Syracuse University’s Public Diplomacy Program and Association of Public Diplomacy Scholars will present the fourth annual Public Diplomacy Symposium “Building Bridges: The Tools of Public Diplomacy” on Oct. 27 and 28 on the SU campus. The event, which will include four panel discussions, is designed to spark dialogue about the use of public diplomacy tools, [...]

The Office of Engagement Programs at Syracuse University's Hendricks Chapel will help Syracuse families celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday through its annual Thanksgiving Dinner Drive, now through Friday, Nov. 11. Those interested in donating are asked to fill a new, reusable canvas bag with the following suggested items: a $20 grocery store gift certificate (to enable [...]

A new chair, vice chair and three new members have been elected to the National Advisory Board of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA). The board is responsible for ensuring that IA realizes its potential to animate and strengthen the public and civic purposes of higher education.  Bruce Burgett, of the University [...]

National security expert and former NASA administrator Sean O’Keefe G'78 will be the keynote speaker at Syracuse University’s second annual Veterans Day Ceremony on Friday, Nov. 11, at 11 a.m. at Hendricks Chapel. All veterans, past and present, will be honored for their service and dedication. O’Keefe is CEO of EADS North America, a global leader [...]

The Center on Human Policy will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a two-day research and advocacy conference on Nov. 11-12 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, coinciding with Syracuse University’s Orange Central weekend. Alumni, friends, advocates and supporters from around the world are expected to attend this conference, showcasing the groundbreaking research, policy and activism that [...]

Falk College's Rick Burton writes in New York Times on NBA lockout

St. Joseph’s College of Nursing in Syracuse has become the latest college to join the Say Yes to Education Higher Education Compact, by agreeing to offer free college tuition to Syracuse City School District graduates who meet residency and college entry requirements beginning in 2012. St. Joseph’s College of Nursing joins the nearly 100 colleges [...]

The College of Visual and Performing Arts and Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life will present "Urban Revitalization: Transformations through Art and Design” on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 28 and 29.

Syracuse University chemists develop novel way to get cancer drugs to tumors About every three days, Colleen Alexander, a chemistry graduate student, feeds cells that cause a deadly type of brain cancer. It’s a ritual that involves assessing the health of the cells under a microscope, washing away dead cells with a special solution and [...]

Syracuse University Library and the Office of Residence Life in the Division of Student Affairs will host the sixth annual "Bird After Dark" on Friday, Nov. 4, from 9:45 p.m.-1 a.m. in Bird Library. Students interested in participating should register online at http://orl.syr.edu/current-students/bird-after-dark by Thursday, Nov. 3. Participation is free and is funded through the Division [...]

The Syracuse Youth Orchestra (SYO) and Syracuse Youth String Orchestra (SYSO) will present a concert on Sunday, Nov. 6, at 4:30 p.m. in the West Genesee High School auditorium, 5201 W. Genesee St., Camillus. The concert program features Berlioz’s “La damnation de Faust: Rákóczy March” and Brahms’ Symphony No. 2, Op. 73, in D Major. [...]

In a special one-on-one interview event, national security expert and former NASA administrator Sean O’Keefe G’78 will speak with CBS News journalist Jeff Glor ’97 about O’Keefe’s unique experiences in both the public and private sectors.  O’Keefe is CEO of EADS North America, a global leader in aerospace, defense and related services. Glor, a former anchor [...]

James Schmeling, managing director of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University and executive director of the Global Universal Design Commission, will travel to São Paulo, Brazil through Oct. 28 to present on Universal Design (UD) in the civil construction industry. His presentation is part of the International Meeting on Technology [...]

Beginning Nov. 9, students can register for a new spring course, EDU 200, “Rhythm and Roots: Building Cross-Cultural Community through Drumming.” Instructed by renowned music educator Nisha Purushotham, this one-credit course uses African diaspora drumming to create community across difference, increase cultural competency and discuss the role of religion and spirituality in the arts. The [...]

As a part of Open Access Week 2011, the School of Information Studies (iSchool) will host Dorothea Salo.

Hendricks Chapel will host a discussion and workshop on “Exploring Spirituality and Dance” with the Buglisi Dance Theatre on Tuesday, Oct. 25, from 6-8 p.m. in the Hendricks main chapel. Artistic director Jacqulyn Buglisi will explore the intersections of faith and art and the ways in which spirituality inspires her own creative process. Buglisi Dance [...]

