Join us on Tuesday, March 8, from noon to 1 p.m. at Bird Library (Peter Graham Scholarly Commons) for an engaging activity where it’s SAFE TO FAIL but you’re SURE TO SUCCEED!

Across campus and in the community, more than 6,000 Syracuse University students work part-time jobs in addition to their full-time job of getting an education.

At the 2011 National Collegiate EMS Foundation Conference held in Philadelphia, Syracuse University Ambulance was recognized as an agency “Striving for Excellence.”

College of Law's Arlene Kanter interviewed about inclusive policies for people with disabilities for Fulbright Israel newsletter

Rachel Sears Casanta ’96, a professional triathlete who turned her passion for triathlons into a successful coaching business, Hypercat Racing. will speak on Thursday, March 3, at 7 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons.

In preparation for construction this spring and summer along the Connective Corridor, approximately 67 trees, which are dying, damaged or past their useful life, will be taken down along University Avenue and East Genesee Street in the coming weeks. The honeylocust, pear and sycamore trees to be removed will be replaced by 148 ginkgo, honeylocust, [...]

Linda Galloway was recently appointed as biology, chemistry and forensic sciences librarian at Syracuse University Library.

Middle Eastern Studies Program Summer Grants

Come join the first collegiate chapter of this national organization.

David Cay Johnston of the College of Law writes in Tax.com on the Wisconsin state pension system

Tom Kennedy, Alexia Tsairis Endowed Chair in Documentary Photography in Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, this week announced the professional and student winners in the 2011 Alexia International Photojournalism Competition, hosted at the Newhouse School Feb. 19. Professional Winner London-based freelance photographer Bharat Choudhary won the $15,000 Alexia Foundation professional grant for [...]

The Syracuse University Parent Advocacy Center (SUPAC) will host two major programs this spring to help parents and professionals better advocate for their children, both during and after their K-12 schooling, and keep informed about available options. On April 1, SUPAC will sponsor its first "Transforming Tomorrow Together: A Conference on Transition," an informational session [...]

Daniel Ellsberg, author and senior fellow at the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, will visit Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Tuesday, March 8, as a guest of the school’s Tully Center for Free Speech. “From the Pentagon Papers to Wikileaks: A Conversation with Daniel Ellsberg” will be held at 7:30 p.m. in [...]

Six Syracuse University faculty and staff members will receive the Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence at a campus ceremony and reception in their honor on Thursday, March 3. The 2010-11 Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence honorees are: Edward A. Bogucz, Jr., executive director of the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems John Burdick, professor [...]

BBI's Real JOBS NY program featured in Schenectady Daily Gazette

Protestant Campus Ministry (PCM) in Syracuse University’s Hendricks Chapel will hold its annual Faculty and Staff Sunday on Feb. 27. The service will begin in the chapel at 11 a.m. and is open to the public. A light luncheon reception will follow. All members of the University community are welcome and encouraged to attend. The [...]

Encourages more business owners and entrepreneurs to join Twenty-eight neighborhood business owners and entrepreneurs attended this month’s Near Westside Initiative (NWSI) Business Association meeting at the Delavan Center in Syracuse. The meeting marked the third straight month that the group has experienced record turnout. “The association is really gaining traction,” says Michael Short, NWSI Business Association interim chair and deputy [...]

Learn about international teaching opportunites from SU Abroad staff and faculty colleagues who have coordinated short-term international experiences for students and taught semester-long courses at SU centers.

If you are an undergraduate Syracuse University student between the ages of 18 and 24, you are invited to participate in a confidential research study that is aiming to learn more about prescription stimulant medications, such as Ritalin and Adderall, and
testing performance.

Tuesday, March 1, will be the next monthly pick up of empty cold-shipping polystyrene (Styrofoam) boxes for recycling from campus labs in Link Hall, Bowne Hall, Life Sciences, Sci-Tech and the Physics Building.

Salem Hyde Elementary School in Syracuse has received a state grant and recognition as one of just 23 model schools in the state for inclusive special education. School staff and administration will celebrate their new honor with a banner-raising ceremony at 3:15 p.m., March 10 in the Salem Hyde library. The New York State Education [...]

The public conversation about the problems with urban schools often places the blame on students who attend those schools, focusing on youths' poor attitudes and negative values. The latest installment in the Syracuse University School of Education's Landscape of Urban Education Lecture Series seeks to change the tone of those conversations. Gaston Alonso, Celina Su [...]

Wrap up National Eating Disorder Awareness Week by attending the Second Annual Body Image Symposium on Saturday, Feb. 26, from 3-6 p.m.

Phil Sarna, managing director of PS Business Management, LLC, will present a lecture on Tuesday, March 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 [...]

Jane Neuburger, director of the Tutoring & Study Center at Syracuse University, has been named president of the National Association for Developmental Education (NADE).

7th Annual BOOKSTORE BUZZ … come see what has people talking!

TIME quotes David M. Crane of the College of Law on Muammar Gaddafi legacy in Africa

What does it mean to be an art photographer today? In the exhibition “New Directions in Photography,” the third-year art photography graduate students in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) prove that the photographic medium has outgrown its traditional function as singular-print-on-the-wall and is now an expanded practice that includes video, sculpture, [...]

