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Mayor Stephanie Miner to Serve as Keynote Speaker for Elect Her

Monday, March 17, 2014, By News Staff

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner will serve as the keynote speaker for the Elect Her event at Syracuse University on Saturday, April 5. The event is sponsored by the Student Association. Elect Her is a program that encourages women to be…

SU Campus Now Deemed HEARTSafe

Monday, March 17, 2014, By Keith Kobland

You feel a tightness in your chest. You’re sweating. Your pulse is racing, and you’re short of breath. You could be having a heart attack. The Centers for Disease Control estimates that nearly 1.5 million heart attacks are suffered yearly…

914Works to Present Robert Shetterly’s ‘Americans Who Tell the Truth’

Friday, March 14, 2014, By Erica Blust

Robert Shetterly’s “Americans Who Tell the Truth: Models of Courageous Citizenship,” an exhibition of portraits that present citizens who courageously engage issues of social, environmental and economic fairness, will be on view March 18-April 11 at 914Works, 914 E. Genesee…

Arts & Culture

Actress Brings One-Woman Monologue to Campus March 25

Thursday, March 13, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith will explore issues of community, character and diversity in America, in her monologue, “Snapshots: Portraits of a World in Transition.”

Saunders Wins More Hardware, Prepares to Launch ‘Kindness’ Book

Thursday, March 13, 2014, By Rob Enslin

This spring is shaping up to be another busy one for George Saunders G’88, acclaimed author and professor of English in The College of Arts and Sciences. This past weekend, the Oneonta, N.Y., resident traveled to London to receive the…

UVP, Light Work Announce World Premiere Screening of Hamilton’s ‘Table of Contents’

Monday, March 10, 2014, By News Staff

Urban Video Project and Light Work have announced the exhibition of “table of contents” (2013-2014), a new piece by celebrated multimedia artist Ann Hamilton, at UVP Everson from April 8-May 31. Hamilton will present an artist talk on Tuesday, April…

Point of Contact Presents Poetry Book Fair

Friday, March 7, 2014, By News Staff

In collaboration with the YMCA’s Downtown Writer’s Center, Point of Contact Gallery is hosting its third Poetry Book Fair to showcase books by poets from central New York. This is an opportunity for local poets to showcase and sell their…

University to Host National Whistleblower Tour

Friday, March 7, 2014, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Syracuse University, in partnership with Upstate Medical University, SUNY Cortland and ArtRage, will host “American Whistleblower Tour: Models of Courageous Citizenship” with a series of events to be held this month. Part of a national campaign sponsored by the Government…

Rachel Kushner Next in Raymond Carver Reading Series

Friday, March 7, 2014, By Renée K. Gadoua

Rachel Kushner, a two-time finalist for the National Book Award and a finalist for Great Britain’s inaugural Folio Prize, is the next writer in the spring 2014 Raymond Carver Reading Series at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 19, in Gifford Auditorium….

Health & Society

Haddix Named Recipient of AERA Early Career Award

Thursday, March 6, 2014, By Jennifer Russo

Marcelle Haddix, assistant professor in the Reading and Language Arts Center at the School of Education, has been named the recipient of the 2014 Division K Early Career Award. This award is given annually to a researcher in the initial…