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Spring 2012 Raymond Carver Reading Series opens with novelist Rivka Galchen

Tuesday, January 17, 2012, By News Staff

Rivka Galchen, author of the critically acclaimed “Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel” (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008), will open the Spring 2012 Raymond Carver Reading Series at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 1, in Gifford Auditorium. The reading will be preceded by…

EBV, IVMF visit NYSE and ring closing bell

Tuesday, January 10, 2012, By News Staff

On Monday, Jan. 9, representatives from Syracuse University’s Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) and the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF), the EBV Foundation and EBV corporate sponsors PepsiCo, Walmart and Humana visited the New York Stock…

SyrFilmFest presents SyrFilmFest’11 Best of Fest

Monday, January 9, 2012, By KC Duggan

The SYRFILM organization that brings year-round programming to Central New York, in collaboration with Art Rage Gallery will present a five-part series showcasing films from the 8th Annual Syracuse International Film Festival. The series continues on Jan. 21 with a…

Five will receive Martin Luther King Jr. Unsung Hero Awards at Jan. 21 celebration

Monday, January 9, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Unsung Hero Awards will be presented to five members of the Syracuse University or greater Syracuse communities during Syracuse University’s 27th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, “A Living Legacy: The Fierce Urgency of…

Veterans

SU’s Institute for Veterans and Military Families expands team

Friday, January 6, 2012, By News Staff

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University has announced the appointment of staff members who will oversee veterans programs, special events and conferences, research, communications and design, and office administration. The expansion of the IVMF team…

Campus & Community

SU students tutor, mentor through Literacy Corps

Tuesday, January 3, 2012, By News Staff

Tutoring and mentoring through the Syracuse University Literacy Corps (SULC) is a unique, challenging and rewarding experience working with students in the Syracuse City School District to improve their literacy skills. This year, more than 244 tutors from SU at 50…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Wednesday, December 21

Wednesday, December 21, 2011, By News Staff

Arts and Sciences’ Anita Zannin speaks with CNN on forensic evidence in Texas case of Warren Horinek

Paris Noir’s ‘jazz moment’

Monday, December 19, 2011, By Rob Enslin

Popular study abroad program enters second decade In “Shadow and Act,” a collection of essays about the black experience, Ralph Ellison describes jazz as the “art of assertion within and against the group.” Each jazz moment, he writes, springs from…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Friday, December 16

Friday, December 16, 2011, By News Staff

New iSchool and Microsoft partnership in social networking experiment reported in industry media

It’s a queer world: Chancellor’s Leadership Project unites LGBT scholars, activists, artists from around the world

Thursday, December 15, 2011, By Rob Enslin

When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently announced at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Switzerland, that the United States would consider gay rights when making future aid and asylum decisions, she acknowledged what scholars and activists have…