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Five distinguished alumni to be honored with Arents Awards

Thursday, September 17, 2009, By News Staff

Jaime Winne Alvarez(315) 443-3784 Five distinguished Syracuse University alumni representing excellence in the areas of civil liberties and women’s rights, international business and law, the performing arts, social activism and literature will be honored with George Arents Awards during the…

Campus & Community

Five distinguished alumni to be honored with Arents Awards

Thursday, September 17, 2009, By News Staff

Arents Awards are the University’s highest alumni honor.

Prolific writer, SU alumna Joyce Carol Oates ’60, H’00, to deliver lecture as part of Orange Central celebration Oct. 2

Tuesday, September 15, 2009, By News Staff

Prolific writer, SU alumna Joyce Carol Oates ’60, H’00, will deliver a lecture as part of the University’s new Orange Central celebration on Friday, Oct. 2, at 10 a.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3. Oates will offer readings and commentary, followed by a Q&A session. The event is free and open to the public; no tickets are required.

Arts & Culture

Lecture on 19th-century Luminism part of Syracuse Symposium, Homer exhibition

Thursday, September 3, 2009, By Rob Enslin

Alan Wallach, American art scholar at the College of William & Mary, is speaking at SU on Sept. 24.

Blanck to argue asylum and disability case before U.S. Court of Appeals

Thursday, July 30, 2009, By News Staff

Me’Shae Brooks-Rolling(315) 443-8455 Peter Blanck, University Professor and chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, will argue before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans on Aug. 3. The case, Kornennkova v….

BBI Chair and University Professor Peter Blanck to argue asylum and disability case before U.S. Court of Appeals

Thursday, July 30, 2009, By News Staff

BBI Chair and University Professor Peter Blanck to argue asylum and disability case before U.S. Court of AppealsJuly 30, 2009Me’Shae Brooks-Rollingmrolling@law.syr.edu Peter Blanck, University Professor and chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, will argue before the…

Creative Writing Program alumnus wins Africa’s top short-story prize

Monday, July 13, 2009, By News Staff

Rob Enslin(315) 443-3403 A harrowing story about a child waiting to be rescued from a refugee camp has captured the 10th annual Caine Prize for African short story writing. The author is Epaphras C. (EC) Osondu G’07, a former advertising…

SU Creative Writing Program alumnus wins Africa’s top short-story prize

Monday, July 13, 2009, By News Staff

SU Creative Writing Program alumnus wins Africa’s top short-story prizeJuly 13, 2009Rob Enslinrmenslin@syr.edu A harrowing story about a child waiting to be rescued from a refugee camp has captured the 10th annual Caine Prize for African short story writing. The…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University alumnus Rick Burton named David B. Falk Distinguished Professor of Sport Management

Monday, June 22, 2009, By News Staff

Syracuse University alumnus Rick Burton named David B. Falk Distinguished Professor of Sport ManagementJune 22, 2009Michele Barrettmibarret@syr.edu International sports marketing executive and educator Rick Burton ’80, an alumnus of Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, will bring nearly…

George Langford receives alumni award from Illinois Institute of Technology

Tuesday, May 19, 2009, By News Staff

Rob Enslin(315) 443-3403 George M. Langford, dean of Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, has received the 2009 Professional Achievement Award from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). The nationally recognized cell biologist and neuroscientist was one of 20…