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Arts & Culture

Syracuse University to celebrate Syracuse Stories: An All Arts Festival

Monday, July 18, 2011, By News Staff

Festival to be held during Syracuse ArtsWeek, July 25-31 Syracuse Stories: An All Arts Festival, part of the community-based initiative Art Across Borders, is a communitywide storytelling festival modeled on the International Literary Festival of Paraty, Brazil (FLIP).  Syracuse Stories…

Campus & Community

Graduate student shares passion for science with middle school students during Science Horizons Summer Program

Wednesday, June 22, 2011, By Eileen Jevis

When Nadia Essi was selected as the only eighth-grade student from Levy Middle School to attend a science camp at Syracuse University, she was excited to learn more about a subject she had come to love. “My fifth-grade teacher, Mrs….

Veterans

EBV-Families expands to College of Business at Florida State

Friday, June 17, 2011, By News Staff

Walmart Foundation grant supports military family job training The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans’ Families (EBV-F), an education and training program founded in 2010 and based at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, has announced its expansion to Florida…

Arts & Culture

Communication and rhetorical studies graduate students to present research at national, international conferences

Wednesday, June 8, 2011, By Erica Blust

Eight graduate students from the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts have had their research selected for presentation at several upcoming national and international conferences, including the prestigious National Communication Association (NCA)…

Campus & Community

Memorial service for John D. O’Connor planned for June 20

Tuesday, June 7, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

A memorial service for John David O’Connor will be held Monday, June 20, at 5 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. O’Connor, manager for Syracuse University Mail Services for more than 20 years, died on May 5. He was 49. O’Connor was…

Phillips named president-elect of the Rhetoric Society of America

Monday, May 9, 2011, By Erica Blust

Kendall Phillips, associate dean of research and graduate studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, and a professor of communication and rhetorical studies in its Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, has been named president-elect of the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA).

Arts & Culture

Students to debut original puppetry performance at SU Showcase

Thursday, April 28, 2011, By News Staff

A group of fifth-grade students at Van Duyn Elementary School in Syracuse recently got a crash course in sustainability while creating their original “Voices in the Wind” theater/puppetry performance, which they’ll premiere at SU Showcase on May 2. Eighteen SU…

Barkun evaluates terrorism threat in ‘Chasing Phantoms’

Wednesday, April 27, 2011, By News Staff

In his 11th book, “Chasing Phantoms: Reality, Imagination, and Homeland Security Since 9/11” (UNC Press, 2011), Professor Michael Barkun examines the huge gap that exists between the realities of the terrorism threat facing the United States and the everyday discourse about that threat among government officials and the general public.

Campus & Community

Memorial service planned for professor emeritus Arthur Evans Tashko LeGacy

Monday, April 25, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

A memorial service for professor emeritus Arthur Evans Tashko LeGacy will be held on Friday, April 29, at 4 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. LeGacy died on Nov. 3, 2010. LeGacy, professor emeritus of history in the Maxwell School of Citizenship…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse University Oratorio Society to perform Haydn’s Mass in D minor May 1

Thursday, April 21, 2011, By Erica Blust

The Syracuse University Oratorio Society, a vocal ensemble comprised of SU students and Syracuse community members, will present a concert featuring Haydn’s Mass in D minor on Sunday, May 1, at 3 p.m. at Park Central Presbyterian Church, 504 E….