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Tracy Metz book signing, talk address Netherlands landscape in relationship to water

Wednesday, October 3, 2012, By Elaine Wackerow

Tracy Metz, an American-born journalist and author on art, architecture, urban planning and the landscape, will present a talk about her new book, “Sweet & Salt: Water and the Dutch” (NAi 2012) in Slocum Hall Auditorium Tuesday, Oct. 9, at…

Campus & Community

Disabilities as Ways of Knowing: A Series of Creative Writing Conversations — Anne Finger visits SU

Tuesday, October 2, 2012, By News Staff

Ms. Anne Finger, renowned author and longstanding disability rights activist, will be visiting the Syracuse University campus this October, to join us in celebrating Disability Awareness Month, and to inaugurate what is hoped to be an annual series of disability-themed…

Campus & Community

Without Walls: Four Events with the Rev. Kirk VanGilder

Tuesday, October 2, 2012, By News Staff

Without Walls: Do Religions Need Institutions? Sunday, Oct. 28 Protestant Service, Main Chapel Hendricks Chapel, SU Campus 11 a.m.-noon As mainline denominations enter the 21st century, heated debates about declining institutional membership raise important questions about the shape of religious…

Revitalization of Lincoln Supply warehouse earns LEED® platinum rating

Tuesday, October 2, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The revitalization of the former Lincoln Supply warehouse in Syracuse’s Near Westside neighborhood to create apartments and offices has earned a platinum rating in a new version of the LEED® system developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The…

SUstainable CommuNitY Film Series presents ‘Blue Gold’ on Oct. 4

Tuesday, October 2, 2012, By News Staff

The world’s fresh water supply is becoming scarce as we pollute and waste one of our most precious and limited resources. This scary and intriguing scene sets the stage for the second movie in the SUstainable CommuNitY Film Series. The…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Monday, October 1

Monday, October 1, 2012, By News Staff

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE A Kalamazoo Gazette preview of the upcoming TEDxKalamazoo event in October notes William Ward, professor of practice in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, will make a presentation there. Statistics from Syracuse University’s Transactional…

Arts & Culture

SU Humanities Center announces 2012-13 dissertation fellows

Monday, October 1, 2012, By Rob Enslin

The Syracuse University Humanities Center has announced the recipients of its 2012-13 Dissertation/Thesis Fellowships. Rinku Chatterjee and Sandeep Banerjee, both doctoral students in English, have received one-year awards, carrying stipends and benefits. The fellowship program supports students working on doctoral…

Ocean rower Roz Savage added to University Lectures 2012-13 season

Monday, October 1, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Ocean rower, adventurer and environmental campaigner Roz Savage has been added to the schedule of distinguished guests who will share their diverse global experiences and perspectives with the Syracuse University and Central New York communities as part of the 2012-13…

Shattering barriers: Jerry Robinson

Friday, September 28, 2012, By News Staff

Nothing stops Jerry Robinson. Nothing. After graduating as salutatorian in college and landing a job with a global financial company, Robinson continues to do what he knows best—shatter barriers. The budding scholar, born with cerebral palsy, is now pursuing a…

A winter’s tale

Wednesday, September 26, 2012, By Kathleen Haley

Central New Yorkers all have their winter war stories.

Distinguished Professor of Geography and lake-effect snow researcher Mark Monmonier can clearly remember the details of his own.