London. The war is on and the bombs are falling. Four children—Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy—flee the perils of the Blitz to the safety of the countryside. In an old wardrobe, they discover a portal to the land of Narnia, where a fearsome White Witch holds the inhabitants spellbound in a winter lasting 100 years. [...]

WE ARE BACK! Third floor of Sims Hall.

The annual period for Syracuse University employees to enroll for benefits or update their current choices—known as Open Enrollment—ends Friday. Thursday and Friday are the final days for faculty, staff, graduate assistants and fellows, and part-time instructors eligible for benefits, to elect or change their coverage, unless they undergo a qualifying life event during the [...]

Candidates for several SA positions discuss their positions on community service, personal leadership skills and the university's national rankings at this year's debate.

Journalist Bob Herbert advocated for building up the country's infrastructure, both literal and figurative, in Tuesday's University Lecture.

The Whitman School of Management will host the 2011 International Week Tuesday, Nov. 29-Friday, Dec. 2. This annual four-day-long multicultural event brings together the Syracuse University community in celebration of the cultural diversity present in the student body at the Whitman School. Whitman International Week is sponsored by the Kiebach Center for International Business and [...]

The Judaic Studies Program in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences and the Jewish Federation of Central New York continue their “Great Jewish Writers” lecture series with a special program on Grace Paley. Harvey Teres, professor of English and director of the Judaic Studies Program at SU, will discuss Paley's life and legacy on [...]

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The Department of Recreation Services Thanksgiving Week facility schedule is available at http://recreationservices.syr.edu/.

Michel Martin, host of the NPR talk show “Tell Me More,” will visit Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Wednesday, Nov. 30, as part of the Leaders in Communications speaker series. She will speak on “Just Because You’re a Black Woman Doesn’t Mean You’re Not The Man: My Adventures in Diversity” at [...]

Syracuse University shuttle service will operate on an abbreviated schedule beginning Monday, Nov. 21.

The Center for Live Music in the 21st Century in Syracuse University’s Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music will host a public conversation on programming for the Syracuse Philharmonic on Tuesday, Nov. 29, from 7-8:30 p.m. at the Fayetteville Free Library, 300 Orchard St., Fayetteville. The public is invited to attend [...]

The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (The King Center) and Syracuse University announce The King Center Audio and Visual Digitization Project, a collaboration that will ensure that the slain civil rights leader’s legacy will be preserved for generations to come. Working with the Atlanta-based King Center, SU will preserve and digitize some [...]

The Syracuse University Brass Ensemble (SUBE), a 35-piece group housed in The College of Arts and Sciences, continues its 2011-12 season with three holiday concerts. Performances are Sunday, Nov. 27, at 7 p.m. at Saints Peter and John Episcopal Church (169 Genesee St., Auburn); Sunday, Dec. 4, at 7:30 p.m. in SU’s Hendricks Chapel, with [...]

On Thursday, Nov. 17, from 1:30-2:30 p.m., La Casita will host "Seymourofus Cross-generational Conversation," a community discussion led by Seymour School third-graders on issues of cultural memory, spaces of belonging and active participation in Syracuse. And from 2:30-4 p.m., community conversation will take place about places of belonging and the future for young people. This [...]

In March 2012, the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program will launch a new consortium of undergraduate institutions, the Aspen Undergraduate Business Consortium, designed to further the aim of better integrating liberal learning into undergraduate business education. The Whitman School of Management has been recognized as a leader in promoting this essential learning for business [...]

Newhouse School's William Ward quoted by Associated Press on NASA and Twitter

Poinsettia and wreath sale proceeds support three scholarship funds.

The final two installments of the Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series will feature memoirist and poet Peter Balakian, who will read from his latest work, “Ziggurat,” on Nov. 30; and award-winning poet Christopher Kennedy, who will share his work on Dec. 7. Both readings will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Gifford Auditorium on the [...]

Tom Sherman, professor of art video in the Department of Transmedia in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, presented his recent video art at the ADJA Gallery in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. He also presented his video and lecture at the McLuhan100 Conference in Toronto on Nov. 10. His presentation was “Technology as language: Cultural engineering begets personal humans.”

Andrew Waggoner, professor of composition in the Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, just had his new CD, "Terror and Memory" released on Albany Records.

Amardo Rodriguez, professor of communication and rhetorical studies in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, co-authored the new book "Liminal Traces: Performing, Storying, and Embodying Postcoloniality" (Sense Publishers, 2011).

Patricia Gregory, registered nurse and longtime puppy trainer, will share the intricacies of the Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind and America’s VetDogs at this week’s Institute for Retired People. She will be introducing the audience to Luke, her 1-year-old puppy in training, at the Nov. 17 session of Institute for Retired People (IRP) from [...]

In support of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, Howard D. Olinsky, L’85, a disability law attorney representing clients across the country, has announced a commitment of $100,000 to BBI, one of the institute’s most generous private donations. “This fantastic gift will help ensure that BBI builds the next generation of young leaders [...]

The exhibition will Dec. 2-Jan. 19.

