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Social Work Students Explore Corrections, Mental Health System

Wednesday, October 23, 2013, By Michele Barrett

Jails and prisons have become the nation’s largest psychiatric institutions, especially for low-income persons and persons of color. The National Sheriffs’ Association reports that in virtually every county across the country, county jails hold more people with severe psychiatric illness…

STEM

Nicholson to Lead Session on Transformative Games

Monday, October 21, 2013, By J.D. Ross

School of Information Studies (iSchool) faculty member Scott Nicholson will lead a session on transformative games at a meeting of the New York State Senate Select Committee on Science, Technology, Incubation and Entrepreneurship at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) tomorrow….

Campus & Community

Wednesday is Campus Sustainability Day

Monday, October 21, 2013, By News Staff

SU is planning various events to raise sustainability awareness on campus.

Arts & Culture

Common Differences

Thursday, October 17, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

Professor Chandra Talpade Mohanty was a graduate student at the University of Illinois in 1983 when she and her colleague, Ann Russo, developed the idea for an international women’s conference on feminist perspectives from the Global South and North. It marked the start of her scholarly life in social justice.

Campus & Community

Remembrance Week Ceremony Marks 25th Anniversary of “The Darkest Day”

Wednesday, October 16, 2013, By Keith Kobland

Remembrance Ceremony at Syracuse University from Syracuse University News on Vimeo. Here’s a transcript of our story: “One by one, remembrance scholars stepped forward to pledge to act forward in memory of the people killed aboard Pan Am 103 twenty-five…

A Journal of Imagining America

Wednesday, October 16, 2013, By Jamie Haft

The first issue of Public: A Journal of Imagining America, foregrounding the arts, humanities, and design in public life, launched October 5 with a double-issue focusing on the linked fates and futures of universities and their surrounding communities.

Business & Economy

Eat to Live Food Co-op Opens on South Side

Tuesday, October 15, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Several years in the making, the urban food cooperative offers fresh and affordable food in an area of Syracuse that until now has had few other nutritious options.

STEM

Women in STEM Discussion Is Oct. 18

Monday, October 14, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

SU Advance will present Joan Bennett of Rutgers University in its next Conversations on Equity and Excellence series on Friday, Oct. 18, at 10 a.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 114 Bird Library. Bennett’s talk, “Science, Sex Chromosomes and…

Arts & Culture

Poet Baker to Speak at Oct. 16 Raymond Carver Series Event

Friday, October 11, 2013, By Renée K. Gadoua

The poet David Baker is the next speaker in this semester’s Raymond Carver Reading Series at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16, in Gifford Auditorium. A question-and-answer session will precede the reading from 3:45-4:30 p.m. The event is free and open…

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.