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Selected audio clips from recordings and home movies from the George F. Johnson Papers, housed in the Library’s Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), will be broadcast on NPR’s “All Things Considered” today at 4:30 p.m. EST. The program is a documentary about industrialist George F. Johnson and will utilize short clips from a 1931 parade in Binghamton, N.Y., and from Johnson’s funeral in 1948. The piece (including the short uses of SCRC’s collection material) will be archived on npr.org and radiodiaries.org.
The Post-Standard previewed the three public workshop performances of “Cry for Peace: Voices from the Congo,” a new documentary theater piece based on interviews with members of the local Congolese community, on Dec. 9-11. The production is made by possible by Syracuse University in association with the Congolese community of Syracuse, Syracuse Stage and Ping Chong & Company.
The Post-Standard reported on the research by a team from the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science that may improve the efficiency of wind turbines used to generate energy.
Laurence Thomas, professor of philosophy and political science in The College of Arts and Sciences and Maxwell School, was mentioned a Macleans (Canada) story about students
text-messaging during classes.
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Publishers Weekly highlights the book “I See the Promised Land,” which tells the story of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life through the Patua art of artist Manu Chitrakar, and the words of writer and griot storyteller, Arthur Flowers, associate professor of English in The College of Arts and Sciences.
MSNBC’s “Health Watch” (watch clip) highlighted the research, “Neuroimaging of Love,” led by Stephanie Ortigue, assistant professor of psychology in The College of Arts and Sciences.
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Syracuse University and global esports and gaming organization Gen.G have opened general registration at campustakeover.gg for its first Campus Takeover Sept. 20-21. The two-day conference will bring students and administrators to Syracuse to highlight career opportunities within the esports industry…
For the first time in the 12-year history of the program, both nominees from the Whitman School of Management have been selected as recipients of the 2025 AWESOME Excellence in Education Scholarship, a prestigious honor awarded to top-performing undergraduate women…
The Whitman School of Management’s Distinguished Professor Johan Wiklund was recently listed as one of the most prolific business and economic research scholars globally, according to “What We Know About the Science of Science in Business and Economics? Insights From…
Katsitsatekanoniahkwa Destiny Lazore, a rising senior communication and rhetorical studies major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts and political science major in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and College of Arts and Sciences (with a…
Three professors have been named Meredith Professor Faculty Fellows. Part of the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professorship Program, the Faculty Fellows program was launched this year. Fellows will work in partnership with the Center for Teaching and Learning…
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