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Applicants Sought for Young Research Fellows Program

Friday, April 7, 2017, By News Staff

The pilot Syracuse University Center for Fellowship and Scholarship Advising (CFSA) Young Research Fellows Program is seeking applications from current first- and second-year undergraduate students with demonstrated potential for and commitment to research and/or creative inquiry. The Young Research Fellows…

Campus & Community

School of Architecture Awards 2017-18 Boghosian Fellowship to Linda Zhang

Thursday, April 6, 2017, By Elaine Wackerow

Syracuse Architecture has selected architectural designer and educator Linda Zhang as the Harry der Boghosian Fellow for 2017-18. She will succeed Assistant Professor Maya Alam, the school’s inaugural Boghosian Fellow. Zhang is currently a Fellow in Residence at the Center…

Arts & Culture

Summer Linguistics Boot Camp Immerses Students in African Luyia Languages

Wednesday, April 5, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

Students interested in learning more about the field of linguistics—and delving deep into a set of African languages—are encouraged to enroll in a new summer course, Linguistics Boot Camp. Under the direction of Assistant Professor Christopher Green, students will review…

Arts & Culture

Phonologist Documents Tonology, Syntax of Distinctive Kenyan Languages With NSF Grant

Wednesday, April 5, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

Last year, Christopher Green, assistant professor of linguistics, spent a month in Kenya with colleagues at Kenyatta University and members of the Luyia ethnic group to continue to explore and better understand the richness of their languages. Green spent many…

David Crane: Syrian War Criminals Will be Bought to Justice

Wednesday, April 5, 2017, By Keith Kobland

Professor David Crane is interviewed on BBC Radio 4 regarding the atrocities in Syria, and his belief that those committing war crimes will be brought to justice.

Campus & Community

Reminder of International Student Survey Closing Soon

Wednesday, April 5, 2017, By Carol Boll

International students have through Thursday of this week to fill out an online survey developed and distributed by Syracuse University’s Internationalization Council. The survey—which is available via the Internationalization Council website—will close Friday morning, April 7. The survey is designed…

Campus & Community

Memorial Service to Be Held for Professor Emeritus William Mangin

Tuesday, April 4, 2017, By News Staff

A memorial service will be held for William “Bill” Mangin, emeritus professor of anthropology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and College of Arts and Sciences, on Monday, April 17, from 4-6 p.m. in the Founders Room…

Campus & Community

Faculty, Staff Invited to Register for Investing 101: Getting Your Money to Work for You

Monday, April 3, 2017, By News Staff

Join Derek Brainard, financial literacy coordinator at Syracuse University, on Tuesday, April 11, for a lunchtime conversation about the basics of investing. Stocks, bonds and mutual funds—what are they, how do they work and how do they fit into the…

Arts & Culture

University to Host Ethnomusicologists Eric Usner, Michael Birenbaum Quintero

Thursday, March 30, 2017, By Rob Enslin

Syracuse University will present programs by two distinguished ethnomusicologists in April. Eric Usner, visiting assistant professor of music at Franklin & Marshall College, will lead a hands-on workshop about teaching in music and the humanities on Friday, April 7, from…

STEM

Undergraduate Research Project Takes IM&T Student to China

Thursday, March 30, 2017, By J.D. Ross

How immigrants use social media, digital communications technologies and mobile applications to interact with their communities and families is the subject of an undergraduate research project that brought School of Information Studies (iSchool) junior Alexis Ho-Liu to China last week,…