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‘Dark Girls: The Story of Color, Gender and Race’
Documentary to be screened March 21 “Dark Girls: The Story of Color, Gender and Race” will be screened at 6 p.m. March 21 in Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3. The screening will be followed by a discussion, featuring the film’s co-director…
iSchool Joins Program to Bring More Women into Technology, Computing
The School of Information Studies (iSchool) joined the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Pacesetters program Feb. 26 at a kick-off ceremony in Santa Cruz, Calif. NCWIT’s Pacesetters is a fast-track program that seeks to radically increase the…
German Author and Scholar Present Joint Reading on Holocaust Memories in Literature March 6
Susanna Piontek and Guy Stern will examine translation and fictionalization of actual memories The literary representation of Holocaust memories will be the subject of a presentation by the husband-and-wife team of Susanna Piontek and Guy Stern in Syracuse University’s College…
GET Speaker Series: Technology Trends and Leadership
The Global Enterprise Technology program would like to invite you to join us for our first speaker of the semester: “Technology Trends and Leadership” featuring Lisa Schreiber, vice president for Support Account Management at Oracle Corporation, USA, and Fred Vona,…
Singleton to Receive Archaeology Award
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…
Getting to Know: Cultural anthropologist Cecilia Van Hollen
While studying the lives of women living with HIV in South Asia, Maxwell School associate professor Cecilia Van Hollen recalls speaking with a young mother in Tamil Nadu, the southeastern state in India. “When neighbors ask me why I am…
Hydrologist named fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science
Donald Siegel, professor of Earth Sciences in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, is one of the nation’s most well known, respected and admired hydrologists. His discoveries that much of the world’s potable groundwater found deeper than 600 feet…
iSchool’s It Girls Retreat shows high school girls possibility of careers in technology
It’s Monday afternoon, Nov. 12, and the main hallway of the iSchool is filled with unusual activity—approximately 92 high school girls from across the country, along with several of their parents, are getting ready to showcase their final projects as…
Biology’s circle of life
Nature is all about cycles—the circle of life. Likewise, the history of the Department of Biology in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences could be summed up in terms of life cycles. That cycle, which began 140 years ago,…
True Colors workshop will help students understand themselves and others
Syracuse University Career Services, within the Division of Student Affairs, will host a special True Colors workshop for juniors and seniors in Hall of Languages, Room 102, on Friday, Nov. 2, from noon–3 p.m. This hands-on, interactive workshop will help students…