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SU Humanities Center appoints faculty fellows
The Syracuse University Humanities Center has announced its internal faculty fellows for Spring 2012. They are Amy Kallander, assistant professor of history, as well as Rania Habib and Stefano Giannini, both assistant professors of languages, literatures and linguistics (LLL). The…
Memorial service planned for Friday for doctoral candidate Cheryl Spear
A memorial service for Cheryl Spear, doctoral candidate in Syracuse University’s School of Education and passionate advocate for disability, civil and human rights, will be held Friday, Jan. 20, at 6 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The service will be fully…
SU Press publishes ‘Off the Beaten Path,’ stories of people around the world from ProLiteracy’s Ruth Colvin
From the Sunshine Coast of South Africa to a remote ashram in India, Ruth Colvin and her husband have traveled around the world, visiting 62 countries and providing literacy training in 26 developing countries. The founder of Literacy Volunteers of…
‘Black Males/Black Dreams,’ a film by SU professors, to be screened at Newhouse Jan. 25
Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will host a screening of the film “Black Males/Black Dreams: Climbing to the Mountain Top” on Wednesday, Jan. 25, at 7 p.m. the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3. The event is…
SU in the News: Tuesday, January 10
Korea Times quotes Maxwell School’s Margaret Hermann on North Korea’s new leader Kim Jong-un
SU in the News: Thursday, January 5, 2012
SU participation in White House summer jobs youth employment program reported by Gannett Wire Service
Prestigious journal reviews book co-authored by Peter Blanck
The December 2011 issue of The American Historical Review includes a book review of “Race, Ethnicity, and Disability: Veterans and Benefits in Post-Civil War America” (Cambridge University Press, 2010), authored by Burton Blatt Institute chairman and University Professor Peter Blanck…
Paris Noir’s ‘jazz moment’
Popular study abroad program enters second decade In “Shadow and Act,” a collection of essays about the black experience, Ralph Ellison describes jazz as the “art of assertion within and against the group.” Each jazz moment, he writes, springs from…
SU in the News: Friday, December 16
New iSchool and Microsoft partnership in social networking experiment reported in industry media
It’s a queer world: Chancellor’s Leadership Project unites LGBT scholars, activists, artists from around the world
When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently announced at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Switzerland, that the United States would consider gay rights when making future aid and asylum decisions, she acknowledged what scholars and activists have…