The changing role of communication—and communications—in the liberal arts is the focus of the current issue of Arts and Sciences, a free annual publication of Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences.

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“As a society, we are tantalized by and obsessed with the latest thing: the new device or medium for being entertained, keeping up, and staying in touch,” writes Arts and Sciences Dean George M. Langford. “However, we rarely think about the origin of the technology. This requires us to pause and think about the origins of these innovations and appreciate the qualities of the content we create and share.”

In keeping with Langford's vision, Arts and Sciences contains seven features, notably a cover story on best-selling author George Saunders G’88, a graduate of and professor in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing. Other features include those on the Department of Communications Sciences and Disorders and the Gebbie Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic, both of which are celebrating milestone anniversaries; the growing impact of big data; and the new Skanonh Center, a Haudenosaunee heritage facility on the eastern shore of Syracuse’s Onondaga Lake.