Research
The College of Arts and Sciences is home to internationally recognized research across and between disciplines. Areas of discovery from Shakespeare to gravitational waves help frame new conceptions of the physical world and the human experience, while creating innovative solutions to the critical challenges facing us today.
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(Feb. 3, 2023)
A&S Music History Professor Receives Carnegie Grant to Study Women’s Music in West AfricaAMH Professor Ruth Opara will travel to Nigeria in May to explore music performance practices and develop a scholarly exchange program between students in Nigeria and Syracuse.

(Jan. 23, 2023)
Rock-Solid Data: Friendship Helps Lead to Discovery of Tectonic History of Subglacial AntarcticaPaul Fitzgerald and a longtime friend-turned-scientific-collaborator published the study in Nature Communications.

(Jan. 12, 2023)
A Star’s Unexpected SurvivalA team of physicists devise a model that maps a star’s surprising orbit about a supermassive black hole – revealing new information about one of the cosmos’ most extreme environments.

(Jan. 4, 2023)
Getting to the 'Point': Powerful Computing Helps Identify Potential New Treatments for CoronavirusesA&S chemistry professor Atanu Acharya seeks to identify antibodies effective against all coronaviruses and variants.

(Dec. 23, 2022)
Nature-Inspired Designs Could Offer Solutions for Global ChallengesSyracuse physics professor is leading an effort to translate research into real-world applications.
More Research News

An A&S Record: Five faculty members receive prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER awards in 2022.

EES researchers are answering important questions about the conditions that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

A&S biologists novel research about the life history of fruit fly sperm was featured on the cover of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).