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Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection

Wednesday, March 11, 2015, By Jessica Posner

Light Work will present “Perspective: Selections from the Light Work Collection” from March 17-July 31 in the Light Work Hallway Gallery. The exhibition features recent acquisitions from 2013 Light Work Artists-in-Residence. As photographers, the selected artists employ perspective as an…

Arts & Culture

Organist Andrew Henderson to Perform March 17

Tuesday, March 10, 2015, By Erica Blust

Andrew Elliot Henderson, director of music and organist at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church (MAPC) in New York City, will present an organ recital on Tuesday, March 17, at 8 p.m. on the historic Holtkamp organ in the Rose and Jules…

Campus & Community

A New Software Tool for the University to Support Reading and Writing

Monday, March 9, 2015, By Christopher C. Finkle

Information Technology and Services (ITS), working with student, faculty and staff support units, has announced the availability of TextHelp’s Read&Write Gold. All active Syracuse University students, faculty and staff can download and install the customizable toolbar that integrates with common…

Campus & Community

Humanities Center Continues Spring Symposia with Lecture on March 4

Thursday, February 26, 2015, By Sarah Scalese

Gesa E. Kirsch, professor of English and director of the Valente Center for Arts and Sciences at Bentley University, will deliver a public lecture titled “The Power of Social Networks: Rhetorical Agency and Civic Activism among 19th-Century Women Physicians” on…

Campus & Community

Former Amazon Chief Scientist Andreas Weigend to Give Next University Lecture

Thursday, February 26, 2015, By Kevin Morrow

Andreas Weigend, former chief scientist at Amazon and founder of Social Data Lab, is the next speaker in the 2014-15 University Lectures series. His presentation, “We Are Our Data: Harnessing the Power of Social Data,” is Tuesday, March 3, at…

STEM

Mathematics Department on Hot Streak

Wednesday, February 25, 2015, By Rob Enslin

The Department of Mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences has the formula for success. Uday Banerjee, professor and chair of mathematics, says that nearly a third of his faculty have received major grant awards or international speaking invitations…

Arts & Culture

Electronic Media Communications up for More Emmy Awards

Wednesday, February 11, 2015, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s Electronic Media Communications (EMC) has received three Emmy nominations from the New York chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS). Documentaries “The Book of Saunders” and “Frank Langella: An Actor’s Actor” each received a…

Arts & Culture

Three Seniors Named YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund Scholars

Monday, February 9, 2015, By Erica Blust

Three Syracuse University seniors have been named 2015 YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund (FSF) Scholars, an honor that includes a $5,000 scholarship. Kate Johnson, a public relations major in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications; David Kern, an advertising and…

Arts & Culture

UVP, Light Work, CFAC Present Afro-Futurist-Themed Programs

Thursday, February 5, 2015, By Jessica Posner

UVP, parent organization Light Work, and the Community Folk Art Center (CFAC) have announced several interrelated, afro-futurist-themed events and exhibitions through March, on the occasion of UVP’s year-long curatorial program “Celestial Navigation: a year into the afro future.”

Campus & Community

‘Above All Else’ Screening and Q&A with Director John Fiege

Tuesday, February 3, 2015, By News Staff

Students of Sustainability (SOS) and the geography department will co-host a screening of the award-winning documentary “Above All Else” on Feb. 10 at 7 p.m. in Grant Auditorium. The free event will be followed by a Q&A session with its…