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Five Candidates to Receive Honorary Degrees at 159th Commencement Exercises

Thursday, April 11, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The five 2013 honorary degree candidates are: Alan Gerry, Judith S. Kaye, Commencement speaker Nicholas Kristof, Wangarai Muta Maathai (posthumously), and Charles Payne ’70.

Directors Headline Experimental Film Series at SU, University of Rochester

Wednesday, April 10, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Program celebrates experimental film of past and present Independent filmmakers Morgan Fisher and Kevin Jerome Everson are among those scheduled to participate in a new screening series, taking place at Syracuse University and the University of Rochester. The CNYX screening…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage Will Produce David Henry Hwang’s ‘Chinglish’ in 2014

Friday, April 5, 2013, By News Staff

“Chinglish,” a hilarious new comedy about the misadventures of miscommunication by Tony Award-winning writer David Henry Hwang (“M. Butterfly”), will run Feb. 26 through March 16, 2014, in the Archbold Theatre at Syracuse Stage. An American businessman arrives in a…

International Exchange: Cultivating Fulbright Students

Tuesday, April 2, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

Third-year Ph.D. anthropology student Stephen Johnson returned from India last summer knowing that he hadn’t fully explored all of his questions for his Ph.D. topic on the relationship between Tibetan refugees and Indian communities.

Now he has another opportunity—and a prestigious, international distinction that has made it possible.

Arts & Culture

Two Fashion Design Students Honored by YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund

Thursday, March 21, 2013, By Erica Blust

Avery Gray and Kiera Henderson, both sophomore fashion design majors in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, were each awarded a $5,000 scholarship from the YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund (FSF). The students were honored in January at the YMA…

Michael A. Speaks Named Dean of School of Architecture

Tuesday, March 19, 2013, By News Staff

Syracuse University Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric F. Spina today announced the appointment of Michael A. Speaks to the position of dean of the School of Architecture. Speaks is the current dean of the College of Design at the University of Kentucky, where he is also a professor of architecture.

Comcast Head Brian L. Roberts Will Visit Newhouse School March 26

Tuesday, March 19, 2013, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Student Farron Stark will interview him in a public Q&A at the school Brian L. Roberts, chairman and CEO of Comcast Corp. and chair of the board of directors of NBCUniversal, will visit the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications…

Veterans

White House Recognizes IVMF program Grads, SU Alumna as Female Veteran Champions of Change

Tuesday, March 19, 2013, By News Staff

On March 18, the White House honored 14 female veterans as Champions of Change, including Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) and Veteran Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (V-WISE) program graduate and V-WISE ambassador Marylyn Harris, V-WISE graduate Ginger Miller,…

Creative Writing Alumni Participate in SU Panel Discussion March 21

Monday, March 18, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Event to explore ‘success, significance and authenticity’ in literature Is there life after the M.F.A.? Fifteen alumni of Syracuse University’s Creative Writing Program think so and are taking up the question at a panel discussion on Thursday, March 21, from…

Kirk VanGilder Visits SU March 20-21 for Conversations on Creating Spaces for Inclusion

Thursday, March 14, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Rev. Kirk VanGilder, professor of religion at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., will visit Syracuse University March 20-21 for a series of conversations on creating spaces for inclusion. “Without Walls: What Temporary Deaf Spaces Can Tell Us About Managing Identity…