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Campus & Community

Looking for Participants/Syracuse Lead Study Expands Recruiting

Monday, December 2, 2013, By News Staff

The Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition at Falk College is expanding recruitment for the Syracuse Lead Study.  Additional zip codes are 13203 and 13208, in addition to the existing areas of 13204, 13205 and 13207. The study…

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.

Arts & Culture

Seniors Can Apply to Be Engagement Scholars

Wednesday, November 20, 2013, By Jamie Haft

Undergraduate students graduating in December 2013 or May 2014 can apply to be Imagining America Engagement Scholars or Entrepreneurship Engagement Scholars. The yearlong program supports recent graduates with a strong academic record to become civic-minded professionals or entrepreneurs in Central New…

Arts & Culture

‘A Christmas Carol’ Returns to Syracuse Stage

Tuesday, November 19, 2013, By News Staff

The beloved family classic returns to Central New York after a seven-year absence in an adaptation new to Syracuse audiences. “A Christmas Carol” follows the story of Ebenezer Scrooge’s fateful Christmas Eve journey from an embittered, ungenerous creature into a…

Arts & Culture

‘Take the Mic’ Poetry Slam Planned Thursday

Tuesday, November 19, 2013, By News Staff

Verbal Blend, a spoken-word poetry program out of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, will host its campus-wide “Take the Mic” poetry slam on Thursday, Nov. 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the Schine Student Center Underground. Doors will open at 7:15…

Campus & Community

Freeman Hrabowski Named 2014 MLK Keynote Speaker

Tuesday, November 19, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Freeman A. Hrabowski III, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), will be the keynote speaker for Syracuse University’s 29th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, “Pursuing the Dream: Above All Odds”  on Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014, in…

Media, Law & Policy

Cultivating Entrepreneurial Journalists

Monday, November 18, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

Dan Pacheco, Newhouse’s Peter A. Horvitz Endowed Chair of Journalism Innovation, wants communications students to explore all the ways that storytelling brings words, photos and video to life in compelling ways. A new program, in conjunction with Kickstarter, is giving Newhouse students more opportunities to make that happen.

STEM

A&S Professor’s Neuroimaging Work Featured in Nature Article

Friday, November 15, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Leave it to Corey White, assistant professor of psychology in The College of Arts and Sciences, to get a head start on the competition. White is the focus of a Nov. 6 article in the journal Nature about young scientists…

Health & Society

Williams-Forson to Speak on ‘Don’t Yuck My Yum’

Wednesday, November 13, 2013, By Renée K. Gadoua

Food, culture and health are the themes that launch the 2013-14 Colloquium Series of the Department of African American Studies in The College of Arts and Sciences. The opening event will feature foodways scholar Psyche Williams-Forson, who will present “Don’t…

Campus & Community

Students Invited to Answer the Question: Who Are You?

Tuesday, November 12, 2013, By News Staff

The STOP Bias initiative out of the Division of Student Affairs is hosting the second annual “Who Are You?” Postcard Project. The program invites students to submit anonymous statements that answer the question, “Who are you?” A display of these…