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Arts & Culture

‘Hairspray’ Starts Thanksgiving Weekend at Syracuse Stage

Friday, November 21, 2014, By News Staff

Bubbling with joy and ’60s-era music and dance, “Hairspray” is the Tony Award-winning hit Broadway musical piled bouffant high with laughter, romance and deliriously tuneful songs.

One University Events Brings Faculty, Staff Together

Friday, November 21, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

During the past two months, more than 1,000 faculty and staff have come together at several One University events. The goal of the events, which have taken place at the University’s Chancellor’s House on Comstock Avenue, is to bring together…

Veterans

Research to Assess How Tech May Aid Refugees, Veterans in Transitions

Thursday, November 20, 2014, By Diane Stirling

How do people get back to normal life when adjusting their perspectives, social relationships, identities and other everyday facets after experiencing major cultural and environmental disruptions? Could specific technologies be designed to help them? Those are questions School of Information…

Campus & Community

Call for Additional Students to Join Fast Forward Syracuse Teams

Thursday, November 13, 2014, By News Staff

Chancellor Kent Syverud is adding more than twenty seats on Fast Forward Syracuse work teams to provide undergraduate and graduate students an opportunity to participate in the University-wide initiative. The additional seats are a result of direct conversations that have…

Healthy Monday Celebration Recognizes 45,000 Miles Logged in October

Tuesday, November 11, 2014, By News Staff

Monday, Nov. 10, capped off Healthy Monday Syracuse and Recreation Services’ month-long walking initiative and competition, Walktober. A lunchtime celebration of the accomplishments of all Walktober participants took place in 500 Hall of Languages. Nearly 600 students, staff and faculty…

DesignIntelligence Ranks VPA’s Environmental and Interior Design Program No. 9

Monday, November 10, 2014, By Erica Blust

The environmental and interior design (EDI) program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) Department of Design has been ranked No. 9 in the nation for undergraduate interior design programs in the 2015 DesignIntelligence report “America’s Best Architecture…

Syracuse University Brass Ensemble Opens Season in Little Falls Nov. 16

Monday, November 10, 2014, By News Staff

The Syracuse University Brass Ensemble (SUBE), directed by James T. Spencer, will launch its 2014-15 season with a concert in Little Falls on Sunday, Nov. 16, at 3 p.m. Presented by the Mohawk Valley Center for the Arts (MVCA), the…

Adult Beginners’ Tap Class Brings Friendship, Joy in ‘Stepping Out’

Thursday, November 6, 2014, By News Staff

Led by Mavis, a patient and talented dancer, and accompanied by the acerbic Mrs. Fraser on piano, “Stepping Out” follows the ups and downs of nine women and one man who meet weekly in a church hall for a beginning tap class.

Health & Society

Jennifer Wilkins Updates First U.S. Regional Food Guide

Tuesday, November 4, 2014, By Michele Barrett

Thanks to farmers’ markets, farm-to-school programs and community-supported agriculture, locally grown foods are more readily available—and more in demand. People want to know where their food comes from. How is it grown? What steps are involved in its processing? Evidence…

Campus & Community

Human Rights Lawyer to Speak on U.N. Disability Treaty Nov. 4

Monday, November 3, 2014, By News Staff

Janet Lord, senior vice president for human rights and inclusive development at the Burton Blatt Institute and senior researcher for the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, will speak Tuesday, Nov. 4, at 12:30 p.m. in 341 Eggers Hall. Her…