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Health & Society

Lending a Hand in Empowering Communities

Wednesday, October 23, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

A new student organization on campus is creating opportunities for social entrepreneurship for students, while impacting communities with life-changing, sustainable projects.

Social Work Students Explore Corrections, Mental Health System

Wednesday, October 23, 2013, By Michele Barrett

Jails and prisons have become the nation’s largest psychiatric institutions, especially for low-income persons and persons of color. The National Sheriffs’ Association reports that in virtually every county across the country, county jails hold more people with severe psychiatric illness…

Arts & Culture

University Lectures Hosts Billy Collins

Wednesday, October 23, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

No poet since Robert Frost has managed to combine high critical acclaim with such broad popular appeal as Billy Collins.

Protecting Your Devices and Data

Monday, October 21, 2013, By Christopher C. Finkle

Securing your personal computer, tablet and smartphone—and the data they contain—is an ongoing process. The following steps and precautions can protect you from identity theft and data loss by drastically reducing the likelihood that your device will be hacked, infected…

STEM

Nicholson to Lead Session on Transformative Games

Monday, October 21, 2013, By J.D. Ross

School of Information Studies (iSchool) faculty member Scott Nicholson will lead a session on transformative games at a meeting of the New York State Senate Select Committee on Science, Technology, Incubation and Entrepreneurship at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) tomorrow….

Campus & Community

Look for New Recycling Posters

Monday, October 21, 2013, By News Staff

Syracuse University students, faculty and staff will now have some extra assistance in determining what can be recycled on campus. SU’s Sustainability Division of Energy Systems and Sustainability Management will begin hanging new recycling posters Wednesday in all academic buildings…

Arts & Culture

Delve into the Soundscape on Oct. 22

Friday, October 18, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

“Living in the Soundscape,” a walking tour of the Syracuse University campus that will bring participants into a direct relationship with the sonic environment, will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 22. The tour will be followed later that evening by…

SyracuseCoE 13th Annual Symposium to Address Urban Reinvention

Friday, October 18, 2013, By News Staff

SyracuseCoE—New York State’s Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems—will host its 13th Symposium at the Oncenter Complex in downtown Syracuse.

Arts & Culture

Common Differences

Thursday, October 17, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

Professor Chandra Talpade Mohanty was a graduate student at the University of Illinois in 1983 when she and her colleague, Ann Russo, developed the idea for an international women’s conference on feminist perspectives from the Global South and North. It marked the start of her scholarly life in social justice.

Arts & Culture

A Delicate Web of Remembrance

Thursday, October 17, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

In Slocum Hall atrium, a temporary installation of stunning intricacy and visual impact remembers the fate of 35 Syracuse University students a generation ago.