The Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service (CPCS) is currently seeking nominations for the 2011 Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship. The awards will be given in a ceremony on Wednesday, March 30, in the Schine Student Center’s Goldstein Auditorium. The award, formerly known as the Chancellor’s Award for Public Service [...]

The Office of Engagement Programs will be hosting a Mentor Orientation Meeting, Tuesday, Feb. 1.

The Stewards of Lipe Art Park, 40 Below's Public Arts Task Force, and the Near Westside Initiative (NWSI) invite the local community to celebrate winter during Upstate Snowdown, a fundraising party and snow celebration this weekend at Lipe Art Park, 900 W. Fayette St., Syracuse. The event will be held on Saturday, Feb. 5, from 1-4 [...]

Matt VanDyke, director of U.S. marketing communications for Ford and Lincoln Mercury, will visit Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Wednesday, Feb. 9, as a guest of the Eric Mower Advertising Forum. He will give a public address at 5:30 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3. His talk is [...]

To close its 2010-11 season, Syracuse University’s Pulse Performing Arts Series will present a Black History Month performance by Broadway legend Brian Stokes Mitchell and the Brian Stokes Mitchell Trio on Thursday, Feb. 17, at 8 p.m. The event will take place in the Goldstein Auditorium of the Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center [...]

Due to the unstable situation in Cairo, and for the safety of its students, Syracuse University has suspended its program at the American University of Cairo and instructed the four students currently there to leave the country.

Maxwell School's Len Burman speaks with NPR on corporate taxes in the United States

Calling all Scrabble fans and fanatics.

Balancing the Books, a collaboration between Syracuse University’s Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service, the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, and the Syracuse City School District, is a service learning program geared toward tutoring local middle and high school students in the Syracuse area.

The Seneca Nation of Indians, City College of New York (CCNY), Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and BOCES Rockland County have joined WiGiT: The Wireless Grid Innovation Testbed, a National Science Foundation Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) project headed up by Syracuse University School of Information Studies Professor Lee McKnight and Tamal Bose of Virginia Polytechnic Institute [...]

Thonis Challenge exceeded by $150,000 Thanks to the leadership of the Boston Regional Council, Syracuse University Trustee Mike Thonis’ inspirational challenge and the loyalty of Boston-area alumni and friends, The Campaign for Syracuse University’s first regional campaign closed out 2010 raising in excess of $1 million. Kicked off on Sept. 1, the effort targeted SU [...]

The U.S. Department of Commerce is currently hosting a delegation of professionals from the former Soviet Union who have come to the United States to learn about intellectual property rights and technology commercialization and how the U.S. government, universities, private industry and associations work together to protect trademarks, patents, copyrights and promote innovation.    Based on [...]

Jan. 30, 1:05 p.m.—SU Abroad has four students who recently arrived in Cairo, Egypt for a semester of study at the American University of Cairo (AUC). All four students have been in phone contact with their parents and SU has been in contact with the parents. All students are safe. For full update, visit: http://suabroad.syr.edu/news/cairo.html.

Spring Festival, the important Chinese holiday marking the arrival of the New Year, begins on Feb. 3. The Chinese Student and Scholar Association (CSSA) will simultaneously celebrate the holiday and educate the University community about it through a unique collaboration with an Honors Program class taught by anthropology professor Faye McMahon. The CSSA’s Spring Festival [...]

Paul Wylde, creative director of the Aviation Studio at Teague in Seattle, will give the talk “Design is Dead, Long Live Design” on Friday, Feb. 4, at 10 a.m. in The Warehouse Auditorium, first floor of The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse. A reception will follow the lecture, which is free and open to [...]

Light Work, Hendricks Chapel and the LGBT Resource Center have announced a Feb. 7 lecture by Jonathan Katz, co-curator of the important Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery exhibition “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture.” The talk will take place at 6 p.m. in Watson Auditorium. Co-curated by Katz and David C. Ward, this monumental exhibition [...]

A new course, “The Super Bowl and Society," debuted in the College of Human Ecology this semester.  With enrollment of more than 100 students, SPM 199 explores the evolution and strategic brilliance that has allowed a football game to become a social phenomenon with international audiences, business impact and cultural implications. Students in the class benefit [...]

Members of the Bhutanese-Nepal community who’ve resettled in Syracuse as the result of a decades-long civil conflict with the Bhutan government, will share their stories of struggles and success with the Syracuse community on Wednesday, Feb. 9, at 4 p.m. in 060 Eggers Hall, the Global Collaboratory at Syracuse University. The forum will create opportunities [...]

The Department of Nutrition Science and Dietetics in Syracuse University’s College of Human Ecology wants to help SU and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry students, faculty and staff, and members of the community at large, improve eating habits and promote general well-being by making healthy food choices. Registered dietitians, working with seniors and [...]

