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Media, Law & Policy

Actress, Producer Gina Belafonte to Headline Newhouse School’s 12th Annual Conversation on Race and Entertainment Media

Wednesday, January 30, 2013, By Wendy S. Loughlin

A screening of her documentary film, “Sing Your Song,” will be held Feb. 12 Actress and producer Gina Belafonte will visit the Newhouse School on Wednesday, Feb. 13, as a guest of the school’s 12th Annual Conversation on Race and…

Veterans

EBV-Families at SU Accepting Applications through Feb. 6

Wednesday, January 30, 2013, By News Staff

Applications are being accepted through Wednesday, Feb. 6, for the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans’ Families (EBV-F) program at Syracuse University, taking place March 8-15. Modeled after the national Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV), EBV-F is an education and…

Campus & Community

Free Recreational and Ice Skating Programs for Syracuse Families on SU Campus

Wednesday, January 30, 2013, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s Department of Recreation Services within the Division of Student Affairs is offering its spring lineup of free recreational activities and ice skating lessons for Syracuse area youth and families. The Neighborhood Youth Recreation Program is set to begin…

STEM

War Zones Topic of Daylong Symposium

Tuesday, January 29, 2013, By News Staff

War zones, both physical and metaphorical, will be explored in a daylong symposium, “Dialogue on Deconstructing War Zones,” Saturday, Feb. 2, from 8:30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. in Lender Auditorium, located in Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management building, Room…

Campus & Community

In Class: SPM 199 (video)

Tuesday, January 29, 2013, By Keith Kobland

The biggest sports spectacle on earth goes under the microscope in SPM 199, The Super Bowl and Society with Professor Dennis Deninger.

Health & Society

Gretchen Lopez Honored with Racial Justice Award

Monday, January 28, 2013, By Jennifer Russo

Gretchen Lopez, assistant professor of Cultural Foundations of Education at Syracuse University’s School of Education, is the recipient of the 2013 Racial Justice Award given by InterFaith Works/Community Wide Dialogue to End Racism (IFW/CWD) of Central New York. She will…

Campus & Community

Statement Regarding Recent Department of Public Safety Organizational Changes

Monday, January 28, 2013, By News Staff

The Syracuse University Department of Public Safety has embarked on a comprehensive process assessing services provided, with a focus on implementing improvement. Within the next week, DPS will be announcing appointments to new first line leadership assignments resulting from nearly a year of reorganization planning.

Media, Law & Policy

‘Soulful Sit-Downs’ Created to Help Students Answer the Question ‘Who Am I?’

Monday, January 28, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

This semester, a series of student-run conversations, titled “Soulful Sit-Downs,” will attempt to help student participants answer the question “Who Am I?” First-year S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications student Sean Martinelli came up with the idea and will host…

Arts & Culture

SU-Connected Team Brings New Children’s Book Character Lisa Fashionista to Life

Monday, January 28, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

It may be a frigid winter in Syracuse, but one turn of the cover of a new book by Syracuse University’s JoAnn Rhoads places you on a summertime beach in Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., enjoying the magical adventures of Lisa Fashionista….

Veterans

Statement from the IVMF on women in combat, DOD policy change

Monday, January 28, 2013, By News Staff

Mike Haynie, executive director and founder, Institute for Veterans and Military Families, Syracuse University: “Yesterday Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey announced the rescission of the 1994 Direct Ground Combat…