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Take a Musical Journey to the South in ‘Violet’

Monday, April 8, 2013, By News Staff

Violet Karl has lived in her “stupid” town of Spruce Pine, N.C., her entire life, and she’s ready for a change. Bearing a facial scar accidentally left by her father at a young age, Violet sets off on a bus…

University Students, Community Members Collaborate for Anti-Bullying Conference

Monday, April 8, 2013, By News Staff

The second annual Life Gets Better Together conference for LGBTQ youth advocacy will take place on Saturday, April 13, at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Founded in 2012 by Syracuse University students, the conference seeks to educate the…

Initial MOOC Offering Results in Positive Participation Outcomes

Monday, April 8, 2013, By Diane Stirling

The first open online course offered at Syracuse University has concluded with positive outcomes for its host, the School of Information Studies (iSchool), and for its hundreds of student participants. In addition, the excitement generated by the February trial is…

Princeton Scholar to Explore Link Between Poetry and Art

Friday, April 5, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Leonard Barkan analyzes works by Caravaggio, Michelangelo and Shakespeare The relationship between poetry and visual art is the subject of a lecture by Leonard Barkan, a Princeton University professor and an expert on European culture, on Thursday, April 18, at…

New Course Will Help Students Build Concrete Skills in Community Organizing

Wednesday, April 3, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

A new course in the fall 2013 semester will teach students key skills of organizing by leading a community engagement project on campus. “Community Organizing: People, Power and Change” (SWK 400/CFE 400) will meet on Wednesdays from 2:15-5 p.m., and…

Survey Will Gauge Interest in Downtown Housing among Graduate Students, Faculty

Wednesday, April 3, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The James D. Kuhn Real Estate Center in Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management and UPSTATE: A Center for Design, Research and Real Estate is inviting Syracuse University and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry graduate students and faculty…

YouTube Sensations to Perform Friday at Jabberwocky

Wednesday, April 3, 2013, By News Staff

On Friday, April 5, three of YouTube’s most popular singer-songwriters are joining forces and performing together at Syracuse University. SUTUBE brings together Kara Della Valle, Grace Doty and Heather Janssen for a concert event in Jabberwocky Café (in Schine Student…

International Exchange: Cultivating Fulbright Students

Tuesday, April 2, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

Third-year Ph.D. anthropology student Stephen Johnson returned from India last summer knowing that he hadn’t fully explored all of his questions for his Ph.D. topic on the relationship between Tibetan refugees and Indian communities.

Now he has another opportunity—and a prestigious, international distinction that has made it possible.

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage Announces 2013 Production of ‘A Christmas Carol’

Monday, April 1, 2013, By News Staff

The beloved holiday classic “A Christmas Carol” returns to Central New York after a seven-year absence in an all-new adaptation and production from director Peter Amster (“Moby Dick,” “The 39 Steps,” “This Wonderful Life,” “The Fantasticks”). “He was a tightfisted…

Setnor School of Music’s Baker Artists Program to Provide New Opportunities for On- and Off-Campus Learning

Monday, April 1, 2013, By Erica Blust

A new program in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music will create more opportunities for students to learn from and connect with music professionals both on and off campus. The Baker Artists Program will allow…