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Media, Law & Policy

SU College of Law redesignated as New York State Science and Technology Law Center

Thursday, October 18, 2012, By Jaclyn D. Grosso

The New York State Department of Economic Development, Division of Science, Technology and Innovation, and Syracuse University College of Law have announced that the Syracuse University College of Law has been redesignated for a third three-year term to serve as the…

Syracuse University’s Dawn Long awarded for providing ‘key’ to the future

Thursday, October 18, 2012, By Keith Kobland

Dawn Long says she “was absolutely shocked.” That was her reaction after being told she was the winner of the the Golden Key International Honour Society’s Regional Advisor of the Year award.  She’s one of 11 people in North America…

Media, Law & Policy

Dialing in on the debate

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By Keith Kobland

As political pundits decide which of the presidential candidates won Tuesday night’s town hall style debate, Frank Biocca already knows. “We can see immediately in the dials,” Biocca says, “when a candidate is doing badly.” He’s not referring to television…

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Imagining America launches web series, ‘The New Activists: Students in the Community’

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By News Staff

“The New Activists: Students in the Community” is Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life’s (IA’s) new web series of short videos profiling high school, undergraduate and graduate students who are tapping their creativity and knowledge to address pressing…

LGBT activist speaks at Villa Rossa Lecture Series

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By Jennifer DeMarchi

On Oct. 10, the Villa Rossa Lecture Series at Syracuse University in Florence hosted Vladimir “Vladi” Luxuria, an Italian actress, writer, politician and television host. The lecture, entitled “Across Ocean and Gender, Discovering the Unknown,” explored her time spent traveling…

Campus & Community

‘Ensuring Successful Students and Schools’ is focus of next IRP

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By Eileen Jevis

The Oct. 18 session of the Institute for Retired People (IRP) will feature Sharon Contreras, superintendent of the Syracuse City School District. She will discuss the district’s five-year plan for ensuring the success of the city’s students. The IRP program…

Arts & Culture

SU Humanities Center, Society for New Music present program of music, film and video Oct. 28

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By Rob Enslin

The world premiere of “Cantos,” an ambitious multimedia work by New York State composer Rob Deemer, is part of the next installment of Syracuse Symposium, whose theme this year is “Memory-Media-Archive.” The premiere is part of a program titled “Aural…

Campus & Community

Professor Anna Vasilevna Gorbatsevich remembered

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By News Staff

Anna Vasilevna Gorbatsevich, professor emerita of Russian, passed away at her home on Sept. 6 at the age of 88. She was a resident of Syracuse for more than 60 years. Gorbatsevich was born near Warsaw, Poland, where she studied to become…

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Newhouse alums produce documentary on impact of 9/11 on small town

Tuesday, October 16, 2012, By News Staff

As she grew up in small-town Somerset County, Pa., S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications alumna Laura Beachy ‘12 wanted to create a story that would honor the unsung heroes of United Flight 93.

Arts & Culture

One Million Bones workshop to demonstrate cost of genocide

Monday, October 15, 2012, By News Staff

Community Folk Art Center (CFAC) is collaborating with Students Rebuild, Syracuse University Arts Engage and the Congolese community of Syracuse to host a One Million Bones workshop, a social arts initiative that brings awareness to genocide by educating and engaging communities.