Roland Grimes
Shout out to Roland “Bubba” Grimes, former SU football star, turned author , DC-area educator and media personality. We found out that his show was being broadcast tonight from the Everlasting Life Restaurant in Maryland.
Grimes was photographed here during an event with George Fraser at Syracuse University in 2005.
Downtown
This week is a holiday week for many with the highlight being the Thanksgiving Holiday, or this year,the beginning of Hanukkah; still others look forward to Black Friday shopping (and the beginning of the Christmas season).
We met Gina Stokes at the Social Media Breakfast and found out that last week was National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week. To celebrate and highlight the issue, the Rescue Mission invited filmmaker and homeless advocate Mark Horvath to Syracuse. He premiered his film @home, and participated in a panel discussion at the Palace Theater. Horvath is from Binghamton and is the creator of Invisible People. Listen to a clip of his statement during the Q&A below. Also there’s a comment by the Syracuse Rescue Mission’s Alan Thornton.
M.I.N.D. Lab: Shaping a new perception of reality in Downtown Syracuse.
Here are some photos from last night’s open house for the Newhouse School’s M.I.N.D. Lab, which is located in the AXA Towers (ground floor). Special shout out to Danushka Bandara, grad student and science guy, who demystified the workings and practical applications for many of the center’s devices. Would love to see someone from this group do a TEDx series or similar symposium.
Danushka Bandara sits at the fNIRS device, which measures blood flow in the brain.
EEG and eye-tracking station: Blending media and science.
Former SU Dean and program namesake Barry Wells
Maybe it’s because I have two mentors who began educational transition programs that got me interested in finding out more about the WellsLink Leadership program at Syracuse University. It also could be the fact that I too was a member of a similar program. Either way, I was happy to hear that the organization celebrate its celebrating its 10th year anniversary on campus.
This year’s speaker was poet Nikki Giovanni. Giovanni was introduced by former-SU staffer Dr. Paul Buckley. There was also an appearance by former SU Dean Barry Wells, who started the program. To get an appreciation of what the WellsLink has done, and continues to achieve, listen to the sound clip from Paul Buckley below.
Featured speaker for the event poet and educator Nikki Giovanni read a few of her pieces during the Friday afternoon ceremony.
Dr. Paul Buckley, who currently serves as a dean for undergraduate students at Dartmouth College, worked closely with the WellsLink program when he was at Syracuse University.
George Kilpatrick, Jr., creator, New Inspiration for the Nation (circa 2007)
Shout out to media entrepreneur George Kilpatrick, aka GK2, aka Uncle George, (shown here introducing one of his mentors, Mel Tillar) the one who shows us how to inspire people to do things that inspire them.
He is the co-chair for Engage CNY.
Next week GK2 will celebrate 10 years of his New Inspiration for the Nation radio program.
Syracuse Media Group columnist Sean Kirst was presented with the Saundra Smokes Humanitarian Award at the City Hall Commons Atrium tonight.
SU Senior and Remembrance Scholar Erin Carhart (left) helped her classmates light candles on the stairs of Hendricks Chapel tonight.
This year will mark the 25th Anniversary of the Pan Am 103 Lockerbie Air Bombing.
The tragedy has permanently linked the city of Syracuse with Lockerbie.
At SU they call it Remembrance Week and events kicked off last weekend. Senior Erin Carhart helped organized a candlelight vigil tonight that began at Hendricks Chapel with speeches and concluded at the Wall of Remembrance with silence.
Educator Graham Herbert, of Lockerbie Academy, sick made the trip to Syracuse for this week’s activities.
Candlelight Vigil, Wall of Remembrance
To hear some of the audio from tonight’s program, click the link below (Orange Appeal Singers with senior Tim Chang on the beatbox).
Kent D. Syverud was introduced today as the Chancellor-designate at Syracuse University. He will take over for Nancy Cantor.
The evolution for Kent D. Syverud is now complete. The legal scholar who graduated undergrad at Georgetown, then law school from the University of Michigan, will now be the leader for the Orange. He will become the school’s 12th chancellor.