Syracuse University

The Syracuse University is founded in 1870, private research university in Syracuse at the US state of New York . In 2005, 18,735 students were enrolled at the university. The university is particularly known for its research and teaching in the fields of architecture, entrepreneurship , information sciences, communication sciences, creative writing and public affairs. From 1966 to 2011 she was a member of the Association of American Universities , an association of leading research-intensive North American universities that has existed since 1900.
history
Genesee Wesleyan Seminary was founded in 1831 by the Genesee Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Lima, New York, south of Rochester. In 1850 it was decided to expand the facility from a seminary to a college. Since the railway bypassed Lima completely, a new geographical location was sought. The city of Syracuse was looking for a university because Cornell University was supposed to be built there, but it was built on the farmland of Ezra Cornell in Ithaca . In 1869, Genesee College received New York State approval to move to Syracuse, but Lima received an injunction to block the move and the college remained in Lima until it was dissolved in 1875. At this point, however, the court order had been overturned by the establishment of a new university on March 24, 1870. At the same time, New York State granted the new Syracuse University its own charter independently of Genesee College. In 1871 the university was opened in rented rooms in the city center. By 1872 the university developed a fixed program for three areas of study. In February 1873, Alexander Winchell became the first chancellor of Syracuse University and three months later the first building on the new campus was inaugurated. The university was founded as a co-educational university. At the College of Liberal Arts, the ratio of male and female students was roughly equal in the 19th century. The College of Fine Arts was predominantly female, and the College of Medicine and College of Law had a small percentage of women enrolled. Men and women were taught together in the same courses, and many extracurricular activities were co-educational. Syracuse also developed "women-only" organizations and clubs.
Sports
The college's sports team is called Syracuse University Orange . Syracuse University has been a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference since 2013 .
Famous students and graduates
Arts and Culture
- Julian Barry - writer and screenwriter
- Stephen Crane - writer
- Carlisle Floyd - opera composer
- Donato Giancola - painter
- John C. McGinley - actor
- Clement Greenberg - art critic
- Michael Hampe - general manager and director
- Shirley Jackson - writer
- Betsey Johnson - fashion designer
- Sol LeWitt - artist
- John D. MacDonald - writer
- Scott McCloud - comic book artist
- Joyce Carol Oates - writer
- Robert O'Connor - writer
- Lou Reed - musician
- Ruth Stafford Peale - author and editor
- Peter Weller - American actor
- Kristen Wilson - American actress
- Bill Viola - video artist
- Neal McDonough - American actor
- Franz von Holzhausen - automobile designer (including Tesla Model S)
Media and communication
- Dennis Crowley - Co-Founder and CEO of foursquare
- John Sykes - former CEO of Infinity Broadcasting
Law and politics
- David Crane - Sierra Leone Special Court Judge
- Sean O'Keefe - Former NASA Administrator
- Joe Biden - Vice President of the United States
Sports
- Joe Alexander - football player and coach, doctor
- Carmelo Anthony - basketball player
- Jim Brown - football and lacrosse player, author, actor
- Michael Carter-Williams - basketball player
- Larry Csonka - American football player
- Tom Coughlin - football player and coach
- Ernie Davis - American Football Player
- Dwight Freeney - American football player
- Marvin Harrison - American football player
- Paul Jappe - football player
- Wesley Johnson - basketball player
- Daryl Johnston - American football player
- Floyd Little - American football player
- John Mackey - American football player
- Donovan McNabb - American football player
- Art Monk - football player
- Etan Thomas - basketball player
- Dion Waiters - basketball player
entertainment
- Warren Casey - writer, composer and actor ("Grease")
- Taye Diggs - actor
- Peter Falk - actor
- Elizabeth Hendrickson - actress
- Miriam Hopkins - actress
- Grace Jones - actress, model
- Frank Langella - actor
- Sam Lloyd - actor ("Scrubs"), musician
- Sterling Morrison - musician
- Aaron Sorkin - Director of "The West Wing"
- Lexington Steele - adult actor and director
- Jerry Stiller - actor
- Vanessa Williams - singer, actress and former Miss America
- Vera Farmiga - actress
economy
- William James - Director of Lazard Freres & Company
Science, medicine and discovery
- Geraldine Claudette Darden - mathematician and university professor; was the fourteenth African American woman to receive a PhD
- Edward Drake Roe - mathematician and John Raymond French Professor of Mathematics; founded the American honor society for mathematics Pi Mu Epsilon in 1914.
- Josephine Roe - mathematician and university professor; graduated from Syracuse University in mathematics in 1910 as the first woman
- Eileen Collins ASA astronaut
- Robert Jarvik - cardiologist
- Story Musgrave - NASA astronaut
- Hermann Gummel - physicist
- Pericles A. Mitkas - engineer and rector of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
literature
- Scott Pitoniak, Rick Burton: Forever Orange: The Story of Syracuse University. Syracuse University Press, New York 2019, ISBN 978-0-8156-1144-8 .
Web links
Coordinates: 43 ° 2 '15.6 " N , 76 ° 8' 2.4" W.