Students participate in lighting candles for Diwali, the Hindu festival of light. This is the second year Professor Romita Ray of the Department of Art and Music Histories (AMH) has organized the event on campus. This year, over 50 students, faculty and staff gathered in the University’s sculpture garden to place and illuminate over 1,000 tea lights to signify the triumph of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, and hope over despair. The event was sponsored by the AMH, Hendricks Chapel and the South Asia Center.
The College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) reaffirms its commitment to opportunity and access with a newly created high-level appointment. Kishi Animashaun Ducre, associate professor of African American studies (AAS), is the college’s inaugural associate dean of diversity, equity and…
James Haywood Rolling Jr., dual professor of art education and teaching and leadership in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and the School of Education and the chair of art education, has been appointed VPA’s inaugural director of…
Syracuse University today announced the launch of a new digital platform to increase access to safe and affordable off-campus housing options for Syracuse students. The new platform, which will be live by the end of November, is designed to ensure…
The first-ever Be Well Expo, scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 30, in the Dome, will feature ABC News anchor and author Dan Harris as keynote speaker. Following Harris’ talk, there will be a wellness expo on the Dome floor that will…
In April, 2018, Anthony Veasna So was named one of 30 nationwide recipients of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. For So, a graduate student in the Creative Writing Program in the College of Arts and Sciences,…
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