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‘Zookeeper’s Wife’ Author Diane Ackerman to Deliver Wali Lecture Sept. 24

Wednesday, August 21, 2013, By News Staff

Writer and naturalist Diane Ackerman will present “Everyday Heroism: The Subversive Power of Compassion” at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24, in the Killian Room, 500 Hall of Languages. The lecture is free and open to the public. Parking is available…

University Acquires Wainhouse Archive, Marquis de Sade’s English Translator

Tuesday, August 20, 2013, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center has acquired the archive of American translator and National Book Award winner Austryn Wainhouse. Wainhouse is best known for his complete and uncensored English translations of the Marquis de Sade’s 1791 novel “Justine”…

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University Wellness Initiative to Sponsor Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

Monday, August 19, 2013, By News Staff

Interested in reducing your stress, increasing your concentration and/or improving your relationships?  Then join us for the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Program Thursday evenings at 5:30 p.m. starting on Sept. 26. This eight-week program includes weekly sessions and one…

SU Organist Kola Owolabi to Present Recital Sept. 3

Monday, August 19, 2013, By Erica Blust

Kola Owolabi, Syracuse University organist and associate professor of music in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), will present an organ recital on Tuesday, Sept. 3,…

Dympna Callaghan: Raise Your Voice for the Humanities!

Monday, August 19, 2013, By Cyndi Moritz

  [box type=”default” size=”medium”] Dympna Callaghan[/box] Dympna Callaghan, the William L. Safire Professor of Modern Letters and a renowned Shakespearean scholar in The College of Arts and Sciences, is serving as interim director of the SU Humanities Center. She gave…

SU Continues to Embody a Global Campus Community

Monday, August 19, 2013, By News Staff

Students from all over the world have begun to arrive on campus. The Slutzker Center for International Services within the Division of Student Affairs has greeted more than 800 new international graduate students recently. They will continue to do so…

Syracuse University Cultural Centers Host Open House on Aug. 29

Monday, August 19, 2013, By News Staff

In an effort to engage students simultaneously across their social identities, the four cultural centers within the Division of Student Affairs (Disability Cultural Center, LGBT Resource Center, Office of Multicultural Affairs and Slutzker Center for International Services) are working together…

360i-Sponsored Pilot Program Brings Harlem Teens to Campus

Thursday, August 15, 2013, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications recently hosted 10 high school students from the Harlem section of New York City who were on campus to learn about the field of advertising and associated careers. The students, all part of…

Maxwell School Professor Christina Merchant Dies

Thursday, August 15, 2013, By News Staff

Christina Sickles Merchant, a professor of practice in the Department of Public Administration and International Affairs in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, passed away on Aug. 5. Since 2007, Merchant taught a wide variety of classes on…

A Classroom of Promise

Thursday, August 15, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

Five SU students traveled to South Africa for an SU Abroad course on the socio-economic development and educational system in the pre- and post-apartheid eras.They came back with much more and left behind a lasting impact on some young minds.