PBS NewsHour interviews Maxwell School Dean James Steinberg on recent events in Libya

Aaron Kintu Moses, an educator and leader of the Abayudaya Jewish community of Uganda, will share his work in a multimedia presentation at Syracuse University’s Hendricks Chapel on Tuesday, Nov. 1, at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public, and is generously sponsored in collaboration with Congregation Beth Sholom-Chevra Shas, Episcopal [...]

The Syracuse University Sustainability Division conducted a trash audit during the morning of Oct. 21 at the Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., downtown Syracuse. As a part of SU’s Climate Action Plan and recycling campaign, the Sustainability Division’s trash audit covered all seven floors of the Warehouse in order to identify whether the building’s students, [...]

The Alumni Speaker Series will welcome Mindy Stockfield ’93 to campus on Friday, Oct. 28. Stockfield is the vice president of marketing and digital media for Disney’s Hyperion Books. She will speak about how she has used her advertising degree from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications to transform the way we look at books and will also [...]

The Syracuse Symposium™ and the Society for New Music will present “The Geography of the Imagination,” a performance featuring the world premiere of a commissioned musical work by Gregory Wanamaker and visuals by renowned artist Carrie Mae Weems, on Sunday, Oct. 23, at 4 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The performance, which is free and open [...]

Bob Liodice, president and CEO of the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), will visit the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 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 [...]

The Forensic Science Master’s Program in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences presents the second annual “Murder 201.”

Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences will celebrate and dedicate its new Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute with presentations by some of the
nation’s foremost experts in the field beginning at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 25, in SU’s Life Sciences Complex Auditorium, Room 001.

An information session will be held on Friday, Oct. 28, for the 2012 Spring Break in Silicon Valley trip.

In partnership with the Syracuse City School District (SCSD), Say Yes to Education will open free law clinics in seven locations throughout the SCSD beginning Monday, Oct. 24. This will be the fourth year clinics have been provided in the district through the Say Yes to Education program. The legal clinics have been coordinated by [...]

The Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) has announced that Joshua Dekaney has been named interim director of the Setnor School’s new Center for Live Music in the 21st Century. The Center for Live Music in the 21st Century is a [...]

The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs has chosen Joseph A. Strasser as a recipient of its Horizon Award. The award was presented in a recent ceremony in the Joseph A. Strasser Commons in Eggers Hall. It recognizes Strasser's outstanding career as a public servant as well as his generosity and extraordinary financial commitment to [...]

Event is part of nationwide celebration of Federal Theatre Project The Syracuse University Department of Drama in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will present a staged reading of Sinclair Lewis and John C. Moffitt’s “It Can’t Happen Here” on Monday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m. in the Archbold Theatre, 820 E. Genesee [...]

Urban Video Project will present “Always After (the Glass House)” by internationally recognized multimedia artist Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, through November and December. It will be shown Sunday-Thursday, dusk-11 p.m., outside the Everson Museum of Art. Employing footage shot on a high-speed film camera, “Always After” focuses on the broken glass accumulated after the windows of the [...]

Light Work has announced the exhibition “VisualBooks,” featuring work by Scott McCarney, which will run Nov. 1-Dec. 16. This unique and beautiful exhibition explores the book as a sculptural object that employs a variety of image-making processes. McCarney's carefully hand-bound editions and found-altered books incorporate photographic imagery and utilize the space of the gallery to [...]

Artist manager and attorney Michael Lehman and music producer Scott Billington will give a talk on Thursday, Oct. 20, 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 of [...]

Syracuse Stage has announced plans for its 2011 Open House, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 5. Festivities will include guided backstage tours, free performances of the annual Bank of America Children’s Show “New Kid” (directed by Stage’s Director of Educational Outreach Lauren Unbekant), hourly ticket raffles, a presentation by SU’s Department of Drama and [...]

Syracuse University’s Arts.Engage and the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts have welcomed the world-renowned Buglisi Dance Theatre (BDT) for a 20-day residency at SU, which began Oct. 10, and will last until Oct. 30. During this time, the company will perform two selections, [...]

The Marketing Department and the Kiebach Center for International Business Studies in the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University will host a lecture by Nicholas T. Pinchuk, chairman and CEO of Snap-on Inc., on Thursday, Oct. 20. Pinchuk’s talk, titled “Reshaping a powerful brand in pursuit of international growth," is part of the Martin [...]

