The SU Men's Summer Soccer Camp registration is now open.

The Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, in partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), will hold its inaugural Veterans as Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (V-WISE) program in San Antonio, May 5-7 at the Westin Riverwalk. V-WISE is one of the first federally funded programs specifically focused on engaging [...]

Albany Business Review reports Helios startup led by SU student Luis Romo wins NYS Business Plan Competition

The Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public & Community Service (CPCS) administers the Robert B. Menschel Public Service Award. Richard and Ronay Menschel established this award in honor of their brother, Robert, to perpetuate his commitment to the not-for-profit world by supplementing income earned by students in not-for-profit internships. CPCS encourages freshmen, sophomores and juniors [...]

Students, faculty and staff at Syracuse University rallied in the final days of competition to beat rival University of Connecticut.  The annual “Are you up for the Challenge: Give Blood!” competition keeps track of which school donates the most pints of blood through the American Red Cross. All blood donations collected on the SU campus [...]

Matilde (pronounced Ma-chil-gee) has a problem: she’s a cleaning lady who doesn’t like to clean. She’d rather think up the perfect joke. Now that her parents (once the funniest people in Brazil) are dead—her mother died laughing—she is the funniest person in her family. Matilde works for a doctor named Lane, who has a problem: [...]

Twenty-one Syracuse University seniors have been selected as the 2011 Engagement Fellows, a yearlong program supported by the Kauffman Foundation that assists with securing local employment and arranges remitted tuition for courses at SU with professional and faculty mentors. This year, the Engagement Fellows program, which launched successfully in 2009, has two application tracks—the Engagement [...]

WOAI-TV highlights the Whitman School and SBA's upcoming V-WISE program in San Antonio for women veterans

College of Law's David Cay Johnston speaks with radio stations around the country on Paul Ryan's proposed federal budget plan

A group of fifth-grade students at Van Duyn Elementary School in Syracuse recently got a crash course in sustainability while creating their original “Voices in the Wind” theater/puppetry performance, which they’ll premiere at SU Showcase on May 2. Eighteen SU students collaborated with the 68 Van Duyn fifth graders to create the upcoming larger-than-life performance. [...]

Sierra Fox, a senior vocal performance major in the Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, will present a recital on Sunday, May 1.

Works performed May 9 by SU drama students Eight area high school students have been chosen as the winners of the 13th annual Young Playwrights Festival at Syracuse Stage. The winning works will be performed by students from the Department of Drama in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) at a staged [...]

The following University locations on Walnut Place will be closing at noon on Friday, April 29: SU Abroad, and the Counseling Center.

Summer office hours for Syracuse University will begin on Monday, May 16.

In his 11th book, “Chasing Phantoms: Reality, Imagination, and Homeland Security Since 9/11” (UNC Press, 2011), Professor Michael Barkun examines the huge gap that exists between the realities of the terrorism threat facing the United States and the everyday discourse about that threat among government officials and the general public.

When Na’Tasha Webb-Prather was exploring a topic for her Honors Capstone project, she decided to take a critical look at her native city, Cleveland. She found that practices of segregated housing that were institutionalized decades ago have impacted contemporary educational achievement in city schools. Webb-Prather is among more than 100 seniors in the Reneé Crown [...]

The College of Arts and Sciences Office of Advancement announces the appointment of Paul Brenner as senior director of development and David Bartell as director of development.

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Gerardine Wurzburg, one of six individuals of exceptional achievement to receive Syracuse University honorary degree at its 157th Commencement exercises on Sunday, May 15, will remain in Syracuse to teach a MayMester course, CFE 600, “Documentary Films in Education: The Director’s Cut.” In her most recent work, “Wretches & Jabberers,” two men [...]

On Friday, April 29, at 4 p.m. in Maxwell Auditorium, the Campbell Public Affairs Institute's State of Democracy Series will welcome Juan Cole.

The Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT) has announced that former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and Vice Adm. Robert B. Murrett will join INSCT as deputy director in June 2011. At the same time, he will also join the faculty of the Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs as [...]

Mitch Franklin, assistant professor of accounting practice in the Whitman School of Management, likes to make connections and show people where numbers can lead them.

Chris Cresswell, a senior composition major in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, will present a recital on Saturday, April 30, at 8 p.m. in the Rose and Jules R. Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College. The recital is free and open to the [...]

David Artz, a senior vocal performance major in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, will present a recital on Saturday, April 30.

Prior to taking the stage at Syracuse University’s Jabberwocky Café on Wednesday night, April 27, the eco-friendly indie band Big Tree will give a 4 p.m. vegetable oil vehicle demonstration at the loading dock of Ernie Davis Hall, 619 Comstock Ave.

The MAY DAY 5k is this Sunday on campus!

Newhouse School's Robert Thompson quoted by CBS News on media and the British royal family wedding

AEPi will be hosting its philanthropy event in Walnut Park on May 1 from 2-6 p.m.

