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SU announces new, proactive public safety initiative in partnership with Syracuse City Police

Thursday, October 18, 2012, By News Staff

Syracuse University today announced a new, proactive safety initiative that will further enhance security on and around campus. Beginning today, a newly created University Area Crime-control Team (UACT), staffed jointly by the SU Department of Public Safety (DPS) and the…

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Remembrance Scholars announce schedule for Remembrance Week 2012

Thursday, October 18, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University’s Remembrance Week 2012 will be held on the SU campus Oct. 21-27. The weeklong series of events honors the 270 people—including 35 students studying abroad through Syracuse University—who lost their lives in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988.

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Panel to continue discussion led by Dalai Lama

Tuesday, October 9, 2012, By News Staff

“The Past Is Not Past: The Continuing Quest for Racial Justice and Peace,” featuring former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and human rights advocate Martin Luther King III, will take place Tuesday, Oct. 9, from 1-3 p.m. in Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium…

Arts & Culture

‘Moby Dick’ opens Syracuse Stage’s 40th season

Monday, October 8, 2012, By News Staff

Alive with a soundscape of 18 authentic sea chanteys and performed by an ensemble of nine, Syracuse Stage’s highly physical adaption of “Moby Dick” cuts to the core of Herman Melville’s searing narrative and plays with the fury of a…

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Call for nominations for the Chancellor’s Citations for Excellence

Thursday, October 4, 2012, By News Staff

The Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence seeks to recognize enactment of Education for the World—in the World, through which we prepare students for the world by embedding their learning in the midst of community and the pressing issues of the day…

Imagining America: Art as Civic Engagement

Monday, October 1, 2012, By Keith Kobland

Kevin Bott is beaming. It’s 20 minutes before show time and he warmly welcomes a visitor to the Saturday night performance.

A winter’s tale

Wednesday, September 26, 2012, By Kathleen Haley

Central New Yorkers all have their winter war stories.

Distinguished Professor of Geography and lake-effect snow researcher Mark Monmonier can clearly remember the details of his own.

Former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy to speak at Syracuse University

Monday, September 17, 2012, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s College Democrats and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI-SU) will host a visit by former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy to Syracuse University on Wednesday, Oct. 10, at 7 p.m. in the Schine Student Center’s Goldstein Auditorium. Kennedy’s…

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend delivers inaugural Borgognoni Lecture Oct. 15

Thursday, September 13, 2012, By Rob Enslin

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend—eldest daughter of late U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy and author of “Failing America’s Faithful: How Today’s Churches Are Mixing God With Politics and Losing Their Way” (Warner Books, 2007)—is visiting Syracuse University. Townsend will deliver the inaugural Joseph…

Arts & Culture

Two world premieres among the highlights of Syracuse Symposium 2012

Tuesday, August 28, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

With the theme “Memory-Media-Archive,” Syracuse Symposium, the annual semester-long intellectual and artistic festival, will kick off Sept. 14 with the world premiere of “Cry for Peace: Voices From the Congo.” Originally workshopped in Syracuse in 2010,“Cry for Peace” is based…