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Arts & Culture

Humanities Center Announces March Lineup

Tuesday, March 1, 2016, By Rob Enslin

The Humanities Center, based in the College of Arts and Sciences, continues its spring series of lectures, workshops and performances. Special guests include former Public Enemy member Harry Allen, Spanish author and critic Laura Freixas, British-Nigerian singer and UNESCO Goodwill…

Arts & Culture

VPA’s Morris Delivers 2016 Kurt Ritter Lecture at Texas A&M

Tuesday, March 1, 2016, By Erica Blust

Charles E. Morris III, professor and chair of the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, delivered the 2016 Kurt Ritter Lecture at Texas A&M University. Established in 2009 and named after the founder of…

STEM

Chemists Combine Biology, Nanotechnology to Create Alternate Energy Source

Monday, February 29, 2016, By Rob Enslin

Chemists in the College of Arts and Sciences have made a transformational advance in an alternate lighting source—one that doesn’t require a battery or a plug.

Campus & Community

Call for Nominations for Faculty Speaker for New Student Convocation

Monday, February 29, 2016, By Shannon Andre

The New Student Convocation Planning Committee is seeking nominations for the 2016 New Student Convocation faculty speaker. The selected speaker will give the faculty address to the incoming undergraduate students during the Aug. 25 Convocation. A hallmark feature of the…

Media, Law & Policy

Q&A: Super Tuesday Showdown by the Numbers

Friday, February 26, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

Just days away from the big showdown of Super Tuesday, candidates are crisscrossing the country trying to secure delegates from among hundreds up for grabs. Shana Kushner Gadarian, assistant professor of political science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and…

SUArt Galleries Hosts Panel Discussion Featuring Five Contemporary Representational Artists March 3

Friday, February 26, 2016, By Syracuse University Art Museum

The Syracuse University Art Galleries will hold a panel discussion featuring the five artists participating in the current SUArt Galleries exhibition “Poetry of Content: Five Contemporary Representational Artists.” The discussion will be presented on Thursday, March 3, at 7 p.m….

Campus & Community

Alexander N. and Margaret Charters Establish Alexander N. Charters Library Initiative Fund

Friday, February 26, 2016, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Dean of the Libraries David Seaman has announced that Alexander N. and Margaret Charters have donated $50,000 to the Syracuse University Libraries to create the Alexander N. Charters Library Initiative Fund. The funds will be used to develop the Charters…

Media, Law & Policy

DiCaprio and ‘The Revenant’: Indigenous Wisdom and Human Survival

Friday, February 26, 2016, By News Staff

Philip Arnold, associate professor of indigenous religions in the College of Arts and Sciences, discusses Leonardo DiCaprio’s recent film “The Revenant” and the message it shares about indigenous peoples and our shared humanity. Arnold is the director of the Skä·noñh—Great…

STEM

iSchool to Host Panel Discussion Friday on Apple vs. the FBI

Wednesday, February 24, 2016, By J.D. Ross

The School of Information Studies (iSchool) will host a multidisciplinary panel discussion on Friday afternoon to help shed light on Apple’s resistance to the recent FBI demand to unlock the iPhone of one of the terrorists involved in the San…

Supervised Injection Sites for Drug Users

Wednesday, February 24, 2016, By Ellen Mbuqe

Dessa Bergen-Cico, associate professor of public health at Falk College, has researched supervised injection sites for drug users and has offered a response to plan by the mayor of Ithaca to open such a facility: The United States is experiencing…