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Campus & Community

Longtime Religion Department Chair, Former Interim Dean of Hendricks Chapel Mourned

Thursday, March 2, 2017, By Renée K. Gadoua

A few days after Samuel Clemence was named co-chair of the committee charged with conducting a comprehensive review of Hendricks Chapel, former Department of Religion chair James B. Wiggins called him. “He offered me a copy of his report from…

Campus & Community

Broadway, Ryans to Receive 2017 Dan and Mary Lou Rubenstein Social Justice Awards at March 6 Program

Wednesday, March 1, 2017, By Michele Barrett

In commemoration of National Professional Social Work Month during March, the School of Social Work in the Falk College will present its annual Dan and Mary Lou Rubenstein Social Justice Award program on Monday, March 6, at 6:45 p.m. in…

Media, Law & Policy

Aileen Gallagher Named Editor of EducationShift

Wednesday, March 1, 2017, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Newhouse School associate professor of magazine Aileen Gallagher has been named education editor of EducationShift, MediaShift’s journalism education vertical. Upon Gallagher’s appointment, outgoing editor Kathleen Bartzen Culver wrote, “Aileen… has a true passion for what we do… I know she…

Campus & Community

Teresa Mangum Discusses Graduate Education in the Humanities

Monday, February 27, 2017, By News Staff

Inspired by calls from the Modern Language Association and the American Historical Association, many humanities departments are asking how they can prepare their graduate students for diverse careers. Visiting Syracuse University to discuss how institutions across the country are addressing…

Campus & Community

Late Night Yoga Returns to the Dome This Thursday

Monday, February 27, 2017, By Justin Kim

Hendricks Chapel and the Contemplative Collaborative present the annual campus yoga event, “Candlelight Yoga in the Dome,” on Thursday, March 2, from 11 p.m. to midnight. Dara Harper, founder of Yoga with Dara, will be the instructor for this year’s…

STEM

iPrize, CompeteCNY Make $140,000 Available for Student Pitch Competition

Monday, February 27, 2017, By J.D. Ross

Entrepreneurial students on campus will have the opportunity to test their pitch skills for prize money in a new competition supported in part by the Raymond Von Dran (RvD) Fund for Student Entrepreneurship at the School of Information Studies (iSchool)….

Business & Economy

Student Shares Why Syracuse University Was Her First Choice

Friday, February 24, 2017, By Aishwarya Nag Choudhury

The reputation of Syracuse University, as well as the reputation of the economics department, was the deciding factor for Andrea Fleming to choose Syracuse. Fleming is a senior double majoring in economics and international relations with a concentration in European…

Campus & Community

History-maker at University College: Single Mom, Odds Set Against Her, Flies Past Barriers

Friday, February 24, 2017, By Sean Kirst

Tani Huddleson finds strength by remembering the hardest point. She was barely 16, a single mother with a newborn child in Mattydale, a gritty working community just north of Syracuse. She had dropped out of high school to care for…

Campus & Community

Field Trip Planned to Auburn’s Harriet Tubman Home

Friday, February 24, 2017, By Renée K. Gadoua

The Department of African American Studies’ (AAS) annual field trip, “The Underground Railroad in Central New York,” will take 38 AAS and other University community members to the Harriet Tubman Home in Auburn, New York. The tour will be Friday,…

Arts & Culture

George Saunders’ First Novel, ‘Lincoln in the Bardo,’ Debuts at No. 1 on New York Times Bestseller List

Friday, February 24, 2017, By Kevin Morrow

For an author, you are truly in an enviable position when fans and book critics alike anxiously await your next creation. So it is for College of Arts and Sciences’ English professor George Saunders. Especially now, with the publication of…