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Throughout the month of October, students are raising awareness about domestic and sexual violence in a variety of ways. The Panhellenic Council hosted Red Zone Awareness Week, SU is Going Purple for Domestic Violence Awareness Month and the It’s On Us team is hosting events during the It’s On Us Week of Action.  Continue Reading

Throughout the month of October, the Office of Health Promotion is hosting programs and events to raise awareness about relationship violence in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Working in collaboration with the Office of Health Promotion are the Peer Educators Encouraging Healthy Relationships and Sexuality (PEEHRS), Counseling Center, Department of Recreation Services and Vera House. Read the full article at SU News.

On Monday, Oct. 10, Syracuse University will host a Universitywide celebration of Indigenous People’s Day.  The new Indigenous People’s Day initiative is one of 18 short-term recommendations made by the Chancellor’s Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion. The new campus initiative recognizes and honors the history, cultures and contributions of indigenous peoples, and aims to raise awareness and generate dialogue across the campus community. Learn more about the University’s adoption of Indigenous People’s Day in Chancellor Kent Syverud’s latest Orange Friends message. Read more about Indigenous People’s Day at SU News.

The LGBT Resource Center is presenting the annual Coming Out Month celebration throughout the month of October. The celebration includes an entire month of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and asexual-themed programming, including speakers, performances, a film screening, Queer Zumba and a new Day of Action, offering students an opportunity to volunteer with the Q Center in the City of Syracuse. Read more about Coming Out Month 2016 at SU News.

Hector Torres ’84 and Anne Marie Prucha ’87 owe their marriage to Pedro Cuperman, the eminent Argentine scholar who died in Buenos Aires on July 12, 2016, at age 80. It all began on the first day of class in the fall of 1983, when they sat next to each other in an upper-level Latin American literature course, taught by Cuperman. They gradually got up the nerve to talk to one another, and, unbeknownst to their professor, began dating. When Cuperman encouraged his students to see The Return of Martin Guerre, the 1982 French drama playing at the nearby Manlius Art Cinema, the couple traded knowing glances. Read the full article at SU News.

Kal Alston has been named interim executive director of the Community Folk Art Center (CFAC) for the rest of the 2016-17 academic year, according to a recent statement by Karin Ruhlandt, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.Ruhlandt made the announcement after conferring with Bea González G’04, dean of University College and a special assistant to the chancellor; CFAC’s board of directors; and members of the Department of African American Studies (AAS), with which CFAC is an academic partner.  Read more at SU News.

The College of Arts & Sciences is home to a new undergraduate research symposium for students across all scientific disciplines within and outside the college. Chemistry professor Robert Doyle, Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence, is organizing the inaugural Meredith Symposium, to be held on Oct. 22. “The symposium will showcase research going on across the sciences—from philosophy of science through physics, chemistry, forensics, engineering, materials science and beyond. It’s really a full gambit of research investigations,” Doyle says. Undergraduates who have conducted one full semester of research and are eligible for participation in SU’s Women in Science and Engineering or McNair programs are encouraged to apply before 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 7, To be considered for inclusion, students simply need to submit a 400-word abstract of previous research on the Meredith Symposium website. Read more at SU News.

A group of local middle and high school students spent a day this summer at Skä•noñh—Great Law of Peace Center in Liverpool. They were there to learn about a new curriculum that highlights scientific and ecological knowledge of the Haudenosaunee. The program is the fruit of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant to help teachers and students understand the importance of Onondaga Lake. The topic is close to the heart of religion department chair and Skä•noñh director Philip Arnold. “We’re talking about the indigenous origins of democracy, the origins of women’s rights, lacrosse, the indigenous food movement. All these things are important to understanding the past and creating a future based on indigenous values,” he says. Read more at A&S News.