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Campus & Community

Live Virtual Conference: ‘Accessing Higher Ground’

Monday, November 3, 2014, By Christopher C. Finkle

All SU faculty and staff are invited to the virtual version of “Accessing Higher Ground,” a live, web-based conference focused on accessible media, web and technology, presented by the Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD). The 17th annual conference…

Campus & Community

Individuals, Student Groups Invited to Audition for 2015 MLK Celebration

Monday, November 3, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Individual students and student performing groups are invited to audition to perform at Syracuse University’s 30th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, “Remember. Celebrate. Act” on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, in the Carrier Dome. Applications are available at http://Hendricks.syr.edu and…

Urban Video Project Presents Sanford Biggers’ ‘Shuffle’ and ‘Shake’

Monday, November 3, 2014, By Anneka Herre

Urban Video Project (UVP) and parent organization Light Work are pleased will present “Shuffle”(2009) and “Shake” (2011) by celebrated multimedia artist Sanford Biggers from Nov. 6-Dec. 27. This screening marks the second major exhibition in Urban Video Project’s year-long curatorial…

Veterans

Gen. Martin Dempsey Discusses Leadership in Challenging Times

Monday, November 3, 2014, By Kathleen Haley

Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the 18th chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, shared his thoughts on global security challenges, the qualities of a good leader and the importance of a life in public service as part of a lecture Friday at Dineen Hall.

Express Yourself Workgroups Established

Monday, November 3, 2014, By News Staff

More than 100 students, staff and faculty members have volunteered their time to serve on the workgroups established following the Express Yourself Forum held Oct. 2 at Hendricks Chapel. The workgroups will be meeting over the next three weeks, and…

NPR Host and Author Michele Norris to Keynote 30th Annual MLK Celebration

Friday, October 31, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Michele Norris, National Public Radio host and special correspondent and creator of the Race Card Project (which involves people constructing six-word essays about race, which they then write on postcards), will be the keynote speaker for Syracuse University’s 30th annual…

Middle Eastern Studies Program Names New Director

Thursday, October 30, 2014, By News Staff

Karin Ruhlandt, interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and James Steinberg, dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, have announced that Assistant Professor of Political Science Yüksel Sezgin has been named director of the Middle Eastern…

STEM

Ryan Milcarek’s NASA Experience Fuels Inspiration

Thursday, October 30, 2014, By Matt Wheeler

Ryan Milcarek spent mornings over a long weekend in May dining with astronauts. There were brief introductions—Where are you from? What do you study?—But the conversation quickly turned to combustion and fuel cells. Over eggs and coffee, veteran astronaut Jerry…

@SyracuseUNews Tips

Thursday, October 30, 2014, By Keith Kobland

Syracuse University faculty discuss the explosion of an unmanned NASA rocket and Hawaiian lava flow.

Arts & Culture

Professor Explores Critical Response to Lloyd Webber’s ‘Phantom of the Opera’

Wednesday, October 29, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Critical response to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera,” within the political and economic milieu of the Thatcher/Reagan era, is the subject of a scholarly article by a professor in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Amanda…