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Campus & Community

United Way Holds ‘Food and Photo’ Campaign Kickoff Thursday in Schine

Tuesday, October 14, 2014, By News Staff

All members of the University community are invited to join the Syracuse University United Way committee, and Otto, Thursday, Oct. 16, from 2:30-4 p.m. in the atrium of the Schine Student Center for a food and photo campaign kickoff celebration….

Campus & Community

Purser Wins Award for New Book about On-Demand Labor

Tuesday, October 14, 2014, By News Staff

Gretchen Purser, assistant professor of sociology in the Maxwell School, has won the 2014 International Book Award from the California Series in Public Anthropology (University of California Press) for her manuscript “Labor On Demand: Dispatching the Urban Poor.” Each year…

New TRAC Service Tracks Performance of Federal Court Judges

Tuesday, October 14, 2014, By News Staff

Researchers at Syracuse University have developed a data tool (http://tracfed.syr.edu/judges/interp/) that provides strategic intelligence on more than 900 federal district court judges. For the first time, the public can learn which judges handle the most civil court cases, and how…

Arts & Culture

Scholar to Present Workshop at Folger Shakespeare Library

Tuesday, October 14, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

For modern audiences, Shakespeare’s bloody tragedy “Macbeth” has nothing to do with song and dance. Yet, in Restoration England (1660–1714), Shakespeare was often revised to include these elements. On Nov. 14-15, scholars, musicians, dancers and actors from the United States…

FNSSI Scientists Awarded National Institute of Justice Grant

Tuesday, October 14, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” has been on television for nearly 14 years and in that time, has won numerous awards for acting. But Syracuse University has its own cast of forensic characters, and instead of an Emmy award, the Forensic…

Orange After Dark: Something to Do When ‘There’s Nothing to Do’

Monday, October 13, 2014, By Cyndi Moritz

When Robin Berkowitz-Smith was an undergraduate at Syracuse University, she remembers hearing students say, “There’s nothing to do.” Almost 30 years later Berkowitz-Smith, now associate director of residence life at SU, still hears the same refrain.

Conductor Rebecca Rottsolk to Lead 12th Annual Women’s Choir Festival Oct. 25

Monday, October 13, 2014, By Erica Blust

Distinguished conductor Rebecca Rottsolk of Seattle will be the guest conductor for Syracuse University’s 12th Annual Invitational Women’s Choir Festival and concert on Saturday, Oct. 25, at 4 p.m. Approximately 175 high school and collegiate women singers from New York…

Award-Winning Playwright Eve Ensler Delivers University Lecture Wednesday

Monday, October 13, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Ensler’s presentation, “In The Body of Justice” will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel and is free and open to the public.

University Outlines Steps for Moving Diversity and Inclusion Conversation Forward

Monday, October 13, 2014, By News Staff

In a memo sent to students, faculty and staff on Friday, Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina and Senior Vice President and Dean of Student Affairs Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz outlined the next steps the University is taking to advance the…

Orange Central in 60 Seconds

Friday, October 10, 2014, By Keith Kobland

Orange Central, the celebration of homecoming and reunion rolled into one, is underway on the Syracuse University campus. What’s it like coming back to campus 50 years after commencement? Orange Central Friday from Syracuse University News on Vimeo.