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Getting to know Carrie Grogan Abbott

Saturday, August 25, 2012, By News Staff

This past July, while many on campus were enjoying the slower pace of summer, or taking long-anticipated vacations, Carrie Grogan Abbott, director of First-Year and Transfer Programs, was at her desk making dozens of phone calls, sending emails and coordinating countless logistics for one of the University’s biggest events of the year: Syracuse Welcome.

Campus & Community

‘The Creative Climate,’ eco graphics workshop

Friday, August 24, 2012, By News Staff

All students are welcome in CLB/SOL 400, “The Creative Climate,” a new 1-credit workshop to develop graphic materials about the climate crisis. No experience necessary. Design and produce posters and other materials to promote climate literacy and awareness. Posters will…

Campus & Community

Fall learn-to-skate

Friday, August 24, 2012, By News Staff

Fall LTS is an 8-week program that runs on Saturday mornings. It will start on Sept. 22. It is open to SU students, faculty, staff, alumni and dependents of all ages and abilities. Classes are held at Tennity Ice Pavilion…

Health & Society

New study finds female athletes rarely used as ad spokespeople

Friday, August 24, 2012, By Michele Barrett

As athletes and fans celebrated new world records, international milestones and personal bests during the 2012 London Olympic Games, one story that repeated itself was the prominent role female athletes played in fueling U.S. Olympic success and medal count. The…

Arts & Culture

Actor, author Taye Diggs to receive Distinguished Alumnus Award from SU Alumni Club of Southern California

Friday, August 24, 2012, By News Staff

Award-winning actor and author Taye Diggs ’93, a drama alumnus of Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), is being honored by the Syracuse University Alumni Club of Southern California (SUACSC) on Oct. 20. Diggs was chosen by…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Friday, August 24

Friday, August 24, 2012, By News Staff

News coverage of SU’s Opening Week and Syracuse Welcome included the Post-Standard and 9WYSR. 9WSYR also featured a special piece on Tami Henry ‘88, who was moving her daughter, Taylor, into Ernie Davis Hall. Tami was best friends with Miriam Luby Wolfe, who died on Pan Am Flight 103.

Arts & Culture

Fall 2012 Raymond Carver Reading Series opens with poet Roger Fanning

Thursday, August 23, 2012, By News Staff

Roger Fanning, a Whiting Writers’ Award winner, will open the Fall 2012 Raymond Carver Reading Series at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12, in Gifford Auditorium. The reading will be preceded by a question-and-answer session from 3:45-4:30 p.m. The event is…

Arts & Culture

Fashions from Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection to be exhibited at Stickley’s Craftsman Farms

Thursday, August 23, 2012, By Erica Blust

A new exhibition featuring fashions from Syracuse University’s Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection will allow visitors to Gustav Stickley’s Craftsman Farms in New Jersey to view the human form in the home as it may have looked from 1911-13 when the Gustav Stickley family was in residence.

Media, Law & Policy

Mindset, Happiness and Law School

Wednesday, August 22, 2012, By Kathleen Haley

Law professor Peter H. Huang found out about the pressures of academic life at a young age. He was 14 when he enrolled at Princeton, and began Ph.D. studies in mathematics just three years later. His mother, who he affectionately…

Horvath joins SU Abroad as marketing and communications manager

Wednesday, August 22, 2012, By News Staff

Jennifer Horvath has joined Syracuse University Abroad as marketing and communications manager, effective Sept. 4. Horvath most recently held the position of public information officer at SU’s Department of Public Safety. HorvathIn her new role at SU Abroad, Horvath will…