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Registration Open for December Work Life Learning Opportunities

Thursday, November 29, 2018, By News Staff

The Syracuse University Wellness Initiative is offering two work life learning opportunities for faculty and staff in early December. “How to Have the Difficult Conversations (Elder Care)” is Thursday, Dec. 6, from noon to 12:45 p.m. in the Peter Graham…

Arts & Culture

Design Students’ Exhibition Addresses Microaggressions on Campus

Thursday, November 29, 2018, By Erica Blust

Junior communications design majors in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Design have ventured to solve the subtle issues involved with microaggressions as perceived on campus through the exhibition “Microaggressions: Ignorance Does Not Equal Bliss,” part of…

Campus & Community

SU Faculty, Staff Qualify for Discount on Summer College Program

Thursday, November 29, 2018, By Eileen Jevis

Summer College announces that the dependents of Syracuse University faculty and staff are eligible for a 15 percent discount for the 2019 Summer College for High School Students program. Also new for 2019 is an exclusive 15 percent discount for…

Campus & Community

New Students Find Value in First-Year Shared Reading Experience, According to Survey

Wednesday, November 28, 2018, By Kathleen Haley

In classrooms and residence halls across campus earlier this fall, small groups of new students came together to connect with their peers through exploring their differences and similarities—to learn more about themselves and others. As part of the newly redeveloped…

Arts & Culture

Museum Studies Students, Faculty Bring 238-Piece ‘Americans Who Tell the Truth’ Exhibition to Life

Tuesday, November 27, 2018, By Joyce LaLonde

Hannah Barber hopes to be a collections manager after her December 2018 graduation from the Graduate Program in Museum Studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) School of Design. Thanks to the University’s Robert Shetterly exhibition, she…

News Channel 9

Syracuse University Law School Receives Major Donation for Library

Tuesday, November 27, 2018, By Sean Dorcellus

Jan Fleckenstein, director of the law library and associate teaching professor of law at the College of Law, was interviewed by News Channel 9 for the story “Big donation to SU Law includes special RFK autographed book.” Fleckenstein told News Channel…

Arts & Culture

Genet Gallery Presents Visual, Literary Elements of Roderick Martinez’s ‘Wondering the Alphabet’

Tuesday, November 27, 2018, By Erica Blust

A new exhibition in the Sue & Leon Genet Gallery serves as a companion to “Wondering the Alphabet,” a book for readers, writers and designers by Roderick Martinez, associate professor of communications design in the College of Visual and Performing…

Campus & Community

Shaped Clay Society Hosting Holiday Mug Sale Nov. 28-30

Monday, November 26, 2018, By Erica Blust

The Shaped Clay Society in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will host its annual holiday mug sale from Wednesday, Nov. 28, through Friday, Nov. 30, in the first-floor galleria of the Dorothea Ilgen Shaffer Art Building. Hours…

Veterans

Institute for Veterans and Military Families Receives Largest Single Research Grant to Date

Monday, November 26, 2018, By Leah Lazarz

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University has received a $400,000 research grant from the Kauffman Foundation to study veteran and military-connected entrepreneurs as part of the foundation’s inaugural “Knowledge Challenge.” The award marks the largest…

Campus & Community

Open Forum Focuses on Search for New iSchool Dean

Monday, November 26, 2018, By News Staff

Members of the campus community are invited to attend an open forum on Monday, Nov. 26, from 2 to 3 p.m. in 111 Hinds Hall to offer input and ideas relating to the search for a new dean of the…