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Campus & Community

SU Faculty Member Joins Service for USS Monitor Crew in Arlington

Thursday, March 7, 2013, By News Staff

Cathryn Newton, dean emerita of Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, will be among those gathered on Friday, March 8, at Arlington National Cemetery for the interment of two crewmen found in the turret of the renowned Civil War…

Campus & Community

‘Antarctic Circumpolar Current Evolution and its Impact on Climate and Global Ocean Circulation’

Friday, March 1, 2013, By News Staff

The Department of Earth Sciences presents the spring 2012 K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series, this week featuring Miriam Katz from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. “Antarctic Circumpolar Current Evolution and its Impact on Climate and Global Ocean Circulation”. The lecture will be…

Health & Society

SU Humanities Faculty Fellow Discusses Health Activism in L.A. During 1960s, 70s

Thursday, February 28, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Jenna Loyd to examine health politics in context of city’s then-growing defense economy The Syracuse University Humanities Center, housed in The College of Arts and Sciences, will kick off its 2013 Faculty Fellow Lecture Series with a program on health…

Health & Society

Brooks Gump Awarded NIH Grant to Study Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Children

Wednesday, February 20, 2013, By Michele Barrett

Brooks B. Gump, professor in the Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition in the Falk College, was awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The research project, “Environmental Toxicants, Race…

Campus & Community

Disability Culture, Faith and Secularism, Part II: Creating Spaces for Inclusion

Friday, February 15, 2013, By News Staff

Without Walls: What Temporary Deaf Spaces Can Tell Us about Managing Identity Politics The Rev. Kirk VanGilder WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20 Noble Room, Hendricks Chapel The Rev. Kirk VanGilder is a professor of Religion at Gallaudet University, who was born hard…

Work of Latina Artist Favianna Rodriguez Will Open at La Casita Cultural Center

Tuesday, February 12, 2013, By News Staff

Last fall, celebrated printmaker and social activist Favianna Rodriguez joined forces with other California-based artists to create posters urging passage of Proposition 37, which would have required labeling of all food made from genetically engineered plants and animals. The proposition…

Ronald L. Caravan to Present Setnor Faculty Recital Feb. 17

Thursday, February 7, 2013, By Erica Blust

Ronald L. Caravan, an instructor 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 a clarinet and saxophone recital on Sunday, Feb. 17, at…

Campus & Community

Faculty and Staff Assistance Program Series Session: “Talk About Tweens & Teens” on Feb. 12

Wednesday, January 30, 2013, By News Staff

“Talk about Tweens & Teens,” the next presentation in the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (FSAP) WorkLife series, will be held at noon Tuesday, Feb. 12, in the Student Health Center at 111 Waverly Ave., in conference room 001.  …

Campus & Community

Surveying Faculty and Staff for a Healthier Campus

Wednesday, January 23, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

Susan Furtney, who heads the University Wellness Initiative, wants faculty and staff members to envision what a dynamic, accessible network of health and wellness programs on campus would look like. Healthy cooking classes, a South Campus trail system and access to onsite cholesterol checks—or other possibilities to be suggested by the campus community—are some options to think about.

Media, Law & Policy

Getting to Know: Cultural anthropologist Cecilia Van Hollen

Tuesday, January 15, 2013, By News Staff

While studying the lives of women living with HIV in South Asia, Maxwell School associate professor Cecilia Van Hollen recalls speaking with a young mother in Tamil Nadu, the southeastern state in India. “When neighbors ask me why I am…