Travel and parking information for Thursday’s Sept. 1, SU vs. Wake Forest home opener at 8 p.m.

New York Times quotes Rick Burton of Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics on Arthritis Foundation ad campaign with Billie Jean King

As an integral part of SU’s Syracuse Welcome, Orientation Leaders are a select group of 44 student leaders. Highly visible during Opening Weekend, Orientation Leaders (OLs) are representatives of the University who work with faculty and staff members to help new students, family and friends have a smooth and seamless transition into the intellectual, cultural, [...]

September information sessions have been scheduled for students interested in two of the Global Enterprise Technology (GET) program components.

Zito was one of five masters of the spoken word who gathered for "Speaking Shakespeare."

The Department of Recreation Services Labor Day facility schedule is available at
http://recreationservices.syr.edu/RecServ%20Website%20Files/Forms/Labor%20Day%2011.pdf.

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

Valerie Traub, the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women’s Studies and chair of women’s studies at the University of Michigan, will lead off the 2011-12 Ray Smith Symposium with her lecture “Shakespeare’s Sex,” Sept. 8-9 on the Syracuse University campus.  The history of queer sexuality is the subject of the 2011-12 Ray [...]

The Syracuse women’s field hockey team is looking for male or female practice players with field hockey experience to practice a few days per week with the team.

Syracuse University is helping to 'raise the roof' for Habitat for Humanity by asking students, faculty and staff to collect donations needed to complete two veterans' homes under construction on Syracuse's Near West Side. Once completed, the homes—located at 113 and 115 Fitch St.—will be available to local veterans with disabilities and their families. Syracuse [...]

The Division of Student Affairs has announced the four winners of the OrangeReport summer contest: Most Viewed Blog: “Scholarship in Asia,” by Katherine Smith, sophomore advertising major in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Video: “My Summer as a Reporter,” by David Kaplan, senior broadcast and digital journalism major in the Newhouse School. Best [...]

National and regional media cite TRAC research for stories on immigration, health care fraud

The Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT), a joint academic research center at the Syracuse University College of Law and Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, welcomes its first U.S. Army War College Fellow, Col. Geoffrey D. Stevens. An experienced practitioner of national security, Stevens has served as an officer in the U.S. [...]

The boxes are picked up the first Tuesday of each month.

Robert A. Rubinstein, professor of anthropology and international relations in the Maxwell School, is co-author of the paper “Action Anthropology and Pedagogy: University-Community Collaborations in Setting Policy."

The sun may have set on summer but SU students had plenty of stories to share from their vacation on the first day of classes.

Tennity Ice Pavilion on South Campus if offering group skating lessons for SU community members (students, staff, faculty, alumni and dependents) of all skill levels.

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

Loren Chodosh, an entertainment attorney and founding member of Loren Chodosh, P.C., will present a lecture on Thursday, Sept. 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 [...]

Roughly 10,000 guide dogs are in service throughout the United States and Canada.

Most of us remember playing board games as young children. We not only mastered strategy and spatial recognition—if we were lucky, we learned diplomacy, teamwork and how to be a gracious winner and a good loser. Early games date back to 3500 B.C. and new ones are still being developed today. Simple boards and game [...]

Have you gained a few pounds over the summer that you want to take off? We can help!

On Monday, Aug. 29, Syracuse University Career Services unveiled ‘CuseConnect, the new community for connecting SU students and grads with established alumni for career guidance and exploration. This community will reside on LinkedIn.com, the popular professional networking site on which more than 70,000 SU students and alumni currently have profiles. ‘CuseConnect replaces Mentor@SU, a program [...]

Rahul Mehta G’03 will open the Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series with readings from his short story collection, “Quarantine” (Harper Perennial, 2011), at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 14 in Huntington Beard Crouse (HBC) Gifford Auditorium. The reading will be preceded by a question-and-answer session from 3:45-4:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the [...]

Students who are looking for a fresh, new and fun night out over this year’s Labor Day weekend should attend “On the Floor at the Jersey Shore:" SU’s totally hot, yet incredibly cool, Sunday-night dance party at the beach. DVDJ Biggie, Syracuse’s No. 1 dance club video DJ of the LAVA at Turning Stone Casino, [...]

The Central New York Humanities Corridor—an interdisciplinary partnership among Syracuse University, Cornell University and the University of Rochester focused on enhancing scholarship in the humanities—has received a second award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in the amount of $1 million over three years. This renewed support will allow the Corridor to foster new connections [...]

Academic year office hours for Syracuse University will begin on Monday, Aug. 29.

The Department of Recreation Services will conduct the inaugural Syracuse University Apple Festival on Friday, Sept. 16.

