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University Human Rights Film Festival to Be Held Virtually Sept. 23–25

Monday, September 13, 2021, By News Staff

The 19th annual Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival, slated for Set. 23–25, will be held virtually this year. The event is co-sponsored by the Syracuse University Humanities Center and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, and is part…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse University Humanities Center Announces 2021-22 Syracuse Symposium

Monday, September 13, 2021, By Dan Bernardi

“Timely and timeless” is how Vivian May, director of the Syracuse University Humanities Center, describes “Conventions,” the theme of this year’s Syracuse Symposium. In the political sense, she says a convention can be a gathering or convening, as in political…

Arts & Culture

School of Architecture Announces Fall 2021 Visiting Critics

Wednesday, September 8, 2021, By Julie Sharkey

Each semester, upper-level architecture students participate in the visiting critic program that brings leading architects and scholars from around the world to the school. Three studios will be held on campus this fall. The School of Architecture is also offering…

BBI Receives $6.2 Million Award for Southeast ADA Center to Advance Understanding of Disability Rights, Responsibilities

Tuesday, September 7, 2021, By Eileen Korey

For the third time in 15 years, the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) has been awarded a five-year, $6.2 million grant to advance and support understanding of rights and responsibilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) through its Southeast ADA…

Arts & Culture

‘Each One Inspired: Haudenosaunee Art Across the Homelands’ Now on View at Syracuse University Art Museum

Friday, September 3, 2021, By Ellen Mbuqe

A new exhibition is now on view at Syracuse University Art Museum featuring more than 52 contemporary artworks by Indigenous artists from all six Haudenosaunee Nations across what is now New York. The exhibition takes a closer look at the…

Arts & Culture

VPA Welcomes New Full-Time Faculty

Friday, September 3, 2021, By Erica Blust

The College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) welcomed 10 new full-time faculty members for the 2021-22 academic year. Gabrielle Demeestère joins the Department of Transmedia as an assistant teaching professor of film and will teach screenwriting and directing. Born…

Media, Law & Policy

College of Law to Offer AccessLex Institute’s Helix Bar Review to Students at No Charge

Wednesday, September 1, 2021, By Martin Walls

In a national first, the College of Law has partnered with legal education nonprofit AccessLex Institute to offer the institute’s interactive Helix Bar Review prep course free of charge to all Syracuse Law students. Helix Bar Review is a state-of-the-art,…

Spectrum News

Syracuse Pride: President Biden and Governor Hochul Both Attended Syracuse University

Tuesday, August 31, 2021, By Sophie Gomprecht

Margaret Thompson, associate professor of history and political science in the Maxwell School, was interviewed for the Spectrum News Capital Tonight story “Biden, Hochul both earned degrees at SU.” Thompson commented on the recent appointment of Governor Hochul and President Biden’s history…

Campus & Community

Make Your Plans for Orange Central 2021

Wednesday, August 25, 2021, By John Boccacino

The Syracuse University Alumni Association is excited to safely welcome alumni and their families back home to Syracuse University for Orange Central 2021, Oct. 28-31. Orange Central is always a special time as our Orange family comes together to reconnect…

Campus & Community

A Look Back at Life in 2003

Wednesday, August 25, 2021, By Jen Plummer

As the University welcomes students from around the globe to its campus, we’re time traveling back to 2003—the year many individuals comprising our incoming Class of 2025 were born. Mostly fueled by the accelerated pace of technological advancement, much has…