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MLS Commissioner Don Garber to Give University Lecture March 22

Friday, March 18, 2016, By Kevin Morrow

Major League Soccer (MLS) Commissioner and Soccer United Marketing CEO Don Garber is the next speaker for the University Lectures series on Tuesday, March 22, at 7:30 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The event is free and open to the public….

Arts & Culture

UVP Features ‘Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud’

Friday, March 18, 2016, By News Staff

Urban Video Project (UVP), Light Work and the Everson Museum of Art are presenting dual exhibitions of work by multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk, including new video and fabric-based prints created during her Light Work 2015 UVP artist residency. Woolfalk’s work…

Arts & Culture

Poet JoEllen Kwiatek to Read for Carver Series on March 23

Friday, March 18, 2016, By Cyndi Moritz

Poet JoEllen Kwiatek will be the next writer to give a reading in the spring 2016 Raymond Carver Reading Series on Wednesday, March 23. The series, which brings 12-14 prominent writers to campus each year, is presented by the M.F.A….

Arts & Culture

‘Knowledge Crowns Those Who Hear Her’: Lecture, Workshop with Sam Brylawski

Friday, March 18, 2016, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Syracuse University Libraries will present the annual lecture and workshop in the Brodsky Series for the Advancement of Library Conservation on March 24-25. The featured presenter is Sam Brylawski, co-director of the American Discography Project at the University of California,…

Arts & Culture

Painting Student Illustrates Confidence, Complexities of Subjects

Thursday, March 17, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

Julie Pratt’s painted portraits are bold, colorful. Pratt ’16 taps into her subjects as emotional beings and expresses that on canvas, capturing them in larger-than-life paintings.

Arts & Culture

Humanities Center to Host Dinner-Workshop on ‘Urban Acupuncture’ March 24

Thursday, March 17, 2016, By Rob Enslin

The Humanities Center, based in the College of Arts and Sciences, is presenting a workshop on “urban acupuncture”—the use of small-scale interventions to transform the larger urban fabric—in the City of Syracuse. The event, which includes dinner, will take place…

Arts & Culture

Author to Speak on ‘Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display’

Thursday, March 17, 2016, By Erica Blust

Scholar Jennifer Tyburczy will deliver a talk on her book “Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display” (University of Chicago Press, 2015) on Thursday, March 24, at 5 p.m. in Life Sciences Building 001. A reception and book signing…

STEM

Peer to Peer

Thursday, March 17, 2016, By Amy Manley

In the traditional college learning structure, students enter the classroom and place their focus on the classroom instructor. But researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences biology department are finding that higher levels of academic success may be achieved…

STEM

Student Company Places Second in Student Startup Madness Competition

Thursday, March 17, 2016, By J.D. Ross

Student startup company ChaChing, a peer-to-peer payment and money transfer application, has been awarded second place in the “Entrepreneurial Eight” final round of the Student Startup Madness competition held at the SXSW interactive media conference in Austin, Texas, this week. ChaChing was co-founded…

Campus & Community

Six Ways to Make Your St. Patrick’s Day Grand

Wednesday, March 16, 2016, By Arielle Spears

Eat, drink and be merry, but for the love of all that’s right, don’t wish someone a “Happy St. Patty’s Day!”