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Nicholson to Lead Session on Transformative Games
School of Information Studies (iSchool) faculty member Scott Nicholson will lead a session on transformative games at a meeting of the New York State Senate Select Committee on Science, Technology, Incubation and Entrepreneurship at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) tomorrow….
Deadline extended to Oct. 18 for Nutrition Consultation Program Sign Ups
The Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition in the Falk College wants to help SU and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry students, faculty and staff, and members of the community at large, improve eating habits and…
The Art of Listening: A Reading by Two Poets
On Thursday, Oct. 24, the YMCA’s Downtown Writers Center offers its third annual reading as a component of Syracuse Symposium, featuring two internationally acclaimed poets—Ilya Kaminsky and Stephen Kuusisto (one hearing-impaired, the other blind). They will read work from their…
GlobalPost Head Charles Sennott Will Visit Newhouse October 16
Charles M. Sennott, vice president, editor-at-large and co-founder of GlobalPost, will speak at the Newhouse School on Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 7 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3. His topic will be “Egypt’s Unfinished Revolution: Democracy and…
Black & Banned: Community Read-Out Planned
The Black Syracuse Project in the Department of African American Studies is organizing Black & Banned, a Community Read-Out for Banned Books Week, Sept. 22-28. This year’s event is a “town-gown” collaboration with the Beauchamp Branch of the Onondaga County…
Plastics Pioneers Reading Room to Open in Bird Library
On Friday, Sept. 27, from 2:30–4 p.m., the Plastics Pioneers Reading Room, a gift of donors Glenn and Patsy Beall, will officially be dedicated and opened on the sixth floor of Syracuse University’s Bird Library. The public is invited to…
George Saunders Kicks Off Fall 2013 Raymond Carver Reading Series
George Saunders G’88, one of this year’s most celebrated American writers, will kick off Syracuse University’s Fall 2013 Raymond Carver Reading Series at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18, in Gifford Auditorium. A question-and-answer session will precede the reading from 3:45-4:30…
‘Dead Man Walking’ Author Helen Prejean to Deliver Borgognoni Lecture Oct. 7
Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun who is a leading voice for the abolition of the death penalty, will present the 2013 Joseph and Amelia Borgognoni Lecture at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, in Maxwell Auditorium. Titled “Dead Man…
Newhouse’s Gallagher Launches College Longreads, Highlights Best of College Journalism
Aileen Gallagher, assistant professor of magazine at the Newhouse School, has launched College Longreads in partnership with the content curator Longreads. Each week, Gallagher helps Longreads highlight the best of college journalism. Recent picks include “Without Rules: The Untold Story…
SU Literacy Corps Application Deadline Extended
SU LITERACY CORPS IS HIRING – DUE 9/13 SU Literacy Corps tutors work with elementary-level students on sites in the Syracuse City School District using an established tutoring model. Students from all majors are welcome (and encouraged!) to apply. For…