“Koppel-Langella: One on One,’’ the conversation between Tony Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor Frank Langella ’59 and former “Nightline” anchor Ted Koppel ’60, H’82, is set to air at 9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, on WCNY channels 24.1 and 24.4 (HD).  “One on One’’ highlights Koppel’s memorable interview with stage and film actor Langella before [...]

Here’s how Marc Blitzstein described his 1937 musical: “a labor opera composed in a style that falls somewhere between realism, romance, vaudeville, comic strip, Gilbert & Sullivan, Brecht and agitprop [agitation and propaganda].” In other words, it has great laughs, terrific songs and plenty of bite. Unabashedly unionist in outlook, “The Cradle Will Rock” was [...]

The SyracuseCoE was designed to exemplify the highest level of LEED standards.

Sarah Schulman, acclaimed writer, activist and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island, will present a free public lecture, titled “Solidarity Visit: Israel/Palestine and the Queer International” on Monday, Oct. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in Gifford Auditorium, in Huntington Beard Crouse Hall. Presented as part of Syracuse [...]

NPR quotes Maxwell School's Len Burman on the federal tax rate for capital gains and dividends

Syracuse University School of Architecture presents the lecture “Project or Practice?” by internationally renowned architect, distinguished author and teacher Peter Eisenman on Friday, Sept. 30, at 5 p.m. The event is free and open to the public and will take place in Grant Auditorium at the Syracuse College of Law. A reception will follow at [...]

Eric Lott, social historian and professor at the University of Virginia, will deliver the Stephen Crane Annual Lecture on Friday, Oct. 7, at 3 p.m., in 500 Hall of Languages. Among his writings, Lott is the author of the critically acclaimed “Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class” (Oxford University Press, 1993). [...]

The Whitman School of Management welcomes four new faculty members this fall: Jeffrey Harris (finance), D. Craig Nichols (accounting), Alexandra Kostakis ’91 (entrepreneurial practice) and Peter Scott (entrepreneurial practice). “We are delighted to welcome Jeff, Craig, Alex and Peter to the Whitman family,” says Whitman Dean Melvin T. Stith. “Their vast knowledge and expertise in their [...]

Amber Harris of Syracuse has joined the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University as a career development coordinator. She will be working in the Whitman Career Center to create and implement career education programs for undergraduate and master’s students, as well as offering career counseling. Harris most recently served as an admissions counselor at [...]

Whitman School's Mike Haynie quoted in Star Tribune on the unemployment rate for veterans in Minnesota

Newhouse School's Roy Gutterman writes in Huffington Post about speech on state university campuses

Bob Isherwood, former worldwide creative director with the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, will visit Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Monday, Oct. 3, as a guest of the advertising department’s Eric Mower Advertising Forum. He will speak on “Creativity: Where the Big Ideas Come From” at 6:30 p.m. in the Joyce [...]

La Casita is the only Latino/a cultural center in the region.

AltruHelp, a social media platform, toolbox and online community to support volunteering and corporate social responsibility, has announced a collaboration with the Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service (CPCS) and the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. The partnership will provide students with an opportunity to experience the real [...]

The Division of Student Affairs has appointed Diane R. Wiener as the first director of SU’s new Disability Cultural Center. Wiener will begin on Oct. 17. “Dr. Wiener is to fill an important role at Syracuse University,” says Thomas V. Wolfe, senior vice president and dean of student affairs. “With the assistance of our partners [...]

The Syracuse Women’s Commission is collecting health and beauty goods that will be given to Catholic Charities for the refugee resettlement program.

To strengthen and multiply opportunities for Syracuse University faculty members to bring results of their research to market as innovative products and services, SU has reorganized several key support mechanisms under the leadership of Mary Ann Tyszko, who will head the newly created Office of Strategic Business Development and Innovation. Integrating the current functions of [...]

Kimi Takesue, assistant professor of film in the College of Visual and Performing Arts' Department of Transmedia, had her ITVS/PBS-commissioned narrative film "That Which Once Was" receive the Futurestates Audience Award.

School of Information Studies (iSchool) faculty members Lee McKnight and Anthony Rotolo received awards at last night’s Celebration of Technology Banquet held by the Technology Alliance of Central New York (TACNY).

The creative writing M.F.A. program in the Department of English in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences was recently named one of the top programs in the nation by Poets & Writers magazine. The program was tied for fifth place with Cornell University. SU’s program was ranked seventh last year. “This ranking confirms something [...]

Syracuse Symposium continues its exploration of the theme of “Identity” with a multimedia presentation by the husband-and-wife team of Christoph Keller and Jan Heller Levi. The program, “Corresponding Perspectives: Poetry, Prose and Photography,” is Wednesday, Sept. 28, at 7:30 p.m. in Gifford Auditorium. It is free and open to the public. Syracuse Symposium is an [...]

Ulrika Davidsson, a versatile musician and assistant professor of historical keyboards at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, will present a harpsichord recital on Wednesday, Oct. 5, at 8 p.m. in the Rose and Jules R. Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College. The concert is free and open to the public. Free parking is available in [...]

The relationship between American music and Spanish poetry will be explored at a major conference at Syracuse University and Le Moyne College. The program, “Jazz and Blues Rhythms: The Influence of Contemporary North American Music on 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish Poetry,” runs Sept. 27-29 on both campuses. It is free and open to the public. [...]

A new student group, "The Undergraduate Disability Initiative" (UDI), will work closely with both the Disability Cultural Center and the Beyond Compliance Coordinating Committee (BCCC), the SU graduate student disability advocacy group.

Please join the School of Information Studies for our first ever tweetup in the iLounge in Hinds Hall.

