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Health & Society

Feminist Rhetorical Scholar to Speak on Necropolitics and Black Boyhood, Political Mobilization March 30-31

Monday, March 27, 2017, By Erica Blust

Feminist rhetorical scholar Lisa M. Corrigan, Ph.D., will deliver lectures on March 30 and 31 as part of the colloquium series in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies. The talks are free and…

Campus & Community

Flight from Syria, New Life in the College of Law, Now Helping Fellow Refugees

Monday, March 27, 2017, By Sean Kirst

Violette Khabbaz, silent, is listening to a conversation on a March afternoon. Sunlight pours through a window and illuminates her face as she leans across the counter of the Byblos Mediterranean Café, the restaurant she operates on North Clinton Street…

Health & Society

Seventh Annual Health and Wellness Expo on March 29

Friday, March 24, 2017, By Shannon Andre

The Department of Recreation Services is once again hosting the Health and Wellness Expo on Wednesday, March 29, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Flanagan Gymnasium.  The event is free and open to all faculty, staff and students with…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University, Le Moyne College Announce New Academic Partnership, Will Build on Longstanding Relationship

Friday, March 24, 2017, By News Staff

Today, Syracuse University and Le Moyne College announced a new academic partnership that will build on a longstanding relationship. The new partnership will establish two new initiatives and will support the future development of existing academic relationships between Syracuse University…

Campus & Community

Applicants Sought for Summer Research or Creative Work Stipends

Friday, March 24, 2017, By News Staff

The Syracuse University Student Association is partnering with the Office of Research and the Office of the Provost to provide summer support to a select group of undergraduate students who are interested in conducting research or other creative work this…

STEM

Peak to Peak Immersion Program to Explore Innovation in Seattle, Portland

Thursday, March 23, 2017, By J.D. Ross

When William Boeing started building airplanes in Seattle in 1934, Silicon Valley would be nothing but orchards for another 30 years. When Intel introduced the microprocessor in 1971, the term Silicon Valley had just been coined in a magazine article….

NPR

Maxwell Dean David M. Van Slyke Interviewed about Fundraising in the Age of Trump

Thursday, March 23, 2017, By Ellen Mbuqe

Maxwell Dean David M. Van Slyke, professor of public administration and international affairs and the Louis A. Bantle Chair in business and government policy, was interviewed by NPR Morning Edition about progressive groups enjoying an increase in fundraising since Trump’s…

Arts & Culture

Department of Drama Presents George Bernard Shaw’s ‘Major Barbara’

Wednesday, March 22, 2017, By Joanna Penalva

“The greatest of evils and the worst crime is poverty,” declared George Bernard Shaw in the introduction to his famous play “Major Barbara.” Written in 1906, this deliciously provocative comedy is the next offering in the Syracuse University Department of…

Health & Society

Panel Discussion and Free Screening of the Documentary ‘A Plastic Ocean’

Wednesday, March 22, 2017, By News Staff

Sustainability Management and student groups Students of Sustainability and Green Peace SU will be hosting a panel discussion on plastic pollution at 5:30 p.m. followed by a free screening of “A Plastic Ocean” at 6:45 p.m. on March 29 in…

The Wall St. Journal

Professor Yilin Hou on China and Property Taxes

Tuesday, March 21, 2017, By Ellen Mbuqe

Yilin Hou, Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs, was quoted in a Wall Street Journal story titled “China Kicks Property Tax to the Curb—For Now” Hou, who has extensively studied the possibility of a property tax in China, says…