National media report on naming of James Steinberg as dean of Maxwell, Sherburne Abbott appointment in sustainability initiatives

Please be aware that the Carrier Dome will be closed to walkers on the following days in April:

The Department of Transmedia in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts and Light Work have announced the Women in Photography NYC lecture on Tuesday, April 12, at 2 p.m. in Shemin Auditorium in the Dorothea Ilgen Shaffer Art Building. The lecture is free and open to the public. Parking is available in SU [...]

In honor of the school’s namesake, Martin J. Whitman ’49, the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University will host its eighth annual Whitman Day on Wednesday, April 6. Dan Amos, chairman and CEO of Aflac, will deliver the keynote address, “How a Brand Took Wings,” at 2 p.m. in the Lender Auditorium. Amos will [...]

APA Heritage Month celebrates Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

Landscape architect Susannah Drake, principal of dlandstudio llc in New York City, will speak at the Syracuse University School of Architecture on Tuesday, April 5, at 5 p.m. in Slocum Hall Auditorium. Her lecture, “Elastic Landscape,” is free and open to the public. dlandstudio is an award-winning multidisciplinary design firm that includes landscape architects, urban [...]

Spring Campus Day for high school juniors will take place Wednesday, April 20.

The Office of Undergraduate Admissions will welcome many visitors to campus in April.

Participants are needed for a study on extended time as a test accommodation for college students with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.

Local mixed-ability teams showcase their talent and use of adaptive sports equipment for abled and disabled youth.

Syracuse University’s Counseling Center, in conjunction with the National Research Consortium of Counseling Centers in Higher Education, is launching a national study to better understand students’ responses to stressful situations.

Take a peek behind the scenes of the fastest-growing beverage category in the U.S.

Design Observer features multimedia piece by School of Architecture's Jonathan Massey on Marcel Breuer exhibit

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Pete Yorn will deliver the 2011 convocation address to bachelor’s and master’s degree candidates of Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) at the college’s convocation ceremony on Saturday, May 14, at 7 p.m. in the Carrier Dome. Yorn, who is celebrating the 10th anniversary of his certified gold debut album [...]

Dacheng Ren, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering in Syracuse University's L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, has been given the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his proposal “Patterned Biofilm Formation by Surface Design: Linking Structure to Physiology and Genetics.” [...]

The Safety Department is offering a six-hour National Safety Council Defensive Driving Course for faculty, staff, students and the general public. It will be held on Saturday, April 30, from 7:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at Lyman Hall, Lecture Room 132.

Syracuse University Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric F. Spina today announced the appointment of Sherburne “Shere” Abbott as vice president for sustainability initiatives and University Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy. Abbott, a leading expert in the field of sustainability science and policy, currently serves as the associate director for environment of the Office of [...]

James B. Steinberg, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, has been named dean of SU’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and University Professor of Social Science, International Affairs and Law. The appointment, which will become effective this summer, was announced today by Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric F. Spina. Steinberg is an internationally recognized [...]

The Newhouse School’s magazine department will host a panel discussion on editorial apps on Tuesday, April 12, from 7-9 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3. The event is free and open to the public. Parking is available in SU pay lots. Panelists include: Eric Gillin ’99, director of Hearst Digital. Esquire's iPad [...]

Maude Barlow, co-founder of the Blue Planet Project and chair of the Food & Water Watch, will be the final guest in the 2010-11 University Lectures season at Syracuse University on Tuesday, April 5. Her presentation, “The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water,” will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Hendricks [...]

The Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University held on to the No. 47 spot on Bloomberg Businessweek’s sixth annual ranking of “The Best Undergraduate Business Schools.” In 2010, Whitman was ranked 47 and in 2009 ranked 49. With U.S. job growth still weak, business programs that top the latest Bloomberg Businessweek ranking are going [...]

Syracuse University will honor students, faculty, staff and community partners who exemplify SU’s commitment to engagement with the community and Scholarship in Action with the 2011 Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship at a celebration dinner on Wednesday, March 30, at 5:30 p.m. in the Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center’s Goldstein Auditorium. [...]

Mary Garrard, a nationally renowned feminist art historian, will come to Syracuse University in April as the William Fleming Visiting Professor in Art History. In this capacity, Garrard will deliver the 2011 Doris Lecture, “Art Versus Nature: A Renaissance Competition in the Key of Gender,” on Wednesday, April 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Gifford Auditorium [...]

CBS News, NSF, other media highlight research led by Arts and Sciences' Sheldon Stone

The Syracuse University Department of Drama will present Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard's deeply unsettling, darkly funny family melodrama “Curse of the Starving Class” April 1-10 in the Storch Theatre at Syracuse Stage. Centering on a family in a dire financial and emotional state, the play highlights the darker elements in the pursuit of the [...]

Stephen Talasnik, the inaugural Sandra Kahn Alpert Visiting Artist in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), will present a lecture on Tuesday, April 12, at 6:30 p.m. in Shemin Auditorium in the Dorothea Ilgen Shaffer Art Building. The free, public lecture is part of the Department of Art’s Visiting Artist Lecture Series [...]

