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BBI provides emergency preparedness guidance for people with disabilities in advance of Hurricane Irene

Friday, August 26, 2011, By News Staff

Applying lessons from emergency planning and response after Hurricane Katrina, in which the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University was involved, BBI is providing resources for the protection and safety of people with disabilities who live in the path…

University will mark 9/11 anniversary through series of activities

Friday, August 26, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Service, exhibition, service project, panel discussions

Arts & Culture

Human Rights Film Festival brings compelling new films to Syracuse Sept. 15-17

Thursday, August 25, 2011, By News Staff

Members of the Syracuse University and Central New York communities will have an opportunity to view award-winning films from around the world during “Illuminating Oppression: 9th Annual Human Rights Film Festival,” Thursday, Sept. 15, through Saturday, Sept. 17. This three-day…

Arts & Culture

Fall exhibition at SU Library: ‘Just One Word: Plastics’

Thursday, August 25, 2011, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

The opening and reception for Syracuse University Library’s fall exhibition, “Just One Word: Plastics” will be held in the Special Collections Research Center Gallery, sixth floor, Bird Library on Thursday, Sept. 15, from 5-7 p.m. The exhibit will run from…

Arts & Culture

2011 Syracuse Symposium examines many facets of ‘Identity’

Wednesday, August 24, 2011, By Rob Enslin

“Identity” is the theme of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium, an annual intellectual and artistic festival on the Syracuse University campus. This fall’s festival encompasses six lectures, including one by best-selling author/philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah; four performances and readings, including the…

Arts & Culture

SU appoints 2011-12 Humanities Center Dissertation Fellows

Monday, August 22, 2011, By Rob Enslin

The Syracuse University Humanities Center has announced recipients of its 2011-12 HC Dissertation Fellowships. Nell Champoux G’12 and Soumitree Gupta G’12—doctoral students in religion and in women’s and gender studies/English, respectively—are receiving one-year awards, carrying stipends and benefits. The fellowship…

Arts & Culture

Owolabi to present recital on SU’s historic Holtkamp organ Sept. 6 and 7

Monday, August 22, 2011, By Erica Blust

Kola Owolabi, Syracuse University organist and assistant professor of music in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), will present organ recitals on Tuesday, Sept. 6, and…

Light Work to feature EN FOCO/IN FOCUS: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection

Monday, August 22, 2011, By Jessica H. Reed

Light Work has announced the exhibition “EN FOCO/IN FOCUS: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection,” featuring photographs from the permanent collection at En Foco. It will be on view Sept. 1-Jan. 31, 2012, in the Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery…

Campus & Community

SU’s James Watts named Tolley Professor in Humanities

Monday, August 22, 2011, By Rob Enslin

The College of Arts and Sciences has appointed James W. Watts as the William P. Tolley Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities. An expert in literature and religion of the Hebrew Bible, Watts serves as professor and chair of the…

Campus & Community

Rylaxing LLC team returns to SU to put scholarship into action

Monday, August 22, 2011, By News Staff

As incoming freshmen take their first steps on campus this August, four Syracuse University graduates return for an extra year of school as part of the Kauffman Entrepreneurship Engagement Fellowship (KEEF) program. Fellows participate in local projects or ventures that…