Hubert Brown
Associate Professor
Chair, Communications Department
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

Professor Brown teaches courses on reporting for radio and television, television documentary, news production and performance, and mass media ethics. He's also taught courses in race/gender and the mass media, and political/government reporting. He has 12 years of broadcast journalism experience in commercial and public television, as a reporter, documentary producer, and on-air talent.

Gerardine M. Clark
Professor
Drama Department
College of Visual and Performing Arts

Meredith Professor of Excellence

Professor Clark has served for twenty-five years as a faculty member in the Department of Drama. In 2005 she was named Syracuse University Scholar/Teacher of the Year.

She received her doctorate in Theatre and Drama at Syracuse University, with a specialty area in Theory and Criticism. She was a founding member of the Indiana Repertory Theatre where she acted, directed, taught, and served as director of educational programs over a four year tenure. She has been a professional actor, director, and playwright for over thirty years. Her scholarly publications include Contesting the Boundaries of Liberal and Professional Education, Practical Poetics, and Unnatural Acts. Original plays, adaptations, and translations include The Final Adventures of Don Juan, The Quack (The Doctor in Spite of Himself), Christmas Carol, and The Wind in the Willows (book and lyrics). The last of these was commissioned by Syracuse Stage. She directed that production and the subsequent production at the New Victory Theatre in New York City . It has also received multiple other professional productions. She has had an Eli Lilly Post-Doctoral Fellowship, was for five years an Andrew Mellon Fellow and is presently a Gateway Fellow. She has also served as an on-site auditor for the National Endowment to the Arts.

Expertise: Acting, directing, dramatic literature, play analysis, and playwriting.

Gerardine Clark's webpage at the College of Visual & Performing Arts

Samuel Gorovitz
Professor of Philosophy
College of Arts and Sciences

Founding Director of the Renée Crown University Honors Program

Samuel Gorovitz, former dean of Arts and Sciences, led in the development of the field of medical ethics. He has also published extensively on other topics in philosophy and public policy.  His advice on college governance and on health policy has been widely sought, and he has given more than 200 invited lectures in over a dozen countries.  He led an NEH summer seminar for college teachers in 1984, an NIH regional workshop on research with human subjects in 1989, and several other summer seminars and institutes.  His publications include more than one hundred and twenty articles, reviews and editorials in philosophical journals, medical journals, public policy journals, and newspapers. He is a co-author of Philosophical Analysis (Random House, 1964, 1969, 1979) and an editor of several anthologies. His two most recent books are Doctors' Dilemmas: Moral Conflict and Medical Care ( Oxford , 1985) and Drawing the Line: Life, Death, and Ethical Choices in an American Hospital (Oxford, 1991; Temple 1993). In fall 1996, he served as the Baker-Hostetler Professor of Law at Cleveland Marshall College of Law, and in fall 1998 was Visiting Scholar in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University.  Since 1988 he has served, by gubernatorial appointment, on the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law.  He was Dearing-Daly Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at the SUNY Upstate Medical University from 2001-2004.  He is Founding Director of the Renée Crown University Honors Program at Syracuse, and for 2004-05 was Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Bioethicist in Residence at Yale.

Samuel Gorovitz's webpage in the Philosophy Department

Sandra Hurd
Associate Provost for
Academic Programs

Professor
Law and Public Policy
Whitman School of Management

Sandra Hurd's webpage in the Provost's Office

Chris E. Johnson
Associate Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering

Chris Johnson holds bachelor's (Civil Engineering), Master's (Statistics), and a Ph.D. (Geology) degrees, all from the University of Pennsylvania . He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi, and was a Fulbright Scholar in the Czech Republic in 1994. He has served as a visiting faculty member at Charles University in Prague and Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia .

As an Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Syracuse University , Dr. Johnson teaches courses in environmental chemistry, soil chemistry, data analysis, and surveying. His research interests include forest soil chemistry and biogeochemistry. He has been an associate editor in the Forest & Range Soils division of the Soil Science Society of America Journal since January, 2000.

Chris Johnson's webpage in the College of Engineering & Computer Science

Johanna Keller
Director
Goldring Arts Journalism Program
S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

Johanna Keller teaches arts journalism and magazine journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She writes about music and literature for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, London Evening Standard, Opera News, Symphony, Inside Arts, Musical America, Strad and other magazines in the U.S. and the U.K. For her essays in The New York Times, she received the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and the Front Page Award from the Newswomen's Club of New York. Professor Keller held arts journalism fellowships from USC Annenberg Getty in Los Angeles and at the Banff Centre in Canada. She has been a guest editor at The New York Times and during her tenure as editor of Chamber Music magazine, the publication received its first six national awards for excellence in editorial and design.

James T. Spencer
Professor
Chemistry
College of Arts and Sciences

Prof. James T. Spencer obtained his B.S. from S.U.N.Y. College at Potsdam and his Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Iowa State University in 1984. Dr. Spencer joined the faculty at Syracuse University in 1986 after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Virginia.

Prof. Spencer has recently received several honors for his research work including the “Distinguished Achievements in Boron Science” Award from the BUSA International Conference. He has chaired a variety of scientific meetings for the American Chemical Society and the Foresight Conferences on Molecular Nanotechnology, among others. Dr. Spencer has presented numerous invited lectures including at the IMEBORON X International Conference, the Gordon Research Conference in Inorganic Chemistry, and the International Symposium on Solid State Imaging and CVD. He has served as a consultant for the Lockheed Martin Corporation, General Electric Corporation, the Merix Corporation, UltraSolids Inc., and IBM, among others. Dr. Spencer's research interests involve the exploration and application of inorganic compounds to important technological problems. He is the author of over 75 papers and 6 patents and has presented over 150 research lectures at regional, national and international meetings. Dr. Spencer was recently appointed Director of the University's Soling Program that focuses upon enhancing collaborative, creative and cross-disciplinary work on and off campus. An accomplished musician, Dr. Spencer also serves at the Music Director of the national award winning Syracuse University Brass Ensemble.

The Soling Program

James Spencer's webpage in the Chemistry Department

http://sumagazine.syr.edu/fall04/viewfromhill/

James W. Watts
Associate Professor
Religion Department
College of Arts and Sciences

Professor Watts (Ph.D., Yale University, 1990) teaches Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern textual traditions. He is the author of Reading Law: The Rhetorical Shaping of the Pentateuch (1999) and Psalm and Story: Inset Hymns in Hebrew Narrative (1992). An assignment to write a large commentary on Leviticus has him studying the history of sacrifice and of law, as well as the place of Leviticus in the Torah/Pentateuch and its use by later interpreters. His courses range from biblical studies to the religions and literatures of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, and Israel, including Second Temple Judaism. He joined the Syracuse faculty in 1999.

James Watt's webpage in the Religion Department

Larry Wolf
Professor and Associate Chair
Biology

Professor Wolf is a distinguished scientist whose primary interests are behavior and ecology.   His research group is interested in the microevolutionary processes that link variation in traits to variation in reproductive success, the extent to which genetics, physiology and history can constrain trait evolution, and in macroevolutionary patterns.

Working directly with Dean Cathryn Newton on a special assignment, he has provided much of the faculty leadership on designing and building the University's new Life Sciences Center. He has worked closely with the Honors Program for many years in a variety of capacities.  

Larry Wolf's webpage in the Biology Department