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Health & Society

3D Temples, Confession Apps and Virtual Shrines

Tuesday, November 29, 2016, By Renée K. Gadoua

Nearly every aspect of modern life intersects with digital culture and is being reshaped by rapidly changing technology. A new undergraduate course will investigate the ways religious practice is shaped by technology and how technological practice is shaped by religion….

Arts & Culture

Mexican Immigration Scholar Gilberto Cárdenas to Visit Syracuse Dec. 1

Tuesday, November 29, 2016, By Rob Enslin

A leading scholar of Mexican immigration, who is also the owner of the world’s largest private collection of Latino art, is making a rare visit to Syracuse University. Gilberto Cárdenas, professor of sociology and executive director of the Notre Dame…

Health & Society

Falk College Students Host Makeup Drive for Transgender Community Dec. 1

Tuesday, November 29, 2016, By News Staff

The Falk College Department of Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) is hosting a makeup drive to benefit the Syracuse-area transgender community  on Thursday, Dec. 1, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Schine Student Center. The drive was organized by…

Media, Law & Policy

FCB Health Creative Officer Will Deliver Mower Lecture at Newhouse Dec. 1

Tuesday, November 29, 2016, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Rich Levy, chief creative officer with FCB Health, will visit the Newhouse School on Thursday, Dec. 1, as a guest of the Eric Mower Advertising Forum. He will speak at 6:30 p.m. in the I3 Center, 432 Newhouse 3. Follow…

Alexander McKelvie

Professor of Entrepreneurship, Interim Dean at the Whitman School of Management
STEM

Stanford’s Carla Shatz to Deliver Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture Dec. 8

Wednesday, November 23, 2016, By Rob Enslin

Syracuse Symposium continues its yearlong look at “Place” with a visit by world-renowned neurobiologist Carla Shatz. A professor of biology and neurobiology at Stanford University, Shatz will deliver this year’s Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture in the Sciences and Humanities titled…

Business & Economy

Whitman School Establishes Institute for Entrepreneurial Society

Wednesday, November 23, 2016, By Kerri D. Howell

The Martin J. Whitman School of Management is establishing the Institute for an Entrepreneurial Society (IES), supported by a $1.75 million grant from the Charles Koch Foundation. The institute will produce high-quality research on the political economy of entrepreneurship, educate…

Campus & Community

WUC Poinsettia Sale Deadline Extended

Tuesday, November 22, 2016, By News Staff

The deadline for ordering poinsettias through the Women of the University Community (WUC) has been extended to Nov. 28. Orders are currently being taken for potted poinsettias in red, white and pink (6″ and 8″ pots) as well as evergreen door wreaths…

Health & Society

‘A Moral Obligation to Stand with the People’

Monday, November 21, 2016, By Renée K. Gadoua

Ahmed Abdel Meguid was out with friends in Istanbul on July 15 when members of the Turkish military initiated a coup attempt. Abdel Meguid, an assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Religion, spent the summer…

STEM

Four Questions with Professor of Linguistics Jaklin Kornfilt

Monday, November 21, 2016, By Keith Kobland

Linguistics Professor Jaklin Kornfilt, a member of the Languages, Literatures and Linguistics (LLL) faculty since 1983, specializes in syntactic theory, theoretically informed linguistic typology, and the syntax—morphology interface, with special emphasis on the syntax and morphology of Turkish and of…