Search Results for: ,epA

Campus & Community

Call for SU Honorary Degree nominations deadline extended to Oct. 17

Thursday, October 4, 2012, By News Staff

The Syracuse University Senate Committee on Honorary Degrees invites all students, faculty, staff and alumni to nominate candidates to receive honorary degrees at the 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 Commencement ceremonies. Deadline for all nominations is Oct. 17, 2012. Persons…

Remembering Bassel

Thursday, October 4, 2012, By Kathleen Haley

Shortly before his death in his homeland of Syria last May, graduate film student Bassel Shahade was thinking of his friends back at SU. “The last e-mail I have from him was on May 21st,” says College of Visual and Performing Arts film professor Owen Shapiro. “He wrote ‘Say hi to everyone there. I will try to stay alive. Hoping to see you soon.’”

Final ticket opportunity for Common Ground for Peace symposium on Oct. 8

Thursday, October 4, 2012, By News Staff

Public invited to submit questions online for panel discussions moderated by NBC national and international news correspondent Ann Curry.

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Wednesday, October 3

Wednesday, October 3, 2012, By News Staff

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE New York Times and Post-Standard reports on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s recent visit to the area noted Syracuse University Chancellor Cantor accompanied him on the tour of public and private economic development projects including the Connective…

Tracy Metz book signing, talk address Netherlands landscape in relationship to water

Wednesday, October 3, 2012, By Elaine Wackerow

Tracy Metz, an American-born journalist and author on art, architecture, urban planning and the landscape, will present a talk about her new book, “Sweet & Salt: Water and the Dutch” (NAi 2012) in Slocum Hall Auditorium Tuesday, Oct. 9, at…

Study on self-healing curved crystals published in ‘Nature Materials’

Wednesday, October 3, 2012, By News Staff

In a paper just published in Nature Materials, a team of researchers including Syracuse University physicist Mark Bowick has succeeded in creating a defect in the structure of a single-layer crystal by inserting an extra particle, and then watching as the crystal “heals” itself.

Campus & Community

Call for programs:Third Annual Values Academy for Culturally Based Fraternities and Sororities

Wednesday, October 3, 2012, By News Staff

The third annual Values Academy conference, hosted by Syracuse University’s Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs will take place Nov. 16-17 on the campus of Syracuse University. This one-and-a-half day event will offer specific training and education for students and…

Campus & Community

Disabilities as Ways of Knowing: A Series of Creative Writing Conversations — Anne Finger visits SU

Tuesday, October 2, 2012, By News Staff

Ms. Anne Finger, renowned author and longstanding disability rights activist, will be visiting the Syracuse University campus this October, to join us in celebrating Disability Awareness Month, and to inaugurate what is hoped to be an annual series of disability-themed…

Campus & Community

Without Walls: Four Events with the Rev. Kirk VanGilder

Tuesday, October 2, 2012, By News Staff

Without Walls: Do Religions Need Institutions? Sunday, Oct. 28 Protestant Service, Main Chapel Hendricks Chapel, SU Campus 11 a.m.-noon As mainline denominations enter the 21st century, heated debates about declining institutional membership raise important questions about the shape of religious…

Ad executive Lisa Unsworth ’84 to speak at Newhouse

Tuesday, October 2, 2012, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Lisa Unsworth ’84, managing partner and chief marketing officer with Arnold Worldwide, will visit the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Friday, Oct. 5. She will speak at 10:30 a.m. in Room 251, Newhouse 3. She is a guest…