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STEM

Addressing the challenge of persister cells in bacterial infections

Tuesday, September 13, 2011, By News Staff

How antimicrobial peptides may offer an answer to challenging problem Dacheng Ren, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering in Syracuse University’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (LCS) and member of the Syracuse Biomaterials…

Arts & Culture

Menkin film nominated for best documentary at Israeli Academy Awards

Friday, September 2, 2011, By News Staff

“Dolphin Boy,” the most recent film by Israeli writer/director/producer Dani Menkin, has been nominated for Best Documentary at the Ophir Awards, Israel’s equivalent of the American Academy Awards. Menkin wrote and directed the film together with Yonatan Nir. It tells…

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,…

Arts & Culture

Composer Phillip Rothman to perform original score for D.W. Griffith’s silent film ‘Way Down East’

Thursday, August 25, 2011, By KC Duggan

The Syracuse International Film Festival has commissioned composer Phillip Rothman to write a score for the 1920 D.W. Griffith silent film “Way Down East.” Rothman will debut the original composition, scored for eight musicians, with the film screening Oct. 14…

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…

Shapiro, SU film professor and SYRFILMFEST artistic director, wins cinema award in Italy

Tuesday, August 16, 2011, By News Staff

While in Italy for SU Abroad’s new program in Cinema Studies & Filmmaking, Owen Shapiro was presented with the Mario Dall’Argine Award in recognition of his efforts to promote culture through the art of cinema.

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Thursday, July 28

Thursday, July 28, 2011, By News Staff

Whitman School noted by FIN Alternatives as a top undergraduate feeder school to the U.S. alternative investment industry

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Friday, July 22

Friday, July 22, 2011, By News Staff

Wall Street Journal quotes Maxwell School’s Mark Monmonier on historical use of racial text in topographic maps

Arts & Culture

Syracuse University to celebrate Syracuse Stories: An All Arts Festival

Monday, July 18, 2011, By News Staff

Festival to be held during Syracuse ArtsWeek, July 25-31 Syracuse Stories: An All Arts Festival, part of the community-based initiative Art Across Borders, is a communitywide storytelling festival modeled on the International Literary Festival of Paraty, Brazil (FLIP).  Syracuse Stories…

Arts & Culture

2011 South Side Film Festival continues July 15

Tuesday, July 12, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The Syracuse University South Side Initiative and the Southside Community Coalition are sponsoring the fifth annual South Side Film Festival this month. Other sponsors of the event include KeyBank and Visual Technologies. A film will be shown each Friday, July…