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Hinds Hall renovationJanuary 04, 2007SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu The mural of Sacco and Vanzetti on the wall of H.B. Crouse Hall is visible through a window of Hinds Hall, which is in the process of being renovated. First-floor renovations on Hinds,…

Explorer Wade Davis shares insights, images about vanishing cultures in next University Lectures presentation, Feb. 28 January 04, 2007SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu Wade Davis, explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society, has made a career of visiting some of the most remote…

SU students spend winter vacation continuing Katrina cleanupJanuary 03, 2007Matthew R. Snydermrsnyder@syr.edu With Hurricane Katrina’s devastation nearly a year and a half behind them–and much of the nation’s attention now focused elsewhere–the residents of New Orleans and many other Gulf…

Nigerian writer Chris Abani will keynote Syracuse University’s 2007 Martin Luther King Jr. CelebrationJanuary 02, 2007Kelly Homan Rodoskikahoman@syr.edu Chris Abani, an award-winning writer who as a teenager in Nigeria was imprisoned for his fiction, will give the keynote address at…

Training program aims to turn students into lifelong leadersDecember 20, 2006SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu Students at the School of Information Studies benefit from academic programs rich in technology and management skills. But between learning to create databases and install wireless hotspots,…

Dischiaves win IBM’s 2006 Faculty AwardDecember 20, 2006Margaret Costello Spillettmcostell@syr.edu Most IT labs on college campuses provide information studies students with hands-on experience in dealing with laptops and personal computers, similar to a home computing environment. These students learn how…

SU law clinic receives $429,000 state grantDecember 19, 2006Jaclyn D. Grossojgrosso@law.syr.edu The Syracuse University College of Law’s Office of Clinical Legal Education received a $429,000 grant to continue its securities arbitration work in the Syracuse community for an additional three…

Annual holiday concert at Hendricks ChapelDecember 19, 2006SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu The Syracuse University Brass Ensemble joined the Hendricks Chapel Choir and the Hendricks Chapel Handbell Ringers for the annual Hendricks Chapel Holiday Concert on Sunday, Dec. 3 in Hendricks Chapel….

Maxwell School to host 25 emerging leadersDecember 18, 2006Jill Leonhardtjlleonha@maxwell.syr.edu Under a program funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative, 25 emerging leaders from 15 countries in the Middle East are headed to the United States…

‘Phenomena of Nature’ video, photo installation opens at The Link community art space at The Warehouse December 15, 2006Elaine Quick “Phenomena of Nature,” a video and photographic installation by Cathryn Lahm, local artist and senior art photography major in the…