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Arts & Culture

Stephen Dunn Is Next Carver Speaker

Wednesday, November 6, 2013, By Renée K. Gadoua

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn G’70 is the next speaker in this semester’s Raymond Carver Reading Series at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13, in Gifford Auditorium. A question-and-answer session will precede the reading from 3:45-4:30 p.m. The event is…

STEM

SU Chemist Gets ‘Best Idea Grant’

Wednesday, November 6, 2013, By News Staff

Top-notch ideas drive today’s knowledge-based world. James Hougland has one, and he has been awarded a “Best Idea Grant (BIG)” from the Foundation for Prader-Willi Research (FPWR) to support his research. Hougland, an assistant professor of chemistry in The College…

Campus & Community

SU Celebrates Native Heritage Month Nov. 2-Dec. 1

Tuesday, November 5, 2013, By News Staff

The Office of Multicultural Affairs within the Division of Student Affairs hosts Native Heritage Month from Nov. 2-Dec. 1. With film screenings, lectures, performances and more, Native Heritage Month offers an array of cultural festivities that educate and celebrate the…

STEM

Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute to Dedicate New Laboratory Suite Nov. 8

Tuesday, November 5, 2013, By Rob Enslin

In response to the growing international threat of bioterrorism, the Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute (FNSSI) in The College of Arts and Sciences has established a state-of-the-art laboratory suite. A dedication ceremony for the facility will be held on…

Campus & Community

Newhouse, Alexia Foundation to Hold Pan Am 103 Commemorative Event

Monday, November 4, 2013, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The Newhouse School, in partnership with the Alexia Foundation, will host a presentation and panel discussion on the power of photography to effect social change on Thursday, Nov. 14, at 3:30 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3….

STEM

Disrupting Traditional Gender Roles

Monday, November 4, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

Both partners in today’s modern couple may each have professional lives outside the home but two careers still equals three jobs—two professions, plus managing a home. And for women, oftentimes, that third job still remains their role. A recent SU Advance speaker pointed out ways to correct that imbalance.

Campus & Community

Transmedia Visiting Artist Cathy Crane

Monday, November 4, 2013, By News Staff

Transmedia Visiting Artist Cathy Crane will give a talk on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2 pm. in Shemin Auditorium. Crane has been making experimental narrative and documentary films on 16mm for nearly 20 years. She was named a Guggenheim fellow in…

Media, Law & Policy

Art Meets Technology in Newhouse M.I.N.D. Lab

Friday, November 1, 2013, By News Staff

Art meets technology in pioneering ways in a new facility opening Monday, Nov. 4, in the AXA Equitable Tower, located in downtown Syracuse on the Connective Corridor. Newhouse M.I.N.D. Lab is debuting its new world-class research and design center, featuring…

Campus & Community

What’s Your Good News? The LivingSU Team Asked Students

Thursday, October 31, 2013, By News Staff

Students from the LivingSU social media team came together once again, walking around campus with a crafty television frame and trays of smoothies, capturing students’ good news. Through the “Good News Broadcast” event, students shared their good news for the…

Arts & Culture

Near West Side Bridges Featured in New Documentary

Wednesday, October 30, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The recently released documentary film “Sign Painters,” which prominently features the mural “A Love Letter to Syracuse” by artist Steve Powers, will debut in Syracuse on Monday, Nov. 4, at the Redhouse Theater, 201 S. West St. Director Faythe Levine will be among those in attendance.