Members of the Black Celestial Choral Ensemble reflect on the bonds they made over the years as they close out their 34th year of performances.

On July 3-5, an international conference, “LGBT/Queer Studies: Toward Trans/national Scholarly and Activist Kinships, ” will be held in Madrid as a follow-up to the September 2010 “Transnationalizing LGBT Studies” conference on campus organized by Syracuse University’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies program.  The conference will be the second major event supported by a [...]

Len Burman of Maxwell School discusses tax issues on Forbes blog and Capitol Pressroom

On Monday, June 13, the Dallas City Hall Quality of Life Committee met to discuss ideas for the future of the Texas city. Featured on the agenda was Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) Professor David Lankes, who was scheduled to give a presentation titled, “Dallas and the Opportunities of a New Librarianship.” Robert [...]

Syracuse University Trustee Robert Miron ‘59 has been honored as the first recipient of the Bresnan Ethics in Business Award, presented by The Cable Center. Miron, retired Bright House Networks chairman, received the honor, named after the late cable pioneer and former Bresnan Communications founder and chairman William Bresnan, at the Cable Hall of Fame [...]

Tremayne D. Robertson, associate director in the Office of Multicultural Affairs, received the 2011 Joan Lukas Rothenberg Graduate Student Service Award, which recognizes the work of SU students who have contributed to feminist education on campus through direct service to the Department of Women's and Gender Studies, and/or the larger SU community. Vivian May, associate [...]

Join us for SU’s Friday Night Flicks on the Quad on June 17 beginning at 8 p.m.

Margaret Moreno, a senior at Corcoran High School, has attended SU’s Summer Dance Intensive Program for three years. She is so dedicated to her art that at age 15, she cashed in her $1,000 life savings to pay the tuition to attend the program. This year Moreno, who has been accepted at SUNY Brockport in [...]

Wall Street Journal quotes College of Law's Terry Turnipseed on deathbed marriages

The Office of Student Activities at Syracuse University has announced the appointment of Kerry W. Foxx as the new associate director of student activities, effective June 1.

Thanks to a $483,000 grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, in partnership with veteran-owned business Corporate Gray, will conduct substantial research to improve the hiring and retention of veterans by businesses nationwide. In consultation with VA staff, the BBI and Corporate Gray research team will [...]

This year's posters are ready. The Poster Project is a yearly effort that combines work from the Advanced Illustration class of Roger DeMuth with local poets to produce public art. Huge posters are seen lining Salina St. in downtown Syracuse, and current and past posters are for sale at http://posterproject.org. Website: http://posterproject.org Contact Person: Jim [...]

Local and trade media report on SU and JPMorgan Chase creation of Institute for Veterans and Military Families

Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) has announced the establishment of the Philip H. Stevens Award in the college’s industrial and interaction design (IID) program in its Department of Design. The award is named in honor of Philip H. Stevens ’51, an industrial designer and president of Philip Stevens Associates Ltd. in [...]

Melvin T. Stith, dean of the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, announces that J. Michael "Mike" Haynie has been named the Barnes Professor of Entrepreneurship, in recognition of his outstanding accomplishments in teaching, research and service. Haynie was previously the Barnes Fellow. Haynie holds a Ph.D. in entrepreneurship and strategic management from the [...]

Ted Koppel, original anchor of the groundbreaking ABC News program "Nightline," has agreed to make a donation of videotapes and other items he has prepared or received during his career in broadcast journalism to the Syracuse University Library.  Koppel began his broadcasting career at SU in 1956, ultimately serving as SU radio station WAER’s program director [...]

The Syracuse International Film Festival (SYRFILMFEST) announces its second annual Scriptwriting Workshop.  The workshop is hosted by Syracuse University alumnus Rob Edwards, writer of “Treasure Planet” and the Academy Award-nominated “The Princess and the Frog.”   Dani Menkin, writer and director of “39 Pounds of Love,” and Gil Kofman, screenwriter for “The Memory Thief” will also join [...]

Businessweek quotes Maxwell School's Len Burman on the Tim Pawlenty tax plan

The Syracuse University Press book, “Loom: A Novel” by Thérèse Soukar Chehade, has won the 2011 National Arab American Book Award for fiction.

More than 300 college students, representing 46 colleges and universities, will be on the Syracuse University campus on Monday, June 13, to train at the Say Yes Summer Institute to become summer enrichment specialists for the 2011 Say Yes to Education Summer Camp. The Summer Institute is a weeklong intensive training program that incorporates project-based lesson [...]

First of its kind in higher education

Eight graduate students from the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts have had their research selected for presentation at several upcoming national and international conferences, including the prestigious National Communication Association (NCA) Convention, which will be held Nov. 17-20 in New Orleans. The NCA is the largest [...]

New Yorker highlights Palitz Gallery exhibition of photos from Haiti by Visual and Performing Arts' Laura Heyman

According to an analysis of very timely court data by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), despite the hiring of 44 additional immigration judges during the past 12 months, the number of cases awaiting resolution before the Immigration Courts has continued to grow. By the beginning of May 2011, the backlog reached a new all [...]

