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Media, Law & Policy

Avoiding Conflicts By Improving Cultural Understanding

Tuesday, October 18, 2016, By Renée K. Gadoua

When the Red Cross sent food to drought- and conflict-ravaged Somalia, military personnel distributed the supplies on a first-come, first-served basis. People who didn’t receive food responded by starting a riot. “The military didn’t understand that the local politics of…

Campus & Community

LGBT Resource Center Celebrates 15 Years of Community

Tuesday, October 18, 2016, By Neema Amadala

On Monday, Sept. 26, the Syracuse University LGBT Resource Center celebrated 15 years of offering support, building community and educating members of the University community. Friends, alumni and allies of the center gathered in the Comstock Room at the Sheraton…

STEM

Theoretical Physicist Elected American Physical Society Fellow

Tuesday, October 18, 2016, By Elizabeth Droge-Young

Professor of Physics Simon Catterall was recently elected as an American Physical Society (APS) Fellow. The APS Division of Computational Physics nominated Catterall for his contributions to lattice field theory, a framework used to explore how subatomic particles interact, yielding…

Campus & Community

Life Skills Taught at End of School Day

Tuesday, October 18, 2016, By Eileen Jevis

The South Side Communication Center is much more than a safe place for middle school and high school students to gather after the school day ends. The center, opened in January 2011 through a partnership with the Southside Community Coalition,…

Arts & Culture

Billboard Lists Bandier Program Among Top Elite Music Business Schools

Monday, October 17, 2016, By Erica Blust

Syracuse University and its Bandier Program were listed by Billboard as among the “12 Elite Music Business Schools Shaping the Industry’s Future.” Billboard describes the featured schools as “drawing students ready to face the demands of the 21st-century music industry.”…

Arts & Culture

Raymond Carver Reading Series Hosts Poet Ari Banias

Monday, October 17, 2016, By Kevin Morrow

Accomplished poet Ari Banias, author of the recently published “Anybody: Poems” (W.W. Norton & Co.), is the next guest author in the Raymond Carver Reading Series, on Wednesday, Oct. 19. He will take part in a Q&A at 3:45 p.m….

Campus & Community

Revised Travel and Entertainment Policy Announced, New Policy Reflects Community Feedback

Friday, October 14, 2016, By News Staff

Syracuse University has published a revised travel policy that formalizes the changes announced by Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele G. Wheatly earlier this year.  Under the revised policy, individuals traveling on University business are no longer required to book travel…

Media, Law & Policy

Washington Post Reporter Jason Rezaian to Be Honored with Tully Free Speech Award

Thursday, October 13, 2016, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The Tully Center for Free Speech in the Newhouse School will honor Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post reporter who was imprisoned in Iran for 544 days, with the 2016 Free Speech Award. The award is given annually to a journalist…

Campus & Community

Cathryn R. Newton Appointed Special Advisor to the Chancellor and Provost for Faculty Engagement

Thursday, October 13, 2016, By News Staff

Elevating undergraduate research, providing faculty leadership during Campus Framework process and enhancing SUNY-ESF partnership among Newton’s new responsibilities
To be determined.

STEM

Duncan Brown to Be Inducted as Inaugural Brightman Endowed Professor Oct. 20

Wednesday, October 12, 2016, By Rob Enslin

The College of Arts and Sciences is celebrating the appointment of Duncan Brown as the inaugural Charles Brightman Professor of Physics. A world-renowned expert in gravitational-wave astronomy and astrophysics, Brown will be honored by Syracuse on Thursday, Oct. 20, in…