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Campus & Community

Department of African American Studies 2011 Awards Ceremony

Thursday, May 5, 2011, By News Staff

Jonathan Thomas Boll & Janan P. Wyatt – awarded the Angela Davis/ Walter Rodney Award to the AAS Minor with the highest academic average in the AAS minor.

Arts & Culture

‘Many Faiths One Humanity’ participants to share contemplative videos April 25

Thursday, April 21, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

In March, a diverse group of 11 Syracuse University students—Buddhist, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Pagan, undecided and hyphenated combinations thereof—traveled to London for “Many Faiths, One Humanity,” an interfaith study experience and experiment in religious pluralism. Interlaced among the experiences were…

Arts & Culture

SU Showcase to present Big Tree concert April 27

Thursday, April 21, 2011, By News Staff

The indie pop band Big Tree will play at Syracuse University’s Jabberwocky Café in the Schine Student Center at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 27. This free, general admission concert is part of a weeklong schedule of events leading up to SU…

Six honored with Women of Distinction Award

Thursday, April 14, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Six women were honored by Syracuse University’s Division of Student Affairs on March 24 with the 2011 Women of Distinction Awards. The ceremony was held in the Goldstein Alumni and Faculty Center, and the keynote address was given by Jackie…

Ray von Dran Awards provide $70,000 to SU student startups at Emerging Talk

Monday, April 11, 2011, By News Staff

Twelve Syracuse University student startups won a combined $70,000 in seed funding at the second annual Emerging Talk conference on April 1 at the AXA Towers, Syracuse.  Student companies pitched to panels of judges composed of alumni, entrepreneurs and faculty…

Local minority business owner Juanita Bass is WISE Women’s Business Center success story

Friday, April 8, 2011, By News Staff

Juanita Bass of Juanita’s Soul Classics Inc., located in Frankfort, N.Y., is a minority-owned, local business success story that has emerged through the ongoing efforts of  WISE (Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship) Women’s Business Center. WISE is an entrepreneurship…

Campus & Community

Setnor School of Music graduate students to present recitals April 9 and 10

Wednesday, April 6, 2011, By News Staff

Two graduate students in the in the Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts will present recitals.

SU visiting professor explores art, nature, gender in Renaissance Italy April 6

Tuesday, March 29, 2011, By Rob Enslin

Mary Garrard, a nationally renowned feminist art historian, will come to Syracuse University in April as the William Fleming Visiting Professor in Art History. In this capacity, Garrard will deliver the 2011 Doris Lecture, “Art Versus Nature: A Renaissance Competition…

VPA’s Sandra Kahn Alpert Visiting Artist to lecture April 12

Tuesday, March 29, 2011, By Erica Blust

Stephen Talasnik, the inaugural Sandra Kahn Alpert Visiting Artist in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), will present a lecture on Tuesday, April 12, at 6:30 p.m. in Shemin Auditorium in the Dorothea Ilgen Shaffer Art Building….

LGBT advocate, author Jimmy Creech will discuss his journey April 7-8

Monday, March 28, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Jimmy Creech, a civil rights activist, author and former United Methodist pastor who was defrocked for performing a same-sex wedding, will visit Syracuse April 7-8 for a series of events titled “Free to Love Without Fear: Defying the Church’s Persecution…