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Campus & Community

New University center will focus resources on public health promotion

Monday, October 3, 2011, By News Staff

Alumnus funds Lerner Center

Arts & Culture

Imagining America’s Dream Freedom Revival to begin Sunday, Oct. 9

Monday, October 3, 2011, By Jamie Haft

Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA) will inaugurate an ongoing campus-community art, humanities and democracy project on Sunday, Oct. 9, at 2 p.m. at La Casita Cultural Center at 109 Otisco St., with a performance, meal and conversation….

Campus & Community

SU Humanities Center, physics department team up for Wali Lecture Oct. 6

Wednesday, September 28, 2011, By Rob Enslin

Renowned particle physicist Ian Shipsey will deliver the Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture in the Sciences and Humanities at Syracuse University. The lecture, “Bionic Hearing: The Science and the Experience,” is on Thursday, Oct. 6, at 4 p.m. in Maxwell Auditorium….

Arts & Culture

Art and science historians headline new ‘transdisciplinary humanities’ series at SU

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, By Rob Enslin

Art historian James Elkins and science historian Michael Lynch will headline the first installment of “IMAGES? Precisely!,” a new lecture series presented by The Syracuse University Humanities Center. The multimedia program, which is free and open to the public, is…

STEM

Endowed gift expands neuroscience program in The College of Arts and Sciences

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, By News Staff

Sandra J. Hewett appointed inaugural Bishop Professor Beverly Petterson Bishop ’44 and Charles Bishop ’42, G’44 graduated from Syracuse University in 1944, she with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, he a master’s degree in chemistry. They went on to earn…

Campus & Community

Director appointed for new Disability Cultural Center

Wednesday, September 21, 2011, By News Staff

The Division of Student Affairs has appointed Diane R. Wiener as the first director of SU’s new Disability Cultural Center. Wiener will begin on Oct. 17. “Dr. Wiener is to fill an important role at Syracuse University,” says Thomas V….

Arts & Culture

VPA’s Takesue wins Futurestates Audience Award

Tuesday, September 20, 2011, By Erica Blust

Kimi Takesue, assistant professor of film in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Transmedia, had her ITVS/PBS-commissioned narrative film “That Which Once Was” receive the Futurestates Audience Award.

Arts & Culture

Creative writing program ranked fifth in country

Tuesday, September 20, 2011, By Cyndi Moritz

The creative writing M.F.A. program in the Department of English in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences was recently named one of the top programs in the nation by Poets & Writers magazine. The program was tied for fifth…

Arts & Culture

Shinge Roko Sherry Chayat Roshi to give talks on Witkin Oct. 5, 6

Monday, September 19, 2011, By Erica Blust

Shinge Roko Sherry Chayat Roshi, author of “Life Lessons: the Art of Jerome Witkin” (Syracuse University Press, 1994), will give two talks in conjunction with the exhibition “Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin” at XL Projects, 307-313 S….

Campus & Community

Burton Blatt Institute launches annual magazine

Monday, September 19, 2011, By News Staff

The Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University has published the first issue of its new annual magazine, Snapshots of Impact. The inaugural 30-page issue features a series of inspirational stories about people with diverse disabilities who have been positively…