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39th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography Call for Entries: Deadline April 30

Thursday, February 28, 2013, By News Staff

Light Work is pleased to announce the 39th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography competition. Light Work began offering grants to CNY artists in 1975 to encourage the production of new photographic work in the region. Three $2,000 grants will…

Five to Be Honored With Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence

Wednesday, February 27, 2013, By News Staff

Five Syracuse University faculty and staff members will receive the Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence at a campus ceremony and reception in their honor on Monday, April 1.

Ray Smith ‘Positions of Dissent’ Lecture by Laura Browder Will Be on Communist Party USA Leader

Tuesday, February 26, 2013, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Laura Browder, the Tyler and Alice Haynes Professor of American Studies at the University of Richmond, will present a lecture entitled “Hammer and Sickle, Stars and Stripes: The Odyssey of Earl Browder” on March 7 at 6 p.m. in the…

Campus & Community

International Relations Department to Celebrate International Women’s Day

Tuesday, February 26, 2013, By News Staff

The Maxwell International Relations Department and Sigma Iota Rho will host two events to celebrate International Women’s Day on Monday, March 4. The first, a panel discussion about gender equality and development, facilitated by assistant sociology professor Yingyi Ma, is…

Media, Law & Policy

Journalism Innovator Nonny de la Peña to Discuss Groundbreaking Field of Immersive Journalism

Thursday, February 21, 2013, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The worlds of gaming and journalism are about to merge as the cost of creating 3D experiential environments plummets and a flood of new motion- and gesture-based interfaces readies to enter the marketplace. Journalist Nonny de la Peña is on…

EBV-SU Grad Appointed by President Obama to National Council on Disability

Thursday, February 21, 2013, By News Staff

Captain Jonathan F. Kuniholm (U.S. Marine Corps, Ret.), a 2009 graduate of the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) program operated by the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University, has been appointed by President Barack Obama…

Health & Society

Brooks Gump Awarded NIH Grant to Study Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Children

Wednesday, February 20, 2013, By Michele Barrett

Brooks B. Gump, professor in the Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition in the Falk College, was awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The research project, “Environmental Toxicants, Race…

School of Education’s Douglas Biklen Announces Retirement from Deanship

Wednesday, February 20, 2013, By News Staff

Douglas P. Biklen, dean of Syracuse University’s School of Education and founder of the Inclusion Institutes at Syracuse University, announced today that he will retire from his position effective January 31, 2014. Biklen has served as dean of the School…

Campus & Community

CAPES Awards Nominations Open

Tuesday, February 19, 2013, By News Staff

The Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship acknowledges individual students, groups of students, residence halls/floors, student organizations and academic projects/classes that exemplify Scholarship in Action. All faculty and staff are encouraged to nominate individual students and groups.

Percussionist, Composer Glenn Kotche to Perform with SU Percussion Ensemble

Tuesday, February 19, 2013, By Erica Blust

Percussionist and composer Glenn Kotche, a member of the groundbreaking American rock band Wilco, will perform a free concert on Thursday, March 7, at 8 p.m. in the Rose and Jules R. Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College. The program will feature…