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Arts & Culture

Humanities Center Closes Out Month with High-Profile Events

Thursday, February 18, 2016, By Rob Enslin

The Humanities Center, based in the College of Arts and Sciences, wraps up February with a quartet of high-profile events. It features visits by Jonathan Dueck, an award-winning ethnomusicologist at George Washington University (GW); Alicia Garza, founder of the Black…

Campus & Community

Need to Show Some Love? Art Students Offer Valentines to Share

Thursday, February 11, 2016, By Kathleen Haley

Hearts will be aglow Sunday as sweethearts exchange Valentine’s Day cards. For those who might need a little help with a love note, three art students have crafted their interpretations of Valentines ready to download. Graduate illustration students Zhongwen Hu and…

Arts & Culture

Lineup Announced for Spring Carver Reading Series

Wednesday, February 3, 2016, By Cyndi Moritz

The series, which brings 12-14 prominent writers to campus each year, is presented by the M.F.A. program in creative writing, in conjunction with the “Living Writers” undergraduate course (ETS 107).

Dr. King Celebration Features Marc Lamont Hill, Unsung Award Winners

Monday, February 1, 2016, By Keith Kobland

More than 1,000 people were at the Carrier Dome Sunday night to pay tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and to listen to the captivating words of Marc Lamont Hill, Distinguished Professor of African American Studies at Morehouse College…

Arts & Culture

Shakespeare in Our Time

Thursday, January 21, 2016, By Renée K. Gadoua

Dympna Callaghan, the William L. Safire Professor of Modern Letters in the College of Arts and Sciences, has plenty to say about William Shakespeare, as the world marks the 400th anniversary of his death in 2016. She returned to campus…

Veterans

University Announces Finalists to Design National Veterans Resource Complex

Wednesday, January 20, 2016, By News Staff

The selection committee has chosen three finalists to advance to the final round of the competition.

Business & Economy

U.S. News & World Report Gives Top 50 Ranking to Whitman’s Online MBA Program

Tuesday, January 12, 2016, By Kerri D. Howell

MBA@Syracuse (formerly known as the iMBA program), the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University’s online MBA program, recently was ranked #44 by U.S. News & World Report in its publication of 2016 Best Online Business Programs, released…

An Examined Life

Wednesday, December 9, 2015, By Rob Enslin

The Rev. Robert Grant ’39 never thought he’d go to college. After all, it was the height of the Depression, and his family barely scraped by on his father’s meager salary as a janitor. Then fate intervened, as it would…

CNY Book Awards

Tuesday, December 8, 2015, By Cyndi Moritz

Two writers with Syracuse University connections won awards at the Central New York Book Awards, presented recently by the YMCA’s Downtown Writers Center. Georgia Popoff, a poet, writer, and part-time lecturer in the Renée Crown University Honors Program in the…

Raymond Carver Series Continues with Novelist Dinaw Mengestu

Monday, November 23, 2015, By Cyndi Moritz

The Raymond Carver Reading Series in the College of Arts and Sciences continues with a reading by acclaimed novelist Dinaw Mengestu. On Wednesday, Dec. 2, Mengestu will participate in an audience Q&A session at 3:45 p.m., followed by an author…