The Green Days schedule promotes sustainability and energy conservation by reducing University-wide energy use and employee commuting.

Wall Street Journal quotes Whitman School's Mike Haynie on training programs for veterans to pursue traditional sources of capital

An original song, "Migrant Road," performed by Syracuse University staff members David Robertson and Janet Fletcher, will be included on the new compact disc titled PeaceSongsCNY, honoring the 75th anniversary of the Syracuse Peace Council.

National SBA advocacy representative to host roundtable for local women entrepreneurs In an effort to collect information about women entrepreneurs in the Central New York region, Teri Coaxum of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Advocacy will host an open roundtable discussion on Friday, Dec. 16, from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at the WISE [...]

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

The H. H. Franklin Center for Supply Chain Management at the Whitman School of Management added three new members to its 20-person advisory board and selected new officers during its fall meeting. Jason H. Seidl ’93, director of equity research at Dalman Rose & Co., will serve as president of the board. Nancy Jenkins-Kennedy ’77, [...]

A celebration of the 50th anniversary of Syracuse University alumnus Ernie Davis ’62 becoming the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy will be held Friday, Dec. 9, in New York City. Syracuse University will honor Davis for his impact on and off the field with a program featuring historic sports figures. The event [...]

Gold nanoparticle cancer research by Arts and Sciences faculty members and doctoral student is profiled in Post-Standard

Wendy Finerman, the award-winning independent film and television producer whose credits include “Forrest Gump” and “The Devil Wears Prada,” will present a lecture via videoconference on Thursday, Dec. 8, 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 [...]

$1.25 million federal Department of Education grant will support initiative Last year, more than 700,000 preschoolers were eligible for services under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA); 46 percent of those children were identified with speech or language impairments, according to U.S. Department of Education statistics. Because of a national shortage in speech-language [...]

The University invites all students, faculty, staff, alumni and others to offer suggestions for the 2013 Commencement speaker. Suggestions can be made online at http://suspeaker.syr.edu. The suggestion site will remain open until mid-March. The Syracuse University Commencement speaker is chosen through an annual selection process that gives students, staff, faculty, alumni and others in the [...]

Syracuse University students who participate in the Student Leadership Institute (SLI) are planning and hosting the first annual SU Student Leadership Conference on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012. It will take place from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel & Conference Center and other venues across campus. The purpose of this new conference is to introduce SU [...]

Call for presentations open through Jan. 20 Syracuse University’s Sustainability Division invites students, faculty and staff to share their experiences on "Climate, Community and Culture”—the theme of this spring’s eighth annual Northeast Campus Sustainability Consortium (NECSC) Conference being hosted by SU. Geared toward sustainability professionals in higher education, the NECSC Conference will be held April 2-4, [...]

Jeongmin Ahn, assistant professor in the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, has published a review of Power Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (Power MEMS) in the high-impact combustion society journal Progress in Energy and Combustion Science (PECS). PECS invited Ahn to write the article based on [...]

Syracuse University will hold its 27th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, in the Carrier Dome. This year’s theme is “A Living Legacy: The Fierce Urgency of Now.” Dave Bing ’66, H’06, mayor of Detroit, will be the keynote speaker. "It is an honor to celebrate the life and contributions [...]

Syracuse University’s Stacey Keefe and Raymond Toenniessen were recognized with “40 Under Forty” awards at a Nov. 30 event at the Nicholas J. Pirro Convention Center in Syracuse. The awards acknowledge the region’s top professionals under the age of 40 for their accomplishments and community involvement. SU’s Whitman School of Management serves as presenting sponsor [...]

Creative writing by Somali Bantu refugee students will be revealed on one of the Connective Corridor buses Monday, Dec. 5, as part of the Corridor’s new In Motion program. The Somali Bantu teenagers responsible for the prose will be surprised to see their work in public for the first time. The group will also be [...]

