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Symposium Explores Use of Digital Games by Human Rights Activists
The Digital Witness Symposium invites cutting-edge mediamakers, programmers and scholars to discuss how the changing digital ecology is opening up new opportunities for human rights media. This year’s symposium explores how human rights activism is increasingly turning to digital games and interactive media as a strategy for engaging new audiences.
Community Folk Art Center Presents An Evening With Daniel Roumain
The Community Folk Art Center will host an evening with critically acclaimed musician Daniel Roumain on Friday, Oct. 18, at 7 p.m. The concert titled, “Hear Haiti Here,” will be held as part of the center’s concert series A Journey…
iSchool Launches Crowdsourced ‘Fuel’ Program Funding Campaign
The School of Information Studies (iSchool), whose national reputation is built on innovation in the information field, has initiated a student programs development campaign with some twists. The effort is modeled on the crowdsourcing style of fundraising, and it uses…
Syracuse International Film Festival Opens Wednesday, Continues through Sunday
The Syracuse International Film Festival 2013 opens Wednesday, Oct. 2, with an art show and reception, “The Golden Era of Hollywood,” featuring work by Italian poster artist Silvano Campeggi, from 5:30-8:30 p.m. at the Landmark Theatre. The festival continues through…
Stacey Tank ’02 of Heineken USA to speak at Newhouse
Stacey Tank ’02, senior vice president and chief corporate relations officer with Heineken USA, will visit the Newhouse School on Thursday, Oct. 10, as a guest of the public relations department and the SU chapter of the Public Relations Student…
‘Seeds of Peace’ at Oct. 3 TMR
The Oct. 3 session of Thursday Morning Roundtable will feature Jose Cossa, Seeds of Peace coordinator at InterFaith Works of Central New York. He will be accompanied by a teen panel. They will discuss reducing racial tension and violence in…
iSchool, LCS Coordinating Computing and IT Awards Programs for Women
Syracuse University is joining with the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) to encourage more young women to choose an education and career in technology through a national awards program that celebrates both their achievements and their goals…
LCM Celebrates 100th with Orange Central Events
Celebrating 100 years on campus, Lutheran Campus Ministry builds a float for the Orange Central Parade and hosts an LCM Tailgate.
NSF Funds OrangeGrid Improvements
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Syracuse University $498,000 to enhance SU’s OrangeGrid by upgrading the campus’s data network infrastructure to facilitate high throughput research computing. OrangeGrid (formerly known as the HTC campus grid) uses idle desktop computers in…
SU Hosts Imagining America National Conference this Weekend
Four hundred people from colleges and universities from across the United States will come to Syracuse University this Friday through Sunday, Oct. 4-6, for the Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA) annual national conference.