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Syracuse University Journalists Receive Press Club Honors
Syracuse University was well represented among the honorees receiving awards from the Syracuse Press Club. WAER-FM, The Daily Orange, NCC, and The NewsHouse all received honors in a number of categories, including best regularly scheduled local newscast, best college print…
SU Humanities Faculty Fellow Discusses Health Activism in L.A. During 1960s, 70s
Jenna Loyd to examine health politics in context of city’s then-growing defense economy The Syracuse University Humanities Center, housed in The College of Arts and Sciences, will kick off its 2013 Faculty Fellow Lecture Series with a program on health…
Magical Mishaps, True Love Collide in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
In Shakespeare’s hands, magic and romance and the very midsummer madness make for intoxication, enchantment and rollicking, frolicking comedy. Get on your mud boots and your donkey ears, ’cause it’s off to the woods with four eager, young lovers, a…
Report from Institute for Veterans and Military Families and Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism Argues for a National Veterans Strategy
The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) and the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT) at Syracuse University released a policy report Feb. 19 that details what the authors describe as a “historic opportunity” related to the potential…
Larry Flynt to Visit SU, Discuss ‘Fighting for the First Amendment’ on March 5
Larry Flynt, the controversial publisher of Hustler Magazine and long-time First Amendment advocate, will visit Syracuse University on Tuesday, March 5, as a guest of the Newhouse School’s Tully Center for Free Speech. He will speak on “Fighting for the…
Civil Rights Era Unsolved Murder Victim’s Family to Visit SU College of Law
As part of Black History Month observations, Syracuse University College of Law’s Cold Case Justice Initiative (CCJI) is holding a special Civil Rights Era unsolved murders program from 6‑8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25, at the College of Law, in 104…
LGBT Rights Director for Human Rights Watch to Speak at SU Feb. 25
Graeme Reid will address U.N. Human Rights Council’s controversial “traditional values” resolution The controversial resolution on “traditional values,” adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council last fall, will be the focus of a major discussion in the College of…
Statement from the IVMF on women in combat, DOD policy change
Mike Haynie, executive director and founder, Institute for Veterans and Military Families, Syracuse University: “Yesterday Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey announced the rescission of the 1994 Direct Ground Combat…
$500,000 Lockheed Martin gift to benefit IVMF programs that assist veterans, military families with post-service transition
The Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University (IVMF) has announced Lockheed Martin as an IVMF One-Star Corporate Partner. The company’s commitment of $500,000 over the next three years will benefit the institute’s hands-on programs, activities and projects…
Glorious Storytelling in August Wilson’s Politically Potent, Humorous ‘Two Trains Running’
In “Two Trains Running,” an optimistic ex-con enters the insular confines of Memphis Lee’s diner and awakens a cast of older and skeptical characters to the possibilities of a new era. Set in the turbulence of 1969, a time much like today, “Two Trains Running” is one of the most humorous and politically potent of Wilson’s 20th-Century Cycle plays.