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SYRFILMFEST 2017 Begins Wednesday With Five Days of Film Screenings, Discussions

Tuesday, October 17, 2017, By Kevin Morrow

The 14th annual Syracuse International Film Festival (SYRFILMFEST 2017) opens Wednesday, Oct. 18, and continues through Sunday, Oct. 22, with some three dozen films (including a silent film classic), as well as a filmmakers’ forum and discussions with Syracuse-born actress…

Newsweek

LIGO Discovery Sheds Light on Origin of Gold

Tuesday, October 17, 2017, By Sawyer Kamman

Scientists part of the LIGO group detected a massive collision of two neutron stars millions of light years ago, they were now able to understand where heavy metals such as gold and platinum originated.  For Peter Saulson, the Martin A….

Campus & Community

Snapshot of Family Weekend 2017

Tuesday, October 17, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

Family and friends gathered over the weekend at Syracuse University for Family Weekend 2017. Over 1,800 families, totaling over 5,100 people, registered to attend, making it one of the largest Family Weekend celebrations in recent years. Families traveled from across…

Arts & Culture

Hiroshima Survivor to Share Her Experience during University Events

Tuesday, October 17, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

School of Architecture Associate Professor Yutaka Sho first met Keiko Ogura in the summer of 2016 in Japan during the SU Abroad travel seminar Design Through a Tourist’s Eye. The seminar focused in part on the way communities remember and…

Campus & Community

Eighth Annual Women of Distinction on Oct. 18

Monday, October 16, 2017, By Joyce LaLonde

The Theta Xi chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. hosts its eighth annual Women of Distinction event Wednesday, Oct. 18, at 7:14 p.m. in Goldstein Auditorium. This year’s program features award-winning actress Meagan Good and centers around fame, faith…

Campus & Community

New Diversity and Inclusion Initiative to Host Inaugural Networking Event Oct. 19

Monday, October 16, 2017, By News Staff

A newly launched initiative, Diversifying the Hill, has been created to unite institutions and agencies to provide community, educational, networking and recruitment opportunities to increase workplace diversity among organizations located on “The Hill,” the area of Syracuse surrounding the campus…

STEM

Syracuse Architecture, iSchool Faculty Receive NSF Grant for Joint Research on Smart Energy

Monday, October 16, 2017, By Elaine Wackerow

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a Smart & Connected Communities (S&CC) grant of $99,965 to three Syracuse University faculty/Center of Excellence fellows: iSchool professor Jason Dedrick, principal investigator, and Syracuse Architecture assistant professors Elizabeth Krietemeyer and Tarek Rakha, co-investigators. They…

Campus & Community

’Cuse Cast for Week of Oct. 16

Monday, October 16, 2017, By Keith Kobland

Shonnan Usman ’18 has this week’s ‘Cuse Cast from outside the Physics Building, with details on Family weekend and how a dog named Chicken made one Arts and Sciences student’s day.

The Atlantic

A Review of David Yaffe’s Newest Biography, Reckless Daughter

Friday, October 13, 2017, By Sawyer Kamman

Following the release of Humanities Assistant Professor David Yaffe’s biography Reckless Daughter on Joni Mitchell, The Atlantic favorably reviewing the book. “In the best full-length treatment of Mitchell yet published, Yaffe follows her from her childhood in postwar Saskatchewan all the…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Hosts World Englishes Conference

Thursday, October 12, 2017, By Rob Enslin

It is a little-known fact that Braj Kachru, a renowned authority on the English language, spoke only Hindi and his mother tongue, Kashmiri, until he was 16. Nevertheless, his upbringing in a Kashmiri Pundit family, which valued education above almost…