Winter Carnival this year is Feb. 23-27.

The College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will host a silent online auction to benefit United Way of Central New York on Friday, Dec. 3.

“Elements of Syracuse” adorns Forman Park.

The Jewelry & Metalsmithing Club, one of VPA's student organizations, is holding its annual sale this week.

Exhibition by VPA's Jerome Witkin reviewed in Huffington Post

Mark Monmonier, Distinguished Professor of Geography in the Maxwell School, recently delivered a guest lecture, Nov. 12, at College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.

Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) Associate Professor Jian Qin was featured on the “Next Generation Science Librarianship Panel,” hosted by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Library in Boulder, Colo., on Nov. 17, 2010.

The Maxwell School will host Steven Weisman, a long-time writer at The New York Times and editor of the newly released "Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary" (PublicAffairs), for a discussion of the book at 4 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 2, in Maxwell Auditorium. With the research assistance of more than [...]

Alan Knight, professor of history of Latin America at Oxford University, will speak Friday, Dec. 10, at 4 p.m. in 032 Eggers Hall on “The ‘Cosmic Revolution’: The Mexican Revolution (1910-2010) in Comparative Global Perspective.” This year, the Mexican Revolution turns 100. Among the many possible perspectives on this major event, one is outward-looking, global [...]

The Maxwell School’s Moynihan Institute Program on Latin America and the Caribbean Speaker Series will present Jorge Rodríguez Beruff, dean of the College of General Studies, Río Piedras Campus of the University of Puerto Rico, on Dec. 6 at 4 p.m. in Maxwell Auditorium. He will speak on "From the Depression to the Second World [...]

Seeking refuge from ongoing military conflicts in their home country of Sudan, Mary Mayom and her five children spent eight years in refugee camps in Kenya and Nairobi before coming to the United States through the United Nations Refugee Agency. Mayom and her family arrived in Connecticut in 2001 and Mayom secured a job as a part-time [...]

Participants are needed for a study of life perspective, health behaviors and health.

Campus groups/organizations with a “green” or sustainable focus are invited to highlight their efforts, reach out to potential new members and connect with other groups during a Sustainability Networking event on Thursday, Dec. 2.

Newhouse School's Robert Thompson quoted in American and Canadian media on Arianna Huffington, Leslie Nielsen, and Prince William and Kate Middleton

“Who is Aldous Rose?,” an interactive exhibition and performance exploring the complete life of Rose, a poet and circus performer, will be presented Dec. 1-5 at XL Projects, 307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse. Designed and directed by Syracuse University drama major Mark Blane '11 and featuring performances by SU undergraduates, “Who is Aldous Rose?” is [...]

The Shaped Clay Society, a student organization in Ceramics, will be holding its Annual Holiday Sale this week.

This spring, School of Information Studies Professor Kenneth Lavender will teach a newly revamped graduate course, IST 624, “Preservation of Library and Archival Collections."

The program jumped to No. 4 after being ranked No. 10 in DesignIntelligence’s 2010 report.

The Electronic Publishing Center located at 001 Sims Hall will have extended hours on the following days.

Hiroshi Higuchi, professor at the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University, died Nov. 22. Higuchi was known to be a dedicated teacher, well-known researcher and cherished colleague in the fields of aerospace and mechanical engineering. Calling hours will be held Friday, Nov. 26, from noon-2:30 p.m. at the Eaton-Tubbs-Schepp Funeral [...]

TRAC statistics noted in Associated Press story on Mexican police officer asylum case

A political science doctoral student is seeking SU staff to participate in a research study on the news media.

Artist and art educator Julia Marshall will present the lecture “Art-Based Research and the Intersection between Making Art and Teaching Art” on Tuesday, Nov. 30, at 6:30 p.m. in Shemin Auditorium in the Dorothea Ilgen Shaffer Art Building. The lecture is free and is sponsored by the art education program in the College of Visual [...]

Danita Emma, artistic director of Syracuse University’s Summer Dance Intensive, invited to teach master classes at the National Ballet of Bulgaria in November and December.

The Syracuse University Women’s Choir will present its end-of-semester concert Thursday, Dec. 2.

