Michael Cassidy, CEO of Undertone, will visit Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Tuesday, Nov. 15, as a guest of the advertising department’s Eric Mower Advertising Forum. He will speak at 6:30 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3. His talk is free and open to the public. Parking is [...]

With moments like a wild carnival ride, throwing the characters back and forth between perception and reality, playwright David Lindsay-Abaire masters off-beat humor in “Fuddy Meers” with a colorful cast of characters consisting of a lisping, limping man; a pot-smoking teenager; an ex-con turned suburban father; a man who uses a puppet to communicate; a [...]

Witty, warm and occasionally wacky, “Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays” is an evening of new short plays by an A-list lineup of writers with two Pulitzer Prizes, four Obies, one Emmy and three Tony nominations. Be there as they offer their unique takes on the moments before, during and after "I do." These [...]

The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation named Syracuse University junior Ryan Badman a 2011-12 Astronaut Scholar. The $10,000 scholarship is presented to top science and engineering students who exhibit exceptional performance, initiative and creativity in their field, as well as intellectual daring and a genuine desire to positively change the world. Badman, a math and physics major [...]

Rising star guitarists Gohar Vardanyan and Jon Fitzgerald will be featured in a concert presented by the Great Lakes Guitar Society (GLGS) on Friday, Nov. 4, at 7:30 p.m. at XL Projects, 307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse. Tickets for the concert are $10 for the general public, $7 for students and senior citizens and free [...]

The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation named Syracuse University junior Ryan Badman a 2011-12 Astronaut Scholar. The $10,000 scholarship is presented to top science and engineering students who exhibit exceptional performance, initiative and creativity in their field, as well as intellectual daring and a genuine desire to positively change the world. Badman, a math and physics major [...]

The Sustainable Enterprise Partnership (SEP) encourages SU and SUNY-ESF graduate students to plan now to earn an advanced credential in sustainability.

The Scholastic Book Sale is here-your opportunity to get children's books at GREAT LOW PRICES!

The Syracuse University Sport Management (SPM) Club will hold its Seventh Annual Charity Sports Auction on Saturday, Dec. 10, at the Carrier Dome.

Dan Klamm has joined Syracuse University’s Division of Advancement and External Affairs (AEA) as assistant director of digital and social media.

Students explore such traditional techniques as embroidery, dye painting and sewing.

Britton L.T. Plourde, associate professor of physics in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, received a 2011 IBM Faculty Award. The highly competitive and prestigious award is presented annually to recognize high-quality research programs and researchers’ contributions to their respective fields and comes with a cash grant of $34,000. The Faculty Award program fosters [...]

For the sixth consecutive year, the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will co-host 17 international journalists participating in the State Department's Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists. This year's cohort represents 12 Near East countries including: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine Territories, Sudan, [...]

The Syracuse University Regional Holocaust and Genocide Initiative will host a series of events featuring Pierre Sauvage on Sunday and Monday, Nov. 13 and 14. Sauvage survived the Holocaust as a child; his parents are also Holocaust survivors. He is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, and president of the Chambon Foundation, which he founded in [...]

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The Ray Smith Symposium in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences continues its yearlong examination of “Sex and Power from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment” with a mini-residency by a gender and sexuality expert in art and theater. James M. Saslow, professor of Renaissance art and theater at the CUNY Graduate Center, will [...]

The demands and trends of urbanization and sprawl, and the pressures it poses on our environment and resources are tasking communities to develop and implement sustainable solutions today, for the challenges of tomorrow. Fifty years from now, what will people eat? Where will people live? How much energy will they consume? As international leaders and [...]

Student work from Art Workshops for Young People, an offering of the art education dual program in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and School of Education, will be exhibited in “The Big Show” on Saturday, Nov. 12, from 10 a.m.-noon in the Art Education Wing (rooms 043, 044, 045, and 051) [...]

Speech by Cato Institute Chairman Robert Levy on the 12 cases that continue to erode freedom and expand government.

Shape Note Singing Group in Syracuse: Like to sing?

Colleen Arnold '81 M.B.A., senior vice president of application management services at IBM, will deliver the IBM Centennial Lecture on Tuesday, Nov. 1, on the Syracuse University campus. Her address, "Opportunities and Challenges for the Next Generation," will use examples from the company's 100-year history to provoke thought about the opportunities and challenges before the [...]

The Alumni Speaker Series will wrap up the fall semester with a highly anticipated visit from Jason Yaley, A&S ’05 MPA ’06. Yaley works out of the Pentagon as strategy and policy advisor to the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff—the second-highest ranking military officer in the U.S. Armed Forces. He will share [...]

