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Campus & Community

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Series for Faculty and Staff

Wednesday, April 6, 2016, By News Staff

The Syracuse University Wellness Initiative is offering a course in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for SU faculty and staff. The eight-week course meets Wednesday evenings, 500 Hall of Languages from 5:15  – 7:15 p.m., beginning April 27. The MBSR…

Campus & Community

No exCuse 5k Run/Roll/Walk and Wellness Fair, April 22

Tuesday, April 5, 2016, By News Staff

The Office of Residence Life at Syracuse University is excited to announce the inaugural No exCuse Run/Roll/Walk and Wellness Fair, to be held at the Goldstein Student Center on South Campus at Syracuse University, on Friday, April 22 from 2-5…

Health & Society

Assistant Professor Ditre Recognized with Distinguished Early Career Award

Monday, April 4, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

Assistant Professor Joseph W. Ditre’s research is adding valuable insights into helping individuals who suffer from both addiction and chronic pain. His work is also garnering important recognition from the American Psychological Association’s Society of Addiction Psychology (SoAP). Ditre, who…

Campus & Community

Free Fitness Classes for Faculty and Staff

Monday, April 4, 2016, By News Staff

Spend 30 nminutes each Wednesday with Maggie Thomson, ACSM-certified exercise physiologist and Syracuse University adjunct professor, and improve your strength and flexibility. Thomson will teach a low impact body toning class that incorporates balance, stretching and working every muscle group…

Media, Law & Policy

Social and Economic Justice in South Africa Trip Makes Lasting Impression on Students

Friday, April 1, 2016, By News Staff

A twig snapped in the darkness to the left of the rumbling, open-top truck. It was 5:30 in the morning and the sun had not yet come up over the horizon at Kruger National Park. As we plummeted forward on…

Arts & Culture

National Book Award-Winning Author Jacqueline Woodson to Speak April 5

Thursday, March 31, 2016, By Jennifer Russo

Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award-winning author of “Brown Girl Dreaming,” will speak on Tuesday, April 5, at 5:30 p.m. in Gifford Auditorium. Her talk, titled “Brown Girl Dreaming,” after her award winning memoir, is free and open to the public. Free…

Media, Law & Policy

College of Law to Offer Webcasts on Upcoming Supreme Court Cases

Wednesday, March 30, 2016, By Robert Conrad

The College of Law’s Technology Commercialization Law Program (TCLP) and New York State Science & Technology Law Center will host three webcasts this spring on intellectual property law-related cases being argued before the Supreme Court. Shubha Ghosh, Crandall Melvin Professor…

Business & Economy

NYS Business Plan Competition Comes to Blackstone LaunchPad at Syracuse University

Monday, March 28, 2016, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

The Blackstone LaunchPad and Syracuse University Libraries will host CompeteCNY, the regional qualifying event for the 2016 New York State Business Plan Competition. The event will be held on April 14 from 4–6 p.m. at Bird Library. Regional winners will…

Arts & Culture

Caribbean Dance Workshops Planned for March 29 and April 12

Thursday, March 24, 2016, By News Staff

Sydney Hutchinson, an assistant professor in the Department of Art and Music Histories in the College of Arts and Sciences, is teaming up with Wacheva Cultural Arts to host a pair of Caribbean dance workshops on Tuesday, March 29, and…

STEM

The Human Trace

Thursday, March 24, 2016, By Rob Enslin

The great anthropologist Loren Eiseley once compared mankind to a twisted stem of wisteria—a “rooted vine in space” on an immense, if not impossible journey. It’s one that each of us must attempt, regardless of outcome. This is the premise…