Ever played Tetris on your iPhone? Or listened to Pandora radio on your Android? Or checked your Facebook account from your Blackberry? Or used Amazon.com to write or read a review of a product? Then you might be interested in hearing about what some Syracuse iSchool students have learned and created in two courses this [...]

In 2006, Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris, both current faculty members in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, set out to create an initiative that would use photography as a medium to illustrate landscapes throughout the world where scientists are studying the impacts of climate change. It didn’t take long, however, before collaborators [...]

SU students and alumni from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications were honored recently at the 65th annual College Photographer of the Year competition.

The fall 2010 showcase is a culmination of 12 weeks of study.

SU Gravitational Wave Group's Duncan Brown quoted in Discovery on simulating collisions of black holes

The Williams family is part of a growing national trend of grandparents raising their grandchildren.

The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series “Truisms” and “Survival”

Application deadline for 'Cuse Spot at Wilson Park is THIS FRIDAY.

Faculty, students to take part in developing urban wind power Syracuse University and Impact Technologies Group of Syracuse have formed an alliance to convert Central New York winds into kilowatts. The SU School of Architecture and Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) are joining with [...]

Syracuse University senior John Giammatteo has been named a 2011 Marshall Scholar by the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission of Great Britain. The highly selective and prestigious award is presented annually to as many as 40 intellectually distinguished young Americans to support their graduate study in the United Kingdom.  Giammatteo, a dual anthropology and magazine journalism [...]

L.C. Smith research on enhancing wind turbine efficiency presented at APS reported by science and technology websites

Though they're 200 miles apart, SU's rising hip-hop and electronic duo Mouth's Cradle prepares to drop a 17-track mixtape.

Boston-area alumnus Michael Thonis ’72 challenges Boston alums to join the effort Officially launched in November 2007, the five-year Campaign for Syracuse University is now at a critical juncture. With a total of $787,777,055 raised as of Sept. 30, and a little over two years left to achieve the $1 billion campaign goal, the University [...]

The Syracuse University Brass Ensemble, directed by James T. Spencer, is ringing in the holidays with four family concerts. All events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise indicated. For more information, call (315) 786-2458, or visit Friends of SU Brass Ensemble on Facebook. The schedule is as follows: Sunday, Nov. 28, at [...]

What do Fox News, JPMorgan Chase, General Electric, Raytheon and the Peace Corps have in common? They’ve all hired graduates of the Dulye Leadership Experience, a unique leadership training and career development program developed exclusively for Syracuse University juniors and seniors. Currently accepting applications for scholarships for 2011, the Dulye Leadership Experience offers no-nonsense, winning [...]

College students ages 18-24 are needed for a research study. Participants will be asked to fill out a survey on their use of complementary and alternative medicine. You will also be asked to complete a survey assessing your science literacy. Completing the surveys will require 20 minutes of your time. If you’re interested in participating [...]

There’s a new character at Syracuse University, thanks to the efforts of two staff members at SU’s Early Education and Child Care Center (EECCC). Fran Paige, an assistant teacher at the center, is the author of a new, self-published children’s book, “Reagan McFagen,” which chronicles the adventures of a precocious young girl who likes to [...]

Those attending are asked to bring a non-perishable food item.

Syracuse University shuttle service will be operating on an abbreviated schedule for Wednesday, Nov. 24 through Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010.

LA Daily News reports on "The Future of Sports Broadcasting" event with Newhouse School's Joel Kaplan

Each year the Syracuse University Humanities Center organizes and hosts the Syracuse Symposium for the SU campus and community. Most symposium events take place in the fall semester. This year, however, the season will be expanded to include four seminar courses in the spring 2011 semester on the symposium theme of “Conflict: Peace and War.” [...]

Before leaving campus for Thanksgiving break, please do the following things to make your Thanksgiving break sustainable.

Some of Syracuse University’s international students will be treated to their first taste of traditional Thanksgiving fare, such as turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie, during SU’s 31st annual International Thanksgiving Meal, to be held Sunday, Nov. 21, in Goldstein Auditorium in the Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center. More than 400 international students and [...]

This Saturday, Nov. 20, First Year Players will be hosting a charity cabaret in Grant Auditorium.

Len Burman of Maxwell School quoted in Chronicle of Philanthropy on eliminating tax deductions for charitable gifts