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Campus & Community

Cloud of the Impossible: A Lecture with Catherine Keller

Tuesday, February 19, 2013, By News Staff

Catherine Keller will deliver a public lecture entitled “Cloud of the Impossible”  Thursday, March 7,  at 7 p.m. in 214 Slocum. Her talk will engage the theopoetics of mystical unknowing, indeterminacy, and interdependence. While gesturing towards the limits of apophasis….

Report from Institute for Veterans and Military Families and Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism Argues for a National Veterans Strategy

Tuesday, February 19, 2013, By News Staff

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) and the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT) at Syracuse University released a policy report Feb. 19 that details what the authors describe as a “historic opportunity” related to the potential…

Campus & Community

Fantastic! Heroic! Disabled? ‘Cripping’ the Comic Con

Friday, February 15, 2013, By News Staff

This symposium will provide participants with the opportunity to engage in a broad array of reflective discussions about the representations of disability that exist “beneath the surface” and explicitly within mainstream popular cultures both nationally and internationally, particularly the popular…

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…

‘There’s SNOW Much To Do’ at Winter Carnival 2013

Thursday, February 14, 2013, By News Staff

Winter Carnival 2013 is coming soon to break up the monotony of winter living on campus. Scheduled for Feb. 20-23, this long-standing tradition encourages students to get out and enjoy the snow season, as well as the many fun winter…

Lessons from Sandy: Are We Ready for More Climate Disruption?

Wednesday, February 13, 2013, By News Staff

Superstorm Sandy brought us face to face with the realities of a changing climate. Many in the University community had family or friends who felt the storm’s devastating impact, and before long, all of us will feel the effects of severe weather, sea level rise and a warming planet.

Veterans

Syracuse University Signs Got Your 6 Pledge

Wednesday, February 13, 2013, By Eileen Jevis

Syracuse University has signed a pledge to join the Education Pillar of Got Your 6 and support student veterans by implementing and enhancing resources, programs and policies to support this population. Got Your 6 is a movement led by a…

Jukebox the Ghost to Headline University Union’s Bandersnatch Music Series

Tuesday, February 12, 2013, By News Staff

Pop-rock band Jukebox the Ghost will headline University Union’s second Bandersnatch show of the semester in Schine Underground on Tuesday, March 19. Doors will open at 7:30 p.m., with music to follow at 8 p.m. An opening act will be…

Health & Society

McDonald Receives NIH Grant to Study Intellectual Disability Research Ethics

Tuesday, February 12, 2013, By Michele Barrett

Katherine McDonald, associate professor of public health in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics and faculty fellow in the Burton Blatt Institute, has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute…

Arts & Culture

Razor-Sharp Wit in ‘Top Girls’ Examines Costs of Success

Tuesday, February 12, 2013, By News Staff

A skeptical and comic look at the role of women in contemporary society, “Top Girls” flashes with Caryl Churchill’s razor-sharp wit and ingenious theatricality. Set in the early days of Margaret Thatcher’s England, the play follows two sisters: hard-nosed, successful…