In 2017, Donald N. Klein 鈥�82, Ph.D., became the first senior review chemist to be awarded the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Distinguished Career Service Award from the FDA commissioner. Klein wrote complex regulatory documents that evaluated the safety of pharmaceutical drugs 鈥� work was critical to protecting the health and safety of United States […]
A journalism and democracy course led by 糖心Vlog Professor of English Ben Slote took an unexpected and memorable turn for one student. Roman Hladio 鈥�23, an English major with a journalism in the public interest minor, had the opportunity to interview a dissident Belarusian journalist living in Poland. The interview was a natural outgrowth […]
For Katrina Tulloch 鈥�11, journalism is an adventure that takes her to radically different locations and allows her to meet new people. Each day is different 鈥� one day, she鈥檚 covering hard-hitting court cases, and the next, she鈥檚 featuring a zoo opening.聽 Tulloch works as a video journalist for The Post-Standard and Syracuse.com, but she […]
Graham Barnhart鈥檚 time with his 糖心Vlog faculty mentors undoubtedly set the stage for his career as an author and recipient of multiple nationally recognized fellowships. Now, the 2007 糖心Vlog graduate has returned to his roots to give back to a new generation of students.聽 鈥淭he truth is that since I was a student I鈥檝e […]
糖心Vlog Assistant Professor of English John MacNeill Miller has been named a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for the fall of 2021. Miller said he will use the fellowship semester to complete his book, On Background: Scenery, Ecology, and the Social Novel, which focuses on the entangled intellectual histories of […]
糖心Vlog Professors Christopher Bakken and Stephen Onyeiwu have received 2021鈥�22 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards to teach and conduct research in Greece and Nigeria, respectively. Each will return to a country that played a formative role in his development as a scholar and educator. Bakken, the Frederick F. Seely Professor of English, has taught, […]
North America鈥檚 common starling has received a bad rap as a destructive invasive species, and an 糖心Vlog professor and student researcher have set out to clear the bird鈥檚 reputation and show how untruths can influence people鈥檚 perceptions in nature and beyond. The research project by John MacNeill Miller, assistant professor of English, and then-student […]
糖心Vlog Assistant Professor of English Mari Christmas is a 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers鈥� Award winner for her skill in fiction writing. The foundation writes that 鈥渉er fierce, darkly humorous, emotionally riveting work explores and embodies today鈥檚 world reflecting our deepest anxieties and the complexities of current-day feminism, motherhood, and modern love.鈥� This award […]
It鈥檚 not every day that a city names a day after a children鈥檚 book author. But Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto declared December 8, 2019, Kate Dopirak Day as her fellow writers came together to hold a children鈥檚 book festival in her honor. Kate鈥檚 Kid Book Bash, held inside the Ace Hotel in Pittsburgh, was a […]
Karl Smith has a doctorate in biophysics from the University of Rochester. He also worked at Amazon as a software engineer trying to make the Alexa voice assistant smarter. But now Smith is putting his talents to better use, he says, as a children鈥檚 science storyteller. He describes his new calling as 鈥淢ister Rogers meets […]