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Digital Witness Symposium explores how new digital media are transforming human rights activism

Thursday, September 16, 2010, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Illuminating Oppression: 8th Annual Human Rights Film Festival at Syracuse University will inaugurate a new strand of its annual programming this year with the Digital Witness Symposium on Friday, Oct. 1, at 11 a.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3.

Community Folk Art Center to host ‘Dogs in Transition: Pit Bulls & Mill Dogs’ by artist Cyrus Mejia

Friday, September 10, 2010, By News Staff

CFAC will be hosting the exhibition “Dogs in Transition: Pit Bulls and Mill Dogs” by Cyrus Mejia from Sept. 25-Dec. 11.

Campus & Community

Performance art group plans Sept. 11 sitting meditation on the SU Quad

Friday, September 10, 2010, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Members of the City Meditation Crew (CMC), a performance art group, are planning a sitting meditation on Saturday, Sept. 11, from 8:45-10:45 a.m. on the Syracuse University Quad.

Campus & Community

Syracuse University plans observance to mark ninth anniversary of 9/11

Wednesday, September 8, 2010, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University’s Hendricks Chapel will hold a September 11th observance to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Campus & Community

Henry named Jack Kent Cooke Foundation transfer scholarship recipient

Wednesday, September 1, 2010, By News Staff

Among the 2010 Undergraduate Transfer Scholars is Kemardo Henry of Baltimore, Md., who has enrolled at Syracuse University as a biochemistry major in The College of Arts and Sciences.

Campus & Community

Chancellor’s Leadership Award catalyzes project, conference on transnationalizing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) studies

Tuesday, August 24, 2010, By News Staff

On Sept. 23-25, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Studies Program at Syracuse University will host an inaugural conference, “Transnationalizing LGBT Studies” that will cross geographic and cultural borders to explore LGBT scholarship and activism from a transnational perspective.

Campus & Community

Near Westside Initiative commissions artist to transform downtown bridges into public art; installation of ‘A Love Letter to Syracuse’ begins on Tuesday, Aug. 24

Friday, August 20, 2010, By News Staff

Using the arts as its tool, the Near Westside Initiative has commissioned internationally known artist Steve Powers to create a public art project to visually disrupt a physical barrier at the most critical intersection of the Connective Corridor and Near Westside.

Campus & Community

Syracuse University Orientation Leaders provide smooth transition for first-year students

Wednesday, August 11, 2010, By News Staff

Orientation Leaders (OLs) are key players in Syracuse University’s signature student orientation program, Syracuse Welcome. OLs are representatives of the University who work with faculty and staff members to help new students and their families have a smooth and seamless transition into the intellectual, cultural and social climate of Syracuse University.

Campus & Community

SYRFILMFEST announces October 2010 plans

Friday, June 4, 2010, By News Staff

Even though it’s still months away, the Syracuse International Film Festival (SYRFILMFEST) is gearing up for its seventh annual event, which will take place this year Oct. 13–17.

Health & Society

SU’s MLAB working to raise $700,000 for New Orleans by collecting ‘Fundred Dollar Bills’

Tuesday, May 11, 2010, By News Staff

The Syracuse University School of Education’s Mobile Literacy Arts Bus (MLAB) and the local community are working on an art initiative that aims to raise $700,000 to remove lead from the soil in New Orleans.