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Arts & Culture

La Casita Cultural Center Hispanic Heritage Month

Monday, September 28, 2015, By Keith Kobland

La Casita Cultural Center, a program of Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), is observing Hispanic Heritage Month (HHM) with a special exhibition titled “Béisbol at the Heart of Our Latino Communities.” “Béisbol” is the theme of the…

Campus & Community

Family Weekend 2015 in Photos

Monday, September 28, 2015, By Kathleen Haley

Families came together on campus to explore the University and attend a number of events during Family Weekend 2015.

Campus & Community

Chancellor Announces New University-wide Workgroup on Diversity, Inclusion

Monday, September 28, 2015, By News Staff

Chancellor Kent Syverud today announced the creation of a new University-wide Chancellor’s Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion. The new workgroup will mirror in structure and scope the successful Workgroup on Sexual Violence Prevention, Education and Advocacy the Chancellor created last…

Arts & Culture

Carver Series Presents Renowned Poet Tom Sleigh Sept. 30

Friday, September 25, 2015, By Rob Enslin

The Raymond Carver Reading Series in the College of Arts and Sciences continues with a reading by acclaimed poet, essayist and dramatist Tom Sleigh. On Wednesday, Sept. 30, Sleigh, who is this semester’s Leonard and Elise Elman Visiting Writer, will…

Senior’s Larger-Than-Life Artwork on Display with Closing Reception Sept. 29

Friday, September 25, 2015, By News Staff

The artwork of Julie Pratt, a senior painting major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Art, is being presented during the month of September at the Art Gallery at May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society, 3800 E….

Famed South African Photographer to Visit Sept. 28

Friday, September 25, 2015, By Sarah Scalese

Iconic South African photographer Cedric Nunn will visit the University to promote his new book, “Unsettled: The 100 Year War of Resistance by Xhosa Against Boer and British” (Archipelago Books, 2015). As part of his visit, Nunn will discuss his…

Media, Law & Policy

Free Speech Activist Mary Beth Tinker Will Visit Newhouse Oct. 2

Friday, September 25, 2015, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Mary Beth Tinker, whose decision to wear an armband to school in 1965 led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling upholding students’ free speech rights, will visit the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Friday, Oct. 2, as a…

Arts & Culture

Samba Laranja Joins Rusted Root Musician for Interactive Drumming Performance

Thursday, September 24, 2015, By Erica Blust

Samba Laranja: the Syracuse University Brazilian Ensemble will participate in an interactive drumming performance with Jim Donovan, an award-winning educator, author and musician from the band Rusted Root on Friday, Sept. 25, at 7 p.m. at Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church,…

Arts & Culture

Alumni to Be Posthumously Honored during New York Film Festival

Thursday, September 24, 2015, By Ellen Mbuqe

The films of Albert Maysles, ’49, a pioneering documentary filmmaker who graduated from the College of Arts and Sciences, will be featured during a special tribute co-hosted by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Maysles family. Maysles, who…

Business & Economy

WISE Women’s Business Center Director Joanne Lenweaver Honored

Thursday, September 24, 2015, By Lindsay Wickham

Joanne Lenweaver, director of the WISE Women’s Business Center—a program of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management—was recognized with the 2015 Outstanding Mentor Award at the inaugural Successful Business Women Awards on Sept. 24.  Lenweaver was one of 13…