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Undergraduate Social Work Program Earns Top 10 Ranking from USA Today

Friday, October 10, 2014, By Michele Barrett

Syracuse University’s School of Social Work in the Falk College was ranked eighth out of 332 programs studied, according to recently released results published in USA Today. The rankings are based on data from College Factual’s outcome-based higher education rankings…

Message From Eric Spina and Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz Regarding Diversity and Inclusion

Friday, October 10, 2014, By News Staff

Dear Students, Faculty, and Staff, Last week more than 250 students, staff, and faculty attended the “Express Yourself: A Syracuse University Community Conversation on Diversity and Inclusion” forum at Hendricks Chapel. The event was organized by students and University leaders…

Campus & Community

Physicist to Speak on ‘Motile Matter’

Friday, October 10, 2014, By News Staff

Sriram Ramaswamy, director of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad, India, and a distinguished theoretical physicist, will speak Tuesday, Oct. 14, on “Motile Matter.” The lecture will take place at 7 p.m. in Watson Theater, and is presented by the…

Campus & Community

Golden Key School Supply Drive to Benefit Ed Smith School Now Underway

Thursday, October 9, 2014, By Keith Kobland

Members of Syracuse University chapter of Golden Golden Key International Honour Society are holding a school supply drive to benefit students at the Ed Smith School in the Syracuse City School District. The “SPARK A Change” school supply drive is…

Deborah A. Coquillon Memorial Award Helps Seniors ‘Pay It Forward’

Thursday, October 9, 2014, By Rob Enslin

When Tesia Kim ’13 began working for Teach for America, she found herself at a medical prep school in Chicago that was so poor, some of her students couldn’t afford binders and notebooks. “Two students didn’t have $25 for scrubs,”…

Arts & Culture

August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Masterpiece ‘The Piano Lesson’ Starts Oct. 22

Wednesday, October 8, 2014, By News Staff

In August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece “The Piano Lesson,” the past threatens to pull apart brother and sister. Bernice treasures a one-of-a-kind piano, an heirloom with carved figures of their enslaved ancestors. Boy Willie suddenly arrives from the South determined…

Application Period Opens for 10th Annual Winston Fisher Seminar

Wednesday, October 8, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

It’s only the second month of the new academic year and already the College of Arts and Sciences is busily preparing for the 10th annual Winston Fisher Seminar, a weeklong immersion program timed to coincide with spring break 2015. Named…

Three Will Be Honored with George Arents Award at Orange Central

Tuesday, October 7, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Richard M. Jones ’92, G’95, L’95, Angela Y. Robinson ’78 and Donald Schupak ’64, L’66 will receive the George Arents Award, the University’s highest alumni honor. The award recognizes alumni who are pioneers and leaders in their fields.

Women’s and Gender Studies, Office of Multicultural Affairs to Host Prominent Chicana Scholar

Monday, October 6, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

Laura Elisa Pérez, associate professor of ethnic studies, author, and the only Chicana scholar tenured in the College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Berkeley, will present a lecture titled, “Undocumented Flower Crossings, Walking Altars, and Latina/o…

STEM

Physicist Wins NSF Award to Advance Scientific Cyberinfrastructure

Monday, October 6, 2014, By News Staff

A professor in the College of Arts and Sciences has received a major grant to upgrade the cyberinfrastructure used by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) to search for gravitational waves. Gravitational waves are ripples in space-time that were first…