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VPA’s ‘Painting Alumni Retrospective’ at 914Works to Feature Prominent Artists

Friday, October 17, 2014, By Erica Blust

The College of Visual and Performing Arts will exhibit the work of painting undergraduates from the past 50 years in “Painting Alumni Retrospective” Oct. 21-Jan. 3 at 914Works, 914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse. An opening reception will be held on…

University’s Human Resources Plays Host for Disability Mentoring Day

Thursday, October 16, 2014, By News Staff

On Wednesday, Oct, 15, Syracuse University marked National Disability Mentoring Day by collaborating with 43 other local businesses to participate in Disability Mentoring Day 2014 (DMD). DMD is a large scale-effort to promote career development opportunities for students and job…

Newhouse Students Document Lives of Syracuse Families During Fall Workshop

Thursday, October 16, 2014, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Sixty multimedia photography and design students (MPD) from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications are spending Oct. 16–19 documenting the lives of families across Syracuse as part of the school’s annual Fall Workshop. The students will use photography, recorded…

Scholars Announce Activities for 2014 Remembrance Week

Thursday, October 16, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The weeklong series of events honors the 270 people, including 35 students studying abroad through Syracuse University, who lost their lives in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988.

STEM

Microfossils Reveal Warm Oceans Had Less Oxygen, Syracuse Geologists Say

Wednesday, October 15, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences are pairing chemical analyses with micropaleontology—the study of tiny fossilized organisms—to better understand how global marine life was affected by a rapid warming event more than 55 million years ago.

Social Entrepreneur Lauren Given Moynihan Spirit of Public Service Award

Wednesday, October 15, 2014, By News Staff

The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs has announced that Lauren Bush Lauren, the founder and CEO of FEED Projects, is the inaugural winner of the school’s Moynihan Spirit of Public Service Award, named for the late Sen. Daniel…

Campus & Community

United Way Holds ‘Food and Photo’ Campaign Kickoff Thursday in Schine

Tuesday, October 14, 2014, By News Staff

All members of the University community are invited to join the Syracuse University United Way committee, and Otto, Thursday, Oct. 16, from 2:30-4 p.m. in the atrium of the Schine Student Center for a food and photo campaign kickoff celebration….

Campus & Community

Purser Wins Award for New Book about On-Demand Labor

Tuesday, October 14, 2014, By News Staff

Gretchen Purser, assistant professor of sociology in the Maxwell School, has won the 2014 International Book Award from the California Series in Public Anthropology (University of California Press) for her manuscript “Labor On Demand: Dispatching the Urban Poor.” Each year…

New TRAC Service Tracks Performance of Federal Court Judges

Tuesday, October 14, 2014, By News Staff

Researchers at Syracuse University have developed a data tool (http://tracfed.syr.edu/judges/interp/) that provides strategic intelligence on more than 900 federal district court judges. For the first time, the public can learn which judges handle the most civil court cases, and how…

FNSSI Scientists Awarded National Institute of Justice Grant

Tuesday, October 14, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” has been on television for nearly 14 years and in that time, has won numerous awards for acting. But Syracuse University has its own cast of forensic characters, and instead of an Emmy award, the Forensic…