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Campus & Community

Hunger Issues Explored through SU Hunger Games

Wednesday, November 6, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

SU’s 24-Hour Famine, the SU Hunger Games, will be held at Hendricks Chapel on Saturday, Nov. 9, and Sunday, Nov. 10. Students and other members of the SU community are invited to participate in a 24-hour fast and other related…

Arts & Culture

Brian Friel Tackles British/Irish Conflict in ‘Translations’

Wednesday, November 6, 2013, By News Staff

In “Translations,” a group of students at a hedge school in 1833 Ireland are greeted by two British Army engineers who intend to map their town and change its place names from Gaelic to English. What ensue are the trials…

Health & Society

Maisto Gets Five-Year Extension of NIH Senior Scientist Award

Wednesday, November 6, 2013, By News Staff

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has once again selected Stephen Maisto, professor of psychology in The College of Arts and Sciences, for its Senior Scientist Research and Mentorship Award. Maisto’s K05 grant is from the National Institute on Alcohol…

STEM

ChemImage Partners with SU to Train Students in Hyperspectral Imaging

Wednesday, November 6, 2013, By News Staff

ChemImage Corp., a provider of hyperspectral imaging (HSI) technology, has announced an educational collaborative partnership with the Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute (FNSSI) in The College of Arts and Sciences. The partnership focuses on providing students with an opportunity…

Campus & Community

Libraries Offer New Digital Scanner for Microfilm, Fiche

Tuesday, November 5, 2013, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

A new microfilm/fiche scanner is now available for public use on the third floor of Bird Library. Features of the Indus 4601-SL include scan to file, scan to print, email, OCR and automated multipage scan. The scanning station is connected to…

Arts & Culture

Hudson Mohawke, Cashmere Cat to Perform in Schine Underground

Tuesday, November 5, 2013, By News Staff

Ross Birchard, known by his stage name, Hudson Mohawke, is scheduled to perform a DJ set on Wednesday, Dec. 4, in Schine Underground. The Bandersnatch Series performance will begin at 8 p.m. and doors will open at 7:30 p.m. Electronic…

STEM

Disrupting Traditional Gender Roles

Monday, November 4, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

Both partners in today’s modern couple may each have professional lives outside the home but two careers still equals three jobs—two professions, plus managing a home. And for women, oftentimes, that third job still remains their role. A recent SU Advance speaker pointed out ways to correct that imbalance.

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse Student-Journalists Will Head to Polls on Election Day

Monday, November 4, 2013, By Wendy S. Loughlin

To capture “Democracy in Action,” about 130 Newhouse School journalism students will be at the polls on Election Day. “The young journalists will tell voters’ stories—what voting means to them, why they bother to go to the polls,” says Charlotte…

Campus & Community

Transmedia Visiting Artist Cathy Crane

Monday, November 4, 2013, By News Staff

Transmedia Visiting Artist Cathy Crane will give a talk on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2 pm. in Shemin Auditorium. Crane has been making experimental narrative and documentary films on 16mm for nearly 20 years. She was named a Guggenheim fellow in…

Media, Law & Policy

Art Meets Technology in Newhouse M.I.N.D. Lab

Friday, November 1, 2013, By News Staff

Art meets technology in pioneering ways in a new facility opening Monday, Nov. 4, in the AXA Equitable Tower, located in downtown Syracuse on the Connective Corridor. Newhouse M.I.N.D. Lab is debuting its new world-class research and design center, featuring…