Jessie C. Gruman, president of the Center for Advancing Health and candidate to receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Syracuse University, will present “The Patient in Patient-Centered Care: What Clinicians Need to Know” on Friday, May 13. Students, faculty, staff and community members are welcome to attend the free presentation, which will [...]

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Administrative Officer Frank Bisignano to be presented with Dean’s Award of Distinction; SU men’s basketball head coach Jim Boeheim and wife, Juli, to be special guests Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will present its 2011 New York City gala honoring renowned actress and recording artist Vanessa Williams [...]

The Safety Department is offering a six-hour National Safety Council Defensive Driving Course for faculty, staff, students and the general public.

The Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council (SMTC) and the New York State Department of Transportation will be hosting the first set of public workshops for The I-81 Challenge on May 3, 4 and 7 at the Oncenter in downtown Syracuse.

A memorial service for professor emeritus Arthur Evans Tashko LeGacy will be held on Friday, April 29, at 4 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. LeGacy died on Nov. 3, 2010. LeGacy, professor emeritus of history in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and The College of Arts and Sciences, joined the faculty in 1965 [...]

Are you still looking for a course to take in Fall 2011? Consider an intergroup dialogue course.

A blood drive for faculty and staff at Syracuse University is expected to take blood drive numbers to a whole new level as part of the annual “Are you up for the challenge?: Give Blood” competition between Syracuse University and the University of Connecticut. The faculty and staff drive, co-sponsored by the Division of Student [...]

Going “green” for a group of Newhouse public relations students doesn’t mean hopping on the sustainability bandwagon with some superficial eco-friendly spin just to attract publicity. For the members of Hill Communications, the Newhouse School’s student-run public relations agency, it’s all about service and giving back through green initiatives to help Hill’s clients achieve their [...]

Arts and Sciences' Sheldon Stone quoted in LiveScience on Higgs boson subatomic particle

David Cay Johnston, distinguished visiting lecturer in the College of Law, delivered a lecture on Thursday, April 21, at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Forty-two graduating biology and biochemistry majors will be recognized for their achievements in scholarship and research during the annual Undergraduate Research Conference and Awards Ceremony, hosted by the Department of Biology in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, April 28 and 29 on the first floor of the Life Sciences Complex. Posters will be [...]

Syracuse University's Office of Off-Campus and Commuter Services hosts its annual Earth Day Communitywide Cleanup on Saturday, April 30, from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Each year, more than 100 SU and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry students, faculty, staff and Syracuse-area residents gather to pick up litter in the University neighborhood. Volunteers are needed and [...]

Joel Schoenfeld ’73, an entertainment attorney and partner at Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp LLC, will present a lecture on Tuesday, April 26, 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 [...]

In today's biodiversity crisis, what is the impact of agriculture on biodiversity?

How do you define beauty? Creators of the documentary, “Defining Beauty: Ms. Wheelchair America,” are teaming up with the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University Atlanta office to explore that question during Taste of Beauty Weekend, May 14-15. Proceeds will support the initiatives of BBI’s Atlanta office, including career coaching, job shadowing and summer [...]

The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign, the largest military offensive ever against the Haudenosaunee (“People of the Longhouse”), is the subject of a multimedia presentation by Robert Spiegelman in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Spiegelman will discuss “New York’s Missing Link: The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign, Then and Now” on Friday, April 29, at 4 p.m. in Bird [...]

The Everson Museum of Art and Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) announce their first annual Ceramic Arts Lecture. Linda Sikora, professor of art at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, will present the lecture on Thursday, April 28, at 7 p.m. in the Everson Museum of Art’s [...]

Syracuse University Trustee Deryck Palmer ‘78 will speak this evening, Monday, April 25 as part of Kappa Alpha Psi’s “Road to Achievement Week.”

Tuesday, May 3, will be the next monthly pickup 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 College of Human Ecology’s addiction studies program and SU Europe have partnered with the Council of Europe’s Pompidou Group to create a new trans-Atlantic executive education program focused on implementing effective drug policy and governance. The five-day summit will take place Sept. 18-24 in Budapest, Hungary, with an agenda of interest to public health [...]

A Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) service will be held on Wednesday, April 27, at 8 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The service will focus on remembering the victims and survivors of the Holocaust, and the groups that were persecuted. The service is sponsored by the Winnick Hillel Center, the Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Judaic [...]

Maxwell School's Len Burman speaks with NPR Morning Edition on the federal budget battle

Syracuse Stage will be holding local equity auditions from 10 a.m.-6 p.m., May 5-6 for roles in the upcoming 2011-12 season. Auditions will take place at Syracuse Stage, 820 E. Genesee St. Please call (315) 443-4008 to schedule an appointment. Actors auditioning must be members of the Actors’ Equity Association and should bring a headshot and [...]