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Azerbaijani Journalist to Receive 2013 Tully Award for Free Speech

Tuesday, October 15, 2013, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Idrak Abbasov, an independent journalist from Azerbaijan, is the recipient of the 2013 Tully Award for Free Speech. The award, presented annually by the Newhouse School‘s Tully Center for Free Speech, is given to a journalist who has faced a…

Arts & Culture

Jamie Haft Appointed Imagining America Assistant Director

Friday, October 11, 2013, By News Staff

Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA) has appointed Jamie Haft as assistant director. Haft will be organizing campus leadership teams within IA’s consortium of more than 100 colleges and universities and directing story-based campaigns in multiple media,…

Campus & Community

iSchool’s iBand to Perform at Benefit for ALS

Friday, October 11, 2013, By News Staff

A free concert featuring the Free Design and the iBand from Syracuse University to benefit the ALS Association Upstate New York Chapter is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 12, at May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society, 3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse. The…

Lockerbie Reflections

Thursday, October 10, 2013, By News Staff

When people first hear of Lockerbie, Scotland they learn about the tragedy that is Pan Am Flight 103. But a visit to the quiet, humble and welcoming town opens new insights to its beauty and its residents.

Campus & Community

2013-14 Remembrance Scholars to be Honored

Thursday, October 10, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The 2013-14 Convocation for Remembrance Scholars, honoring 35 outstanding Syracuse University students from this year’s senior class, will be held Friday, Oct. 11, at 3 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The Remembrance Scholarships, among the most prestigious scholarships awarded by the…

Campus & Community

Transmedia Visiting Artist Penny Lane to Give Talk

Thursday, October 10, 2013, By News Staff

Transmedia Visiting Artist Penny Lane is to give a talk on Oct. 15 at 2 p.m. in Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer. Penny Lane is a filmmaker (and occasional video artist, writer, curator and professor of film, video and new media art)….

Campus & Community

“The Rhetoric of Environmental Policy”

Wednesday, October 9, 2013, By News Staff

The Department of Earth Sciences is pleased to announce a special public lecture by Hope Jahren, from the School of Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Hawai‘i: “The Rhetoric of Environmental Policy” Wednesday, Oct. 23, 4 p.m. in…

Campus & Community

K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series, this week featuring Hope Jahren

Wednesday, October 9, 2013, By News Staff

The Department of Earth Sciences is pleased to announce a lecture by Hope Jahren, from the School of Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Hawai’i: “The Effect of Elevated pCO2 on C3 Plants through Geologic Time,” Thursday, Oct….

Campus & Community

Live United, Give United, Go SU

Tuesday, October 8, 2013, By Keith Kobland

United Way pledge cards are being distributed throughout the Syracuse University community as this year’s campaign gets under way. The United Way funds dozens of charitable organizations in Central New York, and all require your dollars to keep important programs…

Health & Society

SU Participates in Right to Food and Nutrition Watch Global Launch

Tuesday, October 8, 2013, By Michele Barrett

The 2013 edition of the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch, an international publication unveiled Oct. 8 in English, Spanish and French, explores global issues surrounding the right to food and nutrition.