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Former Iraq War Refugee, Entrepreneur to Speak on ‘Rewriting Tragedy: Empowering the Displaced’

Wednesday, November 14, 2018, By News Staff

The Nonfiction Reading Series of the Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition is hosting a lecture and reading with Ahmed Badr on Thursday, Nov. 15, from 4-5:30 p.m. in 319 Sims Hall. Badr is an Iraq War refugee and…

STEM

SU Geologist is Co-Editor of New Major Book on Fission-Track Thermochronology

Tuesday, November 13, 2018, By Renée Gearhart Levy

Geologist Paul Fitzgerald, professor of Earth sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, is co-editor of a new book, “Fission-Track Thermochronology and Its Application to Geology” (Springer, 2018), the first major book on the subject in 20 years. The…

Campus & Community

Annual Wali Lecture to Address U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy Nov. 29

Tuesday, November 13, 2018, By Rob Enslin

The growing dangers of the current arms race is the subject of the next Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture in the Sciences and Humanities, hosted by the Syracuse University Humanities Center in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S). Frank N….

Campus & Community

Kathleen Walters ’73 Selected to Lead Syracuse University’s Board of Trustees

Monday, November 12, 2018, By News Staff

Syracuse University today announced that Kathleen Walters ’73, a distinguished member of the international business community, has been selected to lead Syracuse University’s Board of Trustees, succeeding current Board Chair Steve W. Barnes ’82, whose term ends in May 2019….

Campus & Community

Leading Disability Studies Scholars to Join Burton Blatt Institute

Tuesday, November 6, 2018, By News Staff

The Burton Blatt Institute (BBI), housed in Syracuse University’s College of Law, today announced that two leading disability studies scholars have joined the institute and will be charged with launching a new initiative, known as Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach. Steve…

Arts & Culture

Caird Fellowship Supports Summer Research

Tuesday, November 6, 2018, By Renée Gearhart Levy

Art historian Romita Ray spent the summer in residence at London’s National Maritime Museum conducting research on the tea trade Romita Ray, associate professor of art history and chair of the Department of Art and Music Histories in the College…

Campus & Community

Faculty Nominees Sought for Seinfeld Scholar Award

Tuesday, November 6, 2018, By News Staff

The Office of the Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs is inviting nominations for the Seinfeld Scholar Award, established in 2004 with a gift from Judith Greenberg Seinfeld ’56 to recognize passion for excellence, creativity and originality in academic or artistic…

STEM

NEXT 2018 Conference on Technology, Manufacturing and Biotech is Nov. 15 in Liverpool

Friday, November 2, 2018, By News Staff

Registration is open for NEXT 2018 on Thursday, Nov. 15, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Syracuse-Liverpool, 441 Electronics Parkway in Liverpool. Now in its fifth year, the NEXT conference focuses on innovation in technology, manufacturing…

STEM

SU Engineering Programs Awarded ABET Accreditation

Thursday, November 1, 2018, By Matt Wheeler

Following another successful evaluation, all eight engineering bachelor’s programs in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) have been awarded accreditation by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET. The programs include aerospace engineering, bioengineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, computer…

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Hendricks Chapel Student Leaders, Chaplains, Staff to Attend Parliament of the World’s Religions

Tuesday, October 30, 2018, By Delaney Van Wey

Over the course of the next week, a cohort of student leaders, chaplains and staff from Hendricks Chapel will attend the largest interfaith conference in the world, the Parliament of the World’s Religions. The parliament includes representation from dozens of…