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Initial MOOC Offering Results in Positive Participation Outcomes
The first open online course offered at Syracuse University has concluded with positive outcomes for its host, the School of Information Studies (iSchool), and for its hundreds of student participants. In addition, the excitement generated by the February trial is…
Princeton Scholar to Explore Link Between Poetry and Art
Leonard Barkan analyzes works by Caravaggio, Michelangelo and Shakespeare The relationship between poetry and visual art is the subject of a lecture by Leonard Barkan, a Princeton University professor and an expert on European culture, on Thursday, April 18, at…
Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact Announces Release of Sixth Poetry Collection During Cruel April Poetry Readings
The Point of Contact Gallery, in commemoration of National Poetry Month, is hosting its annual program of weekly poetry readings, Cruel April. The readings will be held each Thursday in April at 6 p.m. Showcased are four new voices from…
Political Theorist to Discuss ‘Ideas of Peace’ in Hebrew Bible April 24
One of today’s leading political theorists will give a lecture in The College of Arts and Sciences. Michael Walzer, professor emeritus of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, will deliver this year’s B.G. Rudolph Lecture,…
SU Humanities Center Ends Semester with Back-to-Back Programming
Topics include transgenerational trauma, the Nuremberg Trial, Afro-Brazilian politics The Syracuse University Humanities Center concludes its spring schedule—and fifth anniversary—with a series of back-to-back events. They include a Humanities Faculty Fellow Lecture by Meera Lee titled “Transgenerational Trauma, Phantom Emotion”…
YouTube Sensations to Perform Friday at Jabberwocky
On Friday, April 5, three of YouTube’s most popular singer-songwriters are joining forces and performing together at Syracuse University. SUTUBE brings together Kara Della Valle, Grace Doty and Heather Janssen for a concert event in Jabberwocky Café (in Schine Student…
Master the Art of Kokedama
Monday April 8th, noon, in the General Book Department of the University Bookstore Carol Watson Hickes, owner of Carol Watson Greenhouse and Landscaping, will teach a class on the art of creating Kokedama moss balls. Kokedama (translation “moss ball”) is…
Social Media Manager for Disney to Visit Newhouse April 8
Matt Prince, social media manager for the Walt Disney Co., will visit the Newhouse School on Monday, April 8, speaking at 7 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3. Follow on Twitter at #brandingprince. Prince founded his own…
IDEA and eMinutes Partner to Help Student Entrepreneurs Incorporate
No other law firm in history has voluntarily waived $500,000 in legal fees and absorbed $100,000 in expenses simply to help 500 first-time entrepreneurs incorporate; but that’s exactly how Jeff Unger, Los Angeles-based attorney and founder of eMinutes, a corporate…
International Exchange: Cultivating Fulbright Students
Third-year Ph.D. anthropology student Stephen Johnson returned from India last summer knowing that he hadn’t fully explored all of his questions for his Ph.D. topic on the relationship between Tibetan refugees and Indian communities.
Now he has another opportunity—and a prestigious, international distinction that has made it possible.