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University Honored with Prestigious Civic Engagement Award

Monday, October 7, 2013, By News Staff

Syracuse University is among just five colleges and universities in the nation, chosen from more than 100 nominations, to share in the 2013 Higher Education Civic Engagement Awards presented by The Washington Center and the New York Life Foundation.

Campus & Community

Remembrance Week Activities Announced

Monday, October 7, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University’s Remembrance Week 2013 is being held on the SU campus Oct. 6-12. 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.

Campus & Community

Challenge Course Opens on South Campus

Friday, October 4, 2013, By News Staff

The challenge course is not only open to SU students, faculty, and staff, but to the surrounding community as well. It was designed to support groups, as well as individuals, in working together at accomplishing the various challenges presented in the course.

Health & Society

Brooks Gump Named Falk Family Endowed Professor of Public Health

Friday, October 4, 2013, By Michele Barrett

Brooks B. Gump, Ph.D., M.P.H., has been named the Falk Family Endowed Professor of Public Health in the Falk College at Syracuse University. Gump joined the Falk College faculty in 2010 and is currently a professor in the Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition, where he also serves as the graduate program director for public health.

Campus & Community

GlobalPost Head Charles Sennott Will Visit Newhouse October 16

Friday, October 4, 2013, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Charles M. Sennott, vice president, editor-at-large and co-founder of GlobalPost, will speak at the Newhouse School on Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 7 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3. His topic will be “Egypt’s Unfinished Revolution: Democracy and…

Donald G. Hornung ’53 Honored with Eggers Award

Thursday, October 3, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Alumnus Donald G. Hornung ’53 will be honored with the Melvin A. Eggers Senior Alumni Award during the annual Melvin A. Eggers Senior Alumni Award Dinner, held Friday, Oct. 4, from 5-8 p.m. at the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel and…

Kahn Honored with Generation Orange Award

Thursday, October 3, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Helene Kahn ’10 will receive the inaugural Generation Orange Award during Orange Central. Generation Orange Committee Chair Sam Clarvit ’10 and SU Alumni Association President Laurie B. Taishoff ’84 will present Kahn with the award during the Generation Orange tailgate…

Arts & Culture

Symposium Explores Use of Digital Games by Human Rights Activists

Thursday, October 3, 2013, By News Staff

The Digital Witness Symposium invites cutting-edge mediamakers, programmers and scholars to discuss how the changing digital ecology is opening up new opportunities for human rights media. This year’s symposium explores how human rights activism is increasingly turning to digital games and interactive media as a strategy for engaging new audiences.

Arts & Culture

Community Folk Art Center Presents An Evening With Daniel Roumain

Thursday, October 3, 2013, By News Staff

The Community Folk Art Center will host an evening with critically acclaimed musician Daniel Roumain on Friday, Oct. 18, at 7 p.m. The concert titled, “Hear Haiti Here,” will be held as part of the center’s concert series A Journey…

Arts & Culture

A Conversation with George Saunders

Thursday, October 3, 2013, By News Staff

Seats are still available for Friday morning’s conversation with George Saunders, a professor in The College of Arts and Sciences and renowned author whose 2013 Convocation address recently went viral. Saunders will discuss the creative process and his teaching Friday…