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College of Law Trial Team Wins Tiffany Cup, Finishes Fifth in National Trial Competition

Tuesday, April 1, 2014, By Jaclyn D. Grosso

College of Law students continue to earn national accolades for their trial team accomplishments. On March 28, Jason Krisza L’14 and Jennifer Camillo L’15 competed in the National Trial Competition (NTC) in Austin, Texas, and placed fifth overall out of…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse Announces Finalists in 2014 Mirror Awards Competition

Tuesday, April 1, 2014, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications has announced the finalists in the 2014 Mirror Awards competition honoring excellence in media industry reporting. Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on June 4 in New York City. The Mirror…

Arts & Culture

Kari Smiraglia Wins Grand Prize in Design-a-Throw Competition

Monday, March 31, 2014, By Erica Blust

Kari Smiraglia, a senior fashion design major in the Department of Design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, was named the grand prize winner of the 2013 Design-a-Throw competition sponsored by Monterey Mills, one of the nation’s premier suppliers…

Campus & Community

Philanthropy Week Kicks off Monday

Friday, March 28, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University’s annual Philanthropy Week will kick off on Monday, March 31, beginning a weeklong series of special events planned to raise awareness about the critical role that philanthropy plays at the University—and in society as a whole—and to recognize…

Campus & Community

Fletchall Puts Learning into Practice on Connective Corridor

Thursday, March 27, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Graduate student Quinton Fletchall loves narrative. He particularly loves the narrative of urban planning and social design. He sees cities as stories that people tell through the lens of hope, fear and dreams for the future. He also sees those…

Campus & Community

Rob’s Run: SU Junior Plans 54-Mile Jog to Help Make-A-Wish

Wednesday, March 26, 2014, By Keith Kobland

A Syracuse University junior is lacing up his running shoes for a 54-mile jog, in the name of his sister and an organization that grants wishes to sick children. Rob Faugno will depart before sunrise on April 11, which is…

Getting to Know: Astrophysicist Jedidah Isler

Tuesday, March 25, 2014, By Cyndi Moritz

Jedidah Isler was interested in the heavens from the time she was 11 or 12. She had a telescope as a kid, which her sister bought her for her birthday one year. But she didn’t get a chance to pursue…

Arts & Culture

‘The Good Woman of Setzuan’ Examines True Essence of Goodness

Tuesday, March 25, 2014, By News Staff

Can we practice goodness and create a world to sustain it? In Bertolt Brecht’s comic and complex play, this question is raised by one of his most entertaining characters, Shen Tei, the good-hearted, penniless, cross-dressing prostitute, who is forced to…

Campus & Community

‘Tomorrow Happens Here’: The Experience of SXSW

Tuesday, March 25, 2014, By Kathleen Haley

South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive is the place to be to find out “what’s next” in creative content and digital technologies. “I always loved the old SXSW tagline: ‘Tomorrow Happens Here,’ and it still feels true,” says Sean Branagan, director…

Veterans

Gump to Continue Leading Undergraduate Program for Trauma Research with Veterans

Monday, March 24, 2014, By Michele Barrett

Falk Family Professor of Public Health Brooks Gump will continue leading a program this summer for undergraduate veterans and non-veterans (five openings for each) interested in becoming trauma researchers. Gump was one of six faculty from three upstate New York…