The time has come again to start recruiting for Syracuse Welcome 2011.

Israeli film director Dani Menkin has been selected to receive a visiting artist grant that will bring him to Syracuse for four months to live and work in the community. Menkin recently was awarded a Schusterman Visiting Artist Grant from the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation. The Schusterman Visiting Artist Program will join with [...]

The 2011 Chase Business Plan Challenge will take place on Friday, May 20, beginning at 6 p.m. at the South Side Innovation Center (SSIC), 2610 S. Salina St., Syracuse. The competition will occur during graduation ceremonies for SSIC clients who have completed business plans and training through the Entrepreneurial Assistance Program at the SSIC Academy. [...]

Syracuse University will host “Experiential Learning for Tomorrow’s Technology Leaders,” a Global Enterprise Technology (GET) Curriculum Workshop, on Wednesday, May 25, at the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel and Conference Center. The workshop is made possible by support from the National Science Foundation, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and SU. It is designed to expose faculty and [...]

Registration is going on now for Summer Session 1 Fitness Classes.

The Syracuse Center of Excellence (SyracuseCoE) today announced that four Upstate New York companies have received a total of $200,000 in the fourth round of Technology Application and Demonstration (TAD 2011) awards. These demonstration projects are designed to improve air quality and water systems. The awards are made possible through funding to SyracuseCoE from the [...]

Spring in Syracuse. Wet. Cold. Dreary. We can embrace the rainy weather or ignore it. Here at SU, students seem to do a bit of both.

The webcast of the Syracuse University and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Commencement ceremony is now available for viewing. Viewers will need flash video player to watch the archived webcast. Flash player can be downloaded for free at http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer. To see the full catalog of SU videos available online, visit: http://video.syr.edu. To order a DVD copy [...]

Syracuse University continues to be a national leader in higher education as it will open the doors to a Disability Cultural Center in the fall of 2011. This groundbreaking center will be the only one of its kind across the nation that is operated by permanent staff members. The Disability Cultural Center will function as [...]

At Syracuse University's Board of Trustees annual meeting held this past Saturday, May 14, Chairman-elect Richard L. Thompson G’67 officially assumed the role of chairman of the University’s Board of Trustees. Outgoing chairman John H. Chapple '75 completed his term as chairman and is now chairman-emeritus. Additionally, eight individuals were elected as trustees. Thompson, who resides [...]

Faculty from the Syracuse University Department of Science Teaching have partnered with the teachers and administration of Willow Field Elementary in Liverpool to explore a process called “lesson study.” Their efforts will culminate this Thursday, May 19, at 6 p.m. in a public research lesson held in the Willow Field Elementary gymnasium. This event is [...]

In response to the shrinking global economy and the growing influx of immigrants to the United States, Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences is offering the certificate of advanced studies (CAS) in language teaching. The certificate is a 12-credit professional graduate program that trains students to teach English to speakers of other languages (TESOL), [...]

At the age of 17, Oubon Phommanyrath was living on her own in the Salvation Army Transitional Apartments on Salina Street in Syracuse. Phommanyrath had fled from a physically and emotionally abusive home life at age 14, ending up on the streets. Despite her circumstances, Phommanyrath completed high school and was close to realizing her [...]

Otto was an inspiration.

The Class of 2011 awarded College of Law Professor Nina A. Kohn the Res Ipsa Loquitur Award at the May 13 Commencement ceremony. This award recognizes an outstanding member of the faculty for his or her service, scholarship and stewardship to the students of the College of Law. The recipient of this award is chosen [...]

For the second year in a row, research conducted in areas related to entrepreneurship and published by faculty in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises in the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University has been ranked No. 2 in the world in a study conducted by the M. J. Neeley School of Business [...]

Thank you, Chancellor Cantor, for a very warm introduction.  I wish you'd told me that I was going to be following the mascot. Chancellor Cantor, trustees, faculty, students: thank you for allowing me to come here to address you for your 157th commencement.  I was honored to accept this invitation and to receive an honorary doctor [...]

Catherine Bertini, professor of practice in public administration, has been appointed by the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to a two-year term on its Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid, which facilitates the exchange of ideas between USAID and the nongovernmental sector. Members, who are private citizens with extensive knowledge of [...]

Works written and performed by students from Nottingham and Fowler high schools will be presented at Syracuse Stage at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 17. The works were created as part of a year-long ArtsEmerging program called “Perceptions,” which culminated in the creation of works that represent urban school communities in relation to Stage’s fall [...]

NPR quotes Milton Mueller of the iSchool on registering Internet addresses

Amazon is requiring a change for future access to current corporate account information.

"Expanding Entrepreneurship" article in Philanthropy Magazine features Whitman School's EBV

Syracuse University’s Jewelry and Metalsmithing Club spring jewelry sale is under way!

A project by the Syracuse University Steam Station will modify traffic patterns at the intersection of Euclid Avenue and Comstock Avenue.

Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and VPA’s Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music will host a concert by the Syracuse Symphony Youth Orchestra (SSYO) on Sunday, May 22, at 4 p.m. in Goldstein Auditorium in the Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center. The concert is free [...]

Vivian Yaci Yu, a junior biochemistry major in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected as the University’s 2011 Beckman Scholar. The highly competitive program, funded by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, supports select students interested in chemistry, biochemistry and the biological and medical sciences. Beckman Scholars receive $19,300 in financial [...]

