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STEM

Sustainable Enterprise Partnership Awards $19,000 to Explore Innovations in Green Building

Friday, February 17, 2017, By Kerri D. Howell

Syracuse University’s Sustainable Enterprise Partnership (SEP), in cooperation with the U.S. Green Building Council awarded $19,000 to fund new research in the area of green building construction methods, specifically cross laminated timber (CLT) wood products in multi-family housing. Rene Germain,…

Campus & Community

Provost Wheatly, Vice President Pete Sala Convene First Campus Facilities Advisory Board Meeting

Friday, February 17, 2017, By News Staff

Michele G. Wheatly, vice chancellor and provost, and Pete Sala, vice president and chief facilities officer, convened the first Campus Facilities Advisory Board (CFAB) meeting on Thursday, Feb. 16. The CFAB co-chairs, in collaboration with Cathryn Newton, special advisor to…

Fox News

Bob Thompson Offers Thoughts on Late Night TV “Trump Bump”

Friday, February 17, 2017, By Keith Kobland

Robert Thompson, Trustee Professor and director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture, was interviewed by Fox News for “Trump bump? Why is Stephen Colbert suddenly topping Jimmy Fallon in late-night ratings?”

Arts & Culture

Department of African American Studies Hosts Third Annual John L. Johnson Lecture, featuring Marlo D. David

Thursday, February 16, 2017, By Liam Sullivan

The Department of African American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences will present the Third Annual John L. Johnson Lecture, featuring Marlo D. David, associate professor of English and women’s, gender, and sexuality at Purdue University, on Monday, Feb. 20, from 5…

Arts & Culture

Cherríe Moraga to Serve as Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor Feb. 20-March 3

Thursday, February 16, 2017, By Rob Enslin

Cherríe Moraga—a prominent figure in Chicana, feminist, queer and indigenous activism, art and scholarship—is participating in a two-week residency at the University. Moraga is this year’s Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities. In this capacity, she will…

Campus & Community

Memorial Service for Huston Smith to be Held on Sunday

Wednesday, February 15, 2017, By Renée K. Gadoua

Syracuse University will host a memorial service Sunday, Feb. 19, for the renowned religion scholar Huston Smith. Smith, former Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, taught at Syracuse from 1973-84 and died Dec. 30 at…

The Korea Times

Frederick Carriere on Controversial ‘Comfort Women’ Statues

Wednesday, February 15, 2017, By Sawyer Kamman

Korean activists and Japanese officials are at odds over the placement of ‘Comfort Statues’ that were recently erected near Japanese missions in South Korea. The statues, which symbolize the Korean victims of Japanese wartime sex slaves in the 1940s, have…

Media, Law & Policy

College of Law Welcomes Spring Cohort of LL.M. Students

Wednesday, February 15, 2017, By Robert Conrad

The College of Law recently welcomed the spring cohort of the Masters of Laws (LL.M.) in American Law program. The cohort is composed of nine foreign-educated lawyers representing the legal systems of seven nations, including one Open Society Foundation Fellow…

Campus & Community

GSO Wins Bid to Hold National Association of Graduate-Professional Students Conference at SU

Tuesday, February 14, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

Members of the Syracuse University Graduate Student Organization (SU GSO) vigorously advocate on matters of critical importance for their peers on a national level through their work in the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS). Their important work—and advocacy skills—paid…

Campus & Community

Tonight, for Valentine’s Day: Love and Dreams at Holden Observatory

Tuesday, February 14, 2017, By Sean Kirst

Holden Observatory, the second-oldest building on the Syracuse University campus, will open its doors at 9:30 p.m. today for a Valentine’s Day tour. If you’re lucky, if the gray clouds of February roll away for a few hours, you might…