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Campus & Community

SU in the News: Tuesday, September 13

Tuesday, September 13, 2011, By News Staff

Money Magazine notes SU programs that help make community college transfers more seamless

Health & Society

BBI chairman to deliver keynote at disability conference

Tuesday, September 13, 2011, By News Staff

University Professor Peter Blanck, chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, will deliver the keynote address at the Coleman Institute Conference on Oct. 13. Blanck’s talk, “Toward the Right to Equal Technology Access for People with Cognitive…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Symposium continues Sept. 19 with David Eng

Tuesday, September 13, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

David L. Eng, professor of comparative literature and Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, will explore the “Reparations of the Human” in the East Asian context in a Syracuse Symposium™ presentation on Monday, Sept. 19. Eng’s lecture will…

Arts & Culture

Classic Henry James psychological thriller ‘The Turn of the Screw’ opens 39th season at Syracuse Stage

Tuesday, September 13, 2011, By News Staff

The 39th season at Syracuse Stage opens Sept. 21 with the classic Henry James psychological thriller “The Turn of the Screw,” a riveting story of a young governess and two small children set on a remote English estate. In this…

Arts & Culture

VPA ceramist Margie Hughto to show new work at Everson Museum

Tuesday, September 13, 2011, By Erica Blust

Margie Hughto, professor of ceramics in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Art, will show new work in the solo exhibition “Margie Hughto: A Fired Landscape” Oct. 1-Jan. 12 at the Everson Museum of Art, 401 Harrison…

Arts & Culture

Karpoff presents at several teaching conferences

Monday, September 12, 2011, By Erica Blust

Fred Karpoff, professor of piano in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Setnor School of Music, was a featured presenter at the Texas Music Teachers Association Convention in Arlington; the Music Teachers Association of California in Oakland; and the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy in Lombard, Ill.

Campus & Community

Former U.S. Army captain & Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo Bay to speak on campus

Monday, September 12, 2011, By News Staff

James Yee, a Chinese American, graduate of West Point Military Academy, convert to Islam in 1991, captain in the U.S. Army, former Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo Bay and author of “For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire,” will speak about his struggle for justice.

Veterans

Football fans support Habitat’s Veterans’ Build

Monday, September 12, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University football fans helped “raise the roof” for Syracuse Habitat for Humanity’s first Veterans’ Build in New York state. Volunteers sought donations at various locations on campus and at entrances to the Carrier Dome prior to the game. More…

Arts & Culture

Leading public intellectual Kwame Anthony Appiah to give opening lecture Tuesday

Friday, September 9, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Best-selling author/philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah will deliver the keynote lecture of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium™ on Tuesday, Sept. 13. Syracuse Symposium™ is a semester-long exploration of the public humanities presented by the Syracuse University Humanities Center for The College of…

Arts & Culture

Columbia professor addresses public monuments, collective memory at SU Milton Lecture Sept. 20

Friday, September 9, 2011, By Rob Enslin

Michele Moody-Adams—a moral and political philosopher who works on contemporary ethical issues in law, politics, class, race, and gender, as well as on theoretical issues in moral objectivity and moral psychology—is delivering the Milton First-Year Lecture in Syracuse University’s College…