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Campus & Community

Challenge Course Opens on South Campus

Friday, October 4, 2013, By News Staff

The challenge course is not only open to SU students, faculty, and staff, but to the surrounding community as well. It was designed to support groups, as well as individuals, in working together at accomplishing the various challenges presented in the course.

Business & Economy

NSF Funds OrangeGrid Improvements

Tuesday, October 1, 2013, By Christopher C. Finkle

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Syracuse University $498,000 to enhance SU’s OrangeGrid by upgrading the campus’s data network infrastructure to facilitate high throughput research computing. OrangeGrid (formerly known as the HTC campus grid) uses idle desktop computers in…

Arts & Culture

Etgar Keret Presents Raymond Carver Lecture Oct. 9

Monday, September 30, 2013, By Renée K. Gadoua

Etgar Keret, the popular Israeli writer and filmmaker, will present this semester’s second Raymond Carver Reading Series at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, in Gifford Auditorium. A question-and-answer session will precede the reading from 3:45-4:30 p.m. The event is free…

Arts & Culture

Setnor School Announces 2013-14 Baker Artist Residencies

Monday, September 30, 2013, By Erica Blust

OperaWorks founder Ann Baltz to hold master class performance Oct. 3 A leading opera educator, a renowned brass ensemble and an international opera star will hold residencies at SU during the 2013-14 academic year as part of the Baker Artist…

Business & Economy

Connective Corridor Announces Second Round of Facade Grants

Thursday, September 26, 2013, By News Staff

Partners with Central New York Community Foundation on new Syracuse Beautification Fund Syracuse University today announced the recipients of $250,000 in the second round of Connective Corridor Façade Improvement grants to 16 businesses who will make significant investments to improve…

Arts & Culture

Five Distinguished Alumni to Receive George Arents Award during Orange Central

Wednesday, September 25, 2013, By News Staff

Five distinguished Syracuse University alumni, representing excellence in the areas of the performing arts; art; fashion design; advertising, wellness and philanthropy; and literature will be honored with the George Arents Award during the University’s 2013 Orange Central celebration. Those who…

Campus & Community

Renowned Spiritual Teacher Dialogues with SU Community Sept. 26

Tuesday, September 24, 2013, By News Staff

Contemporary thought leader and spiritual teacher Panache Desai will be joining Soulful Sit-Downs for an intimate conversation with the SU community on Thursday, Sept. 26, at 7 p.m. in room 204 of the Tolley Building. His discussion will focus on…

Health & Society

A Human Right to Adequate Food

Thursday, September 19, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

As the House of Representatives decided this week to cuts billions of dollars from the federal food stamp program over the next decade, the Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi wants people to consider a different set of numbers.

STEM

SU, Partners to Study Black Holes and Neutron Stars

Thursday, September 19, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Professor Duncan Brown receives NSF grant to help establish astrophysics network Physicists in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences have received a major federal grant to create the tools needed to understand the collisions of black holes and neutron…

STEM

SU Task Force Advocates Action to Enhance Teaching

Friday, September 13, 2013, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s Task Force on Advancing New Pedagogies, formed six months ago to study innovative teaching methods and new technologies employed in instruction across campus, has issued its final report, highlighting exemplary work being done at SU and urging increased…