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Purser Wins Award for New Book about On-Demand Labor

Tuesday, October 14, 2014, By News Staff

Gretchen Purser, assistant professor of sociology in the Maxwell School, has won the 2014 International Book Award from the California Series in Public Anthropology (University of California Press) for her manuscript “Labor On Demand: Dispatching the Urban Poor.” Each year…

Campus & Community

‘Protecting Our Democracy: Fair Elections and Redistricting Reform’ at Oct. 16 Session of IRP

Tuesday, October 14, 2014, By Eileen Jevis

The Oct. 16 session of the Institute for Retired People (IRP) will feature Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York. Lerner will explain why Common Cause believes elections are not working for New York voters. “The outsize role…

New TRAC Service Tracks Performance of Federal Court Judges

Tuesday, October 14, 2014, By News Staff

Researchers at Syracuse University have developed a data tool (http://tracfed.syr.edu/judges/interp/) that provides strategic intelligence on more than 900 federal district court judges. For the first time, the public can learn which judges handle the most civil court cases, and how…

Disability Studies Scholar Rosemarie Garland-Thomson to Speak Oct. 23

Tuesday, October 14, 2014, By Shannon Andre

On Thursday, Oct. 23, at 7 p.m., Rosemarie Garland-Thomson will give a lecture titled “Why I am a Bioconservative” in Watson Theatre. Following the lecture, a reception and book signing will take place at Light Work at 8 p.m. Students,…

Health & Society

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Honors Nutrition Associate Professor Sudha Raj

Tuesday, October 14, 2014, By Michele Barrett

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the world’s largest organization of food and nutrition professionals, will honor Falk College Associate Professor of Nutrition Sudha Raj with two awards at the 2014 Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo (FNCE) to be…

MIT Professor to Discuss ‘Identity Thesis for Language and Music’ Oct. 14

Tuesday, October 14, 2014, By Rob Enslin

The linguistic interface between music and language is the subject of an upcoming presentation in the College of Arts and Sciences. David Pesetsky, a world-renowned linguist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), will discuss “Language and Music: Same Structures,…

Orange After Dark: Something to Do When ‘There’s Nothing to Do’

Monday, October 13, 2014, By Cyndi Moritz

When Robin Berkowitz-Smith was an undergraduate at Syracuse University, she remembers hearing students say, “There’s nothing to do.” Almost 30 years later Berkowitz-Smith, now associate director of residence life at SU, still hears the same refrain.

SUart Galleries Hosts The Sketchbook Project Mobile Library Oct. 14

Monday, October 13, 2014, By Syracuse University Art Museum

The Syracuse University Art Galleries will host the Sketchbook Project’s Mobile Library, a pop-up event that features thousands of artist sketchbooks traveling across North America stopping at museums, galleries and libraries.  The mobile library will be on the Syracuse University…

FNSSI Launches Graduate Certificate Program in Medicolegal Death Investigation

Monday, October 13, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Medicolegal death investigation (MDI) is the focus of a new graduate certificate program in the Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute (FNSSI), housed in the College of Arts and Sciences. The Advanced Certificate in MDI is a 12-credit-hour program targeting…

Conductor Rebecca Rottsolk to Lead 12th Annual Women’s Choir Festival Oct. 25

Monday, October 13, 2014, By Erica Blust

Distinguished conductor Rebecca Rottsolk of Seattle will be the guest conductor for Syracuse University’s 12th Annual Invitational Women’s Choir Festival and concert on Saturday, Oct. 25, at 4 p.m. Approximately 175 high school and collegiate women singers from New York…