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Arts & Culture

In One Era and Out the Other

Tuesday, May 20, 2014, By Rob Enslin

With its ability to simulate real-world listening environments, such as crowds and noisy restaurants, the Hearing Aid Fitting/Demonstration room owes much of its “wow” factor to an Audioscan Hearing Aid Analyzer, a typewriter-sized tool used to quickly and accurately fit hearing aids.

Arts & Culture

Scholar Investigates ‘Media-Savvy Evangelicalism’

Monday, May 19, 2014, By Rob Enslin

The intersection of church and cinema is the subject of a major article by a faculty member in the College of Arts and Sciences. Deborah Justice, the Carole and Alvin I. Schragis Faculty Fellow in the Department of Art and…

Arts & Culture

Farewell Remarks and Reception to Be Held in Langford’s Honor

Friday, May 16, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

After six years at the helm of the College of Arts and Sciences, Dean George M. Langford will officially step down in June, but not before his esteemed colleagues, loyal staff and friends have the opportunity to send him off…

Arts & Culture

Gift Creates Special Initiatives Fund at School of Architecture

Thursday, May 15, 2014, By News Staff

Patrick Ahearn ’73, a School of Architecture graduate and member of the school’s advisory board, recently made a gift to the School of Architecture that will create the Ahearn Special Initiatives Fund. The fund will support key activities in critical…

Veterans

IVMF Executive Director Haynie Named Vice Chancellor for Veterans and Military Affairs

Wednesday, May 14, 2014, By News Staff

Syracuse University Chancellor and President Kent Syverud this week announced the formation of a new leadership position to oversee the development and expansion of programming for veterans and the military. J. Michael Haynie, the co-founder and executive director of the…

Arts & Culture

A Lesson in Literacy

Wednesday, May 14, 2014, By Kathleen Haley

Sophia Bravo’s commitment as a Syracuse University Literacy Corps tutor always goes back to one thing. “It’s the kids. Always, always, always the kids,” Bravo ’16 says.

Media, Law & Policy

Disability Rights Expert Earns Fulbright Research Award

Monday, May 12, 2014, By Jaclyn D. Grosso

Associate Professor of Law Michael Schwartz has received a Fulbright Award for study at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland for the spring 2015 semester. Schwartz, who is deaf, is an expert on disability law and international human rights, and…

Campus & Community

Commencement Speech by New Yorker Editor David Remnick

Sunday, May 11, 2014, By News Staff

Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, delivered the Commencement address for Syracuse University’s 160th Commencement ceremony.

Arts & Culture

Meet the Men Behind Creation of the Fisher Center

Thursday, May 8, 2014, By Keith Kobland

Winston Fisher and James Kuhn are the driving force behind Syracuse University’s New York City  academic home in midtown Manhattan. This video provides some insight on the two men who made it all happen. Here’s a transcription of the story:…

Campus & Community

Seeking First-Generation Faculty/Staff Members

Thursday, May 8, 2014, By News Staff

As part of SU’s growing support for first generation college students, we are looking to identify first-generation faculty and staff members on campus. We are gathering information in hopes of starting a first generation connection/mentoring-type program to help ease the…