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Statement from Chancellor Syverud

Thursday, April 3, 2014, By News Staff

Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud released the following statement this morning: “The Syracuse University community is saddened to learn that our alumnus, Major Patrick Miller, was injured in yesterday’s shooting at the Army base in Fort Hood, Texas. Our thoughts…

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Funk for a Cause to Benefit Karen Refugees Locally and Abroad

Wednesday, April 2, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Students Darcy Cherlin and Alison Joy will hold a benefit concert and comedy improv show on Saturday, April 5, at 8 p.m. at Funk n’ Waffles, 727 S. Crouse Ave. Admission is $5. Those attending are asked to bring donations…

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Inauguration Symposium to Address What Makes a University Great

Wednesday, April 2, 2014, By News Staff

As part of the inauguration festivities on Friday, April 11, Chancellor Kent Syverud has invited a distinguished and diverse panel of SU experts to participate in a thoughtful conversation about “Great Universities in the Next 25 Years.” The symposium will…

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Participants Needed for Research Project on Health Behaviors Among African-American College Students

Wednesday, April 2, 2014, By News Staff

We invite you for participation in the research project “Health Behaviors among African American College Students.” This study was designed to better understand determinants of health behaviors in college students of African descent. College students of African descent have not…

Alumnus to Discuss Competitive Gaming April 4 at Newhouse

Wednesday, April 2, 2014, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The Communications Department Research Colloquium in the Newhouse School will host Todd Harper G’06 on 10:30 a.m. Friday, April 4, in Room 141 Newhouse 3. Harper, a researcher at the MIT Game Lab, will present “Play as Practice and Performance…

Getting to Know: Assistant Professor Barbara Stripling, President of the ALA

Wednesday, April 2, 2014, By Diane Stirling

The idea that access to libraries–and to the information, materials and guidance available therein is a right community members should be guaranteed–is a platform that has taken Barbara Stripling to all corners of the United States and around the world….

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Newhouse to Offer Media Entrepreneurship Workshop in New York City this Summer

Tuesday, April 1, 2014, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The Newhouse School will have a presence in New York City this summer with a new, six-week workshop on media entrepreneurship. Taught by Sean Branagan, director of Newhouse’s Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, the workshop will run May 12-June 23…

IBM’s Enterprise Machine Loan Boosts Computer Capacity, Partnership

Tuesday, April 1, 2014, By Diane Stirling

A level of computing power comparable to “a cloud in a box,” and typically accessible only from the inside of an enterprise-class computing work environment, is now available to students and faculty at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) daily,…

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SU Libraries Hosts First Human Library Event

Tuesday, April 1, 2014, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

The Syracuse University Libraries, in partnership with the School of Information Studies and the Office of Multicultural Affairs, will host its first Human Library on Wednesday, April 9, from 3-6 p.m. in Bird Library. In the Human Library, the books…

‘IMAGES? Precisely!’ Stages Grand Finale of Three-Year Run

Tuesday, April 1, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

Nearly three years ago, Mark Linder launched “IMAGES? Precisely!” in his role as Chancellor’s Fellow at the Syracuse University Humanities Center. This three-year event series in the transdisciplinary humanities has featured numerous influential scholars and artists whose work contemplates the…