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The Pratt-Severn Faculty Innovation Award Committee has selected Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) Associate Professor Scott Nicholson as this year’s recipient of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Pratt-Severn Faculty Innovation award for his creative use of gaming and social media to attract more users to public libraries.

The spring lineup for the Raymond Carver Reading Series begins Feb. 9 with novelist and literary critic Stacey D’Erasmo, and continues with essayist and novelist Victor LaValle (Feb. 23), novelist and short story writer Sam Lipsyte (March 9), award-winning poet…

Jonathan Larson’s Broadway phenomenon “Rent” ignites the stage with passion and energy. One year—525,600 minutes—in the lives of seven young friends from Alphabet City brings love, loss, tragedy and triumph in a whirl of non-stop music. Larson built the show…

The importance of publicly engaged scholarship in the humanities is the subject of a new book by Harvey Teres, associate professor of English in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. “The Word on the Street: Linking the Academy and…

Alfred Balk, a magazine writer, editor and nonfiction book author, died at his home in Huntley, Ill. on Nov. 25. He served as an editor at four national magazines, wrote more than 100 magazine articles and seven books, co-edited an…

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE An Associated Press article on a police officer from the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico who fled to the United States with his wife and children, includes statistics from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access…

TRAC statistics noted in Associated Press story on Mexican police officer asylum case

There’s a new character at Syracuse University, thanks to the efforts of two staff members at SU’s Early Education and Child Care Center (EECCC). Fran Paige, an assistant teacher at the center, is the author of a new, self-published children’s…

In response to recent acts of violence among high school-age youth in the Syracuse community, visual arts students from Creative Arts Academy are collaborating with artist Rigo 23 to create a 17 foot by 7 foot mural depicting images and words reflecting…

College of Law and Whitman School’s David Cay Johnston writes in New York Times on charities and deferred gifts