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Library Awarded $280,000 NEH Grant for Phase Two of Marcel Breuer Digital Project

Thursday, April 11, 2013, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded the Syracuse University Library a $280,000 grant for phase two of a project that created a digital scholarly edition of the works of Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer. The new project, titled…

Five Candidates to Receive Honorary Degrees at 159th Commencement Exercises

Thursday, April 11, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The five 2013 honorary degree candidates are: Alan Gerry, Judith S. Kaye, Commencement speaker Nicholas Kristof, Wangarai Muta Maathai (posthumously), and Charles Payne ’70.

What’s Being Built on South: An Outdoor Challenge Course

Thursday, April 11, 2013, By News Staff

The word is out on the Division of Student Affairs campaign asking the question “What’s Being Built on South?” The Department of Recreation Services is building an outdoor challenge course on South Campus with an outdoor education center, which will…

Newhouse School Announces Finalists in 2013 Mirror Awards Competition

Wednesday, April 10, 2013, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications today announced the finalists in the 2013 Mirror Awards competition honoring excellence in media industry reporting. Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on June 5 in New York City. The finalists,…

Campus & Community

2013 Summer Institute on Creative Collaboration and Conflict Resolution

Tuesday, April 9, 2013, By News Staff

The Summer Institute is a series of 3-credit, workshop-style courses designed to enable participants to manage disputes and differences collaboratively in both professional and personal settings. The Institute draws on the highly regarded faculty of Syracuse University’s Maxwell School and…

Veterans

IVMF’s Haynie to Deliver Keynote Address at VA Tech ‘Veterans in Society’ Conference April 14

Tuesday, April 9, 2013, By News Staff

Mike Haynie, executive director and founder of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University (IVMF) and Barnes Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Whitman School of Management , will deliver the opening keynote address at the “Veterans in…

Foremost Expert on Religion, Morality to Present Lecture April 16

Tuesday, April 9, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Robert Merrihew Adams of UNC-Chapel Hill is defender of theistic morality The Syracuse University Humanities Center continues its spring symposium series with a lecture by one of the world’s leading authorities on morality, religion and metaphysics. Robert Merrihew Adams, Distinguished…

Students Organize Cardboard Campout, Donation Drive April 18 on SU Quad

Tuesday, April 9, 2013, By Michele Barrett

In the past year, an average of 235 people who might otherwise have been homeless stayed at the Rescue Mission shelter nightly. On April 18, 26 students enrolled in SPM 101, “Personal and Social Responsibility,”will sleep in cardboard boxes overnight…

Professor, Author George Saunders Wins PEN/Malamud Award

Monday, April 8, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Award comes amid success of Saunders’ ‘Tenth of December’ George Saunders G’88, professor of English in The College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected to receive the prestigious PEN/Malamud Award. Given annually since 1988 in honor of the late…

Take a Musical Journey to the South in ‘Violet’

Monday, April 8, 2013, By News Staff

Violet Karl has lived in her “stupid” town of Spruce Pine, N.C., her entire life, and she’s ready for a change. Bearing a facial scar accidentally left by her father at a young age, Violet sets off on a bus…