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Arts & Culture

SU Boasts Two National Book Award Finalists This Year

Friday, October 18, 2013, By Cyndi Moritz

Two writers teaching in The College of Arts and Sciences—George Saunders and Rachel Kushner—have been nominated for this year’s most prestigious prize in American fiction, the National Book Award.

Arts & Culture

Delve into the Soundscape on Oct. 22

Friday, October 18, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

“Living in the Soundscape,” a walking tour of the Syracuse University campus that will bring participants into a direct relationship with the sonic environment, will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 22. The tour will be followed later that evening by…

Campus & Community

WellsLink Celebrates 10 Years

Thursday, October 17, 2013, By News Staff

The Office of Multicultural Affairs within the Division of Student Affairs hosts its 10th annual WellsLink Transitions Ceremony on Friday, Nov. 1, at 4 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The ceremony honors WellsLink Scholars from the previous year who have successfully…

STEM

iSchool Receives $7 Million Gift from Alumna’s Estate

Thursday, October 17, 2013, By News Staff

The School of Information Studies has received a landmark gift of $7 million from the estate of Estelle Wilhelm ’38 (Arts and Sciences), G’39 (iSchool).

Retired Professor H. Daniel Smith Dies

Wednesday, October 16, 2013, By News Staff

H. Daniel Smith (1928-2013), a professor of Hinduism and Asian religions in The College of Arts and Sciences from 1958-1993, died of complications from esophageal cancer on Oct. 1 in Syracuse. Along with the impact he had on SU’s religion…

Arts & Culture

West African Dance Workshops Open to Campus Community

Tuesday, October 15, 2013, By News Staff

As part of the annual “Music Beyond Borders” event to celebrate International Education Week, the Slutzker Center for International Services is hosting artist-in-residence Biboti Ouikahilo, master African dancer, drummer and teacher from the Ivory Coast, West Africa. Ouikahilo is teaching…

Media, Law & Policy

Azerbaijani Journalist to Receive 2013 Tully Award for Free Speech

Tuesday, October 15, 2013, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Idrak Abbasov, an independent journalist from Azerbaijan, is the recipient of the 2013 Tully Award for Free Speech. The award, presented annually by the Newhouse School‘s Tully Center for Free Speech, is given to a journalist who has faced a…

Campus & Community

iSchool’s iBand to Perform at Benefit for ALS

Friday, October 11, 2013, By News Staff

A free concert featuring the Free Design and the iBand from Syracuse University to benefit the ALS Association Upstate New York Chapter is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 12, at May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society, 3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse. The…

Campus & Community

SU Libraries Present Open Access Week 2013

Friday, October 11, 2013, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access—the principle that all research should be freely accessible online, immediately after publication—and to help inspire wider participation…

Arts & Culture

Works by Sam Van Aken on Display in Ortwine Gallery

Friday, October 11, 2013, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

An exhibition of prints by Professor Sam Van Aken, of the College of Visual and Performing Arts, is currently on view in the Ortwine Gallery on the sixth floor of Bird Library. The exhibition is free and open to the…