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Campus & Community

New spring courses on sustainability

Friday, November 2, 2012, By News Staff

Students and advisers: please check out the list of undergraduate spring courses on sustainability and environmental issues. There are new courses on topics ranging from Hurricane Katrina to biomimicry to sustainable engineering, and many established courses, like Art and Environment,…

Arts & Culture

‘Documenting Dissent I’ forum is Nov. 14

Friday, November 2, 2012, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Interested in student research? Students in Professor Joan Bryant’s African American Studies research methods seminar made use of resources from SU Library’s Special Collections Research Center to conduct research projects related to this year’s Ray Smith Symposium “Positions of Dissent.”…

Campus & Community

Alumni, friends welcomed back to campus Nov. 8-11 for annual Orange Central celebration

Friday, November 2, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

After a week of student activities to pump up the Orange spirit, Syracuse University’s annual Orange Central celebration will culminate in an expanded Homecoming + Reunion for alumni and friends Nov. 8-11.

Arts & Culture

Student-faculty projects draw international spotlight

Friday, November 2, 2012, By Carol Boll

When architecture professor Anda French looks at downtown Syracuse, she sees more than a city; she sees a studio for creating spontaneous stories and generating interactive conversations.

Arts & Culture

Thom Filicia ’93 to sign copies of new book as part of SU’s Orange Central

Thursday, November 1, 2012, By Erica Blust

Renowned interior designer Thom Filicia, a 1993 graduate of Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), will sign copies of his new book, “American Beauty: Renovating and Decorating a Beloved Retreat”(Clarkson Potter), on Friday, Nov. 9, from 4-5:30…

Arts & Culture

Setnor School reschedules concert of new music from faculty composers for Nov. 7

Thursday, November 1, 2012, By Erica Blust

The Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts will present a concert of new music from faculty composers on Wednesday, Nov. 7, at 8 p.m. in the Rose and…

Arts & Culture

New group exhibition at XL Projects explores notion of the habitual

Thursday, November 1, 2012, By Erica Blust

“Habitual” includes work by City Meditation Crew and VPA students Emily Dunlap, Lily Fein, Nicholas Krapf, Cayla Lockwood, Joel Weissman and Jian Zhong.

STEM

Engineers study how contaminated soil can be drained, utilized

Thursday, November 1, 2012, By News Staff

LCS research published in Geosynthetics International Each year, 400 million cubic yards of soil are dredged from water bodies in the United States alone. Much of this byproduct is contaminated, deemed unusable and put into landfills. Mahmoud M. Khachan, Shobha…

Arts & Culture

Journey to success is topic of next African American Studies 2012 Colloquium series

Thursday, November 1, 2012, By News Staff

National political commentator and scholar Adolphus Belk Jr. ’97 will present “How I Got Over: Lessons from One Man’s Journey to Success,” 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, in 219Sims Hall. The lecture is part of the 2012 Fall Colloquium series…

Arts & Culture

SU’s Ray Smith Symposium focuses on Latino/a ‘Homeland’ Nov. 8-9

Thursday, November 1, 2012, By Rob Enslin

The Ray Smith Symposium titled “Moving Borders: The Culture and Politics of Displacement in and from Latin America and the Caribbean,”  continues Nov. 8-9 with events pertaining to issues of “Homeland.” (A cluster of events under the umbrella of “Borders”…