Campus & Community

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Local residents of Syracuse’s West Side, in close partnership with SU’s Hispanic communities, will co-host a celebration to commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month at La Casita Cultural Center. Sept. 20 will kick off the four-week program of special events, all of…

The Environmental Health and Safety Services Office is offering a six-hour National Safety Council Defensive Driving Course for faculty, staff, students, and the general public. The class will be held on Sept. 25 and 26 from 5-9 p.m. in Lyman…

Transmedia Visiting Artist Gary Kibbins will give a talk on Sept. 24 at 2 p.m. in Shemin Auditorium. Kibbins is a media artist and writer currently teaching in the Department of Film Studies at Queen’s University, Canada. He previously taught…

A unique, hands-on workshop planned this fall will give students the opportunity to learn more about the diversity of life around the SU campus. In “The Art and Science of Biodiversity” (SOL 300/CLB 400), an artist and a biologist will…

Jeffrey S. Peachey, a book conservator, independent scholar and toolmaker, will present an illustrated lecture in the Brodsky Series for the Advancement of Library Conservation series titled “Reconstructing Diderot: Eighteenth Century French Bookbinding” on Thursday, Oct. 3, at 5 p.m. in…

On Sept. 4, the LivingSU student team kicked off the new academic year by hosting the event “Have a Slice Day,” to highlight the one thing we all have in common at SU—we are all Orange! In partnership with SU…

A memorial service will be held today at 11 a.m. in Hendricks Chapel for Robert H. Edson ’90, Onondaga Community College’s athletic director and former senior associate athletics director for administration and chief financial officer with Syracuse University’s athletics department….

It may be too early to tell what the 2013-14 flu season has in store, but it is not too soon to be thinking about getting a flu shot to combat the highly contagious illness. Once again, the Office of…

The Connective Corridor will become an interactive stage for CRAVE, an innovative arts festival of 33 individual events designed to immerse Syracuse in a variety of visual and performing arts this Friday and Saturday, Sept. 20-21. The two-day festival brings…