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Arts & Culture

Kal Alston Appointed Interim Executive Director of Community Folk Art Center

Thursday, October 6, 2016, By Rob Enslin

Kal Alston has been named interim executive director of the Community Folk Art Center (CFAC) for the rest of the 2016-17 academic year, according to a recent statement by Karin Ruhlandt, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.Ruhlandt made…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Symposium Invites People to Discover USC Visual History Archive Oct. 10

Thursday, October 6, 2016, By Rob Enslin

Syracuse Symposium continues its yearlong examination of “Place” with a special visit by an audiovisual historian from the University of Southern California (USC). Emilie Garrigou-Kempton, academic relations and outreach officer at the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive (VHA), will lead…

Business & Economy

Whitman’s Falcone Center Honored with NASDAQ Center of Entrepreneurial Excellence Award

Thursday, October 6, 2016, By Arielle Spears

The Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship in the Whitman School of Management recently received the 2016 NASDAQ Center of Entrepreneurial Excellence award from the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers, an organization that brings together entrepreneurship centers to advance excellence in entrepreneurship….

Media, Law & Policy

Student Film Will Air at Big Apple Film Festival Next Month

Wednesday, October 5, 2016, By Wendy S. Loughlin

A film by Newhouse School television, radio and film student Brian Yuran has been accepted into the Big Apple Film Festival in the Narrative Shorts category. The festival will be held Nov. 1-5, in New York City. Yuran’s film, “Blood…

Health & Society

New Stuttering Lab Resurrects Strong SU Research Tradition

Wednesday, October 5, 2016, By Elizabeth Droge-Young

Victoria Tumanova’s stuttering research lab in the communications sciences and disorders department resumes a long SU tradition of research on the subject. Tumanova, along with two undergraduate and two graduate students, explores the causes and persistence of stuttering in children…

Arts & Culture

SU Press Book Wins Canadian Jewish Literary Award

Wednesday, October 5, 2016, By Mona Hamlin

The Syracuse University Press book “Vilna My Vilna: Stories” has been selected as one of the eight outstanding books chosen to receive the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for 2016. “Vilna My Vilna” was selected in the Yiddish category. “Vilna My…

Campus & Community

Middle States Information Sessions Set for Friday

Wednesday, October 5, 2016, By Carol Boll

Two information sessions are scheduled Friday to update interested students, faculty and staff about the University’s work, now under way, to secure reaccreditation from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. The sessions will be 11 a.m.-noon and 2-3 p.m….

Campus & Community

Celebrating Cross-Cultural Connections

Wednesday, October 5, 2016, By Renée K. Gadoua

A group of local middle and high school students spent a day this summer at Skä•noñh—Great Law of Peace Center in Liverpool. They were there to learn about a new curriculum that highlights scientific and ecological knowledge of the Haudenosaunee….

Campus & Community

Update on Title IX Review

Wednesday, October 5, 2016, By News Staff

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: I am writing to you today to provide an update on the University’s Title IX review currently underway with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR). As you may know, in June…

Campus & Community

Join the Club: Active Minds

Wednesday, October 5, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

Heading to college is a huge transition. Some may struggle to adjust. Members of Active Minds, such as Jenesis Gayden ’18, wants other students to know there are many resources that can help.