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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…

Arts & Culture

Tony Award-Winning Rock Musical ‘Spring Awakening’ Closes SU Drama Season

Monday, April 21, 2014, By News Staff

Winner of eight Tony Awards, “Spring Awakening” is a hard-hitting rock musical adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s expressionist play. Set in late-19th-century Germany, the story follows Wendla Bergmann, Moritz Stiefel, Melchior Gabor and their peers as they struggle to understand the…

Arts & Culture

Ellen Bryant Voigt to Close Out Spring Carver Series

Monday, April 21, 2014, By Renée K. Gadoua

The poet Ellen Bryant Voigt will close out the spring 2014 Raymond Carver Reading Series at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, in Gifford Auditorium. A question-and-answer session will precede the reading from 3:45-4:30 p.m. The event is free and open…

Business & Economy

Author and Serial Entrepreneur Bob Dorf to Speak at Whitman

Monday, April 21, 2014, By Lindsay Wickham

The Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises (EEE) at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management will host author and serial entrepreneur Bob Dorf on Wednesday, April 23, for a presentation titled “Let Your Customers Design Your Startup: Putting Lean…

Arts & Culture

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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SU Symphony, Concert Bands to Perform

Monday, April 21, 2014, By Erica Blust

The Syracuse University Symphony Band and Concert Band will present their final concerts of the season this week in the Rose and Jules R. Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College. Both concerts are free and open to the public. On Friday, April…

Campus & Community

Ten Tons of Love Charity Drive in Need of Donations, Volunteers

Monday, April 21, 2014, By News Staff

Volunteers and donated items are what make up the annual Ten Tons of Love Charity Drive, which collected over 50 tons of usable items last year that served 3,000 families in the Syracuse area. Clothing and household items are donated…

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New Meredith Professors to Be Named During Faculty Recognition Event

Monday, April 21, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Milton L. Mueller, professor in the School of Information Studies, and Ravi Dharwadkar, professor in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, will be named as the 2014-15 Laura and L. Douglas Meredith Professors of Teaching Excellence at a ceremony…

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Former Student-Athletes Supported in Return to Academic Life

Friday, April 18, 2014, By Kathleen Haley

John Wallace had always had a general knowledge about the life of Harriet Tubman. But it was a course he took on his return to Syracuse University to finish his degree that made him see something much deeper about the courageous woman who led several hundred slaves to freedom.

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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…