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Ceramic artist Margie Hughto to give preview of Centro Transit Hub light sculpture April 25

Friday, April 20, 2012, By Erica Blust

Margie Hughto, an internationally renowned ceramic artist and professor of ceramics in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, will offer the public a preview of the light sculpture she designed and created specifically for the new Centro Transit…

Conference to explore community-based activism

Monday, April 16, 2012, By News Staff

Syracuse University will present: “Reading, Writing, and Speaking for Change: Conference on Activism, Rhetoric and Research (CARR),” from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday, May 5, in the Hall of Languages. Keynote speakers are Seth Kahn of West Chester University of…

Award-winning memoirist concludes Spring 2012 Raymond Carver Reading Series

Wednesday, April 11, 2012, By News Staff

Kelle Groom will read from ‘I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl’ Kelle Groom, author of the memoir “I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl” (Free Press/Simon and Schuster, 2011), will conclude the Spring…

Inaugural EBV-Families at FSU begins April 10

Tuesday, April 10, 2012, By News Staff

The first national expansion of the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veteran’s Families (EBV-F) will be held at Florida State University (FSU) beginning April 10 and running through April 18. Founded in 2010 at Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management, and operated by the…

Team up for Relay for Life April 14-15 at Carrier Dome

Wednesday, April 4, 2012, By News Staff

Syracuse University and the American Cancer Society are teaming up once again to fight cancer with the 2012 SU/ESF Relay for Life, from 6 p.m.-6 a.m. Saturday, April 14, into Sunday, April 15, at the Carrier Dome. The Relay for…

Take Back the Night 2012 events begin April 9

Wednesday, April 4, 2012, By News Staff

From April 9-12, Syracuse University’s Advocacy Center within the Division of Student Affairs will host a series of Take Back the Night activities and events dedicated to raising awareness about sexual and relationship violence. Members of the campus and local…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse School will host symposium examining future of local news

Thursday, March 29, 2012, By Wendy S. Loughlin

‘The News Re-imagined: The Promise of Foundation-funded Journalism’ will be held April 4 Nationally respected journalists, as well as community leaders and news media executives from Central New York, will gather at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications…

Health & Society

National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Club honors two School of Education colleagues for excellence and leadership

Thursday, March 29, 2012, By News Staff

Two members of the School of Education’s Partnership for Better Education and Center for Graduate Preparation and Achievement received honors from the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Club. Christabel O. B. Sheldon, director of the Ronald E….

Point of Contact puts on first poetry book fair

Wednesday, March 28, 2012, By Teresita Paniagua

On April 12, the Point of Contact Gallery inaugurates its first poetry book fair to showcase books by poets from the Syracuse area. All poets are invited to engage in an informal dialogue that evening to discuss “the book as…

IVMF issues analysis of 2011 BLS annual report on employment situation of veterans

Monday, March 26, 2012, By News Staff

Unemployment rate increases most significantly for post-9/11 female vets ages 18-24 In relation to a recent Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) annual report, the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University (IVMF) has released The Employment Situation of Veterans: 2011,…