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iSchool Launches New Center for Computational and Data Sciences

Tuesday, September 29, 2015, By Diane Stirling

A new research center has launched at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) that aims to provide a focal point for advancing data science and human language technologies, especially in the context of social science scholarship. Announced at the school’s…

Campus & Community

Lecture by Renowned Disability Scholar, Author Lennard J. Davis

Tuesday, September 29, 2015, By Sarah Scalese

The most sweeping civil rights legislation in U.S. history and a model for disability-based laws around the globe is the subject of a special lecture, hosted by the Renée Crown University Honors Program in the  College of Arts and Sciences….

Campus & Community

The Implications of Finding Water on Mars: Q&A with Professor W. Henry Lambright

Tuesday, September 29, 2015, By Kathleen Haley

Is there life on Mars? New research findings by NASA released Monday show the presence of water and raise the possibility that life could exist in some form on the Red Planet.

Arts & Culture

UVP Highlights Special Indoor Screening of ‘Leviathan’ with Filmmaker in Person

Monday, September 28, 2015, By Anneka Herre

Urban Video Project (UVP) and parent organization Light Work, in collaboration with the Syracuse International Film Festival and the Everson Museum of Art, have announced a special indoor screening of “Leviathan” by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel of Harvard’s Sensory…

Arts & Culture

Architecture to Meet Prospective Students in Taipei, Shanghai

Monday, September 28, 2015, By Elaine Wackerow

The School of Architecture has initiated an expanded effort to reach out to prospective students across the globe. This fall, representatives from the school will travel to Taipei and Shanghai to meet with prospective students interested in studying architecture at…

Campus & Community

Evacuation Drills Scheduled

Friday, September 25, 2015, By News Staff

Fire and Life Safety Services (FLSS) will conduct the fall 2015 evacuation drills in academic and administrative buildings from Oct. 5-9. The building drills will be conducted in the morning between 9:30- 11:30 a.m. or in the afternoon/evening between 1:30-9…

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…

Arts & Culture

Samba Laranja Joins Rusted Root Musician for Interactive Drumming Performance

Thursday, September 24, 2015, By Erica Blust

Samba Laranja: the Syracuse University Brazilian Ensemble will participate in an interactive drumming performance with Jim Donovan, an award-winning educator, author and musician from the band Rusted Root on Friday, Sept. 25, at 7 p.m. at Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church,…

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…