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CNY Humanities Corridor Awarded $3.55 Million from Mellon Foundation

Wednesday, October 29, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Syracuse University, Cornell University and the University of Rochester—founders of the Central New York Humanities Corridor, a large-scale interdisciplinary project—have received grants totaling $3.55 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

South Asia Center Receives $1.3 Million ED Grant

Friday, October 24, 2014, By Rob Enslin

The South Asia Center has been awarded a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education (ED). The grant renews the center’s designation as a National Resource Center and provides funding for graduate and undergraduate students, course development, Hindi…

Digital Witness Symposium to Explore Impact of Digital Code on Human Rights Media

Friday, September 26, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

The Central New York Humanities Corridor will present two installments of its fifth annual Digital Witness Symposium. The first one is on Wednesday, Oct. 1, in room 127 of the Kirner-Johnson Building at Hamilton College (198 College Hill Rd., Clinton,…

Imagining America Journal Releases Volume on Career Paths

Tuesday, September 23, 2014, By Holly Zahn

Public: A Journal of Imagining America has announced that Vol. 2 No. 2, “Hybrid, Evolving, and Integrative Career Paths,” is now available at http://public.imaginingamerica.org. Submissions address alternatives to siloed, static, linear job trajectories that public scholars, designers and artists find…

Maxwell Awarded $1 Million for Programs Connecting Academics, Policy Makers

Tuesday, September 23, 2014, By News Staff

The Carnegie Corp. of New York has named the Maxwell School as one of five institutional recipients of $1 million, two-year grants through its initiative “Rigor and Relevance: Bridging the Academic-Policy Gap.”

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Professor Featured in New Humanities Documentary

Friday, September 19, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

A professor in the College of Arts and Sciences will be featured in a new documentary about the public humanities. Gregg Lambert, Dean’s Professor of the Humanities and director of the Central New York Humanities Corridor, is among eight prominent…

Empty Bowls Fundraiser to be Held Sept. 26

Friday, September 19, 2014, By Erica Blust

An Empty Bowls fundraiser to benefit the Interreligious Food Consortium (IFC) will be held on Friday, Sept. 26, from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Nancy Cantor Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse. For a $20 donation, patrons may choose from…

STEM

Advancing Convergence and Innovation in Cancer Research

Monday, September 8, 2014, By Matt Wheeler

The College of Engineering and Computer Science’s Biomedical and Chemical Engineering department will host “Advancing Convergence and Innovation in Cancer Research,” as part of the Graduate Student Seminar Series on Friday, Sept. 19, in Link Hall, Room 105 from 1-2…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage Season Starts with Comedy ‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike’

Thursday, September 4, 2014, By News Staff

The 14/15 Season at Syracuse Stage starts Sept. 24 with “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” winner of the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play. In this “ripped and roaring” comedy by Christopher Durang, Sonia and Vanya have frittered…

Arts & Culture

CFAC Executive Director Elected to Association of African American Museums

Thursday, August 28, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

Kheli Willetts ’92, G’94, G’02, executive director of the Community Folk Art Center (CFAC) and professor of practice of African American Studies (AAS) in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, is one of three scholars elected to the Association…