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Arts & Culture

SU Special Collections and Department of Art and Music Histories Host Visiting Fulbright Scholar Ingeborg Zechner

Friday, November 30, 2018, By Renée Gearhart Levy

As an intern at an Austrian music festival, musicologist Ingeborg Zechner was asked to write a program description about one of the pieces played, the Carmen Fantasie. The well-known violin piece was penned by Franz Waxman, a composer best known…

STEM

A Moral Vision of Science: Physicist Joel L. Lebowitz G’55, G’56, H’12 Believes Science and Morality are Inextricably Linked

Thursday, November 29, 2018, By Rob Enslin

Joel L. Lebowitz G’55, G’56, H’12 credits his longevity to luck and good genes. “I’ve always had a healthy constitution,” says the 88-year-old scientist and Holocaust survivor, who is the George William Hill Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Rutgers…

Arts & Culture

University Set to Open Massive 238-Painting Exhibition, ‘Americans Who Tell the Truth,’ with Accompanying Public Discussion Hosted by Tanner Lecture Series, University Lectures

Monday, November 26, 2018, By Kevin Morrow

All 238 paintings in Robert Shetterly’s masterwork portrait series “Americans Who Tell the Truth: Models of Courageous Citizenship” will be on public display for the first time en masse Nov. 29-Dec. 14 at Syracuse University. And the artist himself will…

Campus & Community

Noted Disability Studies Scholar Jay Dolmage to Speak on Disability and Inclusion on College Campuses

Wednesday, November 14, 2018, By News Staff

Jay Dolmage, associate professor of English language and literature at The University of Waterloo and author of the groundbreaking book “Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education” (Michigan University Press, 2017), will visit Syracuse University from Dec. 4-5. He will meet…

Campus & Community

Kathleen Walters ’73 Selected to Lead Syracuse University’s Board of Trustees

Monday, November 12, 2018, By News Staff

Syracuse University today announced that Kathleen Walters ’73, a distinguished member of the international business community, has been selected to lead Syracuse University’s Board of Trustees, succeeding current Board Chair Steve W. Barnes ’82, whose term ends in May 2019….

Campus & Community

Students, Community Leaders, Policy Makers Discuss Homelessness at 20th Annual James L. Stone Legislative Policy Forum

Thursday, November 8, 2018, By News Staff

Addressing homelessness, including the implications for public policy, was the focus of the 20th Annual James L. Stone Legislative Policy Symposium held Friday, Oct. 26, at the Onondaga County Legislative Chambers. Syracuse University students in the Falk College’s School of…

Arts & Culture

Jason Alexander to Direct Intimate and Moving Musical ‘The Last Five Years’ for Syracuse Stage

Wednesday, November 7, 2018, By Joanna Penalva

Syracuse Stage welcomes TV star and Tony Award-winning actor Jason Alexander to the 2018-19 season as the director of “The Last Five Years,” written and composed by Jason Robert Brown. The Drama Desk Award-winning musical will run May 29–June 16,…

Arts & Culture

Glenn Peers Brings Expertise in Late Antique and Byzantine Art to the Department of Art and Music Histories

Tuesday, November 6, 2018, By Renée Gearhart Levy

The College of Arts and Sciences welcomes Glenn Peers as professor of art history in the Department of Art and Music Histories. Peers joined Syracuse University in July after 20 years at the University of Texas-Austin, where he developed an…

Veterans

Stories of Service: Min Kang Kim and Sam Clemence

Tuesday, November 6, 2018, By Leah Lazarz

In celebration of Veterans Week 2018, the University is recognizing stories of student veterans and faculty/staff veterans. These stories are just some of the many from among the veteran and military-connected community members on campus whom the University is dedicated…

Media, Law & Policy

Communications Executive Jim Olson ’91 to Present ‘Storytelling in the Digital Age’ Nov. 12 at Newhouse

Monday, October 29, 2018, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Jim Olson ’91, chief communications officer at Steward Health Care, the world’s largest private, physician-led health care network, will visit the Newhouse School on Monday, Nov. 12, as the Social Commerce Days Visiting Executive. He will present “Storytelling in the…