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German Author and Scholar Present Joint Reading on Holocaust Memories in Literature March 6

Monday, February 25, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Susanna Piontek and Guy Stern will examine translation and fictionalization of actual memories The literary representation of Holocaust memories will be the subject of a presentation by the husband-and-wife team of Susanna Piontek and Guy Stern in Syracuse University’s College…

Task Force to Study New Pedagogies

Thursday, February 21, 2013, By News Staff

A new task force composed of faculty and staff from all of the University’s schools and colleges and several key academic support departments is working to understand how new technologies and diverse, innovative teaching methods are being utilized across campus.

University hosts 2013 Regional Science Olympiad

Thursday, February 21, 2013, By News Staff

As the men’s basketball team battles Louisville in the Carrier Dome, across campus hundreds of Central New York middle-school students will compete in a battle of minds during the 2013 Mid-State Science Olympiad B Division tournament, Saturday, March 2, beginning…

$1 Million Gift to School of Education Recognizes Work of Professor Corinne Smith

Thursday, February 21, 2013, By Jennifer Russo

The School of Education has received a gift of $1 million to be used over the next five years to support students who study abroad and to further develop signature global education programs. The Himan Brown Charitable Trust of New…

Health & Society

Brooks Gump Awarded NIH Grant to Study Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Children

Wednesday, February 20, 2013, By Michele Barrett

Brooks B. Gump, professor in the Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition in the Falk College, was awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The research project, “Environmental Toxicants, Race…

School of Education’s Douglas Biklen Announces Retirement from Deanship

Wednesday, February 20, 2013, By News Staff

Douglas P. Biklen, dean of Syracuse University’s School of Education and founder of the Inclusion Institutes at Syracuse University, announced today that he will retire from his position effective January 31, 2014. Biklen has served as dean of the School…

Resolving Conflict and Rebuilding Lives in Darfur

Monday, February 18, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

A region scarred by civil violence and a resulting humanitarian crisis over the past decade, Darfur in western Sudan still struggles to reach peace between the government and rebel factions. Its citizens, however, are not waiting to start rebuilding their lives and communities.

Chicana Novelist Helena María Viramontes to Give Public Reading Feb. 20

Friday, February 15, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Cornell author known for gritty portrayal of Latina/o culture Helena María Viramontes, professor of English at Cornell University, will read from her acclaimed novel, “Their Dogs Came with Them” (Atria Books, 2007), Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 1 p.m. in Heroy…

Upstate ‘Legacy Cities’ Gain the Most from Regional Approaches to Economic Development

Thursday, February 14, 2013, By News Staff

The American Assembly (a think tank affiliated with Columbia University), CenterState CEO, Syracuse University and University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning released a report Feb. 14 calling upon elected, business and civic leaders to double down on innovative…

LGBT Rights Director for Human Rights Watch to Speak at SU Feb. 25

Thursday, February 14, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Graeme Reid will address U.N. Human Rights Council’s controversial “traditional values” resolution The controversial resolution on “traditional values,” adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council last fall, will be the focus of a major discussion in the College of…