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SU Alumna Offers Reflection on Pan Am 103 Friday

Tuesday, October 8, 2013, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Public relations professional Jennie Donohue ’90 will visit the Newhouse School on Friday, Oct. 11, as part of Syracuse University’s Remembrance Week. She will discuss “Putting a Human Face on Crisis Communication: Personal Reflections on the Bombing of Pan Am…

Arts & Culture

Listening to ‘Scorched’: Women, War and Resistance

Tuesday, October 8, 2013, By Renée K. Gadoua

A panel discussion called “Listening to ‘Scorched’: Women, War and Resistance” will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, in the Arthur Storch Theatre. The discussion will follow the 3 p.m. matinee of Syracuse Stage’s production of “Scorched” by…

Arts & Culture

Sternlicht to Lecture on Singer

Monday, October 7, 2013, By News Staff

Sanford Sternlicht G’62, professor of English in The College of Arts and Sciences, will present a lecture on the life and times of Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer at 10 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 13, at Temple Adath Yeshurun….

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The Art of Listening: A Reading by Two Poets

Monday, October 7, 2013, By Georgia Popoff

On Thursday, Oct. 24, the YMCA’s Downtown Writers Center offers its third annual reading as a component of Syracuse Symposium, featuring two internationally acclaimed poets—Ilya Kaminsky and Stephen Kuusisto (one hearing-impaired, the other blind). They will read work from their…

Campus & Community

‘Our Mental Health Service Delivery System’ at Oct. 10 TMR

Monday, October 7, 2013, By Eileen Jevis

The Oct. 10 session of Thursday Morning Roundtable will feature Robert Long, commissioner of Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, Mark Cattalani, clinical director at Hutchings Psychiatric Center, Robert Gregory, professor and interim chair of Psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical…

Arts & Culture

University Honored with Prestigious Civic Engagement Award

Monday, October 7, 2013, By News Staff

Syracuse University is among just five colleges and universities in the nation, chosen from more than 100 nominations, to share in the 2013 Higher Education Civic Engagement Awards presented by The Washington Center and the New York Life Foundation.

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Remembrance Week Activities Announced

Monday, October 7, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University’s Remembrance Week 2013 is being held on the SU campus Oct. 6-12. The weeklong series of events honors the 270 people—including 35 students studying abroad through Syracuse University—who lost their lives in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988.

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Challenge Course Opens on South Campus

Friday, October 4, 2013, By News Staff

The challenge course is not only open to SU students, faculty, and staff, but to the surrounding community as well. It was designed to support groups, as well as individuals, in working together at accomplishing the various challenges presented in the course.

Arts & Culture

Symposium Explores Use of Digital Games by Human Rights Activists

Thursday, October 3, 2013, By News Staff

The Digital Witness Symposium invites cutting-edge mediamakers, programmers and scholars to discuss how the changing digital ecology is opening up new opportunities for human rights media. This year’s symposium explores how human rights activism is increasingly turning to digital games and interactive media as a strategy for engaging new audiences.

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A Conversation with George Saunders

Thursday, October 3, 2013, By News Staff

Seats are still available for Friday morning’s conversation with George Saunders, a professor in The College of Arts and Sciences and renowned author whose 2013 Convocation address recently went viral. Saunders will discuss the creative process and his teaching Friday…