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Syracuse Law Hosts Information Event for Students Interested in Technology Commercialization Law Program
From start-ups to Fortune 100 companies, Syracuse Law’s Technology Commercialization Law Program (TCLP) partners with inventors who are passionate about bringing their technology to the marketplace. On Tuesday, Feb. 11, faculty and students from TCLP will meet to share information…
Light Work Presents Gerard H. Gaskin’s ‘Legendary’
Light Work is presenting Gerard H. Gaskin’s “Legendary,” through Aug. 8 in the Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery in the Schine Student Center. A lecture sponsored by the Syracuse University LGBT Resource Center will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 12,…
Lennon Kicks Off Spring Raymond Carver Lecture Series
Fiction writer J. Robert Lennon kicks off the spring 2014 Raymond Carver Reading Series at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29, in Gifford Auditorium. A question-and-answer session will precede the reading from 3:45-4:30 p.m. The event is free and open to…
Ray Smith Symposium Focuses on Commodification, Aesthetics of South Asian Folk Art
The commodification of South Asia folk art, including Mithila paintings by women from Northern India and parts of Nepal, is the focus of an upcoming Ray Smith Symposium.
SU Librarians Author Most Downloaded 2013 Article in Science & Technology Libraries
An article by three SU librarians was the most widely read article in Science & Technology Libraries for 2013, according to Tony Stankus, editor in chief of the London-based journal. The article “Introduction to Altmetrics for Science, Technology, Engineering and…
Preparing New Teachers for the Common Core
The national Common Core initiative has brought challenges for both students and teachers—and for new teachers who faculty members in the School of Education must prepare for this shift in the national education landscape.
Giving Peace a Chance
Although the Perpetual Peace Project’s (PPP) coming-out party was the 2010 Syracuse Symposium, Professor Gregg Lambert says the initiative can trace its roots to an event some 13 years earlier in South Africa.
Professor Micere Mugo Tells Why Mandela Was a Great Man
Anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, 95, died yesterday. He became the first black president of South Africa in 1994 after serving 27 years in prison under the repressive apartheid system. Upon his release, he chose to advocate for reconciliation rather than…
Convergence of Thanksgiving, Hanukkah Celebrated
On Thursday, Nov. 28, Americans of the Jewish faith tradition will celebrate two holidays—Thanksgiving and the first day of Hanukkah.
Modern Mythology: Fifty Years Later, JFK Still Resonates
It was sunny that day in June of 1957 when John F. Kennedy came to Syracuse University. He was the junior senator from Massachusetts, but he was already eying the presidency, and already testing the rhetoric—a call to public service, an appeal to young people—that would later mark his administration.