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Stone Canoe Celebrates Launch of Its 2014 Edition
The eighth issue of Stone Canoe, A Journal of Arts, Literature and Social Commentary will be unveiled at a book launch celebration and awards presentation on Saturday, Jan. 18, at Syracuse’s ArtRage Gallery, 505 Hawley Ave. The launch celebration also…
Myrna García-Calderón Wins Puerto Rican PEN Club Award
A professor in The College of Arts and Sciences was among the winners at the Puerto Rican PEN Club awards ceremony, recently held at the University of the Sacred Heart in San Juan. Myrna García-Calderón, associate professor of Spanish in…
Preparing New Teachers for the Common Core
The national Common Core initiative has brought challenges for both students and teachers—and for new teachers who faculty members in the School of Education must prepare for this shift in the national education landscape.
The Story Behind Iconic Image from Aftermath of Pan Am Flight 103
When Catherine Crossland returned to campus in January 1989 for the second half of her sophomore year at Syracuse University, a friend gave her a newspaper he bought while studying abroad the previous semester. The paper was from South Africa. It had Crossland’s photo on the front page.
Giving Peace a Chance
Although the Perpetual Peace Project’s (PPP) coming-out party was the 2010 Syracuse Symposium, Professor Gregg Lambert says the initiative can trace its roots to an event some 13 years earlier in South Africa.
La Casita Hosts CNY Book Awards Dec. 5
Syracuse University is well represented at the second annual Central New York Book Awards, taking place Thursday, Dec. 5, from 6:15-8:15 p.m. at La Casita Cultural Center (109 Otisco St., Syracuse). Sixteen SU faculty members and alumni have been nominated…
Three SU Staff Members Named to 40 Under FORTY
Three members of the Syracuse University community were named among Syracuse’s 40 under FORTY for 2013. The annual award, presented this year at a Nov. 20 luncheon at the Oncenter in downtown Syracuse, recognizes 40 ambitious, civic-minded individuals under the…
SU Professor Organizes ‘Visual Literacy’ Institute to Strengthen Immigrant Voice
Using art to develop language and literacy was the theme of a recent two-day institute at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Among the organizers was Amanda Brown, assistant professor of linguistics in The College of Arts and Sciences….
Modern Mythology: Fifty Years Later, JFK Still Resonates
It was sunny that day in June of 1957 when John F. Kennedy came to Syracuse University. He was the junior senator from Massachusetts, but he was already eying the presidency, and already testing the rhetoric—a call to public service, an appeal to young people—that would later mark his administration.
Thwarting a Devastating Disease
Assistant Professor David Larsen saw the damaging effects of the lack of health care and clean water in the favelas of Belem, Brazil, while working among the people ten years ago. Impacted by the work, he now conducts research to halt the impact of deadly—yet preventable—infectious diseases.