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International Exchange: Cultivating Fulbright Students

Tuesday, April 2, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

Third-year Ph.D. anthropology student Stephen Johnson returned from India last summer knowing that he hadn’t fully explored all of his questions for his Ph.D. topic on the relationship between Tibetan refugees and Indian communities.

Now he has another opportunity—and a prestigious, international distinction that has made it possible.

Chauncey D. Holmes Lecture to Feature International Earthquake Expert

Tuesday, April 2, 2013, By News Staff

22 undergraduates to be recognized for Earth sciences excellence A record-setting 22 Syracuse University undergraduate students will be recognized for excellence in introductory earth science during the annual Chauncey D. Holmes Lecture and Award Ceremony, 7 p.m. Thursday, April 18,…

Leading Figure in Second-Language Writing to Keynote Writing Program Spring Conference

Monday, April 1, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Paul Kei Matsuda, a leading national figure in second-language writing and linguistics, will be the keynote speaker for the annual two-day spring conference of the Writing Program in The College of Arts and Sciences. Matsuda will speak on “Reimagining Student…

VPA Students Named Semi-Finalists in Design Museum Boston Street Seats Challenge

Monday, April 1, 2013, By Erica Blust

A bench design by two second-year industrial and interaction design majors in the College of Visual and Performing Arts was named one of 20 semi-finalist winners in Design Museum Boston’s Street Seats International Design Challenge. Ryan Pierson and Sally Zheng’s…

Setnor School of Music’s Baker Artists Program to Provide New Opportunities for On- and Off-Campus Learning

Monday, April 1, 2013, By Erica Blust

A new program in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music will create more opportunities for students to learn from and connect with music professionals both on and off campus. The Baker Artists Program will allow…

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Paul Matsuda: Reimagining Student Writers in the Global U.S. Higher Education

Thursday, March 28, 2013, By News Staff

Professor of English and Director of Second Language Writing, Arizona State University Thursday, April 4 3:30 p.m. 500 Hall of Languages U.S. higher education is not what it used to be. In the age of globalization, students transcend national boundaries,…

Nationally Acclaimed Poet Next Guest in Raymond Carver Reading Series

Friday, March 22, 2013, By News Staff

The Spring 2013 Raymond Carver Reading Series continues at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 3, with critically acclaimed poet Dean Young, the William S. Livingston Chair of Poetry at the University of Texas. The reading will take place in Gifford Auditorium…

Student’s Venture One of Inc. Magazine’s ‘Coolest College Startups’

Thursday, March 21, 2013, By Diane Stirling

Celeste Currie might be a lot like many of the information management and technology students at Syracuse University. Then again, she might not. A junior at the School of Information Studies (iSchool), she’s enrolled in the same range of coursework…

Comcast Head Brian L. Roberts Will Visit Newhouse School March 26

Tuesday, March 19, 2013, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Student Farron Stark will interview him in a public Q&A at the school Brian L. Roberts, chairman and CEO of Comcast Corp. and chair of the board of directors of NBCUniversal, will visit the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications…

Civil Rights Advocate and Ivy League Educator Keynotes APA Month

Tuesday, March 19, 2013, By News Staff

The Office of Multicultural Affairs, within the Division of Student Affairs, has announced Kenji Yoshino as this year’s commemorative speaker for Asian Pacific Heritage Month (APA). Noted as the face and voice of the new civil rights, Yoshino will speak…