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Arts & Culture

Jazz Day to Feature Master Class, Concert with Renowned Trombonist Wycliffe Gordon

Thursday, April 7, 2016, By Erica Blust

Renowned musician, composer, conductor and arranger Wycliffe Gordon will be the featured guest at Syracuse University’s Jazz Day on Saturday, April 9. Gordon will conduct a jazz master class at 3 p.m. and perform with the University’s Morton Schiff Jazz…

Media, Law & Policy

Finalists Announced in Newhouse School’s 10th Annual Mirror Awards Competition

Thursday, April 7, 2016, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications has announced the finalists in the 2016 Mirror Awards competition honoring excellence in media industry reporting. Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony June 9 in New York City. The finalists, chosen…

Health & Society

Falk Graduate Students Host Golf Tournament to Benefit Vera House May 9

Thursday, April 7, 2016, By Michele Barrett

The Sport Venue and Event Management Graduate Program in Falk College is hosting a charity golf tournament to benefit Vera House on May 9 at Timber Banks Golf Club in Baldwinsville, N.Y., beginning at 12:30 p.m. Monies raised will support…

Arts & Culture

Conductor Vance George to Lead 13th Annual Women’s Choir Festival

Thursday, April 7, 2016, By Erica Blust

Vance George, the Grammy Award-winning conductor emeritus of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, will be the guest conductor for the University’s 13th Annual Invitational Women’s Choir Festival and concert on Saturday, April 16. The theme of the festival is “Joyfully…

Campus & Community

Art Installation on Quad Representing Intersection of Alcohol, Sexual Assault Postponed

Thursday, April 7, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

An art installation on Shaw Quad representing the intersection of alcohol and sexual assault has been postponed due to weather. The display will highlight the fact that over 50 percent of college sexual assaults involve alcohol and that alcohol is…

Campus & Community

Professor James W. Watts Hosts Religion and Senses Symposium in Germany

Wednesday, April 6, 2016, By Renée K. Gadoua

A fellowship funded by Germany’s Ministry for Education and Research has allowed religion professor James W. Watts to apply his work on the Syracuse University-based Iconic Books Project to a broader study of the interaction of religion and the senses….

STEM

Physicist to Receive Young Scientist Award in France

Wednesday, April 6, 2016, By Amy Manley

A physicist in the  College of Arts and Sciences has been selected to receive the prestigious Young Scientist Award by the Commission on Statistical Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). M. Lisa Manning, associate professor…

Campus & Community

Tips for Better Writing: How to Get Started on that Research Paper

Wednesday, April 6, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

Need to get started on that end of semester research paper? Make sure you understand the assignment, try an outline and carefully select your sources, among other tips for doing your best work, according to consultants with the Writing Center.

Campus & Community

Tiq & Kim Milan to Speak April 6 as Part of Annual Transgender Day of Liberation

Wednesday, April 6, 2016, By News Staff

Tiq and Kim Milan are the Annual Transgender Day of Liberation celebration speakers during an event at 7 p.m. April 6 in Maxwell Auditorium. Tiq and Kim Milan, Black queer and trans* partners in life and in work, will give…

Campus & Community

Stefan Bradley to Speak April 7 on ‘The New Politics of Race on Campus’

Tuesday, April 5, 2016, By News Staff

The nationwide resurgence of explicitly race-based activism on college campuses recalls the heyday of Black Power. Yet student demographics and the landscape of racial identity in America have undergone profound changes since the 1960s. What is the meaning of the…