The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs has announced that it has received a major gift from Robert B. Menschel to establish the Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics at the school, in recognition of Volcker's exceptional accomplishments and service to the nation. "We are deeply grateful to Mr. Menschel for this generous endowment, [...]

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University announces the appointment of four staff members who will direct operations and development, education programs, employment training and communications. Ray Toenniessen of Syracuse has been named director of operations and development. Additionally, he serves as national managing director of the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans [...]

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University, an academic center committed to leveraging the national resources of higher education in service to our country’s veteran and military family communities, has announced its inaugural cadre of institute fellows. The IVMF Fellows program was created to harness and focus the disciplinary expertise of [...]

On Sept. 22 and 23, the Syracuse Center of Excellence (SyracuseCoE) will host its 11th annual Symposium on Environmental and Energy Systems at the Oncenter Complex in downtown Syracuse. This year’s event, “Unleashing the Clean Economy: Regional Innovations for Sustainable Communities,” will feature more than 60 speakers and presenters who will focus on topics within SyracuseCoE’s focus [...]

Syracuse University has been named by G.I. Jobs magazine as a Military Friendly School for 2012. According to the magazine, the honor ranks the University in the top 20 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools nationwide that are doing the most to embrace America’s service members and veterans as students. SU was among the [...]

CitrusTV, Syracuse University's entirely student-run television studio, will be holding its general interest meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 21, at 8 pm.

Grant Reeher, professor of political science and director of the Campbell Institute, is co-editor of the second edition of "The Trusted Leader: Building the Relationships That Make Government Work" and also co-wrote one of the chapters. The book examines the importance of values-based leadership; chapters focus on the concrete ways in which leaders build effective [...]

Neighborhood children from the Near Westside will share ideas about what they’d like to see in a new playground to be built in Skiddy Park next month. The children, ages 7-12, are members of after-school programs in Peace Incorporated and Imagine Syracuse. The group will meet with Karen Armstrong, architect for the playground, and Glen [...]

James Yee, a graduate of West Point Military Academy, and former U.S. Army Muslim Chaplain at Guantanamo Bay, will speak about his experience at Guantanamo and his struggle for justice during his imprisonment in 2003

Shinge Roko Sherry Chayat Roshi, author of “Life Lessons: the Art of Jerome Witkin” (Syracuse University Press, 1994), will give two talks in conjunction with the exhibition “Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin” at XL Projects, 307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse. The talks will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 5, at 7 p.m. [...]

University Union Performing Arts and the Panhellenic Council will host a night of stand-up comedy with comedian Demetri Martin on Wednesday, Oct. 12. Martin will be performing in the Goldstein Auditorium in the Schine Student Center at 8 p.m., with doors opening at 7:30 p.m. Martin, best known for his stand-up comedy specials on Comedy [...]

Hill Communications, a student-run public relations firm based in Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, is offering a new service called SPRINT, designed to support budding entrepreneurs. SPRINT—which stands for Start, Prioritize, Research, Identify, Navigate and Transmit—is an exclusive consulting service for student businesses and organizations. Hill Communications created the service after being [...]

The Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University has published the first issue of its new annual magazine, Snapshots of Impact. The inaugural 30-page issue features a series of inspirational stories about people with diverse disabilities who have been positively impacted by BBI’s innovative programs and partnerships, a Q-and-A highlighting BBI’s role in the Entrepreneurship [...]

Starting this semester, the Department of English in The College of Arts and Sciences is adding two new tracks that students can pursue within the English and textual studies (ETS) major: film and screen studies and creative writing. The tracks are intended to respond to the growing number of students drawn to the ETS major primarily [...]

Ed London ’49, a member of the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) Advisory Council and retired managing partner of Gelfand, Rennert and Feldman in New York City, will speak on Thursday, Sept. 22, at 6:45 p.m. in the Lender Auditorium, located on the concourse level of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. [...]

Beginning in the fall semester, a national search will begin for a new director of Imagining America.

The Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University will host the second annual Retail Summit on Sept. 22-23, to educate students about the field and provide opportunities for them to hear from high-profile members of the Retail Advisory Board, all important leaders in the industry. The summit was created as a means to educate and [...]

Come take a free Zumba class with the ladies of NANBPWC, inc. Beta Psi Club Chapter.

'Celebrating the Past and Shaping the Future' is this year's theme.

Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Commissioner John D. Swofford today confirmed that the ACC has invited Syracuse University to join the conference and that the ACC presidents have voted to officially accept Syracuse as a conference member. Syracuse University Chancellor and President Nancy Cantor said today that the University’s Board of Trustees has voted unanimously to [...]

On Tuesday, Sept. 20, at 5 p.m., “Furnished,” an exhibition of furniture and objects designed by Syracuse Architecture faculty, will open with a reception to be held in Slocum Hall Gallery. The exhibition will continue through Oct. 11. It is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and is free and open to the [...]

The 2009-2011 Shaw Center Impact Report is now available online.

Count the Syracuse area among hundreds of sites worldwide that will call for–with one symbolic voice all on the same day–the planet to move beyond fossil fuels. That upcoming day is Saturday, Sept 24. The “392 and Rising—Getting to 350 Rally” will be held from 10–11 a.m. on the Quad at the SUNY College of Environmental [...]

The Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series will continue with award-winning fiction writer Dana Spiotta, assistant professor of creative writing in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 28 in Gifford Auditorium in H.B. Crouse Hall on the SU campus. The reading will be preceded by a question and answer session [...]

Barbara Croll Fought, associate professor of broadcast and digital journalism in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, has launched Ready Reporter, a blog and Twitter feed. Featuring tips for reporters, Ready Reporter comprises two to three Twitter posts a week at @ReadyReporter, linked to a blog with more in-depth information at http://readyreporter.syr.edu. “Reporters are [...]