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Campus & Community

fullCIRCLE Seeks Students to Become Peer Mentors

Monday, February 22, 2016, By Gerard McTigue

The fullCIRCLE Mentoring Program in the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) is currently looking for students to become peer mentors for the 2016-17 academic year and assist first-year and transfer students in succeeding at the University. Members of the program’s…

Campus & Community

NAACP SU Unit Heads to University of Rochester for Black Student Summit

Friday, February 19, 2016, By News Staff

The Syracuse University Unit of the NAACP is partnering with students at the University of Rochester for the 2016 Joint Collegiate Black Student Summit, which they have invited everyone to attend. The summit is being held from March 4-6 at…

Campus & Community

School of Information Studies

Thursday, February 18, 2016, By News Staff

The following students enrolled in the School of Information Studies (iSchool) were named to the Dean’s List for the Fall 2015 semester. To qualify for the Dean’s List, students must achieve at least a 3.4 grade point average (on a…

Arts & Culture

Humanities Center Closes Out Month with High-Profile Events

Thursday, February 18, 2016, By Rob Enslin

The Humanities Center, based in the College of Arts and Sciences, wraps up February with a quartet of high-profile events. It features visits by Jonathan Dueck, an award-winning ethnomusicologist at George Washington University (GW); Alicia Garza, founder of the Black…

Campus & Community

SU Student Will Screen First Documentary ‘Black en Spain’

Wednesday, February 17, 2016, By News Staff

“Black en Spain” is a documentary about discovery, identity and living life to the fullest. Created by Syracuse University senior Danielle Reed, dual African American Studies and Spanish major, the film follows 13 adventurers currently living in Spain. Their unapologetic…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage Presents Classic ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’

Wednesday, February 17, 2016, By Joseph Whelan

Harper Lee’s classic American tale of courage and justice takes the stage as Syracuse Stage presents “To Kill a Mockingbird” Feb. 24-March 26, directed by producing artistic director Timothy Bond. Through the familiar story of small-town lawyer Atticus Finch, his…

Boutros Boutros-Ghali and “The beginning of modern international criminal law”

Tuesday, February 16, 2016, By Ellen Mbuqe

Syracuse, NY… Syracuse University College of Law professors are available for comment on the passing of Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the former UN secretary general. Both professors can be reached by contacting Robert Conrad, communications director at the College of Law at…

Campus & Community

S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

Monday, February 15, 2016, By News Staff

The following students enrolled in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications were named to the Dean’s List for the Fall 2015 semester. To qualify for the Dean’s List, students must achieve at least a 3.5 grade point average (on…

STEM

University Hosts Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics

Friday, February 12, 2016, By Rob Enslin

More than 100 undergraduate women in physics—some from as far away as the University of Maine and Rutgers University—recently converged on campus to discuss their changing role in the field. In January, Syracuse University was one of nine institutions to…

Arts & Culture

CFAC Presents ‘As Bad as I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood’

Tuesday, February 9, 2016, By News Staff

Community Folk Art Center opens the spring 2016 exhibition season with “As Bad as I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood,” featuring the works of artists Delita Martin, Kenyatta Hinkle and Nina Buxenbaum. These emerging mixed media artists interrogate femininity, gender…