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SU London announces new support network for LGBT studentsOctober 15, 2007SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu Syracuse University London has expanded its extracurricular programming with a new resource specifically for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, and their straight allies. Faraday Pride, the…

Community Development Law Clinic aids Blossom MinistriesOctober 15, 2007SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu The Community Development Law Clinic and the SU College of Law Senate collected nearly 200 pieces of professional clothing to benefit Blossom Ministries, a local not-for-profit corporation. Blossom Ministries…

Homecoming + Reunion parade to proceed as scheduledOctober 12, 2007SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu While uncertain weather forecasts have caused schedule and venue changes for some Homecoming + Reunion events, organizers have confirmed that the parade scheduled for 5:30 p.m. will proceed…

Torres-Saillant, Van Gulick named Tolley ProfessorsOctober 11, 2007Sara Millersemortim@syr.edu Silvio Torres-Saillant, associate professor of English in The College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Latino-Latin American Studies Program at Syracuse University, and Robert Van Gulick, department chair and…

Syracuse University in Florence exhibit examines anti-SemitismOctober 11, 2007Daeya Malboeufdmking04@syr.edu Syracuse University in Florence (SUF) has confirmed an agreement with the Foundation for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan to translate the texts (including images) for an exhibit titled “1938-1945: The…

Shhhh, it’s a secret…October 11, 2007Wendy Harris Mary Gilmore Smith (’29, G’38) will be 100 years old on Nov. 2. University College (UC) will honor her with a SURPRISE reception on Thursday, Nov. 1, at Drumlins Country Club. If you…

New Life Sciences ComplexOctober 11, 2007SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu A worker puts finishing touches on windows at the new Life Sciences Complex. The complex, to be opened in Fall 2008, will bring the biology, chemistry and biochemistry departments under one roof…

SU’s Burton Blatt Institute partners with NOVA-Norwegian Social Research to enhance international disability rightsOctober 11, 2007Jaime Winne Alvarezjlwinne@syr.edu The Burton Blatt Institute: Centers of Innovation on Disability at Syracuse University (BBI) and NOVA-Norwegian Social Research — a leading research institute…

SU, SUNY-ESF to host on-campus farmers’ market Oct. 26October 11, 2007Kevin Morrowkdmorrow@syr.edu Long before there was a Hall of Languages or Crouse College or Bray Hall, the lands that now comprise Syracuse University and the SUNY College of Environmental Science…

Weather forecasts force relocation of concert, pep rally; other Homecoming + Reunion events to continue as plannedOctober 11, 2007SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu Forecasts of inclement weather for Friday night have forced the relocation of some of Syracuse University’s Homecoming + Reunion…