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Campus & Community

School of Architecture Senior Among Speakers at Upcoming TEDx Conference

Monday, January 27, 2020, By Julie Sharkey

After years of successful support by the iSchool, the student-run TEDx Syracuse University conference is switching to a cross-disciplinary curation model. The overarching theme for this year’s event is “A Seat at the Table” and will feature, for the first…

Campus & Community

Important Information About Coronavirus from Syracuse University Medical Director Dr. Karen Nardella

Saturday, January 25, 2020, By News Staff

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: Syracuse University is actively monitoring the developments related to the newly detected coronavirus, an illness first discovered in Wuhan City, China, that is similar to pneumonia, affecting the respiratory system. At this time, there are…

Health & Society

Coronavirus and Chinese New Year Celebrations – What To Expect

Friday, January 24, 2020, By Daryl Lovell

Many Chinese New Year celebrations have been banned or postponed in China’s major cities as officials do everything they can to contain the ongoing coronavirus scare. This week authorities implemented travel restrictions to quarantine roughly 25 million people. Gareth Fisher…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Architecture Announces Spring 2020 Visiting Critics

Thursday, January 23, 2020, By Julie Sharkey

Each semester, upper-level architecture students participate in the visiting critic program that brings leading architects and scholars from around the world to the School. Five studios will be held this spring. Benjamin Vanmuysen (Boghosian Fellow 2019–2020) Benjamin Vanmuysen will teach…

STEM

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Student Xinyi Zhou Selected as First Recipient of the Pramod K. and Anju Varshney Endowed Graduate Scholarship

Tuesday, January 21, 2020, By Alex Dunbar

Computer and information science Ph.D. candidate Xinyi Zhou was selected as the first recipient of the Pramod K. and Anju Varshney Endowed Graduate Scholarship. Zhou’s research covers machine learning, data (text and graph) mining, social media mining and social computing…

Campus & Community

Campus Community Invited to Syracuse Architecture’s Lunar New Year 2020 Celebration

Monday, January 20, 2020, By Julie Sharkey

This coming weekend, a quarter of the world’s population will celebrate the Year of the Rat—the first animal of the Chinese zodiac, representing wisdom and compassion—with feasts, gift-giving and good wishes. Lunar New Year, the longest and among the most…

Arts & Culture

‘Black Subjects in Modern Media Photography’ Examines Complexity and Paradoxes of Black Visual Modernity

Friday, January 17, 2020, By Syracuse University Art Museum

“Black Subjects in Modern Media Photography: Works from the George R. Rinhart Collection” is on display through March 13 at the Syracuse University Art Galleries in the Shaffer Art Building. The exhibition of 145 photographic images includes work by news…

Veterans

Haynie and Armstrong Selected Among Nation’s Top Veteran Influencers

Thursday, January 16, 2020, By Leah Lazarz

Mike Haynie, vice chancellor and founder of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF), has been named to the prestigious HillVets100 list for 2019. The HillVets100 is an annual listing of the nation’s 100 most influential veterans, service members…

Campus & Community

Performances to Explore Race, Identity in Connection with Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration

Wednesday, January 15, 2020, By Kathleen Haley

The campus community is invited to three events exploring themes of race and identity through artistic presentations, providing opportunities for further reflection surrounding the 35th annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. The events are a performance by and…

Media, Law & Policy

College of Law’s Disability Law and Policy Program To Host Leading Human Rights Scholars as Part of CUSE Grant Project

Monday, January 13, 2020, By Robert Conrad

The College of Law’s Disability Law and Policy Program (DLPP), through a Syracuse University Collaboration for Unprecedented Success and Excellence (CUSE) Grant, will host a lecture series throughout 2020 on the Effectiveness of Human Rights Treaties. The speakers include: Catalina…