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Arts & Culture

Phonologist Documents Tonology, Syntax of Distinctive Kenyan Languages With NSF Grant

Wednesday, April 5, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

Last year, Christopher Green, assistant professor of linguistics, spent a month in Kenya with colleagues at Kenyatta University and members of the Luyia ethnic group to continue to explore and better understand the richness of their languages. Green spent many…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse School Announces Finalists in 2017 Mirror Awards Competition

Tuesday, April 4, 2017, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The Newhouse School today announced the finalists in the 2017 Mirror Awards competition honoring excellence in media industry reporting. Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony June 13 in New York City. The finalists, selected by a group of…

Campus & Community

Hank Greenwald: A Great Syracuse Alumnus, a Broadcasting Giant, on the Hope of Opening Day

Friday, March 31, 2017, By Sean Kirst

Opening day has always mattered to Hank Greenwald ’57. In his early childhood in Detroit, just after World War II, he felt the electricity when his hometown Tigers opened the baseball season at the legendary ballpark known then as Briggs…

Campus & Community

University Hosts Spring ‘It’s On Us’ Week of Action

Friday, March 31, 2017, By Shannon Andre

The It’s On Us student team, Peer Educators Encouraging Healthy Relationships and Sexuality (PEEHRS), student organizations, University offices and the Office of Health Promotion are hosting the spring “It’s On Us” Week of Action from Monday, April 3, through Friday,…

Campus & Community

Sexual Assault Awareness Month Begins April 1

Friday, March 31, 2017, By Shannon Andre

The Office of Health Promotion, in collaboration with numerous student groups, offices and departments, presents Sexual Assault Awareness Month throughout April.  The month aims to bring a number of educational, empowering and engaging programs and events to promote the importance…

STEM

Our Mathematical Universe: Interdisciplinary Research Thrives in Department of Mathematics

Thursday, March 30, 2017, By Rob Enslin

Professors in the Department of Mathematics are taking interdisciplinary research to new heights, thanks to innovative collaborations with colleagues on campus and around the world. Uday Banerjee, professor and chair of mathematics, says the Applied Mathematics group—one of eight research…

STEM

Undergraduate Research Project Takes IM&T Student to China

Thursday, March 30, 2017, By J.D. Ross

How immigrants use social media, digital communications technologies and mobile applications to interact with their communities and families is the subject of an undergraduate research project that brought School of Information Studies (iSchool) junior Alexis Ho-Liu to China last week,…

Arts & Culture

Symposium Focuses on Place of Religion in Film

Tuesday, March 28, 2017, By Renée K. Gadoua

László Nemes’ 2015 film “Son of Saul” has earned a slew of awards, including the Cannes Grand Prix, a Golden Globe and an Oscar. Set in Auschwitz-Birkenau at the end of the war, it also has spurred debate over the…

Campus & Community

Professor Emeritus Max R. Bloom Remembered

Monday, March 27, 2017, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Max R. Bloom was a giant in the field of economics and a pioneer in teaching real estate. To his colleagues in Syracuse University’s College of Business Administration (now the Martin J. Whitman School of Management), he was a generous…

Health & Society

Feminist Rhetorical Scholar to Speak on Necropolitics and Black Boyhood, Political Mobilization March 30-31

Monday, March 27, 2017, By Erica Blust

Feminist rhetorical scholar Lisa M. Corrigan, Ph.D., will deliver lectures on March 30 and 31 as part of the colloquium series in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies. The talks are free and…