels that were 10-40 meters above today's sea level controlled phosphate and carbon burial, acting as a natural brake on warming.

Earth’s Natural Thermostat

For 60 million years, rising and falling seas influenced how much carbon the ocean buried and how warm the planet was.

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On this 25th anniversary of September 11, Chancellor J. Michael Haynie shares a reflection with our community: "As a university, our particular responsibility on a day like this is to remember honestly and to teach carefully." Today, and always, we remember 🇺🇸 #NeverForget

🧪 A two-year puzzle solved: why do some repeating stellar flares near black holes grow dimmer over time? A&S astrophysicists found the missing piece was the star's spin, likely inherited from a binary system torn apart by the black hole before capture.

The Spin Behind Fading Black Hole Flares

Stellar spin may solve a long-standing puzzle about repeating encounters between stars and supermassive black holes.

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@syracuseu.bsky.social's Center for Science and Technology and Life Sciences Complex are where discovery is part of everyday student life 🔬 Take a closer look at these two connected buildings, home to the A&S departments and programs shaping the next generation of scientists.

Tour A&S: Life Sciences Complex and Center for Science and Technology

Syracuse University's Center for Science and Technology and Life Sciences Complex are where discovery is part of everyday student life. Take a closer look at these two connected buildings, home to…

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🧪 During long-term storage in the female reproductive tract, nearly 20% of a sperm's protein composition comes from the female, not its own genome. That discovery is now driving a $1.6 million NIH grant studying "sperm-female interactions" and fertility.

Uncovering Hidden Interactions That Shape Fertility

Researchers from Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences are exploring molecular interactions that may hold the key to fertility, infertility and new contraceptive approaches.

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📱 A&S professors Matt Mulvaney and Zahra Vahedi joined the "'Cuse Conversations" podcast to unpack why we reach for our phones (and other digital devices) about 186 times a day, and what it actually takes to build a healthier relationship with them.

How Digital Devices Took Over and How to Reclaim Our Relationship With Them

Faculty members Matt Mulvaney and Zahra Vahedi unpack why our phones are so hard to put down and what it actually takes to change that.

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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 🍊

🧪 Earth sciences professor @jaywen.bsky.social is helping lead a DOE-funded project using physics-informed #AI, which grounds predictions in scientific understanding, to locate domestic rare earth deposits in weathered granite.

Accelerating the Search for Rare Earth Elements

Earth sciences professor Tao Wen and his students are part of an interdisciplinary effort to improve the ability to identify and evaluate potential rare earth element resources in the U.S.

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📚️ Biochemistry major Evan Gohil ’29 attended Summer College at @syracuseu.bsky.social as a high schooler through a partnership with the Syracuse City School District. One summer studying neuroscience was enough to know it was where he belonged.

How the Summer College Program Prepares High Schoolers for Higher Ed

Three current Syracuse University students reflect on how Summer College experiences shaped their academic paths.

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🧪 Two A&S professors have been named to the MOST's #STEM Under 40 list: chemist Atanu Acharya, who models biochemical processes like bacterial respiration computationally, and biologist @oliverio.bsky.social, who studies what happens when microbial communities merge.

3 Syracuse Faculty Earn STEM Under 40 Awards from the MOST

Atanu Acharya, Zhenyu Gan and Angela Oliverio are recognized for research shaping Central New York’s growing STEM economy.

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"Syracuse University is not waiting for the future. We are building it." Today, Chancellor J. Michael Haynie shared his vision for a bold future at Syracuse University—and why our best days are ahead. Read more: https://go.syr.edu/mc/e6046bb02

🗣️ Where does the name "Ontario" actually come from? Indigenous Studies scholar Scott Manning Stevens traces its roots to the Haudenosaunee language family. #Etymology #Indigenous

‘It’s an Indigenous, Iroquoian word’ - ICT

Canadian, Native voices rise against Trump’s proposal to rename Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’

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An A&S initiative called Traveling Teaching sends students into local high schools to teach their own coursework. One high school teacher saw noticeable jumps in engagement with their students, while the A&S students came away with a deeper grasp of the material. #SUArtSciences #AcademicSky

Connecting Classrooms, Inspiring Students

Students and faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences partner with local high schools through the Traveling Teaching initiative to bring humanities lessons to life through collaborative, hands-on…

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Campus is filling up fast and we couldn't be more excited! 🍊

🧪 Chromosome errors in human eggs are a major cause of miscarriage and failed IVF. An A&S physicist is refining non-invasive imaging to reveal new signals of egg quality, which could help clinics assess eggs before implantation.

