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A Human Right to Adequate Food
As the House of Representatives decided this week to cuts billions of dollars from the federal food stamp program over the next decade, the Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi wants people to consider a different set of numbers.
La Casita to Host Special Program Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month
Local residents of Syracuse’s West Side, in close partnership with SU’s Hispanic communities, will co-host a celebration to commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month at La Casita Cultural Center. Sept. 20 will kick off the four-week program of special events, all of…
SU, Partners to Study Black Holes and Neutron Stars
Professor Duncan Brown receives NSF grant to help establish astrophysics network Physicists in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences have received a major federal grant to create the tools needed to understand the collisions of black holes and neutron…
18th-Century French Bookbinding: A Lecture in the Brodsky Series
Jeffrey S. Peachey, a book conservator, independent scholar and toolmaker, will present an illustrated lecture in the Brodsky Series for the Advancement of Library Conservation series titled “Reconstructing Diderot: Eighteenth Century French Bookbinding” on Thursday, Oct. 3, at 5 p.m. in…
‘Are Psychopaths Morally Responsible?’ Is Topic of Anbar Lecture
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Duke University ethicist, will deliver the sixth annual Anbar Family Lecture at Syracuse University and Temple Adath Yeshurun. His SU lecture, titled “Are Psychopaths Morally Responsible?” is Monday, Sept. 30, at 4 p.m. in the Killian Room (Room 500) at the Hall of Languages. The previous day,…
William F. Kelleher Jr. Dies
William Kelleher, associate professor of anthropology at the Maxwell School since 2005, passed away on Sept. 18 in Syracuse. A cultural anthropologist, Kelleher was an affiliate of the European Union Center in the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, and much…
Memorial Service for Rob Edson
A memorial service will be held today at 11 a.m. in Hendricks Chapel for Robert H. Edson ’90, Onondaga Community College’s athletic director and former senior associate athletics director for administration and chief financial officer with Syracuse University’s athletics department….
Critical Connections Lecture on Plastics by Robert Friedel
Robert Friedel, professor of technology and science at the University of Maryland, will present “Is it Real? Imitation and Style in the First Plastics” on Thursday, Sept. 26, at 5 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons on the first…
SU in the News: Wednesday, September 18
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The Goodness of Raw Materials
Chef Mary Ann Kiernan calls it “the mystery box of produce”—her weekly box of vegetables from a community-supported agriculture (CSA) program. As a chef, she finds it a fun challenge. But as a nutrition and food studies instructor, Kiernan has seen the trepidation in students as they try to compose a meal from a mystifying basket full of vegetables.