Campus & Community

From Sorkin Week in Los Angeles to Study Abroad in London to Engagement Scholars in Syracuse, immersion programs that enable students to “test what they think they know” are hallmarks of the Syracuse University experience. Yet not every student has…

Native English speaking volunteers needed to spend 1 hour per week with a group of 6 students, encouraging them to use their conversational English outside of the classroom. If interested, please contact Joe Lotito at 443-8571 or jmlotito@syr.edu Website: www.eli.syr.edu…

Syracuse University’s interim Senior Vice President and Dean of Student Affairs Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz may be new to the position, but she’s certainly not new to the University. Her career path started at SU in the 1980s, and was honed…

Funeral services for William Kelleher, associate professor of anthropology at the Maxwell School since 2005, who passed away on Sept. 18, will be on Saturday at 1p.m. at St. Lucy’s Church, 432 Gifford St., Syracuse. Calling hours will be held…

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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…