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Arts & Culture

Digital Witness Symposium explores power of the archive for human rights media

Thursday, August 25, 2011, By News Staff

Following its successful inauguration at last year’s Illuminating Oppression: 8th Annual Human Rights Film Festival, the Digital Witness Symposium returns this year on Friday, Sept. 16, at 10 a.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3. This year’s symposium,…

SU in the News: Wednesday, August 24

Wednesday, August 24, 2011, By News Staff

Maxwell School Dean James Steinberg quoted in National Journal on Obama leadership and events in Libya

Arts & Culture

2011 Syracuse Symposium examines many facets of ‘Identity’

Wednesday, August 24, 2011, By Rob Enslin

“Identity” is the theme of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium, an annual intellectual and artistic festival on the Syracuse University campus. This fall’s festival encompasses six lectures, including one by best-selling author/philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah; four performances and readings, including the…

Campus & Community

Environmental Health Office, Safety Department to merge

Tuesday, August 23, 2011, By News Staff

The Risk Management Department has announced that effective Sept. 1, Syracuse University’s Environmental Health Office and Safety Department will merge and operate as one service unit. The new name of the combined department is Environmental Health and Safety Services Office….

Campus & Community

SU’s James Watts named Tolley Professor in Humanities

Monday, August 22, 2011, By Rob Enslin

The College of Arts and Sciences has appointed James W. Watts as the William P. Tolley Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities. An expert in literature and religion of the Hebrew Bible, Watts serves as professor and chair of the…

School supplies being collected for local K-8 classrooms

Friday, August 19, 2011, By News Staff

The Office of Residence Life holds its second annual student supply drive for K-8 classrooms in Syracuse City School District.

Media, Law & Policy

Social media expert William J. Ward, a.k.a. ‘DR4WARD,’ joins faculty of SU’s Newhouse School

Thursday, August 18, 2011, By Wendy S. Loughlin

William J. Ward joins Newhouse School at SU as professor of practice in social media, bringing “DR4WARD” leadership in new media education to campus.

Veterans

When life gives you lemons … make a lemonade stand! Whitman hosts ninth annual Entrepreneur’s Bootcamp beginning Oct. 8

Thursday, August 18, 2011, By Lindsay Wickham

When you were a kid growing up, you dreamed big. Your imagination ran wild and no idea was unattainable. As we age, we tend to lose that “entrepreneurial” spirit and the creativity that once drove us to create basement fort…

STEM

Ancient clams yield new information about greenhouse effect on climate

Thursday, August 18, 2011, By News Staff

Ancient fossilized clams that lived off the coast of Antarctica some 50 million years ago have a story to tell about El Niño, according to Syracuse University researcher Linda Ivany.

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Wednesday, August 17

Wednesday, August 17, 2011, By News Staff

White House blog highlights SU’s Institute for Veterans and Military Families