A memorial service for John David O’Connor will be held Monday, June 20, at 5 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. O’Connor, manager for Syracuse University Mail Services for more than 20 years, died on May 5. He was 49. O’Connor was a member of the SU community for more than 30 years. He began working for [...]

Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications today presented seven awards at the fifth annual Mirror Awards luncheon honoring excellence in media industry reporting. The event, emceed by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, co-hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” was held this morning at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. Photographs will be available online. The [...]

Syracuse University, Community Wide Dialogue (a program of InterFaith Works of CNY) and National Grid will co-sponsor the ninth annual Duck Race to End Racism on Saturday, June 11, from noon-4 p.m. at the Syracuse Inner Harbor. “The Community Wide Dialogue to End Racism has been creating opportunities for our community to openly discuss racism [...]

The University Bookstore will be closed Friday, June 24, for fiscal year end inventory.

As the Connective Corridor and Near Westside Initiative continue redefining the economic footprint and landscape of the City of Syracuse and Near Westside, National Grid continues its commitment to provide economic development funds to ensure ambitious projects happen. While National Grid’s historic Erie Boulevard Art Deco building stands tall as a significant symbol of the [...]

University Professor Peter Blanck, chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, has been appointed by the government of Israel’s Ministry of Welfare and Social Services to co-chair a disability rights expert panel on community living for persons with intellectual disabilities. Blanck’s co-chair is leading Israeli academic Arie Rimmerman, the Richard Crossman Chair [...]

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has named Joel Kaplan as its new ombudsman, effective June 1. Kaplan is responsible for reinforcing objectivity, balance, fairness and transparency within public media.

A consortium of 21 Syracuse arts venues will once again coordinate free, monthly visual arts events from 5-8 p.m. on the third Thursday of the month, June 16. They include: ArtRage—The Norton Putter Gallery 505 Hawley Ave. At 6 p.m., Ellen M. Blalock, photographer, videographer and quilt artist, will give an artist talk exploring her [...]

Dylan book by David Yaffe of Arts and Sciences reviewed in New York Times Sunday Book Review

David M. Crane of the College of Law speaks with Voice of America on African topics

For the next four months, the offices of Telecommunications and Network and Wiring Services, divisions of Information Technology and Services (ITS), will be very busy working on a large number of summer projects.

The fifth annual University Community Harvest Farmers' Market series will kick off on Friday, June 10. The first market of the 2011 season will be held that day from 11 a.m.-3 p.m., during SU's Strawberry Festival, on the Kenneth A. Shaw Quad. Presented by Syracuse University and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry [...]

The South Side Innovation Center’s (SSIC) Christine Sauve has been named a finalist for a 2011 Financial Executive of the Year Award in the category of nonprofit organizations with gross revenues of less than $5 million.

The Slutzker Center for International Services will be closed on Wednesday, June 8, for a staff retreat.

College of Human Ecology's Eric Kingson interviews on regional radio about Social Security and veterans

The summer session of Weight Watchers at Work will begin on June 15 and runs for 12 weeks.

Salon.com quotes College of Law's David Cay Johnston on effective tax rate for biggest U.S. corporations

With turmoil in the Middle East and recent news of another Pakistani reporter killed, a journalist honored at SU shares his personal story of torture and the challenges of freedom of information.

Volunteer-driven grassroots organization works to promote access to fresh, locally-grown food across the city's social strata.

The Slutzker Center for International Services has announced the appointment of Fariba Rahmanzadeh to the position of assistant director, effective May 9. In this leadership position, Rahmanzadeh will contribute to crisis management, continue to plan and manage the international student orientation programs and supervise the graduate assistant in the oversight of the Connections mentoring program [...]

SU has been named for the fifth consecutive year.

SYRFILMFEST’11 is seeking dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers who want to contribute to the continued success of one of the leading international film festivals in the country. By becoming part of the festival team, you will network with other people, see films and play a valuable role in the festival organization. From theater entrances to hospitality [...]

New and past works created by artists from Open Figure Drawing, Syracuse’s community-based drawing group for people of all abilities, are the subject of the exhibition “Now and Then: Open Figure Drawing Group Exhibition 2011” at XL Projects, 307–313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse. The show, which is free and open to the public, is on [...]

Two dancers from Bulgaria will arrive at Syracuse University in July to study with world-renowned faculty during the three-week Summer Dance Intensive Program, which is administered by University College.  Greta Georgieva, a 19-year-old classical ballet student, has been studying since she was 11 years old. Georgieva is a graduate of the State Dance Art School [...]

We are conducting a research study at Syracuse and SUNY Upstate Medical Universities to determine differences in how people with voice problems use their voice as compared with people who are not having voice problems.

New and past works created by artists from Open Figure Drawing, Syracuse’s community-based drawing group for people of all abilities, are the subject of the exhibition “Now and Then: Open Figure Drawing Group Exhibition 2011” at XL Projects, 307–313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse. The show, which is free and open to the public, is on [...]