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Suzanne Guiod appointed editor in chief at Syracuse University Press

Monday, April 16, 2012, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Syracuse University Press has announced the appointment of Suzanne E. Guiod to the position of editor in chief, effective June 16. Guiod has served as editorial director of the University of Rochester Press since 2004, where she has overseen the…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell’s Model U.N. team named Outstanding Delegation

Monday, April 16, 2012, By News Staff

Maxwell’s Model United Nations delegation won top honors following a week-long conference in New York City. The team of 20 undergraduate international relations students represented the Republic of Gabon, earning an Outstanding Delegation Award for the simulation. Several students took…

Conference to explore community-based activism

Monday, April 16, 2012, By News Staff

Syracuse University will present: “Reading, Writing, and Speaking for Change: Conference on Activism, Rhetoric and Research (CARR),” from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday, May 5, in the Hall of Languages. Keynote speakers are Seth Kahn of West Chester University of…

Elevating environmentally: 2012 SU, SUNY-ESF grads to wear sustainable Commencement gowns

Monday, April 16, 2012, By News Staff

At the Syracuse University/SUNY-ESF 2012 Commencement celebration May 13, nearly 98,000 plastic bottles will be on display in the Carrier Dome, not in their original container shape, but in the form of 3,900 graduation gowns donned by students. New this…

SU humanities panel explores ‘cultural politics of images’ April 18

Monday, April 16, 2012, By Rob Enslin

The cultural politics of images is the subject of the next installment of “IMAGES? Precisely!,” a lecture series organized by Mark Linder, inaugural Chancellor’s Fellow in the Humanities, as part of the Syracuse University Humanities Center’s new Transdisciplinary Humanities Project….

La Casita to screen ‘Papers: Stories of Undocumented Youth’

Monday, April 16, 2012, By News Staff

From April 9-17, a group of 15 undocumented youth and their supporters are walking 150 miles from New York City to Albany to raise awareness of, and gain support for, the New York Dream Act, which would remove barriers to…

Paul Roberts to deliver SU Showcase keynote on realities of a sustainable future

Monday, April 16, 2012, By News Staff

How do we build a sustainable future, especially when much of the present seems so unsustainable? Journalist and author Paul Roberts will tackle this issue during his SU Showcase keynote presentation, “The Real Cost of Change: The Economic and Political…

VPA’s Doug DuBois awarded 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship in photography

Friday, April 13, 2012, By Erica Blust

Doug DuBois, an associate professor and program coordinator of art photography in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), has been awarded a 2012 fellowship in photography from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The foundation awarded fellowships…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Thursday, April 12

Thursday, April 12, 2012, By News Staff

Accounting Today reports on TRAC information about IRS program to audit ultrawealthy

Health & Society

Wellness Week, April 15-20, spotlights healthy opportunities on campus

Thursday, April 12, 2012, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s first annual Wellness Week, sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs, will take place from Sunday, April 15 through Friday, April 20. Events during Wellness Week are designed to provide students with fun and creative ways to learn…