Bloomberg Businessweek quotes Maxwell School's Leonard Burman on flat tax proposal

The Syracuse Peace Council and Syracuse University’s Tully Center for Free Speech will present “Independent Media: Speaking Up for Democracy” with "Democracy Now!" host Amy Goodman on Thursday, Nov. 3, at 7 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The event is free and open to the public. The event is being held in honor of Syracuse Peace [...]

The Syracuse Public Interest Network (SPIN) will host its 19th annual Public Interest Auction on Friday, Nov. 11, at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse. The event begins at 6 p.m. and includes both silent and live auctions for such items as professional sports memorabilia, leisure activities, fine dining and much more. Proceeds from the auction help [...]

Public Enemy founder and rapper Chuck D will speak Wednesday, Nov. 2.

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The Department of Earth Sciences presents the fall 2011 K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series.

Tuesday, Nov. 1, will be the next monthly pick up 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.

NPR personality Moira Gunn hosts a panel to gauge political, media influences on the Earth.

Syracuse University emerges as leader in student entrepreneurship thanks to a thriving club, donations from outside organizations and personal drive.

The Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series continues on Nov. 9 with poet Jennifer Grotz, a faculty member at the University of Rochester. Grotz will read from her latest work, “The Needle” (Houghton Mifflin, 2011), which explores both Polish and American 20th-century poetry and its traditions. The reading will begin at 5:30 p.m. in HBC [...]

After weeks of cable problems in the New York City Lubin House area, phone service has been restored.

The gallery at 601 Tully, a center for engaged artistic practice located on the Near West Side of Syracuse, announces its inaugural multimedia exhibition, “The Butterfly Effect.” The show will run from Oct. 29-Dec. 9 at the gallery at 601 Tully St. The building’s hours are Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., or by appointment. The gallery [...]

National and regional media report on Whitman School Dean Stith's appointment to the PhD Project Hall of Fame

Alumna mentors Renée Crown Honors student for her Capstone Project When noted jewelry historian Mary Gilbert Palmer ’65 learned that Laura Marsolek, a junior art history and metalsmithing major, was planning an honors capstone project on Renaissance jewelry, Palmer agreed to lend her expertise. “The College of Arts and Sciences came up with a way for [...]

Anthropology Associate Research Professor Felicia McMahon participated in the "I Am Unspoken" forum, giving voice to human rights violations.

This winter, the Warehouse Gallery will highlight ink brush paintings by Tianjin-based Chinese artist Deng Guo Yuan.

The Window Projects at the Warehouse Gallery features an installation by Elisabeth Meyer consisting of organic forms embroidered onto an organza fabric.

Artists Deng Guo Yuan and Elisabeth Meyer will be present.

Jim De Piante, IBM project manager on the Watson supercomputer project, will speak about the development of Watson and the Jeopardy! gameshow challenge on Nov. 3.

The School of Education will host a graduate programs fair on Friday, Nov. 4, 5-7 p.m. in 304 Schine.

Jeffrey Harris, Dean’s Professor of Finance in the Whitman School of Management, will deliver a lecture, “Finance in a Dodd-Frank World,” on Wednesday, Nov. 2. Harris recently served as chief economist at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The lecture will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Lender Auditorium of the Whitman School building, 721 [...]

Research by Arts and Sciences' Suzanne Baldwin and Joseph Kula on jarosite and water on Mars featured in science media

Melvin T. Stith G’73 ,’77, dean of the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, is an inaugural inductee into the newly established PhD Project Hall of Fame. The PhD Project is an award-winning program that aims to increase diversity in management. Hall of Fame inaugural inductees will be honored at the organization's annual conference [...]

The security certificates for the AirOrangeX wireless network expire soon, and will be turned off on Oct. 31.

Invisible Children, a media-based nonprofit dedicated to ending Africa’s longest-running war, will screen its latest documentary, ‘Tony,’ on Thursday, Nov. 3, at 6:30 p.m. in Watson Theater. Following the 50-minute documentary, Grace, a native of Uganda and an ambassador for Invisible Children, will talk about her life growing up in that war-torn region of Africa, [...]

An engaging, two-day symposium, Building Bridges: The Tools of Public Diplomacy, is set to take place Oct. 27 and 28.

Four distinguished Syracuse University alumni representing excellence in the areas of law, sustainability innovation, social and environmental activism, and public service will be honored with George Arents Awards during the University’s 2011 Orange Central celebration. At the Arents Award luncheon on Saturday, Nov. 12, at 12:30 p.m. in Goldstein Auditorium of the Hildegarde and J. [...]

Author and journalist Robert Levine, who most recently served as executive editor of the influential music business trade magazine Billboard, will present a lecture on Thursday, Oct. 27, 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 [...]