Applying lessons from emergency planning and response after Hurricane Katrina, in which the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University was involved, BBI is providing resources for the protection and safety of people with disabilities who live in the path of Hurricane Irene. “BBI’s longstanding work in the area of disaster mitigation for people with [...]

College of Law's Menachem Rosensaft writes in the Jewish Chronicle on experiencing Jerusalem through new eyes

Service, exhibition, service project, panel discussions

Beginning this fall, the scope of services provided by the R.A.P.E. Center has officially expanded to include relationship violence. As a result of this broadening of services, as well as feedback from students, staff and faculty about the R.A.P.E. Center name creating a barrier to accessing services, the center has been renamed The Advocacy Center: [...]

Korea Times quotes Maxwell School's Grant Reeher on communications between the Korean government and public

Members of the Syracuse University and Central New York communities will have an opportunity to view award-winning films from around the world during “Illuminating Oppression: 9th Annual Human Rights Film Festival,” Thursday, Sept. 15, through Saturday, Sept. 17. This three-day festival is part of Syracuse Symposium 2011: Identity, and is presented by the SU Humanities [...]

Following its successful inauguration at last year’s Illuminating Oppression: 8th Annual Human Rights Film Festival, the Digital Witness Symposium returns this year on Friday, Sept. 16, at 10 a.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3. This year’s symposium, funded by the Digital Humanities research cluster of the Central New York Humanities Corridor, focuses [...]

Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications welcomes five new faculty members this fall.

The Syracuse International Film Festival has commissioned composer Phillip Rothman to write a score for the 1920 D.W. Griffith silent film “Way Down East.” Rothman will debut the original composition, scored for eight musicians, with the film screening Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. at the Palace Theatre, 2384 James St., Eastwood. Rothman’s music has been [...]

The opening and reception for Syracuse University Library’s fall exhibition, “Just One Word: Plastics” will be held in the Special Collections Research Center Gallery, sixth floor, Bird Library on Thursday, Sept. 15, from 5-7 p.m. The exhibit will run from Sept. 12-Jan. 20, 2012. For more than a century, plastics have transformed our lives—from bathroom [...]

Maxwell School Dean James Steinberg quoted in National Journal on Obama leadership and events in Libya

Tuesday, Aug. 30; 7 p.m.; 010 Crouse Hinds Hall

“Preparing Students for the Changing Role of Orchestral Musicians in the 21st Century” will be the topic of a conversation led by Daniel Hege and Patrick Jones of the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) on Friday, Sept. 9, at 1 [...]

Syracuse University and Adjuncts United, a labor union affiliated with the New York State United Teachers Union (AU/NYSUT), have reached tentative agreement on a proposed successor collective bargaining agreement covering more than 400 part-time faculty members represented by AU/NYSUT.   The tentative agreement was reached on Aug.18. The parties have been negotiating since late March for [...]

"Identity" is the theme of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium, an annual intellectual and artistic festival on the Syracuse University campus. This fall’s festival encompasses six lectures, including one by best-selling author/philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah; four performances and readings, including the world premiere of a multimedia work by Society for New Music composer Greg Wanamaker and [...]

The Global Universal Design Commission (GUDC), a not-for-profit corporation established to develop Universal Design (UD) standards for buildings, products and services, has announced the appointment of James Schmeling as its interim executive director.

The SYRFILM organization that brings year-round programming to Central New York, in collaboration with Art Rage Gallery, will present “The Man Who Knew How to Fly,” directed by Robi Michael, (USA, fiction, 24 minutes) a selection of the 2011 film festival, and “To Catch a Billionaire,” directed by Tomas Vorel (Czech Republic, fiction, 96 minutes, [...]

New York Times quotes Linchi Kwok of Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics on internet shopping and web reviews

The Risk Management Department has announced that effective Sept. 1, Syracuse University’s Environmental Health Office and Safety Department will merge and operate as one service unit. The new name of the combined department is Environmental Health and Safety Services Office. “The merger of the departments is being done to enhance customer service, efficiencies and effectiveness [...]

This fall/winter, the Warehouse Gallery's exhibitions focus on the medium of painting.

The Syracuse International Film Festival (SIFF) has announced its second annual scriptwriting workshop. It will be hosted by Syracuse University alumnus Rob Edwards, writer of “Treasure Planet” and 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 [...]

The Syracuse University Humanities Center has announced recipients of its 2011-12 HC Dissertation Fellowships. Nell Champoux G’12 and Soumitree Gupta G’12—doctoral students in religion and in women’s and gender studies/English, respectively—are receiving one-year awards, carrying stipends and benefits. The fellowship program supports students working on doctoral dissertations that contain strong humanistic content and advance one [...]