Work to premiere at SU in April Michael Rickelton, a Ph.D. candidate at the Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University, has won the second Gregg Smith National Choral Competition Contest in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA). The award, [...]

Apprenticeship for select group of college students to begin spring 2012 The Tepper Semester program in the Department of Drama at Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and the Casting Society of America (CSA) announce a new premier training program partnership and apprenticeship. SU is the only institution of higher education to [...]

Marshall Street Records, Syracuse University's on-campus record label, has compiled tracks from some of the top up-and-coming producers on campus.

The Syracuse University U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Students group will hold a general interest meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 7, at 7 p.m. in 103 Link Hall.

Monday, Dec, 12–Wednesday, Dec. 14 11 a.m.–5 p.m.

Give the gift of arts of culture this holiday season, or enjoy your own inexpensive night at the theater. While tickets last, the Pulse Performing Arts Series is offering discounted tickets as part of a holiday promotion for SU students, faculty and staff to shows by Syracuse Opera, Syracuse Stage and Syracuse University’s Department of [...]

The Division of Student Affairs has announced the appointment of Carrie Grogan Abbott as the director of the Office of First-Year and Transfer Programs (FYTP). Abbott joined the office on Nov. 16. “Given Carrie’s strong collaboration skills, rich experiences in student affairs and study abroad, and her sound understanding of student-development theory, Carrie has much [...]

The New York City debut of “300 Miles to Freedom,” a documentary film celebrating the life of fugitive slave John W. Jones, will take place at the historic First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem (1912 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd.) on Thursday, Dec. 15. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. The event will begin at 7 [...]

“Fishing from the Beach,” the 2011 master of fine arts (M.F.A.) thesis show of Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), has opened on the West Coast at the Arcade Gallery of the San Pedro Arts & Academic Alliance, 479 W. 6th St., San Pedro, Calif. The show, which runs through Saturday, Jan. [...]

A memorial service for John M. Kotlarz will be held Friday, Dec. 9, at 4 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. A reception will follow in the Noble Room. Kotlarz, a resident of Cicero and senior experimental machinist in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (LCS) for more than 30 years, died Oct. 8. [...]

Entries for the $5,000 Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting 2011 are now being accepted by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Deadline for entries is Jan. 14, 2012. Entries should be submitted online at http://tonerprogram.syr.edu. The Toner Prize recognizes outstanding political reporting in a tribute to the late Robin [...]

The Residence Hall Association (RHA) within the Division of Student Affairs’ Office of Residence Life (ORL) is partnering with the Boys and Girls Club of Syracuse for the annual Orange Angels program. Orange Angels sponsors children from the Syracuse area with gifts for the holidays. Diana Angst ’14, an economics major and the director of [...]

The SYRFILM organization that brings year-round programming to Central New York in collaboration with AmeriCU Credit Union will present a five-part series showcasing classic cult films in 35mm. The series continues on Wednesday, Dec. 14, with a “Star Trek” 35mm double-feature with “Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock” at 7 p.m., and “Star Trek [...]

The Newhouse School and Bird Library will hold events today, Dec. 2, to raise money for the United Way of Central New York.

The Maxwell Learning Community is hosting a Toys for Tots Drive on campus this week (12/5-12/9).

The appearance of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere probably did not occur as a single event, but as a long series of starts and stops, according to an international team of researchers who investigated rock cores from the northwest region of Russia. Their findings were published in the Dec. 1 issue of Science Express. Christopher [...]

The Syracuse University Wind Ensemble will present a concert Thursday, Dec. 8, 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 Irving Garage; patrons should mention that they are attending the concert. The wind ensemble performs [...]

On Wednesday, Dec. 7, the College Republicans will be welcoming Andrea Tantaros to Syracuse University.

The Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School will be the home of the new Qualitative Data Repository, which is to be established with a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of $600,000. Associate Professor of Political Science Colin Elman is principal investigator on the grant (his second NSF award in 2011). The Qualitative [...]

Tuesday, Dec. 6, 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.