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Campus & Community

‘Be Kind’ art exhibtion

Tuesday, September 6, 2011, By News Staff

On Sept. 27, the Panasci Lounge will hold an art opening for the show “Be Kind,” a collection of photography from Swiss artist and writer Christoph Keller.

Arts & Culture

Th3 events slated for Thursday, Sept. 15

Tuesday, September 6, 2011, By Syracuse University Art Museum

Th3 (The Third Thursday: Syracuse’s Citywide Art Opening) has announced the start of the 2011-12 season of bringing cultural and visual arts events and attractions to the Syracuse and greater Central New York communities. Th3 is a consortium of Syracuse arts…

Health & Society

Alumni couple donates $100,000 to Burton Blatt Institute

Tuesday, September 6, 2011, By News Staff

Gift from Robert ’66 and Carol ’70 Tannenhauser will directly impact people with disabilities In support of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, Robert ’66 and Carol ’70 Tannenhauser have announced a commitment to BBI of $100,000, one…

Arts & Culture

Painter Jerome Witkin to give artist’s talk Sept. 6

Friday, September 2, 2011, By Erica Blust

Jerome Witkin, one of America’s leading figurative painters and a longtime professor of painting in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) Department of Art, will present an artist’s talk on Tuesday, Sept. 6, at 6:30 p.m. in Shemin…

Veterans

Volunteers needed to help collect donations to complete veterans’ homes on Near West Side

Wednesday, August 31, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University is helping to ‘raise the roof’ for Habitat for Humanity by asking students, faculty and staff to collect donations needed to complete two veterans’ homes under construction on Syracuse’s Near West Side. Once completed, the homes—located at 113…

Arts & Culture

Industrial and interaction design students explore board games in ‘Game On!’ at Design Gallery

Monday, August 29, 2011, By Erica Blust

Most of us remember playing board games as young children. We not only mastered strategy and spatial recognition—if we were lucky, we learned diplomacy, teamwork and how to be a gracious winner and a good loser. Early games date back…

Arts & Culture

Andrew Mellon Foundation commits $1 million for Phase II of CNY Humanities Corridor

Monday, August 29, 2011, By News Staff

The Central New York Humanities Corridor—an interdisciplinary partnership among Syracuse University, Cornell University and the University of Rochester focused on enhancing scholarship in the humanities—has received a second award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in the amount of $1…

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

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…

Campus & Community

Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art: Apex, Chor Boogie and Jet Martinez

Tuesday, August 23, 2011, By News Staff

This fall/winter, the Warehouse Gallery’s exhibitions focus on the medium of painting.