China Daily and Forbes cite report by Jason Dedrick of the iSchool on global value chains

Six Syracuse University drama students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) Department of Drama and the Bill Horrace Trio are presenting a series of vocal jazz performances during the spring 2012 semester at Phoebe’s Restaurant, 900 E. Genesee St., and Syracuse Stage, 820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse. The students—senior Elizabeth Boyke, junior [...]

For graduating seniors, the final semester of college can be a stressful time. The Office of Career Services within the Division of Student Affairs has put together three “Senior Sessions” to further prepare students for life after college as it relates to job searches. The one-hour sessions are open to all majors and years, but [...]

Syracuse University’s annual Black History Month celebration, sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs within the Division of Student Affairs, begins on campus Wednesday, Feb. 1, in the atrium of the Schine Student Center from noon-2 p.m. This kick-off event will feature a soul food lunch provided by the Office of Multicultural Affairs and Schine [...]

Maxwell Dean James Steinberg interviewed on CBC Radio about global crisis risks

The research study "What Do You See When You Read?" is seeking native English-speaking Syracuse University or SUNY ESF undergraduates, aged 18-25, with diagnosed reading disabilities for participation.

Syracuse University's South Asia Center announces its FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Fellowship Competition for Academic Year 2012-13.

Syracuse University's South Asia Center announces its FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Fellowship Competition for Summer 2012.

Visit the Schine Student Center Atrium 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 8, for Study Abroad Day.

La Casita Cultural Center, 109 Otisco St., will host a "Conversation with the Artist," a discussion between artist Efren Lopez, whose work is on exhibit at La Casita, and Simon Perez, assistant professor broadcast and digital journalism in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

The Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts has upgraded its streaming capability for live concerts in the Rose and Jules R. Setnor Auditorium to offer compatibility with many portable devices, including iPhones and iPads. Most Setnor Auditorium performances are streamed live. To access [...]

Career Services and the Office of Alumni Relations are bringing fashion photographer Lindsay Adler ’08 back to campus on Tuesday, Feb. 7, as part of the Alumni Speaker Series. Adler will give a presentation about her career at 7:30 p.m. in Watson Theater, located in the Robert B. Menschel Media Center. The event is free [...]

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University has announced the appointment of Shannon P. Meehan as media relations and communications specialist and the transition of current team member Katherine Frontino to the newly created role of admissions coordinator. Their appointments allow the institute to better serve stakeholders in the veteran and [...]

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is offering an exciting challenge to the Syracuse University community during the Can It! Rivals on the Court: Teammates in the Fight Against Hunger food donation drive on campus in early February. PwC will donate $1 to the Food Bank of Central New York for each can collected at the Better Together table [...]

The fifth annual Law, Politics and the Media Lecture Series presented by the Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media at Syracuse University will run from Feb. 8 to April 18, with eight scheduled lectures designed to engage the dialogue about the court system and its environment as a single, integrated [...]

Toronto Star quotes Newhouse School's Robert Thompson on Costa Concordia cruise disaster satire

Opening at the SUArt Galleries on Feb. 2, the exhibition “Pressing Print: Universal Limited Art Editions 2000-2010” chronicles the recent decade of artwork published by the renowned American printmaking workshop Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE). The exhibition assembles new print works created by the 20th century masters of American Art (Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and [...]

The School of Education’s Regional Holocaust and Genocide Initiative will host a workshop titled “Teaching about Genocide with a Focus on Africa" at Syracuse University's Winnick Hillel Center on Feb. 13 from 4-7 p.m. The workshop will be presented by Edward Kissi, associate professor in the Department of African Studies at the University of South [...]

 William Horrace, professor of economics at the Maxwell School, and his band will board the 443 CC bus to provide 'music in motion' It will be a free jazz concert of keyboard, bass and guitar for Connective Corridor riders on Friday, Jan. 27. Courtesy of William Horrace, professor of economics at the Maxwell School, and [...]

The School of Information Studies (iSchool) has released the list of more than 35 speakers for the one-day #140cuse conference on April 19 at Syracuse University's Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center. #140cuse, a local version of the widely known #140conference (140conf.com), is a platform for the social media community to listen, learn and engage [...]

College of Law's David Cay Johnston appears on CNN Politics discussing Mitt Romney and taxes

G. James Daichendt, a professor of art history at Azusa Pacific University in California, will present the lecture “Rethinking Street Art” on Tuesday, Jan. 31, at 6:30 p.m. in Shemin Auditorium in the Dorothea Ilgen Shaffer Art Building. The free, public lecture is sponsored by the art education program as part of the Department of [...]

A new gateway sign to Syracuse's Armory Square is set to be installed on Friday, Jan. 27, featuring a design that incorporates elements of the Connective Corridor, as well as the vibrancy of the arts, cultural and professional opportunities in the Armory Square area. According to Robbi Farschman, director of the Connective Corridor, the sign's [...]

Nominations for this year's Teaching Recognition Awards will be accepted through Feb. 20.

Charles Driscoll of LCS quoted in Public News Service report on mercury in New York's bats and birds

Jim Boeheim is competing with other college men’s basketball coaches in The Infinity Coaches’ Charity Challenge.

