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Mugo honored with 2007 Distinguished Africanist AwardApril 06, 2007Sara Millersemortim@syr.edu Micere Githae Mugo, chair of the Department of African American Studies and Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence at Syracuse University, is the 2007 recipient of the Distinguished Africanist Award, presented…

SU Oratorio Society to perform ‘Carmina Burana’ with Syracuse Symphony Orchestra March 30-31March 27, 2007Jaime Winne Alvarezjlwinne@syr.edu The Syracuse University Oratorio Society will join with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra (SSO), a community partner with SU’s Pulse, for a performance of…

Ideas sought for 2008 Syracuse Symposium themeMarch 23, 2007Kelly Homan Rodoskikahoman@syr.edu The Syracuse Symposium Committee, which plans the annual intellectual and artistic festival hosted each fall by The College of Arts and Sciences, will convene later this semester to consider…

Five to be honored with Chancellor’s Citations March 19March 16, 2007Sara Millersemortim@syr.edu Five Syracuse University faculty and staff members will receive Chancellor’s Citations at a dinner in their honor Monday, March 19, at the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel & Conference…

‘Stone Canoe’ will showcase arts in Upstate New YorkFebruary 20, 2007Eileen Jevisejevis@uc.syr.edu Syracuse University has launched a new community-oriented arts annual called “Stone Canoe.” Subtitled “A Journal of Arts and Ideas from Upstate New York,” the publication has a two-fold…

Diverse repertoire of stories will come to life during Hendricks Chapel’s Ninth Annual Sojourner Storytelling ConferenceFebruary 20, 2007Kelly Homan Rodoskikahoman@syr.edu Syracuse University’s Hendricks Chapel will host the 9th Annual Sojourner Storytelling Conference on Tuesday, Feb. 27. This year’s theme is…

Partnership for Better Education awarded $100,000 grant by Verizon to help improve literacy February 01, 2007Sara Millersemortim@syr.edu Building on the sustained community and corporate support of the Partnership for Better Education, the Verizon Foundation has granted $100,000 to fund the…

‘The Beloved Community: Imagining Our Global Humanity’ is the theme for Syracuse University’s 2007 Martin Luther King Jr. CelebrationJanuary 11, 2007Kelly Homan Rodoskikahoman@syr.edu The 22nd Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration will be held in Syracuse University’s Carrier Dome on…

Nigerian writer Chris Abani will keynote Syracuse University’s 2007 Martin Luther King Jr. CelebrationJanuary 02, 2007Kelly Homan Rodoskikahoman@syr.edu Chris Abani, an award-winning writer who as a teenager in Nigeria was imprisoned for his fiction, will give the keynote address at…

Point of Contact celebrates 30 years of publishing with anniversary anthology co-published with SU PressDecember 06, 2006Tere Paniaguatpaniagu@syr.edu The Point of Contact Gallery recently hosted a 30th-anniversary bash in which luminaries from the literary and academic communities gathered to commemorate…