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Campus & Community

Community Engagement Honored at Annual CAPES Award Ceremony

Wednesday, April 22, 2015, By News Staff

Syracuse University will honor students, faculty, staff and community partners who exemplify SU’s commitment to engagement with the community and public scholarship at the 2015 Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship (CAPES). The awards will be given at a…

Connective Corridor Celebrates Earth Week with Beautification Day

Wednesday, April 22, 2015, By News Staff

The Connective Corridor is encouraging faculty, students and community members to join in this Saturday as part of the Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency’s (OCRRA) Earth Day Cleanup to help beautify the Connective Corridor. Last year, 5,500 people volunteered for…

STEM

Chemistry Major to Receive Slepecky Research Prize April 24

Tuesday, April 21, 2015, By Sarah Scalese

Kewei Xu ’15, a chemistry major in the College of Arts and Sciences, will receive the Norma Slepecky Undergraduate Research Prize at the annual Slepecky Memorial Lecture and Awards Ceremony on Friday, April 24, at 3:30 p.m. in the auditorium…

Arts & Culture

Department of Art B.F.A. Senior Exhibition Opens April 23

Tuesday, April 21, 2015, By Erica Blust

The Department of Art in the College of Visual and Performing Arts will present the “2015 BFA Senior Exhibit,” featuring work by bachelor of fine arts degree candidates, April 23-May 10 on the fourth floor of Smith Hall. An opening…

Business & Economy

Whitman School Hosts Annual Holtz Alumni Awards

Monday, April 20, 2015, By Kerri D. Howell

The Whitman School will honor Theodore Spall, Jr., ’69, with the Jonathan J. Holtz Alumnus of the Year Award at a ceremony on Wednesday, April 29, at 3 p.m. in Whitman’s Lender Auditorium. The Jonathan J. Holtz Alumnus of the…

STEM

Professor Receives NEH Summer Stipend Research Grant

Monday, April 20, 2015, By Sarah Scalese

Amy Kallander, an associate professor of Middle East history in the Maxwell School and the College of Arts and Sciences, has received a prestigious Summer Stipend Research Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). She will use the…

Campus & Community

Toastmasters Recognizes University as Exceptional Sponsor

Monday, April 20, 2015, By News Staff

Toastmasters International has recognized Syracuse University as an exceptional institution of higher education sponsor of Toastmasters clubs and their members. Toastmasters International President Mohammed Murad, of Dubai, UAE, will present the award on Monday, April 27, at noon in Bird…

Campus & Community

Getting to Know: Assistant Provost for Equity and Inclusion Patricia L. Stith

Friday, April 17, 2015, By Cyndi Moritz

When Patricia Stith traveled with her husband, Melvin, to their undergraduate alma mater at the end of March, she knew they were going to be honored as two among a group of major donors to Norfolk State University in Virginia….

Campus & Community

Award-Winning Poet and Memoirist Mary Karr to Give 2015 Commencement Address

Friday, April 17, 2015, By News Staff

Karr will also be awarded an honorary degree, a Doctor of Humane Letters, at the 161st Commencement exercises.

Arts & Culture

Professor Reconsiders Role of Native Americans in U.S. History

Thursday, April 16, 2015, By Rob Enslin

The role of Indigenous peoples in American history is being reconsidered in a new book, co-edited and co-authored by a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences. “Why You Can’t Teach United States History Without American Indians” (University of…