Search Results for: ,uCA
2010 Chancellor’s Awards for Public Engagement and Scholarship honor students, faculty, staff and community partners for their civic contributions
Syracuse University will honor students, faculty, staff and community partners who exemplify SU’s commitment to engagement with the community and Scholarship in Action with the 2010 Chancellor’s Awards for Public Engagement and Scholarship at a celebration dinner on Monday, April 5.
SU Project Advance publishes decades of research on high school/college partnerships
Syracuse University Project Advance® (SUPA) has announced the publication of “Our Courses Your Classroom®: Research on Syracuse University Courses Taught in High School,” edited by Gerald S. Edmonds, director of SUPA and Sari Z. Signorelli, associate director of SUPA. Collected here, for the first time in one volume, is a retrospective of SUPA’s research since its inception in 1972.
Columbia University scholar Dabashi to keynote ‘Religion in Scholarship’ symposium April 9
On Friday, April 9, the Syracuse University Humanities Center will present Religion in Scholarship, an interdisciplinary symposium exploring the changing relationship between religion and scholarly study. The all-day symposium will take place in the Tolley Humanities Building, room 304 and will be keynoted by Hamid Dabashi, professor of Iranian studies and comparative literature at Columbia University.
SU College of Law’s Cooney Colloquium begins spring series on inhuman subjects
During the month of April, distinguished lecturers will come to SU for discussions on “Inhuman Subjects: Critiquing the Limits of Humanism, Human Rights, and the Humanities” as part of The Angela S. Cooney Colloquium on Law and Humanities.
University to celebrate Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month
The Office of Multicultural Affairs is planning to kick off Asian-Pacific American (APA) Heritage Month with a bang on April 1, with its reception in the Schine Student Center in Suite 105.
Nobel Peace Prize nominee Volkan to speak at ‘Translating Peace’ event Thursday at Maxwell School
Vamik Djemal Volkan, emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia and a three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, will be the keynote speaker for “Translating Peace: Multicultural Responses to Conflict and Disaster,” a panel to be held Thursday, April 1 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Public Events Room, 220 Eggers Hall.
Taishoff Center Lecture Series inaugural speaker Prince to discuss her experiences with autism spectrum
The Taishoff Center for Inclusive Higher Education and the School of Education will welcome Dawn Prince to give the inaugural lecture of the Taishoff Center Lecture Series on April 20.
Peter Balakian, expert on Armenian genocide, leads Genocide Awareness Week schedule
He will present “The Armenian Genocide and Modernity,” on Monday, April 12, at 4 p.m. in the Winnick Hillel Center.
Syracuse Technology Garden entrepreneur in residence provides support for student ventures
John Liddy is entrepreneur in residence at the Syracuse Technology Garden.
‘Red Orchestra’ author to speak about Berlin’s underground Hitler resistance movement on April 5
Anne Nelson, author of “Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends who Resisted Hitler,” will speak on April 5 at 4 p.m. at Watson Theater,