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SU Campus Becomes Winter Wonderland

Tuesday, December 17, 2013, By Keith Kobland

Renovations are complete at the Carnegie Library, with ribbon-cutting ceremonies taking place on Monday, Jan. 13. This short video gives a glimpse of the reading room restoration.

Campus & Community

Services Saturday will Commemorate Pan Am 103 25th Anniversary

Monday, December 16, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Saturday, Dec. 21, is the 25th anniversary of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The flight, from London to New York, exploded in the skies over Lockerbie on Dec. 21, 1988, at 7:03 p.m. GMT (2:03…

Arts & Culture

Giving Peace a Chance


Friday, December 13, 2013, By Rob Enslin

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.

Campus & Community

Gonzalez, de Berly Travel to Colombia

Friday, December 13, 2013, By Eileen Jevis

University College’s Dean Bea González and Senior Associate Dean Geraldine de Berly traveled to Barranquilla, Colombia, in November to attend the 2013 Global Leaders for Global Engagement conference; the fifth Latin American and Caribbean Higher Education Conference on Internationalization. Following…

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College of Arts and Sciences’ George Langford Announces Plans to Step Down as Dean

Wednesday, December 11, 2013, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s Dean of The College of Arts and Sciences, George M. Langford, today announced that he will complete his term as dean on June 30, 2014. Appointed dean in 2008, Langford plans to return to full-time teaching, research and…

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Professor Micere Mugo Tells Why Mandela Was a Great Man

Friday, December 6, 2013, By Cyndi Moritz

Anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, 95, died yesterday. He became the first black president of South Africa in 1994 after serving 27 years in prison under the repressive apartheid system. Upon his release, he chose to advocate for reconciliation rather than…

Campus & Community

Students Organize Initiatives for Typhoon Haiyan Relief

Thursday, December 5, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

On Nov. 8, Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms ever recorded, slammed into portions of Southeast Asia, hitting the Philippines particularly hard. The storm left unbelievable devastation in its wake. More than 5,600 deaths have been officially recorded, and…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse City Ballet Offers SU Community Discount Tickets to ‘The Nutcracker’ Dec. 6 and 7

Wednesday, December 4, 2013, By News Staff

Syracuse City Ballet is offering members of the SU community a 10 percent discount on adult tickets to its Dec. 6 and 7 productions of “The Nutcracker” at the Oncenter’s Crouse Hinds Concert Theater. To take advantage of the discount,…

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Student Surveys Move to Digital Age

Monday, December 2, 2013, By Keith Kobland

Somewhere in between the beginning of December and taking her final exam and leaving for home, Tamara Rasamny ’16 will complete one more task. “I do feel it’s important to do,” says Rasamny, an international relations major in Syracuse University’s…

Media, Law & Policy

Modern Mythology: Fifty Years Later, JFK Still Resonates

Friday, November 22, 2013, By Wendy S. Loughlin

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.