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Arts & Culture

‘Chinglish’ Performs Feb. 26-March 16 at Syracuse Stage

Thursday, February 20, 2014, By News Staff

“Chinglish” is Tony Award-Winning playwright David Henry Hwang’s hilarious new comedy about the misadventures of miscommunication. It tells the story of an American businessman, Daniel Cavanaugh, who travels to a bustling Chinese province looking to score a lucrative contract in…

Arts & Culture

Two Former Slaves, Confederate Soldier Untangle Past in ‘The Whipping Man’

Tuesday, January 21, 2014, By News Staff

Richmond, April, 1865. The Civil War has ended and Caleb DeLeon, a badly wounded Confederate soldier, stumbles into the ruin of what was once his home. His family has fled the city’s destruction, leaving two former slaves, Simon and John,…

Arts & Culture

VPA Students Exhibit Work at Leeds College of Art in England

Tuesday, October 22, 2013, By Erica Blust

Eight undergraduate and graduate students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) are exhibiting work in the show “Common Language” at Leeds College of Art, one of the United Kingdom’s leading independent art schools. The exhibition, which is…

Business & Economy

Student Entrepreneurs Launch App That Connects Users On Single Social Platform

Wednesday, September 11, 2013, By Lindsay Wickham

  ConnectNow, an application enabling users to grow their personal networks, is co-founded and operated by Serge Efap ’14  and co-founders Justin Oh ’13  and Benjamin Honig ’15, all from Syracuse University. A fourth co-founder, Joseph Sorrentino, is a recent…

University Acquires Wainhouse Archive, Marquis de Sade’s English Translator

Tuesday, August 20, 2013, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center has acquired the archive of American translator and National Book Award winner Austryn Wainhouse. Wainhouse is best known for his complete and uncensored English translations of the Marquis de Sade’s 1791 novel “Justine”…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage Will Produce David Henry Hwang’s ‘Chinglish’ in 2014

Friday, April 5, 2013, By News Staff

“Chinglish,” a hilarious new comedy about the misadventures of miscommunication by Tony Award-winning writer David Henry Hwang (“M. Butterfly”), will run Feb. 26 through March 16, 2014, in the Archbold Theatre at Syracuse Stage. An American businessman arrives in a…

Media, Law & Policy

Singleton to Receive Archaeology Award

Thursday, January 31, 2013, By News Staff

Theresa Singleton, associate professor of anthropology in the Maxwell School, has been selected to receive the 2014 J.C. Harrington Award from the Society for Historical Archaeology.  The award, established in 1981, is the highest honor that the organization bestows and…

Arts & Culture

English Professor George Saunders featured in New York Times

Monday, January 7, 2013, By Keith Kobland

George Saunders is receiving some noteworthy attention on the heels of his new book, “Tenth of December.”

Veterans

IVMF holds first international expansion of boots to business in England

Monday, December 3, 2012, By News Staff

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University (IVMF) held the first international expansion of its program, Operation Boots to Business: From Service to Startup,recently at Mildenhall Royal Air Force Base, England. The program, launched this fall in collaboration with the U.S. Small Business…

Arts & Culture

Director of English Language Institute wins International Educator Award

Thursday, November 15, 2012, By Eileen Jevis

Geraldine de Berly,  senior associate dean and director of the English Language Institute at University College, was selected unanimously by the board of directors of the International Center of Syracuse to receive its International Educator Award.  The award was presented…