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Media, Law & Policy

Call for Entries: 2019 Mirror Awards

Wednesday, December 5, 2018, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The Newhouse School is now accepting nominations for the 13th annual Mirror Awards honoring excellence in media industry reporting. The deadline is Feb. 3, 2019. Anyone may nominate, and there is no fee to enter. Entries may be submitted in…

Campus & Community

University Hosts Dec. 14 Program on Understanding Bias for All Staff

Wednesday, December 5, 2018, By Carol Boll

A national expert on diversity, inclusion and unconscious bias will speak Dec. 14 at the Schine Center’s Goldstein Auditorium in a program for all University staff. The program is jointly sponsored by Syracuse University Interim Chief Diversity Officer Keith Alford…

Arts & Culture

Indigenous Filmmaker, VPA Faculty Member Scores Sundance Debut for Documentary on Native Author N. Scott Momaday

Tuesday, December 4, 2018, By News Staff

A documentary film on the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning author N. Scott Momaday by Jeffrey Palmer, an assistant professor of film in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Transmedia, will make its debut at the Sundance Film…

Campus & Community

Students, Time is Now to Rate Your Fall Classes

Monday, December 3, 2018, By News Staff

Students: What did you like about your classes this semester? How do you think your instructors could help you learn the material better? Are there any new topics or methods that you think would work well in a class you…

STEM

The Brain That Changed Everything

Monday, December 3, 2018, By Rob Enslin

Alexander R. Weiss ’12 has a library full of books and journals, from arcane treatises on science and engineering to timeless works of literature and philosophy. One book he holds dear is The New York Times Bestseller “The Brain That…

Arts & Culture

Alumni to be Honored at Billboard Women in Music Ceremony

Monday, December 3, 2018, By Rob Enslin

Four Syracuse alumni will be honored at Billboard’s 13th annual Women in Music awards ceremony in New York City on Thursday, Dec. 6. Deborah Curtis ’90, Lori Feldman ’89, Constance “Connie” Orlando ’89 and Jacqueline Saturn ’90 will join nearly…

Campus & Community

Chancellor Syverud Appoints Members of Search Committee for Chief Diversity Officer

Friday, November 30, 2018, By Kathleen Haley

Chancellor Kent Syverud today announced the members of a search committee for a chief diversity officer (CDO). The creation of a CDO position was one of the recommendations of the Chancellor’s Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion to strengthen the University’s…

Arts & Culture

SU Special Collections and Department of Art and Music Histories Host Visiting Fulbright Scholar Ingeborg Zechner

Friday, November 30, 2018, By Renée Gearhart Levy

As an intern at an Austrian music festival, musicologist Ingeborg Zechner was asked to write a program description about one of the pieces played, the Carmen Fantasie. The well-known violin piece was penned by Franz Waxman, a composer best known…

Arts & Culture

Design Students’ Exhibition Addresses Microaggressions on Campus

Thursday, November 29, 2018, By Erica Blust

Junior communications design majors in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Design have ventured to solve the subtle issues involved with microaggressions as perceived on campus through the exhibition “Microaggressions: Ignorance Does Not Equal Bliss,” part of…

Business & Economy

Invent@SU Students Turn Mouth Cleaning Device Into a $5 Million Business

Thursday, November 29, 2018, By Alex Dunbar

For hundreds of years, the fundamental mechanism of cleaning your teeth through physical brushing has not changed very much—just variations of toothbrushes with bristles. Tairan Li and Chao Huang, industrial and interaction design majors in the College of Visual and…