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Arts & Culture

Carver Series Presents Renowned Poet Tom Sleigh Sept. 30

Friday, September 25, 2015, By Rob Enslin

The Raymond Carver Reading Series in the College of Arts and Sciences continues with a reading by acclaimed poet, essayist and dramatist Tom Sleigh. On Wednesday, Sept. 30, Sleigh, who is this semester’s Leonard and Elise Elman Visiting Writer, will…

Campus & Community

Unsung Hero Awards Nominations Sought

Friday, September 25, 2015, By News Staff

Do you know individuals in the Central New York community who have made a positive difference in the lives of others, but who are not widely recognized for their efforts? Syracuse University is seeking nominations for the 2016 Martin Luther…

Campus & Community

Libraries to Host Series on Accessibility in Museums, Libraries

Friday, September 25, 2015, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

The Syracuse University Libraries will host a three-part webinar series on accessibility, organized by the American Alliance of Museums, in collaboration with the Coalition to Advance Learning in Archives, Libraries and Museums. Called Stories of Inclusion: Inclusive Practices at Cultural…

Campus & Community

Thursday Morning Roundtable Celebrates 50 Years of Civic Engagement

Friday, September 25, 2015, By Eileen Jevis

Thursday Morning Roundtable (TMR) will celebrate 50 years of service to the Central New York community at a breakfast on Wednesday, Oct. 14, at Drumlins, 800 Nottingham Road, Syracuse. Charles Blow, an op-ed columnist for the New York Times and…

Campus & Community

DPS Ranked #6 in Top 25 University Departments Contributing to Student Safety

Friday, September 25, 2015, By News Staff

The Department of Public Safety was ranked at number six in the National Campus Safety Summit’s 2015 list of Top 25 university administrative departments making a difference in student safety. The ranking came as the result of a nomination detailing…

Media, Law & Policy

Free Speech Activist Mary Beth Tinker Will Visit Newhouse Oct. 2

Friday, September 25, 2015, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Mary Beth Tinker, whose decision to wear an armband to school in 1965 led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling upholding students’ free speech rights, will visit the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Friday, Oct. 2, as a…

Arts & Culture

Alumni to Be Posthumously Honored during New York Film Festival

Thursday, September 24, 2015, By Ellen Mbuqe

The films of Albert Maysles, ’49, a pioneering documentary filmmaker who graduated from the College of Arts and Sciences, will be featured during a special tribute co-hosted by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Maysles family. Maysles, who…

Arts & Culture

SU Drama season starts Oct. 2 with ‘Kiss Me, Kate’

Thursday, September 24, 2015, By News Staff

The joys, madness and rewards of working in the theater, onstage and off, are celebrated in “Kiss Me, Kate,” a heralded musical that can be rightly called a Broadway treasure. Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare, “Kiss Me, Kate” follows the…

Media, Law & Policy

Prospective Law Students Invited to Participate in Law Week 2015

Wednesday, September 23, 2015, By Sarah Scalese

In the 2012-2013 academic year, more than 139,000 students were enrolled in roughly 200 U.S. law schools, according to a report issued by the Wall Street Journal. Fierce competition at the nation’s top schools remains a concern among applicants, which…

STEM

Scholar Spotlight: Kenneth Buckner ’19

Wednesday, September 23, 2015, By Cyndi Moritz

Atlanta Word Works, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing writing and spoken word poetry to young people in Atlanta, recently named Kenneth Buckner, an outstanding 2015 graduate of the city’s Holy Innocents high school, as its first Youth Poet Laureate. Buckner…