Hendricks Chapel

Laying new groundwork at Hendricks Chapel
By Rachel Ousley
August 24, 2010 - 4:46pm
The Rev. Tiffany Steinwert, the first female dean of Hendricks Chapel, is laying the groundwork for the future of SU institution.

In its 80-year history, Hendricks Chapel has never had a female dean. Until now.

Rev. Tiffany Steinwert was appointed in March, making her the sixth Hendricks dean in Syracuse University's history.

Leibovitz wows, inspires with images
By Paul Brockwell
April 29, 2010 - 10:30pm
Famed photographer Annie Leibovitz shares favorites and insights in a packed Hendricks Chapel Thursday.

Vogue. Vanity Fair. Rolling Stone.

These are just a few of the magazines that have featured the work of  the acclaimed photographer and documentarian Annie Leibovitz. She has photographed the Queen and the first family. She has produced images that have become enduring cultural icons in modern America. The Library of Congress has labeled her a living legend.

And on Thursday, she inspired a standing-room only crowd at Hendricks Chapel.

Zen luncheon serves up serenity
By Sherri Williams
April 20, 2010 - 3:41pm
The Healthy Monday Zen Luncheon slated for April 26

The third Healthy Monday Zen Luncheon will be held on campus April 26 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the lower level of Hendricks Chapel in the Noble Room. Tickets are $2 for students and $3 for faculty. Tickets are available at the Schine Box Office.

The luncheon menu includes spinach with sesame dressing, mibuna, shitake white miso soup, Japanese vegetable tempura, green tea, water, and dessert. An instructor will lead meditation demonstrations.   

Nobel guest
By Michael Masucci
April 13, 2010 - 8:56pm
Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature recipient, reads poetry and talks about his life as a writer and poet at Hendricks Chapel.

Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet and writer Seamus Heaney gave a lecture at Syracuse University Tuesday evening, April 13, 2010. SU and Le Moyne College students sat impatiently and eager to hear what Heaney had to say.

“I love poetry. He’s the only poet I have come to see here,” said Samantha Kharasch, a freshman modern foreign language major at SU. “As a reader, I understand his works easily. It [his poetry] makes you listen.”  

First-year law student dies
By Anne Pomeroy
April 8, 2010 - 3:36pm
An email message from Chancellor Cantor informed the campus community Thursday about the death of first-year law student James "Jamie" H. Wood

James "Jamie" H. Wood, a law student at Syracuse University, died unexpectedly Wednesday after struggling with an illness, Chancellor Nancy Cantor said Thursday afternoon in an email message to the SU community.

Wood, a first-year law student, was 28-years-old.

The College of Law and Students Affairs are providing support to those who knew Jamie, Cantor said in the email. 

The Counseling Center, Hendrick's Chapel and the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program are also available to those in need of support, said Cantor.

 

 

An evening with Annie Leibovitz
By Sherri Williams
April 4, 2010 - 8:37pm
Respected photographer speaks at Hendricks Chapel April 29

Famous photographer Annie Leibovitz will speak at  Hendricks Chapel Thursday April 29 at 7:30 p.m. Leibovitz's photography career began in 1970 at Rolling Stone where she was the chief photographer and shot the iconic cover photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Spreading service at the Jelly Jam
By Anne Pomeroy
March 31, 2010 - 6:09pm
The Protestant Campus Ministry group held its second Jelly Jam event at Hendricks Chapel, making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for the Syracuse Rescue Mission.

Kareema Pinckney slathered the peanut butter, spread the jam and packaged the sandwiches one by one.

Pinckney, a graduate student at Syracuse University in the television, radio and film program, was one of almost 75 volunteers who worked to make 950 sandwiches for the homeless on Tuesday at Hendricks Chapel. 

Jelly Jam feeds homeless
By Sherri Williams
March 31, 2010 - 4:02pm
SU students made almost 1,000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to feed homeless

The Syracuse Rescue Mission stopped by campus today to pick up about 1,000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches Syracuse University students made for the homeless.

About 75 students gathered at Hendricks Chapel yesterday for the Protestant Campus Ministry's Jelly Jam.

A Common greatness
By Jill Chandler
March 30, 2010 - 11:36pm
Common chats and raps about his philosophy and personal life at a crowded Hendrick's Chapel.

Common free-styled his way into the room, and into the hearts of Syracuse University students Tuesday night at Hendricks Chapel with a motivational speech and impromptu raps.

Common asked a member of the audience to choose any word for him to freestyle about. He began a freestyle rap stemming from the word “heaven,” and it somehow evolved to include Otto, Jim Boeheim, Wes Johnson, Acropolis, Marshall Street, and ‘Melo. 

Common spreads a little greatness
By Jill Chandler
March 30, 2010 - 10:50pm
Common aims to inspire a crowd of more than 450 people Tuesday night in Hendricks Chapel.

Common waltzed into the Hendricks Chapel and our hearts with an exhilarating freestyle rap that had the crowd energized and ready to listen.


The 38-year-old Chicago rapper spoke of finding your own greatness by “finding your path, believing in your path, living your path, and working hard.”