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Huffington Post Exclusive Features Cold Case Justice Initiative
The death of a U.S. military policeman trying to make it home to see his pregnant wife is gaining newfound attention 50 years after his death. Cpl. Roman Ducksworth was shot to death by police officer William Kelly after Ducksworth…
Fetner Sustainable Enterprise Fellow Pratima Bansal to Visit SU Campus March 19-21
The Sustainable Enterprise Partnership (SEP) has announces that Pratima (Tima) Bansal, professor and director of the Centre for Building Sustainable Value in the Richard Ivey School of Business at Western University, is the SEP’s 2013 Fetner Sustainable Enterprise Fellow. As…
Health Care Planning: Do You Need a Trust?
“Health Care Planning: Do You Need a Trust?” will be held at noon Tuesday, March 12, in conference room 369 in Link Hall. It will provide an overview of how trusts can be used to: protect assets against the costs…
IVMF Appoints SU Board of Trustees Chairman Richard L. Thompson G’67, Harvard’s Linda J. Bilmes to Advisory Board
The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University has announced the appointment of two new members to its external advisory board. They are chairman of the SU Board of Trustees Richard L. Thompson G’67, senior counsel, Patton Boggs LLP;…
German Author and Scholar Present Joint Reading on Holocaust Memories in Literature March 6
Susanna Piontek and Guy Stern will examine translation and fictionalization of actual memories The literary representation of Holocaust memories will be the subject of a presentation by the husband-and-wife team of Susanna Piontek and Guy Stern in Syracuse University’s College…
Raymond Carver Reading Series to Feature Award-Winning Novelist Justin Torres
The Spring 2013 Raymond Carver Reading Series continues with novelist Justin Torres, author of the critically acclaimed “We the Animals” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011) at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27, in Gifford Auditorium. The reading will be preceded by a…
College of Law Students Travel to South Africa to Study Transformative Justice
An 18-hour flight is just a short trip for Professor Deborah Kenn to lead 12 law students on an academic experience that will last a lifetime. Kenn, associate dean of clinical and experiential education and a professor at Syracuse University…
Create a Better World: SU Showcase Offers One-Credit Sustainability Workshops for All Students
Concerned about plastic waste? Spend a weekend with a visiting artist, refashioning plastic waste into art that sends a message about sustainability. Want to feel more connected to your ecosystem and the history of this region? Be part of a…
Gretchen Lopez Honored with Racial Justice Award
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…
Glorious Storytelling in August Wilson’s Politically Potent, Humorous ‘Two Trains Running’
In “Two Trains Running,” an optimistic ex-con enters the insular confines of Memphis Lee’s diner and awakens a cast of older and skeptical characters to the possibilities of a new era. Set in the turbulence of 1969, a time much like today, “Two Trains Running” is one of the most humorous and politically potent of Wilson’s 20th-Century Cycle plays.