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Research Study Seeks Participants Who Know Someone with Intellectual Disability

Tuesday, October 15, 2013, By News Staff

A new Syracuse University research study conducted through the Falk College’s Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition is currently seeking participants who have a family member or friend with an intellectual disability. The study is funded by the…

Arts & Culture

Jamie Haft Appointed Imagining America Assistant Director

Friday, October 11, 2013, By News Staff

Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA) has appointed Jamie Haft as assistant director. Haft will be organizing campus leadership teams within IA’s consortium of more than 100 colleges and universities and directing story-based campaigns in multiple media,…

Lockerbie Reflections

Thursday, October 10, 2013, By News Staff

When people first hear of Lockerbie, Scotland they learn about the tragedy that is Pan Am Flight 103. But a visit to the quiet, humble and welcoming town opens new insights to its beauty and its residents.

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K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series, this week featuring Hope Jahren

Wednesday, October 9, 2013, By News Staff

The Department of Earth Sciences is pleased to announce a lecture by Hope Jahren, from the School of Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Hawai’i: “The Effect of Elevated pCO2 on C3 Plants through Geologic Time,” Thursday, Oct….

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Lunchtime Lecture: America’s Calling

Tuesday, October 8, 2013, By News Staff

Please join David Prince, Curator of Collections at the SUArt Galleries, on Wednesday, Oct 9, at 12:15 p.m. as he highlights specific artists in “America’s Calling,”an exhibition of 16 works by 15 foreign-born artists who were drawn to the United…

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SU Alumna Offers Reflection on Pan Am 103 Friday

Tuesday, October 8, 2013, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Public relations professional Jennie Donohue ’90 will visit the Newhouse School on Friday, Oct. 11, as part of Syracuse University’s Remembrance Week. She will discuss “Putting a Human Face on Crisis Communication: Personal Reflections on the Bombing of Pan Am…

Arts & Culture

XL Projects to Present Sculpture Exhibition ‘FULL’

Tuesday, October 8, 2013, By Erica Blust

“FULL,” an exhibition of work by undergraduate sculpture students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) Department of Art, will be held Oct. 9-Nov. 3 at XL Projects, 307–313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse. The show is free and…

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Protect Yourself from Phishing. Don’t Take the Bait!

Monday, October 7, 2013, By Christopher C. Finkle

SU’s observance of National Cyber Security Awareness Month focuses on the most challenging and widespread information security issues. Among the most pervasive and powerful threats is phishing, a method of attack that uses human nature to victimize people by getting…

Arts & Culture

Sternlicht to Lecture on Singer

Monday, October 7, 2013, By News Staff

Sanford Sternlicht G’62, professor of English in The College of Arts and Sciences, will present a lecture on the life and times of Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer at 10 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 13, at Temple Adath Yeshurun….

Arts & Culture

Etgar Keret Presents Raymond Carver Lecture Oct. 9

Monday, September 30, 2013, By Renée K. Gadoua

Etgar Keret, the popular Israeli writer and filmmaker, will present this semester’s second Raymond Carver Reading Series at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, in Gifford Auditorium. A question-and-answer session will precede the reading from 3:45-4:30 p.m. The event is free…