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Take a Musical Journey to the South in ‘Violet’

Monday, April 8, 2013, By News Staff

Violet Karl has lived in her “stupid” town of Spruce Pine, N.C., her entire life, and she’s ready for a change. Bearing a facial scar accidentally left by her father at a young age, Violet sets off on a bus…

Initial MOOC Offering Results in Positive Participation Outcomes

Monday, April 8, 2013, By Diane Stirling

The first open online course offered at Syracuse University has concluded with positive outcomes for its host, the School of Information Studies (iSchool), and for its hundreds of student participants. In addition, the excitement generated by the February trial is…

Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact Announces Release of Sixth Poetry Collection During Cruel April Poetry Readings

Thursday, April 4, 2013, By News Staff

The Point of Contact Gallery, in commemoration of National Poetry Month, is hosting its annual program of weekly poetry readings, Cruel April. The readings will be held each Thursday in April at 6 p.m. Showcased are four new voices from…

Campus & Community

Plant a Pinwheel

Wednesday, April 3, 2013, By News Staff

To support the efforts of the McMahon/Ryan Child Advocacy Center, the Falk College Student Leadership Society is planting a pinwheel garden on the SU campus (between Schine and Newhouse). The garden will create a visual reminder about Child Abuse Prevention…

IDEA and eMinutes Partner to Help Student Entrepreneurs Incorporate

Tuesday, April 2, 2013, By News Staff

No other law firm in history has voluntarily waived $500,000 in legal fees and absorbed $100,000 in expenses simply to help 500 first-time entrepreneurs incorporate; but that’s exactly how Jeff Unger, Los Angeles-based attorney and founder of eMinutes, a corporate…

STEM

Research Shows Potential for Quasicrystals

Monday, April 1, 2013, By News Staff

Ever since their discovery in 1984, the burgeoning area of research looking at quasiperiodic structures has revealed astonishing opportunities in a number of areas of fundamental and applied research, including applications in lasing and sensing. Quasiperiodic structures, or quasicrystals, because…

Campus & Community

Book Library Videos Online through MediaNet

Friday, March 29, 2013, By News Staff

The library will be upgrading the MediaNet system, which enables faculty and graduate students to reserve videos and schedule them for specific class dates. Beginning March 25th, MediaNet will include the added feature of Online Web Booking. This feature allows…

Music of Remembrance and Hope to Be Performed April 7

Thursday, March 28, 2013, By Jennifer Russo

The Syracuse University Regional Holocaust and Genocide Initiative, the Jewish Federation of CNY, and InterFaith Works of CNY have partnered to present a performance of “Kaddish: I Am Here”: Music of Remembrance and Hope in observance of Yom HaShoah, the…

DPS Takes Community Service to a New Level

Thursday, March 28, 2013, By Keith Kobland

Members of the Syracuse University Department of Public Safety are giving new meaning to the phrase “to protect and serve.” Typically, DPS officers are seen on campus patrolling buildings, walkways and streets, along with responding to calls about crime. Wednesday,…

SU Students Invited to National Security Crisis Law Invitational

Tuesday, March 26, 2013, By News Staff

To better prepare the next generation of national security and counterterrorism law and policy leaders for an actual global crisis, four SU students are preparing to join the simulation of a dramatic international catastrophe—and work with colleagues from across the…