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Campus & Community

New Faculty Majority President to Speak on Need for Academic Labor Reforms

Monday, April 25, 2016, By Carol Boll

Maria Maisto of the New Faculty Majority and the NFM Foundation will give a talk titled “Strategies for Combating the Casualization of Academic Labor” at 1:30 p.m. Friday, April 29, in 107 Hall of Languages. The talk is the final…

Campus & Community

CAPES Awards Reflect Service to Community

Friday, April 22, 2016, By Cyndi Moritz

“One of the most important life lessons a University can impart on its students is one of service. Service to your family, service to others and service to your greater community. There’s no better way to serve than to become…

Arts & Culture

Sharing the True ‘Stories of Syria’ with the World

Wednesday, April 20, 2016, By Erica Blust

After the attacks on Paris last Nov. 13, Andrew Kimmel ’08 made a life-changing decision. He would quit his job as a successful television producer and devote his full attention—and finances—to “Stories of Syria,” a project he conceived after a 2014 visit to a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan.

Arts & Culture

Verbal Blend Hosts Campuswide Student Poetry Slam

Wednesday, April 20, 2016, By Shannon Andre

Verbal Blend, a spoken-word poetry program within the Office of Multicultural Affairs, will host its annual Take the Mic Poetry Slam on Friday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the Schine Underground of Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center….

Campus & Community

Chancellor Syverud Provides Updates to Campus Community on Free Speech, Diversity Reports

Friday, April 15, 2016, By News Staff

Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud updated the University Senate on feedback regarding the free speech report and the diversity and inclusion …

Media, Law & Policy

Madeleine Albright Delivers Tanner Lecture, Speaks to Maxwell Classes

Thursday, April 14, 2016, By Jessica Smith

Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State (1997-2001) and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, visited the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs on April 5 to deliver the Tanner Lecture on Ethics, Citizenship and Public Responsibility. While…

Media, Law & Policy

Vice President Joe Biden to Deliver College of Law Class of 2016 Commencement Address

Tuesday, April 12, 2016, By News Staff

Biden graduated from the College of Law in 1968. He gave the University’s Commencement address in 2009, where he received an honorary degree from the University. He received the George Arents Pioneer Award in 2005.

Media, Law & Policy

University Professor Driesen ‘Economic Dynamics of Law’ at Several Chinese Universities

Friday, April 8, 2016, By Robert Conrad

University Professor David Driesen recently spent two weeks giving lectures on his book “The Economic Dynamics of Law” at a number of universities throughout China. The focus of his discussions was on environmental law and greenhouse gas emissions trading. The…

Arts & Culture

Two Classes Meet to Hear Hip-Hop Activist Harry Allen

Tuesday, March 29, 2016, By Keith Kobland

Journalist and hip-hop activist Harry Allen recently spoke with students in both African American studies and music history and cultures classes. In this video, you can hear Allen discuss the influential nature of hip-hop music and his experience with one…

STEM

The Human Trace

Thursday, March 24, 2016, By Rob Enslin

The great anthropologist Loren Eiseley once compared mankind to a twisted stem of wisteria—a “rooted vine in space” on an immense, if not impossible journey. It’s one that each of us must attempt, regardless of outcome. This is the premise…