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Arts & Culture

VPA’s Yvonne Buchanan shows work in Everson’s newly renovated video gallery

Tuesday, January 22, 2013, By Erica Blust

“Strange Tongue,” a video/sound installation by Yvonne Buchanan, associate professor of illustration in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) Department of Art, is on view at the Everson Museum of Art, 401 Harrison St., Syracuse, through March 31….

Arts & Culture

Architecture/urban design, equine therapy among programs to receive funding

Friday, January 18, 2013, By Eileen Jevis

Summer@Syracuse announces the recipients of the Innovative Summer Program Development Fund (ISPDF) for summer 2013. The fund provides financial support to encourage faculty and departments to design and deliver new summer courses and programs. Fourteen program submissions, representing nine schools/colleges…

Campus & Community

You’re Invited! MOOCs for the rest of us webinar

Friday, January 18, 2013, By News Staff

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have become the talk of academe, with many colleges and universities debating whether they should start them or join one of the consortia offering the courses. But what of colleges that don’t plan to offer…

Campus & Community

Carrier Dome’s wireless sets it apart

Thursday, January 17, 2013, By News Staff

The Carrier Dome was already the largest domed stadium in the Northeast and the largest domed college arena in America. And now, the Dome contains WiFi infrastructure to rival that of any NFL stadium.

Campus & Community

New student sustainability group poised to grow

Thursday, January 17, 2013, By News Staff

Being part of a new venture can be very exciting and rewarding, especially when you’re committed to the cause. For a group of students inspired to make the Syracuse University campus and the world more eco-friendly, their time and energy…

Arts & Culture

‘White Christmas’ tied for third best-selling show at Syracuse Stage–19,000 tickets sold

Thursday, January 17, 2013, By News Staff

Patrons donated more than $24,000 to support people living with HIV/AIDS Nineteen thousand tickets were sold to Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas,” making it a tie with “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1996) for the third best-selling show in Syracuse Stage’s regular…

Arts & Culture

Ray Smith Symposium explores issues of Latina/o ‘citizenship’ Jan. 31-Feb. 1

Wednesday, January 16, 2013, By Rob Enslin

In response to the United States’ growing Hispanic population, the College of Arts and Sciences is presenting several events on the theme of “citizenship,” Jan. 31-Feb. 1. The events are part of the yearlong Ray Smith Symposium titled “Moving Borders:…

Media, Law & Policy

Getting to Know: Cultural anthropologist Cecilia Van Hollen

Tuesday, January 15, 2013, By News Staff

While studying the lives of women living with HIV in South Asia, Maxwell School associate professor Cecilia Van Hollen recalls speaking with a young mother in Tamil Nadu, the southeastern state in India. “When neighbors ask me why I am…

Media, Law & Policy

Drones kick off new ‘Digital Edge Journalism’ seminar series

Monday, January 14, 2013, By Wendy S. Loughlin

It sounds like fun and games, but the Newhouse School’s new “Digital Edge Journalism” seminar series will introduce journalism students to an important new tool for newsgathering: drones. Thanks to the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, which opens…

Arts & Culture

VPA alumnus Bryan Buckley ’85 receives Academy Award nomination for short film

Friday, January 11, 2013, By Erica Blust

College of Visual and Performing Arts alumnus and award-winning commercial and film director Bryan Buckley ’85 was among the nominees announced Thursday, Jan. 10, for the 85th Academy Awards. Buckley directed the short film “Asad,” which was nominated in the…