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At the age of 17, Oubon Phommanyrath was living on her own in the Salvation Army Transitional Apartments on Salina Street in Syracuse. Phommanyrath had fled from a physically and emotionally abusive home life at age 14, ending up on…

TIME article on mothers and depression features study by Margaret Usdansky of Maxwell School and College of Arts and Sciences

Twelve distinguished guests will share their global experiences and perspectives with the Syracuse University and Central New York communities next fall and spring in eight presentations during the University Lectures 2011-12 season. Guests during the fall 2011 semester will include…

Matilde (pronounced Ma-chil-gee) has a problem: she’s a cleaning lady who doesn’t like to clean. She’d rather think up the perfect joke. Now that her parents (once the funniest people in Brazil) are dead—her mother died laughing—she is the funniest…

Dear Members of the SU Community: As we approach the conclusion of another successful academic year, we’re not only reaching the end of 2010-11, but marking a decade of work at Syracuse University to build on the 2001 Academic Plan…

Jessie C. Gruman, president of the Center for Advancing Health and candidate to receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Syracuse University, will present “The Patient in Patient-Centered Care: What Clinicians Need to Know” on Friday, May 13….

Arts and Sciences’ Sheldon Stone quoted in LiveScience on Higgs boson subatomic particle

The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign, the largest military offensive ever against the Haudenosaunee (“People of the Longhouse”), is the subject of a multimedia presentation by Robert Spiegelman in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Spiegelman will discuss “New York’s Missing Link:…

A Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) service will be held on Wednesday, April 27, at 8 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The service will focus on remembering the victims and survivors of the Holocaust, and the groups that were persecuted. The…

Before a standing-room-only crowd at Syracuse University’s Warehouse, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency named the City of Syracuse and Onondaga County one of 10 top green communities in the nation. “It’s an amazing vision,” said EPA Deputy Administrator Bob Perciasepe,…