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Getting to Know: Peggy Pappas

Tuesday, April 29, 2014, By Keith Kobland

You won’t find one of the biggest fans of SU’s football and basketball teams sitting in the stands at the Carrier Dome. Most likely, you’ll find Peggy Pappas out on the court or the playing field. “I do bleed orange,”…

Arts & Culture

Transmedia Students to Present ‘Beyond Selfies’

Friday, April 25, 2014, By Erica Blust

The Department of Transmedia in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will present “Beyond Selfies,” an exhibition of select works by students in Jessica Posner’s spring TRM 351: “Selfies and Beyond: Identity and the Creative Process” class. The…

Arts & Culture

Young Playwrights Festival Winners to Receive Staged Reading of their Works

Thursday, April 24, 2014, By News Staff

Winners of Syracuse Stage’s 2014 Young Playwrights Festival will receive a staged reading of their works on Tuesday, April 29, at 7 p.m. in the Archbold Theatre at the Syracuse Stage/Drama Complex, 820 E. Genesee St. The staged reading will…

Arts & Culture

Students from Syracuse, Taiwan and Hong Kong Collaborate on Taipei Project

Thursday, April 24, 2014, By News Staff

This past March, three architecture studios—35 students, along with multiple faculty members—spent a week in Taipei as part of the Rubin Global Design Studio, an annual architecture travel program. They are led by Syracuse Architecture faculty members, including Angie Co,…

Arts & Culture

Stephanie James Named Founding Director of VPA’s School of Art

Thursday, April 24, 2014, By Erica Blust

Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) has appointed Stephanie James the founding director of the college’s future School of Art. James is a fine artist and currently associate dean and head of the School of Visual Arts…

Campus & Community

Twelve Seniors Named as 2014 Syracuse University Scholars

Wednesday, April 23, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Twelve graduating seniors have been named as the 2014 Syracuse University Scholars, the highest undergraduate honor that the University bestows. University Scholars will represent the entire graduating class at the May 11 Commencement ceremony. On Thursday, April 24, the scholars…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell’s 2014 Model UN Team Named Outstanding Delegation in New York City

Wednesday, April 23, 2014, By News Staff

The Maxwell School’s 2014 Model United Nations team was recently honored as an Outstanding Delegation at the National Model United Nations (NMUN) conference held April 12-17 at UN headquarters in New York City. This distinction is the highest level of recognition for…

Campus & Community

2014-15 Remembrance Scholars Selected

Wednesday, April 23, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University’s Remembrance Scholar Committee has chosen the 35 students who will be the 2014-15 Remembrance Scholars. The scholarships were founded as a tribute to—and means of remembering—the 35 students who were killed in the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing of…

Arts & Culture

The Lasting Legacy of a Teacher, Mentor and Friend

Wednesday, April 23, 2014, By Kathleen Haley

Professor Mary Marshall would have been proud to receive the warm recognition of those gathered for the dedication of the honors program’s library that now bears her name. “She was the finest of mentors,” said Edward Menkin G’67, G’72, L’77. “She would be thrilled to see so many young women and men here today and deeply touched by this dedication.”

Arts & Culture

Anthropologist Wins Arts and Sciences’ Wasserstrom Prize for Graduate Teaching

Monday, April 21, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Douglas V. Armstrong, a Syracuse University professor in the Maxwell School for Citizenship and Public Affairs and The College of Arts and Sciences, has been tapped to receive the latter’s William Wasserstrom Prize for the Teaching of Graduate Students. He…