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Illuminating Oppression: 8th Annual Human Rights Film Festival to feature award-winning films

Thursday, September 16, 2010, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Award-winning films come from around the world.

Campus & Community

Digital Witness Symposium explores how new digital media are transforming human rights activism

Thursday, September 16, 2010, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Illuminating Oppression: 8th Annual Human Rights Film Festival at Syracuse University will inaugurate a new strand of its annual programming this year with the Digital Witness Symposium on Friday, Oct. 1, at 11 a.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3.

Health & Society

USAID partnership program provides funding to SU’s School of Education for quality teaching education collaboration with Kenya’s Kenyatta University

Thursday, September 16, 2010, By Jennifer Russo

Syracuse University will receive $860,700 for “Building Capacity through Quality Teacher Preparation,” a partnership project between SU and Kenyatta University in Kenya, East Africa.

Arts & Culture

Pulitzer Prize-winning author, New Yorker staff writer Louis Menand to lecture at SU Oct. 7

Wednesday, September 15, 2010, By News Staff

Louis Menand, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New Yorker staff writer, will present “A Man is Shot: The Content of a Cinematic Technique,” Thursday, Oct. 7, in Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3.

Campus & Community

New Weight Watchers session begins Wednesday

Monday, September 13, 2010, By News Staff

Need to lose a few pounds? Join the next session of Weight Watchers on campus.

Arts & Culture

Wobick-Segev named postdoctoral teaching fellow in Judaic Studies

Friday, September 10, 2010, By News Staff

Postdoctoral teaching fellow creates an important bridge between Judaic Studies Program and the Department of History. Sarah Wobick-Segev joins Syracuse University faculty.

Campus & Community

Onondaga Health Department, SU partner to address campus tobacco-use policies

Friday, September 10, 2010, By News Staff

In an effort to reduce smoking and reduce exposure to secondhand smoke among college students, Syracuse University is partnering with the Onondaga County Health Department.

Media, Law & Policy

‘Barack Obama and 21st Century Politics’ breaks down revolutionary movements behind president’s campaign

Wednesday, September 8, 2010, By News Staff

A new book by Horace Campbell looks at the economic, political, and social forces that converged to form Obama’s electoral revolution.

Media, Law & Policy

South Asia Consortium awarded $1.7 million grant

Wednesday, September 8, 2010, By News Staff

The Maxwell School of Syracuse University has announced that the Cornell-Syracuse South Asia Consortium has been awarded a $1.737 million, four-year renewal grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

Arts & Culture

Best-selling author Deborah Tannen to speak on ‘family talk’ Sept. 16

Wednesday, September 8, 2010, By Erica Blust

Deborah Tannen, a best-selling author and university professor of linguistics at Georgetown University, will give the talk “She Said/He Said/We Said: How Family Talk Sheds Light on Language and Gender” on Thursday, Sept. 16, at 6 p.m.