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Avoiding Conflicts By Improving Cultural Understanding
When the Red Cross sent food to drought- and conflict-ravaged Somalia, military personnel distributed the supplies on a first-come, first-served basis. People who didn’t receive food responded by starting a riot. “The military didn’t understand that the local politics of…
Raymond Carver Reading Series Hosts Poet Ari Banias
Accomplished poet Ari Banias, author of the recently published “Anybody: Poems” (W.W. Norton & Co.), is the next guest author in the Raymond Carver Reading Series, on Wednesday, Oct. 19. He will take part in a Q&A at 3:45 p.m….
National Pan-Hellenic Council Hosts Panel with Renowned Social Justice Leaders
On Wednesday, Oct. 5, the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) is hosting a panel discussion featuring civil rights leader, author and historian Mary Frances Berry, NAACP Chairman Roslyn McCallister Brock and social activist the Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou. The panel begins…
United Way Campaign Aims to Be a ‘Game Changer’
Following the most successful United Way campaign in campus history in 2015, Peter Sala, vice president and chief campus facilities officer, and Dr. Ruth Chen, professor of practice in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, will again co-chair the…
Syracuse University Dialogue to Examine the Roles of Media, Law and Politics in Syrian Conflict
Accountability in the Syrian conflict will be the focus of a daylong event hosted by the Newhouse Center for Global Engagement in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications next month.
Carver Series Mourns Loss of SU Alumna, Announces Additional Author
The Sept. 28 Raymond Carver Reading Series appearance of noted poet/journalist Ilyse Kusnetz G’92 has been canceled. Kusnetz, an alumna of Syracuse’s M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing, died Sept. 13, succumbing to cancer. Kusnetz was the Sue Luzadder Chair in…
Q&A with New VPA Dean Michael Tick
New College of Visual and Performing Arts Dean Michael S. Tick wants to get to know members of the VPA community in their element—whether it’s at a concert, play, exhibition, film screening, symposia or other performance or event.
La Casita to Host ‘¡Familia!’ and Latino Baseball Exhibits, Panel Discussion
La Casita Cultural Center, a program of the College of Arts and Sciences, kicks off Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15-Oct. 15) with back-to-back events devoted to Latinos in baseball and to a themed community collective called “¡Familia!,” taking place in…
Finding the Needle in the Haystack
Sitting casually in the expansive Grand Hall of the Whitman School, Diethard Struelens leans in when asked about his background. “I’ve always said I’m an ordinary guy with extraordinary ambitions.” Lucky for Syracuse University, those ambitions have landed the international…