Record of past may be locked inside mineral common to both planets The discovery of the mineral jarosite in rocks analyzed by the Mars Rover, Opportunity, on the Martian surface had special meaning for a team of Syracuse University scientists who study the mineral here on Earth. Jarosite can only form in the presence of [...]

Irma P. Finocchiaro G’91, now retired from senior executive service as the deputy chief of staff, G-8 (comptroller) for the U.S. Army Europe headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany, has been named director of defense programs at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. Her appointment is effective Nov. 1. Finocchiaro succeeds retired Col. David B. [...]

On Sunday, Oct. 23, from 7 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., the Manley North lot will be used for the start and finish line for the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund “Race for their Life."

The Syracuse University Sustainability Division will be showing the National Geographic Channel film “Human Footprint,” on Thursday, Oct. 20, at 7 p.m. in Watson Theater in the Menschel Media Center. Admission is free and open to the public. Moviegoers should use the Waverly Avenue side building entrance. This must-see film delivers a straightforward look at [...]

The Syracuse University Humanities Center is helping the YMCA Arts Branch mark the 10th anniversary of its Downtown Writer’s Center with a special event in the DWC’s new facility. The celebration, part of the Humanities Center’s fall exploration of “Identity,” includes readings by award-winning poets Cornelius Eady and Dorianne Laux on Thursday, Oct. 27, at [...]

Shannon A. Bowen, associate professor of public relations in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, was awarded the Jackson Jackson & Wagner Behavioral Science Prize by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Foundation at the PRSA 2011 International Conference. The award recognizes individual behavioral science researchers whose scholarly work enhances the understanding of [...]

New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter will visit the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Tuesday, Oct. 25. He will attend a screening of the documentary “Page One: Inside the New York Times” beginning at 6 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3, followed by a Q-and-A session. Follow on Twitter [...]

The Connective Corridor is emerging as a signature strip of cutting-edge cultural development connecting the University Hill with downtown Syracuse. Robbi Farschman, director of community engagement and economic development at Syracuse University, will explain the Connective Corridor at the Oct. 20 session of the Institute for Retired People (IRP) from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. The program [...]

Verbal Blend, a spoken-word poetry program out of the Office of Multicultural Affairs at Syracuse University, will host its citywide “Take the Mic” poetry slam on Thursday, Oct. 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Schine Student Center Underground. Doors will open at 7:15 p.m. Tickets are free and require an SU/ESF ID or personal ID [...]

The Whitman School of Management’s supply chain management programs were ranked in a recent Gartner study on how leading universities are educating supply chain management professionals to contend with a rapidly changing field. Whitman’s graduate program was ranked sixth in the nation among its peers, the highest ranking Whitman has received to date for any [...]

Craig Schwitter, PE, managing principal of Buro Happold, North America, will lecture at the Syracuse University School of Architecture on Tuesday, Oct. 25, at 5 p.m. in Slocum Hall Auditorium. Buro Happold is one of the top building services engineering firms in the world. Schwitter’s lecture, “Sustaining Innovation in a Built Environment,” will address how [...]

The talent of organist Justin Murphy-Mancini will be featured during this year’s Malmgren Concert Series “Rising Star Recital” at Syracuse University on Sunday, Nov. 6. The recital will begin at 4 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel and is free and open to the public. Parking will be available in the Irving Garage. Murphy-Mancini is an undergraduate [...]

“Bloody Lowndes and the Politics of Black Power” is the topic for the opening event of the Fall 2011 Colloquium Series presented by the Department of African American Studies in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Civil rights scholar Hasan Kwame Jeffries of The Ohio State University is the guest speaker for the event [...]

Parents and family members of Syracuse University students will be energizing the campus this weekend, from Oct. 21-23, for Family Weekend 2011. This year, more than 5,000 people and 1,500 families will be attending, representing more than 36 states, including Hawaii, California and Virginia, as well as Puerto Rico and Canada. “Family Weekend draws in [...]

Would America’s judges better serve the cause of judicial independence if they openly aired their personal views? This question and other issues of judicial impartiality will be explored when the Hon. Joanne F. Alper ’72, circuit court judge of the 17th Judicial Circuit in Virginia, and Charles Gardner Geyh, one of the nation's leading authorities [...]