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Three renowned authors will be featured during Spring 2012 University Lectures

Friday, February 17, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Jonathan Franzen kicks off series March 6 Jonathan Franzen, award-winning author of “The Corrections” and “Freedom,” will kick off the 2012 University Lectures series at Syracuse University on Tuesday, March 6. Franzen is the first in a trio of noted…

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15th Ward reception at Erie Canal Museum

Wednesday, February 15, 2012, By News Staff

You are invited on Feb. 17 to a reception for the “15th Ward: Memories of a Syracuse Neighborhood Transformed” at the Erie Canal Museum. The event will take place from 5-7 p.m.

A look at abolitionist, suffragist Lucretia Mott at next session of IRP

Wednesday, February 15, 2012, By Eileen Jevis

At the Feb. 16 session of the Institute for Retired People (IRP), Carol Faulkner, associate professor and chair of the Department of History at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School, will discuss Lucretia Mott and the Seneca Falls Convention. Mott, a Quaker…

SU helps Jewish Center of Norwich celebrate restoration efforts Feb. 16

Wednesday, February 15, 2012, By Rob Enslin

The Jewish Center of Norwich—which made headlines in 2008, when it was vandalized by local youths—is the subject of a forthcoming event involving Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences and its Judaic studies program. SU friends and alumni, as…

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SU in the News: Monday, February 13

Monday, February 13, 2012, By News Staff

Research by Arts and Sciences’ Susan Parks linking whale stress to underwater noise reported by international and online media

Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs featured at 11th annual Conversation on Race and Entertainment Media

Monday, February 13, 2012, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Actor/writer/director/producer Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs will visit Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications Feb. 29 for the 11th annual Conversation on Race and Entertainment Media. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held at 7:30…

SU’s Jaklin Kornfilt co-edits prestigious linguistics journal

Friday, February 10, 2012, By Rob Enslin

Jaklin Kornfilt, professor of linguistics in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, believes learning has no boundaries. Witness her recent involvement with Lingua (Elsevier, 2011), an international journal devoted to problems of general linguistics. A majority of the editorial…

New study links whale stress to ship noise

Friday, February 10, 2012, By News Staff

Data collected around 9/11 terrorist attacks by SU biologist plays key role in study Hunted almost to extinction, North Atlantic Right Whales are among the most endangered in the world, with fewer than 500 alive today. Syracuse University biologist Susan…

Destiny USA, Rosamond Gifford Zoo benefit from iSchool social media students

Wednesday, February 8, 2012, By J.D. Ross

Most businesses are lucky to have one social media strategist or community manager on staff. This season, two major Syracuse attractions are especially fortunate in that they will have legions of social media practitioners at work for them. That is…

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SU in the News: Wednesday, February 8

Wednesday, February 8, 2012, By News Staff

Watertown ABC affiliate reports on basketball fans and SU’s “Can It!” anti-hunger initiative