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Arts & Culture

VPA’s Bradford Vivian to be honored by National Communication Association

Friday, October 14, 2011, By Erica Blust

The National Communication Association (NCA) has announced that Bradford Vivian, associate professor of communication and rhetorical studies in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), will receive its James A. Winans-Herber A. Wichlens Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship…

Arts & Culture

SU students participate in West African Dance Residency with master teacher

Friday, October 14, 2011, By News Staff

On Oct. 4, a select group of SU students who are either members of a multicultural student dance organization, or just dance lovers at heart, began a six-week artist-in-residence program learning traditional West African dance from master teacher Biboti Ouikahilo….

Arts & Culture

Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series presents award-winning novelist Terese Svoboda

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By News Staff

The Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series will continue on Oct. 26 with novelist Terese Svoboda, author of the recently published “Bohemian Girl” (Bison Books, 2011), which critics describe as a cross between “True Grit” and “Huckleberry Finn.” The reading…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Thursday, October 13

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By News Staff

Rehab Management magazine reports U.S. Department of Education support for BBI leadership of Southeast ADA Center

Arts & Culture

VPA announces associate dean appointments

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By Erica Blust

The College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) has announced two associate dean appointments. The appointments will allow Arthur Jensen, VPA’s senior associate dean of academic affairs and a professor of communication and rhetorical studies in the Department of Communication…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell School names two Robertson Fellows

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By News Staff

The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs enters its second year of collaboration with the Robertson Foundation for Government by naming the two newest Robertson Fellows. Laura Alexander of Tamarac, Fla., and Nathan Strand of Gaithersburg, Md., began their…

Arts & Culture

SU’s Ray Smith Symposium explores homosexuality, male culture in Renaissance Italy Oct. 20-21

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By Rob Enslin

The Ray Smith Symposium in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences continues its yearlong examination of “Sex and Power from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment” with a mini residency by Italian Renaissance scholar Michael Rocke. Rocke—the Nicky Mariano…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell’s Wilmoth, London to study intersection of veterans benefits, disability insurance

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By News Staff

Sociology professors Janet Wilmoth and Andrew London of the Maxwell School plan to study how veterans’ collection of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) disability compensation is related to use of Social Security Disability Insurance (DI). The two received an $85,817…

Arts & Culture

SU symposium explores legacy of Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa Oct. 21

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By Rob Enslin

Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian writer who won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, is the subject of a daylong symposium, organized and presented by the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics (LLL) in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and…

SU professor uncovers potential issues with apps built for Android systems

Wednesday, October 12, 2011, By News Staff

Wenliang Du, professor of computer science in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (LCS), has had his paper accepted to be presented at the 27th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, on potential issues with mobile applications (commonly…