Students, watch the game on the big screen and feel like you're in the student section.

The Office of Multicultural Affairs at Syracuse University will celebrate the sixth annual Cora A. Thomas Gospel Extravaganza with Black Entertainment Television’s (BET) “Sunday Best” winner Le’andria Johnson, Sunday, Feb. 27, at Hendricks Chapel.  Doors will open at 4:30 pm. The Gospel Extravaganza is a free and open to the public. Johnson, a 27-year-old Orlando, [...]

Friday, Feb. 25, 3 pm. School of Information Studies, Katzer Room (Hinds Hall 347) The newly forming group Technology, Art and Social Good (TASG) is hosting an informal series of 5-minute presentations by individuals and organizations working at the intersection of technology, art and social good. TASG is interested in publicly engaged efforts made with [...]

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Artist Gerard Haggerty will give a talk on Tuesday, March 8, at 6:30 p.m. in Shemin Auditorium in the Dorothea Ilgen Shaffer Art Building. The free, public lecture is sponsored by the painting program as part of the Department of Art’s Visiting Artist Lecture Series in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA). Parking [...]

Rabbi Brad Hirschfield will lead a lunchtime discussion on “How Big Is Your God? Religious Pluralism in an Age of Increasing Extremism” on Tuesday, March 1, in the Noble Room in Syracuse University’s Hendricks Chapel. Lunch will be served at noon, and the conversation will begin at 12:30 p.m. The event is open to the [...]

The Feb. 24 session of Thursday Morning Roundtable (TMR) will feature Miriam Elman, associate professor in the Department of Political Science and one of the faculty research directors of international and intra-state conflicts at the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC) at SU’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. [...]

Syracuse University alumna Cynthia Sass, one of the most well-known and respected registered dietitians in the country, will present, “Stop Counting, Start Living,” on March 3 at 7 p.m., in Heroy Auditorium, on the SU campus. This informative discussion, which is free and open to the public, will explore issues around body image in America, [...]

Peter G. Simpkins, University Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Syracuse University’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). The APS Fellowship Program was created to recognize members who have made advances in physics through original research and publication, [...]

Syracuse University's School of Information Studies (iSchool), in conjunction with the Girl Scouts of NYPENN Pathways and Say Yes to Education Syracuse, will host a number of middle school-aged girls from the Central New York area on Saturday, March 5, for the second annual “Girls are I.T.” event. The daylong program, designed to introduce the [...]

Mehrzad Boroujerdi of the Maxwell School and College of Arts and Sciences discusses future of Egypt on WCNY Central Issues

Michael Berube, professor and director of the Institute for Arts and the Humanities at Pennsylvania State University, will visit campus on Friday, March 4, to deliver two talks on the humanities.  On Friday morning, Berube will give the talk "Narrative and Intellectual Disability," sponsored by SU’s Center on Human Policy, Law, and Disability Studies; the School [...]

Craig Scott, co-founder with Lisa Iwamato of San Francisco architectural design firm IwamotoScott, will speak at the Syracuse University School of Architecture on Tuesday, March 1, at 5 p.m. in Slocum Hall Auditorium. His lecture, “IwamotoScott: three avenues,” is free and open to the public. Formed in 1998, IwamotoScott pursues architecture as a form of [...]

The 'Cuse Spot at Wilson Park after school initiative launches today (and will go until Friday) in conjunction with the Syracuse City School District February Winter Break.

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

On Tuesday, March 1, Career Services and the Graduate School will host a panel discussion, “How Did You Become an Assistant Dean?”

Syracuse University raised $214,300 during the 2010 United Way of Central New York campaign.

Mary Nell Cummings, former assistant general counsel for GlaxoSmithKline, will visit Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Tuesday, March 8, as part of the Newhouse Advertising Leadership Speaker Series. She will give a public address, “Navigating Treacherous Waters: Prescription Drug Marketing in Social Media,” at 6:10 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium [...]

Based on the continued growth of staff, technology and programming at both CitrusTV and WJPZ, the two student media organizations will jointly expand their studio spaces into the area currently occupied by Food Works in Syracuse University’s Watson Hall.

Colleen Grande, a junior clarinet performance student in the Setnor School of Music, will present a clarinet recital Feb. 26 at 11 a.m. in Setnor Auditorium.

The Syracuse University Humanities Center in The College of Arts and Sciences continues its mini seminar series with a presentation by renowned literary theorist David Wills. The SUNY Albany professor will discuss “From the Mercantilism of Language to the Commerce of Thinking” on Friday, March 4, from 9-11:30 a.m. in the SU Humanities Center Seminar [...]

Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications has announced that the fifth annual Mirror Awards luncheon ceremony, honoring excellence in media industry reporting, will be held on Thursday, June 9, from 11:45 a.m.-2:30 p.m., at the Plaza Hotel, Fifth Avenue at Central Park South, New York City. Lorraine E. Branham, dean of the Newhouse [...]