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SU in the News: Tuesday, April 17
Associated Press highlights sustainability of SU/SUNY-ESF 2012 Commencement gowns
Seniors to present work during annual Capstone Presentation Day
On Wednesday afternoons, Brittany Brathwaite, a senior in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, heads to SU’s Warehouse in downtown Syracuse to meet with “her girls,” teenagers from across the city whose lives are in turmoil and for whom…
SU humanities panel explores ‘cultural politics of images’ April 18
The cultural politics of images is the subject of the next installment of “IMAGES? Precisely!,” a lecture series organized by Mark Linder, inaugural Chancellor’s Fellow in the Humanities, as part of the Syracuse University Humanities Center’s new Transdisciplinary Humanities Project….
Two anthropology Ph.D. students receive major NSF fellowships
Melinda Gurr and Lauren Hosek, both second-year doctoral students in anthropology, have received highly prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. The awards support advanced graduate study for three years, at $30,000 per year. In selecting Gurr and Hosek, the…
Transgender Day of Liberation to be celebrated on April 9
Syracuse University’s LGBT Resource Center within the Division of Student Affairs hosts Ryka Aoki, writer, performer and educator, for its Transgender Day of Liberation event on April 9 at 7 p.m. in the Watson Theater in the Menschel Media Center….
Take Back the Night 2012 events begin April 9
From April 9-12, Syracuse University’s Advocacy Center within the Division of Student Affairs will host a series of Take Back the Night activities and events dedicated to raising awareness about sexual and relationship violence. Members of the campus and local…
Harvard’s David Carrasco to lecture April 6 on storytelling in 16th century Mexico
David Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America at Harvard Divinity School and Harvard’s Department of Anthropology, will give a lecture “An Indigenous American Pictorial Epic: Storytelling from the 16th Century Mexican Codex-Mapa de Cuauhtinchan (Place…
White Ribbon Campaign ribbons, wristbands still available across campus
The 2012 Vera House White Ribbon Campaign continues to gain momentum as it closes in on the remaining few weeks of the campaign. Fostered by the Division of Student Affairs, this University-wide initiative involving offices and individuals across campus has…
‘Dead Man Poems’ author to speak at Syracuse University
“Live as if you were already dead.”—Zen admonition Celebrated poet Marvin Bell will read from his latest work, “Vertigo: The Living Dead Man Poems” (Copper Canyon Press, 2011) at 7 p.m. Monday, April 2, in Syracuse University’s Hall of Languages,…
Community engagement to be honored at annual CAPES Award ceremony March 26
Syracuse University will honor students, faculty, staff and community partners who exemplify SU’s commitment to engagement with the community and Scholarship in Action with the 2012 Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship (CAPES). The awards will be given at…