Mikayla Heiss

Dec 9, 2024 | news.syr.edu | Mikayla Heiss

Madison Manning, a junior musical theater major, stepped into an iconic pair of shoes for her lead role in “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella,” co-produced by Syracuse Stage and the Department of Drama in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. Manning plays Cinderella in the production that runs through Jan. 5 in the Archbold Theatre at Syracuse Stage.

Oct 14, 2024 | news.syr.edu | Mikayla Heiss

Campus & Community AwardsCollege of Visual and Performing ArtsfacultyStudents Tackling social and environmental issues through design, College of Visual and Performing Arts students in Creative Problem Solving won an award and commendation in the global Creative Conscience Awards. Creative Conscience is a global not-for-profit organization that believes that creative thinking and innovation can make positive change.

Jun 6, 2024 | odishaexpo.com | Odisha Expo |Mikayla Heiss

Witnessing a helmet-to-helmet collision sparked an concept for School of Design alumnus Bert Straus ’59, setting off a sequence of evolutions in headwear and protecting sports activities gear. Straus remembers watching the collision throughout a televised sports activities recreation. A picture of an enormous pillow inserted on the helmet’s level of contact sprung into his thoughts. The designer started sketching the idea, masking the helmet’s outer floor with a urethane foam shell.

Apr 9, 2024 | news.syr.edu | Mikayla Heiss

A composer-organist pair of graduate students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music received a $1,000 grant from the American Guild of Organists (AGO) to compose and perform a new piece for organ. Composer Ryan McQuay Meredith and organist Joseph Maxwell Ossei-Little were among four pairs selected for the grant from the AGO’s Student Commissioning Project this year.