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Getting to Know: Peggy Pappas

Tuesday, April 29, 2014, By Keith Kobland

You won’t find one of the biggest fans of SU’s football and basketball teams sitting in the stands at the Carrier Dome. Most likely, you’ll find Peggy Pappas out on the court or the playing field. “I do bleed orange,”…

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Three to Receive Honorary Degrees at 160th Commencement

Friday, April 25, 2014, By News Staff

A world-class scientist in the understanding of cell reproduction, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and a legendary lacrosse coach and sculptor will take the stage at Commencement to be honored for their significant accomplishments.

Arts & Culture

Young Playwrights Festival Winners to Receive Staged Reading of their Works

Thursday, April 24, 2014, By News Staff

Winners of Syracuse Stage’s 2014 Young Playwrights Festival will receive a staged reading of their works on Tuesday, April 29, at 7 p.m. in the Archbold Theatre at the Syracuse Stage/Drama Complex, 820 E. Genesee St. The staged reading will…

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Two Named 2014-15 Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellows

Thursday, April 24, 2014, By News Staff

Syracuse University Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellowships for 2014-2015 have been awarded to Thomas A. Guiler and Jason Luther. The Public Humanities Fellowships are supported by a partnership between the New York Council for the Humanities and the Central New…

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Twelve Seniors Named as 2014 Syracuse University Scholars

Wednesday, April 23, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Twelve graduating seniors have been named as the 2014 Syracuse University Scholars, the highest undergraduate honor that the University bestows. University Scholars will represent the entire graduating class at the May 11 Commencement ceremony. On Thursday, April 24, the scholars…

Arts & Culture

Anthropologist Wins Arts and Sciences’ Wasserstrom Prize for Graduate Teaching

Monday, April 21, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Douglas V. Armstrong, a Syracuse University professor in the Maxwell School for Citizenship and Public Affairs and The College of Arts and Sciences, has been tapped to receive the latter’s William Wasserstrom Prize for the Teaching of Graduate Students. He…

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A Catalyst for Change

Monday, April 21, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Leave it to Karin Ruhlandt, newly appointed interim dean-designate of The College of Arts and Sciences, to put a global spin on things. In 1999, when the Department of Chemistry was retooling its Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, the…

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English Graduate Organization to Host Public Marathon Reading to Honor the Beats

Friday, April 18, 2014, By News Staff

The English Graduate Organization will host its second annual reading marathon, this year titled “The Beats: A Public Marathon Reading,” on Monday, April 21, from 2:30-6:30 p.m. in the Humanities Center Library (300 Tolley). The event is free and open…

Gov. Lincoln Chafee to Deliver Upcoming Tanner Lecture

Friday, April 18, 2014, By News Staff

Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee will deliver the Tanner Lecture on Ethics, Citizenship and Public Responsibility at the Maxwell School on Thursday, April 24, speaking on “Civility and Citizenship: Reinventing the Great Society.” The lecture will begin at 6 p.m….

Syracuse Architecture to Host 2014 Mayors’ Institute on City Design

Friday, April 18, 2014, By News Staff

The Mayors’ Institute on City Design (MICD) has announced that the School of Architecture has been chosen to host a regional session of the institute in 2014. MICD is a National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) leadership initiative designed to…