How Physics Could Improve IVF Success

Physics professor Colm Kelleher is Syracuse University's first recipient of a grant from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, supporting his research using imaging to assess egg quality…

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The College of Arts and Sciences has named Mark Depew assistant dean for advancement. He started the role on August 10, joining A&S after 15 years in advancement at Cornell University, where he generated more than $33 million in its last campaign.

Depew Named Assistant Dean for Advancement

Depew brings 15 years of major gifts fundraising experience at Cornell University to his new role leading A&S advancement.

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We'll see you soon, #SyracuseU 🍊🧡

🧪 A large share of the human proteome is made of proteins with no fixed shape, and until now, few real tools existed to design them. A&S chemist @shaharsu.bsky.social led the team that built one: GOOSE, which can generate thousands of designed sequences in seconds.

A&S Scientists Design Proteins With No Fixed Shape

Researchers at Syracuse University and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis developed a computational framework to design and test thousands of disordered proteins at once, with…

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🧪 Biology professor Jason Wiles just won the Society for College Science Teaching's top teaching honor for 2026. His courses take on topics where the science is settled but the public debate isn't, such as evolution, climate change and vaccines.

Professor Wins National Teaching Award

The Society for College Science Teaching honored an A&S biology professor with the Outstanding Undergraduate Science Teaching Award.

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🧪 For the first time, A&S biologists have linked a humpback whale's entire song to its complete dive cycle, meaning scientists may soon be able to tell what a whale is doing, and how deep it is, just by listening. Hear the whales sing ⤵️

How a Whale's Dive Shapes Its Song

Biologists from Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences connect humpback whale song structure to diving behavior for the first time, a breakthrough that could allow researchers to infer…

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🧪 Fertilization isn't just a sperm race. A new A&S-led study in Nature Communications found sperm cooperation has evolved, vanished and re-evolved across arthropods for 500 million years. How this research could help fight crop-damaging insects ⤵️

A Cooperative Approach to Reproductive Success

Syracuse University biologists publish a new study examining how sperm cooperation has evolved over the past 500 million years.

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Congratulations to our 2026 Fulbright cohort! Eleven #SyracuseU students and alumni are headed to four continents this year to teach, research and build cross-cultural connections. Read more: https://go.syr.edu/mc/2026-fulbright-awards

A first-of-its-kind study tracked the Office of Student Sucess' five-pillar advising model for international students across four cohorts. In some years, those who engaged with peer mentors outperformed less-engaged peers by up to half a grade point. #SUArtSciences #AcademicSky

Building a Better System

A peer-reviewed study documents how the Office of Student Success’ five-pillar advising model improved outcomes for international students.

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🧪 Ocean "dead zones" aren't just a warm-climate problem. A&S postdoc Xubin Wang combed through 27,000+ ancient seafloor samples, some 2 billion years old, and found oxygen loss during six of Earth's biggest ice ages too.

A&S Researchers Link Metal Deposits to Oceanic Oxygen Loss During Ancient Ice Ages

A sweeping analysis by Syracuse researchers of metal contents in ancient marine sedimentary rocks suggests oxygen-poor oceans were common during Earth's six greatest ice ages.

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👂️ A&S audiologists found almost no research on tinnitus among student veterans, so they studied it. 82% reported tinnitus. "We didn't know it was going to be more than twice those of traditional college students," says Karen Doherty. "We were really surprised."

Researchers Examine the Invisible Hearing Struggle of Student Veterans

Two University faculty, both certified audiologists, are the first to study how tinnitus impacts student veterans as they navigate college classrooms.

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