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New book focuses on policing in Syracuse’s Near Westside neighborhood

Thursday, February 2, 2012, By News Staff

Book was edited by SU graduate student The Gifford Street Community Press will celebrate the publication of its second book, “I Witness: Perspectives on Policing in the Near Westside,” from 5:30-7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, at La Casita Cultural Center,…

New track in speech-language graduate program focuses on high-needs preschoolers

Wednesday, December 7, 2011, By News Staff

$1.25 million federal Department of Education grant will support initiative Last year, more than 700,000 preschoolers were eligible for services under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA); 46 percent of those children were identified with speech or language…

‘Blue Gold’ documentary screening to be held Nov. 10

Friday, November 4, 2011, By News Staff

The Syracuse University Sustainability Division will host a “zero-waste” showing of the award-winning documentary film “Blue Gold: World Water Wars,” on Thursday, Nov. 10, at 7 p.m. in Watson Theater in the Menschel Media Center. Admission is free and open…

Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Pierre Sauvage to visit Syracuse University, Nov. 13-14

Monday, October 31, 2011, By Jennifer Russo

The Syracuse University Regional Holocaust and Genocide Initiative will host a series of events featuring Pierre Sauvage on Sunday and Monday, Nov. 13 and 14. Sauvage survived the Holocaust as a child; his parents are also Holocaust survivors. He is…

Campus & Community

Invisible Children to present the documentary ‘Tony’ about 25-year Central African conflict

Tuesday, October 25, 2011, By Jennifer Russo

Invisible Children, a media-based nonprofit dedicated to ending Africa’s longest-running war, will screen its latest documentary, ‘Tony,’ on Thursday, Nov. 3, at 6:30 p.m. in Watson Theater. Following the 50-minute documentary, Grace, a native of Uganda and an ambassador for…

Arts & Culture

Black Power movement is focus for African American Studies colloquium

Tuesday, October 18, 2011, By News Staff

“Bloody Lowndes and the Politics of Black Power” is the topic for the opening event of the Fall 2011 Colloquium Series presented by the Department of African American Studies in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Civil rights scholar…

Students to document life in Liverpool as part of annual multimedia workshop sponsored by Newhouse School

Tuesday, October 11, 2011, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Some 50 multimedia (photography, video, audio and writing) students from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will turn their attention to the local town of Liverpool, N.Y. this month, spending the weekend of Oct. 13-16 getting to know the community…

Campus & Community

New University center will focus resources on public health promotion

Monday, October 3, 2011, By News Staff

Alumnus funds Lerner Center

Campus & Community

‘Food, Inc.’ documentary screening to be held Sept. 29

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, By News Staff

The Syracuse University Sustainability Division will be showing the Academy Award nominee for best documentary feature film, “Food, Inc.,” on Sept. 29 at 8 p.m. in Watson Theater in the Menschel Media Center. Admission is free and open to the…

Campus & Community

Burton Blatt Institute sponsors screening of disability documentary at Syracuse International Film Festival

Friday, September 23, 2011, By News Staff

The Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University will sponsor a screening of “Dolphin Boy,” the award-winning documentary by Israeli director, screenwriter and producer Dani Menkin, at the 2011 Syracuse International Film Festival. “Dolphin Boy” will be shown 7 p.m. Wednesday,…