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High school kicks off SUPA Academy with academic pep rally
As an inner city school, Murry Bergtraum High School—located in Manhattan’s Lower East Side—may face many challenges, but that has not stopped it from believing and investing in its students. One way Murry Bergtraum is showing its commitment to its…
WellsLink scholars to be honored for academic excellence
Syracuse University’s Office of Multicultural Affairs within the Division of Student Affairs will host its Ninth Annual WellsLink Transitions Ceremony on Friday, Oct. 5, at 4 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The ceremony honors WellsLink scholars from the previous year who have…
Westcott Street Cultural Fair celebrates vibrancy of neighborhood
A September tradition, the Westcott Street Cultural Fair, will be held on Sunday, Sept. 23, from noon-6:30 p.m. An annual one-day event, now in its 21st year, the fair celebrates the vibrancy, diversity and uniqueness of the Westcott neighborhood through its…
Inaugural ‘Positions of Dissent’ lecture by Helen Horowitz is Sept. 20
Helen Horowitz, Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of History Emerita at Smith College, will give the inaugural lecture in the Syracuse University Library’s Ray Smith Symposium, “Positions of Dissent,” on Thursday, Sept. 20, at 6 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly…
Bandersnatch Music Series to host Kid Ink, Skizzy Mars
Rapper Kid Ink will headline University Union Concerts’ first Bandersnatch Music Series show of the semester on Monday, Oct. 15. Rapper Skizzy Mars will open the show, to be held in the Schine Underground. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and…
Black and Banned: Community-wide Read-Out planned Oct. 2
Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Toni Morrison and Alice Walker and internationally renowned author and humanitarian Maya Angelou share a common bond—their books have been banned, challenged or rejected in public schools and libraries across the United States.
Ray Smith Symposium explores issues of displacement with ‘Moving Borders’
“Displacement” is the focus of one of this year’s Ray Smith Symposia, sponsored by The College of Arts and Sciences. Titled “Moving Borders: The Culture and Politics of Displacement in and from Latin America and the Caribbean,” the symposium kicks…
SU honors memory of historian James Powell with daylong colloquium Sept. 28
Syracuse Symposium, whose theme this fall is “Memory-Media-Archive,” continues with a daylong colloquium in memory of James M. Powell, professor emeritus of medieval history at Syracuse University. The program, “Religious Tolerance-Religious Violence-Medieval Memories,” is Friday, Sept. 28, from 9:30 a.m.-6…
iSchool students to launch video games designed to make science fun
Think science is boring? Think video games are a waste of time? Students at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) disagree. A group of student programmers, artists and researchers are launching two unique video games designed to make science fun….
Humphrey Fellowship Program empowers next generation of leaders
Andrijana Vojnovic of Serbia has lived through a turbulent time in her country’s history: the rule and eventual overthrow of a dictator, political assassination and the emergence of a parliamentary democratic republic. “I witnessed firsthand the powerful role that civil…