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Four Honors Students Named Winners in SU’s Fast Forward Competition

Fast Forward

The Fast Forward competition will fund student projects that demonstrate how Syracuse University and its students can have a positive impact on the world. Thirteen entrants were recently selected as winners and we are proud to announce that four of  these winners are Honors students! For the full story by SUNew’s Kathleen Haley, click HERE.

Our students, along with their fellow WINNERS, will pitch their projects to students, Trustees, and the Chancellor this Friday, April 11, at 2 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3. We encourage you to come out and cheer on your fellow students for their fantastic work and achievement!

The Honors students are:

  • Ruo Piao Chen ’17—Westminster Church Ramp: Architecture students involved in Freedom by Design, which designs construction solutions to people with disabilities, propose building a ramp to help the historic Westminster Church. The design would provide shelter from ice and community seating.
Ruo Piao Chen
Ruo Piao Chen
  • Brian Cheung ’15—Meal Swipe Program: Cheung proposes that students who have a meal plan have the option of donating one meal on their dining plan to the local community in some form, which would provide food pantries with supplies.
Brian Cheung
Brian Cheung
  • Alexandra Curtis ’14 and Adrianna Kam ’15—Elect Her: Curtis and Kam want to empower young women on campus and in the community to run for elected offices on campus and off after graduation. The funding will help with creating opportunities, such as workshops and speakers, to educate and train women in preparation for political office.
Alexandra Curtis
Alexandra Curtis (left)
  • Nicholas Ferreiro ’15—Cuse Comedy Collective: Ferreiro proposes the Cuse Comedy Collective, a website that would channel all the content from the various comedy groups on campus. The website would help build a stronger sense of community among groups, increase viewership and allow for scheduled programming.
Nicholas Ferreiro
Nicholas Ferreiro

Pulitzer prize winning journalist and NY Times correspondent to speak at the Watson Symposium

Sheri Fink

Sheri Fink is a Pulitzer prize winning journalist and NY Times correspondent.  She will be visiting SU asthe keynote speaker for the Watson Symposium in the Humanities on April 4th. She will discuss  her award-winning book “Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital“.  

From her website:

“Sheri Fink is the author of the book, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Crown, 2013), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and Ridenhour Book Prize. Fink’s reporting has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Magazine Award, the Mike Berger Award, and the Overseas Press Club Lowell Thomas Award, among other journalism prizes. A former relief worker in disaster and conflict zones, Fink received her M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. Her first book, War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival (PublicAffairs), is about medical professionals under siege during the genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. She is a correspondent at the New York Times.”

Five Days at Memorial, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Ridenhour Book Prize, is Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink’s landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina – and her suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice.

“Dr. Fink brings a shimmering intelligence to its many narrative cul-de-sacs, which consider medical, legal and ethical issues…. By reporting the depth of those gruesome hours in Memorial before the helicopters came, and giving weight to medical ethics as grounded in the law, Sheri Fink has written an unforgettable story. Five Days at Memorial is social reporting of the first rank.”

Sheri will speak at 3:00 pm on April 4th, in 304 Schine. There will be a public reception to follow.

For a preview, see her discussing her book on the Jon Stewart show here:

It’s Honors Movie Night!

Mixed feelings about one more week of classes?
We can help! This Wednesday, Honors is hosting a movie night for our students!
So take a night off from the stresses of the end of semester, feel like a kid again, and come watch Monsters University!

So the actual details-

Monsters University

What: Honors Movie Night “Monsters University”
When: 7pm Wednesday, December 4
Where: HBC, Gifford Auditorium

 

Delta Storyteller Sings a 21st Century Blues

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What is a griot?  They are the storytellers of ancient African societies who passed on the history of their people to future generations through the oral tradition. Come meet a contemporary griot, Prof. Arthur Flowers.  Using spellbinding “performance poetry,” Flowers accompanies his presentations with African instruments. You might hear about How Brer Alligator got introduced to trouble, accompanied by some blues harp or kalimba playing – you might even get drawn into some call and response.  You will certainly leave uplifted, inspired, and smiling.

Arthur Flowers is a novelist, Vietnam veteran, blues singer, co-founder of the New Renaissance Writer’s Guild, and a Memphis native. He teaches in SU’s esteemed Creative Writing Program and is a member of the Honors Core Faculty.

Monday, November 4, 6:45 p.m. Eggers 018. Refreshments will be served.  Limited to the first 30 who RSVP!

“There are those of us in African American literature who feel that we are heirs to two literary traditions, the western written tradition and the African oral one, and try in the fusion to contribute something to the evolution of both.” – Arthur Flowers

Sign-up for the storytelling!

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