The College of Human Ecology announced the 35th annual Quality Infant/Toddler Caregiving (QIC) Workshop will be offered May 16-20 at Syracuse University. Training caregivers of children younger than three, the world-renowned QIC workshop is based on research and theory in social-emotional, cognitive, motor, sensory and language development. In conjunction with the QIC, the fifth annual [...]

Since its founding in 2005, the Syracuse University Sport Management (SPM) Club, a student-run organization in the College of Human Ecology’s Department of Sport Management, has donated nearly $125,000 to Central New York charities. As a result of its most successful annual sport auction to date in December 2010, the SPM Club made a $24,000 [...]

Jefferson Community College (JCC), Syracuse International Film Festival (SYRFILM) and the North Country Arts Council bring the “Best of the Fest” from the 2010 Syracuse International Film Festival to the Sturtz Theater on Friday, April 29, at 7 p.m. The “Best of the Fest” movie screening is open to the public and free of charge. [...]

Awards draw attention to achievements of artists of excellence who have disabilities Created to draw attention to the achievements of artists of excellence who have disabilities, "The Wynn Newhouse 2010 Awards Exhibition" opens on April 4 at the Palitz Gallery at Syracuse University Lubin House (11 East 61st Street, New York City) and runs through May [...]

Summer upgrades for 2011 will be offered on a first-come, first-serve basis.

College of Human Ecology's Dessa Bergen-Cico quoted by ABC News on spring break and risks of drug use

The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra (SSO) will perform a free concert on the Syracuse University campus on Saturday, April 2. The concert is part of the expanded partnership between the SSO and SU, which supports the SSO’s 2010-11 season (the orchestra’s 50th anniversary) and enhances the orchestra’s engagement with SU faculty and students. The concert will [...]

The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation named Syracuse University an institutional recipient of the 2011 Beckman Scholars Program. The highly competitive grant supports select students interested in chemistry, biochemistry and the biological and medical sciences. "We are honored to be chosen for this prestigious program,” says James T. Spencer, associate dean in SU’s College of [...]

Shortly after experiments on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, began yielding scientific data last fall, a group of scientists led by a Syracuse University physicist became the first to observe the decays of a rare particle that was present right after the Big Bang. By studying this particle, [...]

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) extensively cited the research of University Professor Peter Blanck, chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, in its final rules and regulations for the employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Published Friday, March 25, the new regulations are available in the Federal Register [...]

Syracuse University's Alumni Speaker Series will showcase another fascinating career story on Wednesday, March 30, when Marla Meridith visits campus. A 1992 graduate of SU, Meridith worked as a graphic designer for companies such as Walt Disney and Warner Bros. before pursuing a more entrepreneurial path and launching her own healthy eating and lifestyle blog, [...]

Tuesday, April 5, 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.

The Carnegie Religion and Media Program at Syracuse University will sponsor public interviews with Lisa Miller, religion writer at Newsweek, and Jimmy Creech, author of a new memoir about his fight for gay and lesbian rights in the United Methodist Church, during the first week of April in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in SU’s Newhouse [...]

Jimmy Creech, a civil rights activist, author and former United Methodist pastor who was defrocked for performing a same-sex wedding, will visit Syracuse April 7-8 for a series of events titled “Free to Love Without Fear: Defying the Church’s Persecution of LGBT People.” Creech’s recently released memoir, “Adam’s Gift: A Memoir of a Pastor’s Calling [...]

Syracuse University’s Office of Admissions’ annual Multicultural Spring program MSP) is approaching quickly!

The Vera House White Ribbon Campaign kicked off March 25 with the goal of distributing 40,000 white ribbons to people in Onondaga County to raise awareness about domestic and sexual violence. The 17th annual campaign will run until April 3. Syracuse University’s Division of Student Affairs supports the campaign and will sell white ribbons and [...]

Research with very low frequency light waves by Arts and Sciences' Timothy Korter is featured in NSF's Science360 News

Each year, the project has produced 16 unique posters.

Students from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communcations and College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will present the fashion show “Fashion Follows Form: Fashion and Diversity” on Friday, April 1, at 7 p.m. in the Newhouse 1 lobby. The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Parking is [...]

Paola Marquez, a composition major in the Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, will present a recital March 29 at 8 p.m. in Setnor Auditorium.

The Japanese Student Association at Syracuse University is seeking monetary contributions for disaster relief activities to help the victims of the earthquake and tsunami that have devastated northeastern Japan.

J. Craig Venter, a world-renowned scientist regarded as one of the most influential people in the world for his efforts to decode the human genome, will deliver the Commencement address to the 2011 graduates of Syracuse University, Syracuse University College of Law and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) during Commencement exercises [...]

With a goal of providing a series of mentoring resources to people with disabilities looking for employment or educational opportunities, a new web portal OurAbility.com, was launched today.

Bradford J. Vivian, an associate professor of communication and rhetorical studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, will deliver the keynote address at “Drawing a Blank. Past and Present,” a graduate student conference at Princeton University’s Department of Art and Archaeology, on Saturday, April 9.