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Jukebox the Ghost to Headline University Union’s Bandersnatch Music Series

Tuesday, February 12, 2013, By News Staff

Pop-rock band Jukebox the Ghost will headline University Union’s second Bandersnatch show of the semester in Schine Underground on Tuesday, March 19. Doors will open at 7:30 p.m., with music to follow at 8 p.m. An opening act will be…

SUPA representatives meet with Vietnam ambassador

Tuesday, February 12, 2013, By News Staff

On Feb. 6, representatives of Syracuse University Project Advance (SUPA) and International School Ho Chi Minh City (ISHCMC) met with Ambassador Nguyen Quoc Cuong, Vietnamese ambassador to the United States. Ambassador Cuong hosted the group at the embassy of the…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell School Professor Named to National Postal Service Reform Panel

Tuesday, February 12, 2013, By News Staff

Walter D. Broadnax, Distinguished Professor at the Maxwell School, has been appointed to a panel leading an independent review of a plan to breathe new life into the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) through public-private partnership. The review was commissioned by…

Health & Society

McDonald Receives NIH Grant to Study Intellectual Disability Research Ethics

Tuesday, February 12, 2013, By Michele Barrett

Katherine McDonald, associate professor of public health in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics and faculty fellow in the Burton Blatt Institute, has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute…

Arts & Culture

Razor-Sharp Wit in ‘Top Girls’ Examines Costs of Success

Tuesday, February 12, 2013, By News Staff

A skeptical and comic look at the role of women in contemporary society, “Top Girls” flashes with Caryl Churchill’s razor-sharp wit and ingenious theatricality. Set in the early days of Margaret Thatcher’s England, the play follows two sisters: hard-nosed, successful…

Getting to Know: Amanda Claypool, a Champion for Dialogue on Divisive Issues

Tuesday, February 12, 2013, By News Staff

Amanda Claypool remembers the day the Twin Towers fell and the day U.S. warplanes bombed Baghdad as if it were yesterday. Those events shaped her academic career at Syracuse University, led her on a solo journey to Palestine’s West Bank…

February and March 2013 Programming for UVP Everson Site Announced

Monday, February 11, 2013, By News Staff

Urban Video Project and Light Work have announced the exhibition of the video piece “in Court (Basketball)” by Yvonne Buchanan at UVP Everson from Feb. 14-March 31. This exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Everson Museum of Art, which…

Campus & Community

Participants Needed for Research Project on Alcohol Use among African American College Students

Monday, February 11, 2013, By News Staff

We invite you for participation in the research project “Alcohol Use among African American College Students.” This study was designed to better understand determinants of alcohol use behavior in college students of African descent. College students of African descent have…

Arts & Culture

Local High School Students to Participate in Syracuse Stage Arts Emerging Education Program

Monday, February 11, 2013, By News Staff

High school students from Fayetteville-Manlius High School, Fowler High School, Nottingham High School and the Institute of Technology will participate this winter and spring in the Arts Emerging education program at Syracuse Stage, an annual in-depth art project that relates…

Announcement to the University Community from Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina

Monday, February 11, 2013, By News Staff

Suzanne E. Thorin, Dean of Libraries and University Librarian, and I want to let you know that she has informed me of her desire to step down from her administrative role effective June 30, 2013. Dean Thorin will have served…