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Orientation Leaders create warm welcome for new SU students

Wednesday, August 31, 2011, By News Staff

As an integral part of SU’s Syracuse Welcome, Orientation Leaders are a select group of 44 student leaders. Highly visible during Opening Weekend, Orientation Leaders (OLs) are representatives of the University who work with faculty and staff members to help…

Campus & Community

OrangeReport announces summer contest winners

Wednesday, August 31, 2011, By News Staff

The Division of Student Affairs has announced the four winners of the OrangeReport summer contest: Most Viewed Blog: “Scholarship in Asia,” by Katherine Smith, sophomore advertising major in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Video: “My Summer as a…

Campus & Community

Learn to Skate

Tuesday, August 30, 2011, By News Staff

Tennity Ice Pavilion on South Campus if offering group skating lessons for SU community members (students, staff, faculty, alumni and dependents) of all skill levels.

Arts & Culture

Human Rights Film Festival brings compelling new films to Syracuse Sept. 15-17

Thursday, August 25, 2011, By News Staff

Members of the Syracuse University and Central New York communities will have an opportunity to view award-winning films from around the world during “Illuminating Oppression: 9th Annual Human Rights Film Festival,” Thursday, Sept. 15, through Saturday, Sept. 17. This three-day…

Arts & Culture

Digital Witness Symposium explores power of the archive for human rights media

Thursday, August 25, 2011, By News Staff

Following its successful inauguration at last year’s Illuminating Oppression: 8th Annual Human Rights Film Festival, the Digital Witness Symposium returns this year on Friday, Sept. 16, at 10 a.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3. This year’s symposium,…

Arts & Culture

Composer Phillip Rothman to perform original score for D.W. Griffith’s silent film ‘Way Down East’

Thursday, August 25, 2011, By KC Duggan

The Syracuse International Film Festival has commissioned composer Phillip Rothman to write a score for the 1920 D.W. Griffith silent film “Way Down East.” Rothman will debut the original composition, scored for eight musicians, with the film screening Oct. 14…

Arts & Culture

Fall exhibition at SU Library: ‘Just One Word: Plastics’

Thursday, August 25, 2011, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

The opening and reception for Syracuse University Library’s fall exhibition, “Just One Word: Plastics” will be held in the Special Collections Research Center Gallery, sixth floor, Bird Library on Thursday, Sept. 15, from 5-7 p.m. The exhibit will run from…

Arts & Culture

2011 Syracuse Symposium examines many facets of ‘Identity’

Wednesday, August 24, 2011, By Rob Enslin

“Identity” is the theme of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium, an annual intellectual and artistic festival on the Syracuse University campus. This fall’s festival encompasses six lectures, including one by best-selling author/philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah; four performances and readings, including the…

Campus & Community

Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art: Apex, Chor Boogie and Jet Martinez

Tuesday, August 23, 2011, By News Staff

This fall/winter, the Warehouse Gallery’s exhibitions focus on the medium of painting.

STEM

Ancient clams yield new information about greenhouse effect on climate

Thursday, August 18, 2011, By News Staff

Ancient fossilized clams that lived off the coast of Antarctica some 50 million years ago have a story to tell about El Niño, according to Syracuse University researcher Linda Ivany.