'One-on-One with Sean O'Keefe and Jeff Glor' and 'Pioneering Innovation for Sustainability' now available for viewing The archived webcasts for two Orange Central Showcase events are now available at http://ocevents.syr.edu. The two events that were streamed live and are now online are "One-on-One with Sean O'Keefe and Jeff Glor: Service, Strategy and Space," and "Pioneering [...]

CNN features collaboration between SU and Fort Drum soldiers, created by Maxwell School's William Smullen

Originally created as a class project, the Peace Tee was born in April 2010, when Whitman School of Management minor and College of Visual and Performing Arts major James Barrett, a student/artist, designed the now-iconic image of a peace sign for a class project at Syracuse University. After receiving compliments and orders from classmates and [...]

Freelance author Mark H. Massé will speak at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Thursday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m. in the Halmi Screening Room, 141 Newhouse 3. Follow on Twitter at #Masse. Massé is a professor and director of graduate studies and the writing center at Ball State University’s Department of [...]

In concert with National Military Family Month, the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans’ Families (EBV-F) has welcomed 17 participants to the second annual program on the Syracuse University campus. The program began Sunday, Nov. 13, and runs through Sunday, Nov. 20. The EBV-F provides a vocational and economic path forward for military family members who now [...]

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The eighth annual Haudenosaunee Conference will bring together scholars and legal experts Nov. 18-19 in the Goldstein Student Center on Syracuse University's South Campus to examine the legal dilemma now faced by Indian nations—what options are now available to Indian nations to reclaim their Indigenous territories illegally taken by states and federal governments. “Land, Laches [...]

The Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (IQMR) is beginning its 11th year—and its fourth at the Maxwell School—with a new grant of $150,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Associate Professor of Political Science Colin Elman is principal investigator on the new NSF grant, the fifth in the institute's history. Elman co-founded and co-directs [...]

The Livestock-Climate Change Collaborative Research Support Program (LCC CRSP) has awarded more than $1.3 million to Syracuse University and South Dakota State University for scientific research projects to improve the lives of livestock producers and increase the resilience of livestock production systems in West Africa. Led by associate professor of public administration and international affairs [...]

The football game this evening is scheduled to take place as planned, and travel advisories are provided.

The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will host alumna Thaler Pekar ’85, an expert in the field of organizational narrative, on Monday, Nov. 14. She will speak on “Why Story Matters” at 7 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3. Her talk is free and open to the public. Parking is available in [...]

The Center for Policy Research at the Maxwell School will host a blood drive on Wednesday, Nov. 16.

The Advocacy Center within the Division of Student Affairs kicked off its marketing campaign this week to promote its new name and the various services it offers. Signs have been posted in the grass between the Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, and will remain there [...]

School of Information Studies (iSchool) Professor Milton Mueller’s paper "ICANN Inc.: Accountability and Participation in the Governance of Critical Internet Resources" has received the Best Paper award from the Korean Journal of Policy Studies (KJPS).

Whitman School's EBV, job creation and business training are highlighted in national and regional media

Paul Steinbeck, an assistant professor of musicology in the Department of African American Studies in The College of Arts and Sciences, will present a concert of jazz, blues and gospel music Thursday, Nov. 17, from 6:30-8 p.m. at the Community Folk Art Center, 805 E. Genesee St. He will be joined by special guests Myles [...]

The newly designed website for Syracuse University Project Advance (SUPA), a partnership between the Syracuse University (SU) and high schools that offers SU courses to high school seniors, has won gold at the 2011 MarCom Awards in the category of “educational institution.” SUPA Associate Director Sari Signorelli and software engineer Avinash Kadaji spearheaded the design [...]

Holley Burfoot-Rochford has been appointed director of Syracuse University’s Early Education and Child Care Center on South Campus. Former director Joan Supiro retired at the end of September, after 32 years of service. Burfoot-Rochford comes to SU from the Children’s Center at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., where she was the founding assistant director. It [...]

  The La Casita Cultural Center is at the Lincoln Building, 109 Otisco St., in downtown Syracuse. La Casita, the only Latino/a cultural center in the region, is administered by The College of Arts and Sciences for the campus community. On Thursday, Nov. 10 from 5-7 p.m. La Casita will host an inter-city panel on [...]

The Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel is hosting an Opening Night for Sitrus on the Hill, the new beverage outlet of the hotel on Wednesday, Nov. 16.

An expansion project on the picturesque Orange Grove on the south side of the Kenneth A. Shaw Quad is now complete.

Two undergraduate design programs in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) have been ranked among the top 10 in the nation in the 2012 DesignIntelligence report "America's Best Architecture & Design Schools." DesignIntelligence is the Design Futures Council's bimonthly report on the future. VPA's industrial and interaction design program was ranked No. [...]

The Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University will co-host a conference on "Genetic Discrimination – Transatlantic Perspectives on the Case for a European-Level Legal Response." Sponsored in partnership with the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at the National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway, this one-day event will take place Nov. 19 in Galway, [...]

Just about two years ago, three vacant infill sites on Syracuse's Near Westside remarkably represented a new vision for one of the city's oldest neighborhoods. These once-forgotten residential lots would become the sites for three new sustainable homes as part of the "From the Ground Up: Innovative Green Homes" international design competition, sponsored by the [...]