The Division of Student Affairs has named Ben Domingo as the director of Health Services. Domingo has served as the director of Morrisville State College’s Health Center since 2001, and will begin his appointment at Syracuse on June 1. “I am thrilled to have Ben Domingo directing Health Services,” says Rebecca Dayton, associate vice president [...]

Associated Press quotes Mehrzad Boroujerdi of the Maxwell School and College of Arts and Sciences on Iran's Supreme Leader

Syracuse University College of Law will celebrate the graduation of 194 juris doctor degree candidates on Friday, May 13, at 1 p.m. in the Carrier Dome. A live webcast of the event is available. Delaware Attorney General Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III, a 1994 graduate of the College of Law, will return to the SU [...]

The College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) has announced that seven VPA faculty members have been awarded summer research stipends.

The Renée Crown University Honors Program, an all-University program administered by Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, announces the appointment of Stephen Kuusisto as its new director. Kuusisto is an accomplished poet, scholar and disability rights advocate who comes to SU from the University of Iowa, where he has served as professor of English [...]

Two Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) student startup companies, Helios and Broodr.com, earned top prizes in the New York Business Plan Competition held in Albany on April 28.  Helios, a medical device company developing ultraviolet technology to sterilize equipment, won the grand prize and took first place in the health care track, walking [...]

Syracuse University alumni, staff, faculty and fans have an opportunity once again to fill Yankee Stadium with orange during Syracuse University Day at Yankee Stadium on June 26. Tickets must be purchased by May 26. For a bus package, including tickets and round-trip transportation from Syracuse to New York City, visit http://www.cnyorange.org The event, sponsored [...]

A tribute concert to the late Howard and Helen Boatwright, both legends in American music and central figures in the history of the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, will be held on Saturday, May 21, at 3 p.m. in the Rose and [...]

Senior class marshals Justin Michael Cole and Katherine L. Lewinski will carry the Class of 2011 banner to open Syracuse University’s 157th Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 15, and continue a longstanding tradition by representing their class on this special occasion. Cole, of Watertown, N.Y., is a policy studies, economics and political science triple major in The [...]

Senior class marshals Justin Michael Cole and Katherine L. Lewinski will carry the Class of 2011 banner to open Syracuse University’s 157th Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 15, and continue a longstanding tradition by representing their class on this special occasion. Cole, of Watertown, N.Y., is a policy studies, economics and political science triple major in The [...]

University will celebrate the graduation of 5,459 degree candidates

Len Burman of Maxwell School launches Impertinent Economist blog in Forbes

The Center for Policy Research at the Maxwell School will host a blood drive on Wednesday, May 18, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. in the Executive Study Room (204 Maxwell Hall).

Geraldine de Berly, associate dean for academic affairs at University College, has been named senior associate dean. De Berly, who also serves as the director of the English Language Institute, has worked at Syracuse University since 1998. Prior to joining SU, de Berly held several positions at New Mexico State University, including academic coordinator for [...]

Rosemary Kelly, director of Student Administrative Services (SAS) at University College, was recently named assistant dean of SAS. SAS, which encompasses advising, bursar, registration and financial aid departments, works with the part-time undergraduates from recruitment, admission and advising through to their graduation. The office is often a first point of contact for graduate students. Kelly [...]

Mike Frasciello has been named assistant dean of online learning and information services at University College. In this role, he provides campuswide leadership in support of Syracuse University online teaching and learning initiatives. This includes working with various departments across campus to research, evaluate, approve, design, develop, implement and assess initiatives and strategies related to [...]

Amira Zahid and the trustees of the Dahesh Museum of Art, along with Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor have announced the expansion of their arts partnership to include a month-long exhibition, “Reconnecting East and West: Islamic Ornament in 19th-Century Works from the Dahesh Museum of Art and Syracuse University.” It opens to the public at [...]

The Syracuse University R.A.P.E. Center hosted its annual volunteer appreciation event on Wednesday, May 4, recognizing more than 60 student and staff volunteers for their critical impact on the community through advocacy, prevention and education. Graduating student volunteers received an Empowered Bystander medal and a certificate that honored and acknowledged their tremendous work toward creating [...]

Stone Canoe, A Journal of Art, Literature and Social Commentary, published by Syracuse University, has announced the new group of editors for its 2012 edition. “This is an incredible group of accomplished people,“ says Robert Colley, Stone Canoe executive editor, “and their participation is a reflection of the ongoing commitment to excellence and diversity that [...]

The Department of African American Studies (AAS) in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences presented the following awards to its 2011 graduates during the annual Graduation Awards Ceremony May 3: The Anna Julia Cooper/Carter G. Woodson Award was presented to Na’Tasha Webb-Prather, who will graduate with distinction and is a college marshal. The award [...]

Four well-known local storytellers will headline this year's StoryFest, an annual storytelling event held in honor of the late Syracuse educator Ted Grace. StoryFest IV: A Family Storytelling Event will begin at 6:30 p.m. May 19 at Corcoran High School's Ted Grace Reading Grove. The event is run by the Corcoran High School Parent-Teacher-Student Organization [...]

Exhibition captures life in Haiti before and after earthquake In creating "Pa Bouje Ankò: Don’t Move Again," photographer Laura Heyman traveled to Haiti in November 2009. She began the project with a question: “Can someone from the First World see and photograph within the Third World without voyeurism or objectification?” This query led Heyman to [...]

This Sunday, May 15, 1-2 p.m., meet Sean Keeley, creator of the SU sports blog "Troy Nunes is an Absolute Magician."

Kendall Phillips, associate dean of research and graduate studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, and a professor of communication and rhetorical studies in its Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, has been named president-elect of the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA).