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iSchool Announces MLIS ‘Expect More’ Scholarship Program
A new initiative at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) offers an enriched graduate education experience to students who want to become leaders in librarianship and develop skills that are applicable to a wide range of 21st-century careers that are…
Professor Examines 200 Years of Western American Art
More than 200 years of Western American art is the subject of a new book by a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences. Scott Manning Stevens, associate professor and director of Native American studies, is the author of…
Posse Foundation President Deborah Bial to Visit Campus Jan. 26
At Chancellor Kent Syverud’s invitation, Deborah Bial, president and founder of the Posse Foundation, will visit campus on Monday, Jan. 26. The Posse Foundation provides college access and youth leadership development opportunities to top public high school students from diverse…
Xaviera Simmons Presents Work at Light Work, UVP
Light Work and Urban Video Project are presenting “Accumulations” and “Number Sixteen,” concurrent exhibitions featuring the work of multidisciplinary artist Xaviera Simmons. The works within these exhibitions present an artist working with—and through—formal languages of performance, video, sculpture, photography and social and…
True Value CEO John Hartmann L’88 to Go Undercover for ‘Undercover Boss’
For John Hartmann L’88, it was admittedly a nightmare scenario. “I don’t like talking about myself,” he said, “and I don’t like having my picture taken.” But the chance to further enhance the brand of the company he runs, True…
University Appoints Matt Ter Molen Chief Advancement Officer
Ter Molen, who will report to Chancellor Syverud, will assume his new role at the University on Feb. 1, 2015.
Symposium on Indigenous Perspectives to Take Place Thursday, Friday
Syracuse Symposium™ 2014: Perspective will close with a collaborative symposium, “Indigenous Perspectives on Museums and Cultural Centers” on Thursday, Dec. 4, and Friday, Dec. 5, to discuss how to effectively communicate an indigenous perspective on the history of museums as…
New Exhibition Combines Two Series to Give New Look at New Orleans
“Elysian Fields,” a two-person show featuring the work of Tammy Mercure and Courtney Asztalos G’17, is now on exhibit at the J&J Smith Gallery, located on the first floor of Smith Hall, through Wednesday, Dec. 10. The show combines photographs…
Humanities Data Mining Subject of ‘Issues in Digital Scholarship’ Talk
Peter Leonard, librarian for digital humanities research at Yale, will give a talk titled “Making Sense: Data-Mining Large Collections of Digitized Cultural Material,” on Wednesday, Nov. 12, from 3:30-5 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons in Bird Library. Leonard’s…
NPR Host and Author Michele Norris to Keynote 30th Annual MLK Celebration
Michele Norris, National Public Radio host and special correspondent and creator of the Race Card Project (which involves people constructing six-word essays about race, which they then write on postcards), will be the keynote speaker for Syracuse University’s 30th annual…