Through Feb. 3, the Office of Engagement Programs in Hendricks Chapel is hosting its annual Share the Warmth Blanket Drive to collect new and clean, gently used blankets to donate to those in need in the local community.

Syracuse University has again been recognized internationally among colleges and universities for producing the most current Peace Corps volunteers, according to Peace Corps Top Colleges 2012.  Syracuse University is listed as No. 13 on the 2012 top Peace Corps volunteer-producing colleges and universities in the medium category. There are currently 34 undergraduate alumni serving overseas. Since the [...]

Ei-ichi Negishi did pioneering research while a member of SU's Chemistry Department Ei-ichi Negishi, 2010 Nobel laureate and the Herbert C. Brown Distinguished Professor of Organic Chemistry at Purdue University, returns to Syracuse University to present a discussion of his work at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1, in the 1-019 Center for Science and Technology. [...]

New Year, New You!

Two powerhouses of the American theater, playwright Tony Kushner (“Angels in America”) and composer Jeanine Tesori (“Thoroughly Modern Millie” and “Shrek: The Musical”), join forces on a musical of startling creativity and refreshing originality (don’t be surprised when the washing machine starts to sing). A stellar cast, led by Greta Oglesby, delivers powerful vocals in [...]

Four music professors from Central New York will come together on Sunday, Jan. 29, for a performance of chamber music with organ at Syracuse University. The concert, the first Malmgren Concert of the spring 2012 semester, will begin at 4 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel and is free and open to the public. Free parking will [...]

The Department of Earth Sciences presents the spring 2012 K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series, this week featuring Paul Fitzgerald from Syracuse University.

MarketWatch reports on Newhouse School partnership with HootSuite

Imagining America's CNY PAGE initiative eagerly invites you to submit proposals for our 5th Annual Graduate Conference:

James and Hayes Slade, co-founders of NYC’s Slade Architecture, and spring 2012 visiting critics in the Syracuse University School of Architecture, will speak at the School of Architecture on Tuesday, Jan. 31, at 5 p.m. in Slocum Hall Auditorium. Their lecture, “CONtext, CONcept, CONstruct,” is free and open to the public. An opening reception for [...]

Program leverages local, national, global relationships with pre-eminent facility management organizations from AEG Worldwide to SU’s Carrier Dome In response to a strong career outlook in the fields of facility and event management and a growing need for professionals trained specifically in this area, Syracuse University has announced a new interdisciplinary master of science degree [...]

Syracuse University is a host site for 2012 Global Game Jam, starting this Friday.

The Syracuse University Humanities Center in The College of Arts and Sciences announces the lineup for the 2012 HC Fellows Spring Symposia. The program includes more than a dozen presentations by HC Dissertation Fellows, HC Faculty Fellows and Humanities Faculty Fellows. All events are free and open to the public. Gregg Lambert, Dean’s Professor of [...]

For the past several years, there has been a growing entrepreneurial ecosystem at Syracuse University, and it’s about to get stronger.  A group of current and recent SU graduate students with a vested interest in seeing entrepreneurship thrive at SU, as well as in the surrounding community, saw an opportunity for collaboration, more efficient use [...]

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University (IVMF) has begun releasing a fact sheet on the first Friday of each month representing the most current snapshot of the month-to-month change in the employment situation of America’s veterans. The first report was issued in December 2011. An online archive can be found on [...]

Learning about international unrest and human rights violations is now available through a smartphone. Impunity Watch, the first global blog to monitor instances of impunity, has launched its first official mobile application in the Android Marketplace, available Jan. 25. Impunity Watch is managed by Syracuse University College of Law student reporters who constantly monitor human [...]

A new, international partnership between Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and HootSuite will help prepare students for the digital and social media jobs of the future. This is the first-ever higher education partnership for the Canadian company, which now boasts some 3 million users.  Under the direction of William J. Ward, social media [...]

The Department of Earth Sciences presents the spring 2012 K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series, this week featuring Benjamin Passey from Johns Hopkins University.

Gained a few pounds over the holidays?

Syracuse University employees have only two days left–today and tomorrow (Jan. 24 and 25)–to go online and acknowledge their annual pay notices. All University employees, including faculty, staff, temporary employees, graduate assistants and students who receive a paycheck from SU, are required to acknowledge their pay notices by Jan. 25. The annual pay notice is [...]

Syracuse University Library's spring exhibition “The Power and The Piety: the World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe” opens with a reception on Thursday, Jan. 26, at 5 p.m. in the Special Collections gallery on Bird Library’s sixth floor. Curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, it showcases the [...]

The research study "What Do You See When You Read?" is seeking native English-speaking Syracuse University or SUNY ESF undergraduates, aged 18-25, with diagnosed reading disabilities for participation.

"Noriko Ambe: Inner Water"

Bryan Wiener ’92, CEO of the digital marketing agency 360i, will visit the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Wednesday, Feb. 8, as a guest of the Eric Mower Advertising Forum. He will speak at 5:30 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3. His talk is free and open to the public. [...]