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Social Work Students Explore Corrections, Mental Health System
Jails and prisons have become the nation’s largest psychiatric institutions, especially for low-income persons and persons of color. The National Sheriffs’ Association reports that in virtually every county across the country, county jails hold more people with severe psychiatric illness…
University Lectures Hosts Billy Collins
No poet since Robert Frost has managed to combine high critical acclaim with such broad popular appeal as Billy Collins.
Look for New Recycling Posters
Syracuse University students, faculty and staff will now have some extra assistance in determining what can be recycled on campus. SU’s Sustainability Division of Energy Systems and Sustainability Management will begin hanging new recycling posters Wednesday in all academic buildings…
A Delicate Web of Remembrance
In Slocum Hall atrium, a temporary installation of stunning intricacy and visual impact remembers the fate of 35 Syracuse University students a generation ago.
University Lectures Hosts Civic Entrepreneur Eric Liu
Civic entrepreneur Eric Liu will speak on what patriotism really means in the next University Lectures presentation on Tuesday, Oct. 22. Liu’s presentation, “The True Meaning of Patriotism,” will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel and is free and…
Common Prayer for Peace Appeals to Global Community
A message of hope has begun its journey across the globe. How many eyes see it and how many mouths speak it likely will never be known. But its purpose is clear: to instill a sense of resolve from sorrowful…
Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric F. Spina Appointed Interim Chancellor
Earlier today, at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees, Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric F. Spina was unanimously selected to serve as Interim Chancellor of Syracuse University. Please see the message below from Chairman of…
‘Does Jesus Really Love Me?’ Author Jeff Chu to Visit Newhouse Oct. 15
Author and journalist Jeff Chu will visit the Newhouse School on Tuesday, Oct. 15, as a guest of the magazine department. He will discuss his book, “Does Jesus Really Love Me? A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in Search of God in…
The Art of Listening: A Reading by Two Poets
On Thursday, Oct. 24, the YMCA’s Downtown Writers Center offers its third annual reading as a component of Syracuse Symposium, featuring two internationally acclaimed poets—Ilya Kaminsky and Stephen Kuusisto (one hearing-impaired, the other blind). They will read work from their…
Brooks Gump Named Falk Family Endowed Professor of Public Health
Brooks B. Gump, Ph.D., M.P.H., has been named the Falk Family Endowed Professor of Public Health in the Falk College at Syracuse University. Gump joined the Falk College faculty in 2010 and is currently a professor in the Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition, where he also serves as the graduate program director for public health.