Submit your favorite chili recipe for the annual Winter Carnival chili cook-off competition!

Syracuse University’s long-term invested endowment funds returned 17.2 percent in fiscal year 2009-10, outperforming a number of peer institutions and making significant gains after the effects of the 18-month long global economic crisis. As a result of this investment performance, gifts to the endowment, and the transfer of the University’s long-term fixed income investments during the [...]

Kickoff in atrium of the Schine Student Center from noon-2 p.m.

The Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel invites all Faculty & Staff to watch Superbowl XLV in Seasons at the Hill.

Manley Arena will NOT be available for noontime walker/runners on Wednesday, Feb. 2.

Rachel's Restaurant at the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel is offering a mid-winter special to all Syracuse University faculty, staff and students.

Parking and Transit Services at Syracuse University is on Twitter.

Minnesota Post cites TRAC research in story on state's backlog in immigration courts

Concerned about how your eating, physical activity and stress practices impact your health?

The Design Gallery at The Warehouse, an exhibition space of the Department of Design in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), announces two exhibitions in February. Both shows are free and open to the public. The gallery is located on the first floor of The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse. Gallery [...]

The Ray Smith Symposium in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences continues its yearlong exploration of “Music of Conflict and Reconciliation” with a two-day program titled “Refugees and Exile.” Events include a colloquium, featuring ethnomusicologists Michael Frishkopf (University of Alberta) and John Baily (University of London), on Thursday, Feb. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in [...]

Syracuse University Meetup offers an easy way to organize events and bring people together.

Arts and Sciences' David Yaffe writes in Village Voice on Bob Dylan

The Near Westside Initiative (NWSI), in partnership with the Westside Arts Council, has launched a photography contest to showcase the beauty of the Westside community and its people. Submissions for “Westside Through My Eyes” are being accepted now through Monday, Feb. 28. Winners will receive two first-class airline tickets to anywhere in the continental United [...]

Phil Sarna, managing director of PS Business Management, LLC, will present a lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 1, at 6:45 p.m. in the Lender Auditorium, located on the concourse level of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. The lecture is part of the Bandier Program’s Soyars Leadership Lecture Series in the College of Visual and [...]

One lucky SU student will have their designs produced and sold in the Syracuse University Bookstore in the Schine Student Center.

Study Abroad Day comes to the Schine Student Center Feb. 9 from 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Deadline approaches for 2011 Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement & Scholarship nominations.

Tuesday, Feb. 1, will be the next monthly pick up of empty cold-shipping polystyrene (Styrofoam) boxes for recycling from campus labs.

College of Human Ecology's Eric Kingson quoted in Bloomberg on organizations opposing reduction to Social Security benefits

The Sport Management Club is a student-run organization in the College of Human Ecology’s David B. Falk Center for Sport Management. Recently, SPM Club members held the sixth annual Charity Sports Auction at the Carrier Dome, benefitting the CNY SPCA (Central New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals). Since its founding in [...]

Students, faculty and staff who watch SU take on UConn in the Schine Student Center's Goldstein Auditorium, Wednesday, Feb. 2, at 7 p.m., can also donate blood as part of the American Red Cross “Are you up for the challenge?: Give Blood” competition.

This year, seven students were selected as the class of 2014 Coronat Scholars.

Syracuse University’s 26th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration will culminate on Saturday, Jan. 29, with its annual community celebration. “Continuing the Journey: A Celebration of Arts, Culture and Education in the Syracuse Community,” will be held from 1-4 p.m. at the Seymour Dual Language Academy, 108 Shonnard St. The event is hosted by SU, [...]

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

It has become one of the leading manufacturers of architectural terra cotta in the country.

U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday unveiled an unprecedented government-wide plan of commitment to strengthen support for military families, offering a glimpse at some of the new programs and cooperative efforts being launched in the coming months to improve quality of life and well-being for families of our nation’s military. Among the programs outlined in the [...]

Do you want to be a DJ?

Transit Wire reports on Bus Time pilot program on Connective Corridor

The Southside Community Coalition and the South Side Initiative Office at Syracuse University will celebrate the grand opening of the South Side Communication Center on Wednesday, Jan. 26, at the center, 2331 S. Salina St. The public is invited to attend an open house from 3-6 p.m., during which tours of the facility will be [...]

Syracuse University is collaborating with the Syracuse Peace Council to present recording artist and human rights activist Harry Belafonte at Syracuse Stage on Monday, Jan. 31. The Belafonte event celebrates the 75th anniversary year of the Syracuse Peace Council. As part of the SU collaboration, the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and [...]