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Media, Law & Policy

Conversation on Race and Entertainment to be held March 28 at Newhouse

Tuesday, March 5, 2019, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The Newhouse School will host the 18th Annual Conversation on Race and Entertainment Media on Thursday, March 28, at 7:30 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3. Dana Gills, director of production and development at Lionsgate, will discuss her…

Arts & Culture

Classic Tales, World and East Coast Premieres and Bright New Plays Meet in Syracuse Stage’s 2019-20 Season

Tuesday, March 5, 2019, By Joanna Penalva

Syracuse Stage announced the six shows that will make up the 2019-20 subscription season: “Twelve Angry Men,” “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast,” “The Wolves,” “Amadeus,” “Once” and the East Coast premiere of “Yoga Play.”  The subscription season runs Oct. 9,…

Campus & Community

Seth Tucker: Preparation Is Key to Safe and Transformative Travel Experiences

Tuesday, March 5, 2019, By Eileen Korey

Seth Tucker says the time he spent abroad during college was transformative. He studied in Paris even though he wasn’t proficient in French. “I had to rewire my brain…learn to swim in a different pond,” says the New York native…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage Cold Read Festival Gets Hotter in Second Year

Tuesday, March 5, 2019, By Joanna Penalva

All plays were once new plays. That’s the idea behind Syracuse Stage’s Cold Read Festival of New Plays. Now in its second season, the Cold Read festival has five different events featuring some of the freshest voices writing for theater…

STEM

Peers Help ECS Students Master Course Material in Academic Excellence Workshops

Monday, March 4, 2019, By Alex Dunbar

The Academic Excellence Workshops (AEW) are geared toward achieving success in courses in engineering and math. AEW sessions are peer-facilitated, one-credit, pass/fail courses designed to supplement the instruction in many first- and second-year courses. Students are able to register for…

Campus & Community

Shared Competencies to Enhance Undergraduate Student Learning

Monday, March 4, 2019, By News Staff

To help better prepare students to be engaged leaders in a global society, the Syracuse University Senate endorsed six shared competencies last semester. These educational goals characterize what every Syracuse University undergraduate student should know and be able to do…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Symposium ‘Stories’ Bring CNY History Alive

Monday, March 4, 2019, By Rob Enslin

Syracuse Symposium continues its yearlong exploration of “Stories” with three events in March. On March 5, Susan Hill, associate professor of history at the University of Toronto (UT), will discuss “Undoing Bad Press: Rethinking Haudenosaunee Historical Events Erroneously Portrayed in…

Campus & Community

Presentation Focuses on Diversity in Graduate Education Through Admissions Practices

Monday, March 4, 2019, By News Staff

Educators Julie Posselt and Casey Miller will make the case for efforts to increase diversity in graduate education, and provide practical strategies for doing so by rethinking typical recruitment and admission processes in a presentation on Friday, March 15, from…

Campus & Community

University Lectures Presents NPR’s Nina Totenberg Tuesday Night

Monday, March 4, 2019, By Kevin Morrow

The University Lectures series welcomes award-winning NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg on Tuesday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The event—featuring the veteran journalist in an on-stage conversation with College of Law Dean Craig M. Boise—is free…

Campus & Community

VPA School of Design Students Win Syracuse University ACC InVenture Prize

Thursday, February 28, 2019, By News Staff

A group of prominent judges—including investors, technologists, funders and successful entrepreneurs—selected College of Visual and Performing Arts School of Design students Quinn King (left) and Alec Gillinder (right) as winners of the prestigious ACC InVenture Prize at Syracuse University. The…