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Academy Award-nominated Director Bryan Buckley ’85 to Deliver 2013 Convocation Address for College of Visual and Performing Arts

Monday, February 18, 2013, By Erica Blust

Award-winning commercial and film director Bryan Buckley ’85, whose short film “Asad” is nominated this year for an Academy Award, will deliver the 2013 convocation address to bachelor’s and master’s degree candidates of Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing…

Chicana Novelist Helena María Viramontes to Give Public Reading Feb. 20

Friday, February 15, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Cornell author known for gritty portrayal of Latina/o culture Helena María Viramontes, professor of English at Cornell University, will read from her acclaimed novel, “Their Dogs Came with Them” (Atria Books, 2007), Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 1 p.m. in Heroy…

Raymond Carver Reading Series to Feature Award-Winning Novelist Justin Torres

Friday, February 15, 2013, By News Staff

The Spring 2013 Raymond Carver Reading Series continues with novelist Justin Torres, author of the critically acclaimed “We the Animals” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011) at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27, in Gifford Auditorium. The reading will be preceded by a…

Campus & Community

Disabilities as Ways of Knowing—A Series of Creative Writing Conversations: Part II

Friday, February 15, 2013, By News Staff

The Disability Experience and Poetic Verse Reading by Poets Jim Ferris, Laurie Clements Lambeth, and Stephen Kuusisto March 28 Reading 7-8 p.m. at Watson Theater Reception and book signing from 8-9 p.m. at Light Work Jim Ferris, Laurie Clements Lambeth…

LGBT Rights Director for Human Rights Watch to Speak at SU Feb. 25

Thursday, February 14, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Graeme Reid will address U.N. Human Rights Council’s controversial “traditional values” resolution The controversial resolution on “traditional values,” adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council last fall, will be the focus of a major discussion in the College of…

SU Among 17 Academic Institutions Invited to Create International Filmmaking Academy in Italy

Thursday, February 14, 2013, By Erica Blust

VPA’s Owen Shapiro appointed vice president The College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) was among 17 international academic institutions invited to create an international filmmaking academy in Bologna, Italy. Representatives from the academic institutions met in December at the…

‘Race, Region and Obama’ Topic of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Public Affairs Lecture

Wednesday, February 13, 2013, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s 30th annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Public Affairs Lecture will feature Matthew C. Whitaker, founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Arizona State University. The lecture, “Race and Region in…

Health & Society

McDonald Receives NIH Grant to Study Intellectual Disability Research Ethics

Tuesday, February 12, 2013, By Michele Barrett

Katherine McDonald, associate professor of public health in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics and faculty fellow in the Burton Blatt Institute, has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute…

Getting to Know: Amanda Claypool, a Champion for Dialogue on Divisive Issues

Tuesday, February 12, 2013, By News Staff

Amanda Claypool remembers the day the Twin Towers fell and the day U.S. warplanes bombed Baghdad as if it were yesterday. Those events shaped her academic career at Syracuse University, led her on a solo journey to Palestine’s West Bank…

Campus & Community

Participants Needed for Research Project on Alcohol Use among African American College Students

Monday, February 11, 2013, By News Staff

We invite you for participation in the research project “Alcohol Use among African American College Students.” This study was designed to better understand determinants of alcohol use behavior in college students of African descent. College students of African descent have…