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Campus & Community

Tutorial offered on Visual History Archive, world’s largest collection of eyewitness accounts of Holocaust

Monday, April 19, 2010, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Librarian Lydia Wasylenko and Professor Sam Gruber will introduce the Visual History Archive as an instructional and research tool to interested faculty and students at a special meeting on Friday, April 23, at 10 a.m. in 204 Tolley.

Campus & Community

YWCA to honor two SU community members April 21

Friday, April 16, 2010, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Two longtime members of the Syracuse University community will receive the Diversity Achievers Award from the YWCA of Syracuse and Onondaga County.

Campus & Community

Hendricks Chapel hosts ‘Celebrating Unity Without Uniformity: An Open Conversation with Rabbi Brad Hirschfield’ on April 21

Thursday, April 15, 2010, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University’s Hendricks Chapel will host “Celebrating Unity Without Uniformity: An Open Conversation with Rabbi Brad Hirschfield,” on Wednesday, April 21, at 7 p.m. in the chapel’s Noble Room. The event is sponsored by Hendricks Chapel, Hillel at Syracuse University…

Campus & Community

Attorney Paul Kerson to discuss Holocaust property seizure and legal recovery April 16

Monday, April 12, 2010, By Rob Enslin

New York attorney Paul Kerson will lead a discussion at Syracuse University about Nazi property seizure and the story of a long legal battle leading to recompense for elderly holocaust survivors.

Campus & Community

SU Project Advance fills the gap for high school economics teachers—economically

Friday, April 9, 2010, By News Staff

Over the last several decades, the emphasis on economics at the high school level has drastically increased; however teacher preparation for the subject has lagged behind.

Media, Law & Policy

Filmmakers Robert Katz, Douglas Quin to present ‘Were the House Still Standing’ April 12

Monday, April 5, 2010, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Filmmakers Robert Katz and Douglas Quin will discuss testimony, digital storytelling and the role of art in interpreting the Holocaust and its legacy, and will host a screening of their film “Were the House Still Standing: Maine Survivors and Liberators Remember the Holocaust” at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Monday, April 12.

Media, Law & Policy

Nobel Peace Prize nominee Volkan to speak at ‘Translating Peace’ event Thursday at Maxwell School

Wednesday, March 31, 2010, By News Staff

Vamik Djemal Volkan, emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia and a three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, will be the keynote speaker for “Translating Peace: Multicultural Responses to Conflict and Disaster,” a panel to be held Thursday, April 1 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Public Events Room, 220 Eggers Hall.

Arts & Culture

SU Library Associates to present ‘The Political Fortunes of Robin Hood on the Late Elizabethan Stage’ April 22

Wednesday, March 31, 2010, By News Staff

Syracuse University Library Associates will present its annual Mary Marshall Lecture on April 22 at 5 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, on the first floor in E.S. Bird Library, 222 Waverly Avenue.

Acclaimed photographer Annie Leibovitz will conclude stellar University Lectures season on April 29

Monday, March 22, 2010, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

She will visit Syracuse University on Thursday, April 29.

Campus & Community

SU Showcase to feature University’s first rain garden

Monday, March 22, 2010, By News Staff

Syracuse University will soon install its first rain garden to enhance campus sustainability by reducing stormwater runoff from Waverly parking lot.