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Arts & Culture

La Casita Celebrates ‘Diversity in Reading’ in April

Monday, March 21, 2016, By Rob Enslin

April is “Diversity in Reading” month at La Casita Cultural Center in the College of Arts and Sciences. All month, the center is presenting various events and activities, beginning with two book-launch parties, designed to raise awareness of and support…

Arts & Culture

UVP Features ‘Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud’

Friday, March 18, 2016, By News Staff

Urban Video Project (UVP), Light Work and the Everson Museum of Art are presenting dual exhibitions of work by multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk, including new video and fabric-based prints created during her Light Work 2015 UVP artist residency. Woolfalk’s work…

Arts & Culture

Painting Student Illustrates Confidence, Complexities of Subjects

Thursday, March 17, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

Julie Pratt’s painted portraits are bold, colorful. Pratt ’16 taps into her subjects as emotional beings and expresses that on canvas, capturing them in larger-than-life paintings.

Arts & Culture

Humanities Center to Host Dinner-Workshop on ‘Urban Acupuncture’ March 24

Thursday, March 17, 2016, By Rob Enslin

The Humanities Center, based in the College of Arts and Sciences, is presenting a workshop on “urban acupuncture”—the use of small-scale interventions to transform the larger urban fabric—in the City of Syracuse. The event, which includes dinner, will take place…

Arts & Culture

Author to Speak on ‘Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display’

Thursday, March 17, 2016, By Erica Blust

Scholar Jennifer Tyburczy will deliver a talk on her book “Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display” (University of Chicago Press, 2015) on Thursday, March 24, at 5 p.m. in Life Sciences Building 001. A reception and book signing…

Arts & Culture

‘The Passenger’s Present’ at Light Work

Thursday, March 17, 2016, By News Staff

Light Work will present “The Passenger’s Present,” featuring the work of Miki Soejima, on view in the Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery at Light Work from March 21 through July 22. A reception and lecture with Soejima will take place on…

STEM

Peer to Peer

Thursday, March 17, 2016, By Amy Manley

In the traditional college learning structure, students enter the classroom and place their focus on the classroom instructor. But researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences biology department are finding that higher levels of academic success may be achieved…

Campus & Community

Six Ways to Make Your St. Patrick’s Day Grand

Wednesday, March 16, 2016, By Arielle Spears

Eat, drink and be merry, but for the love of all that’s right, don’t wish someone a “Happy St. Patty’s Day!”

Nominating Judge Merrick Garland and Calling the Senate’s Bluff

Wednesday, March 16, 2016, By Ellen Mbuqe

Associate Professor Thomas Keck, the Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics at the Maxwell School, offers analysis of the new Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garlan. “D.C. Circuit Judge Merrick Garland is a distinguished jurist, eminently qualified to serve on…

STEM

iSchool, Mercyhurst University Partner for Accelerated Graduate Programs

Tuesday, March 15, 2016, By J.D. Ross

The School of Information Studies (iSchool) has announced a partnership with the Ridge College of Intelligence Studies and Applied Sciences at Mercyhurst University intended to attract more students to today’s high-demand information management fields. Mercyhurst and Syracuse made the agreement official during…