University Union Performing Arts will host a night of stand-up comedy with actor, writer and comedian Aziz Ansari, on Friday, April 13. Ansari will be performing at the Oncenter Arena in downtown Syracuse at 8 p.m., with doors opening at 7 p.m. Best known for his roles in hit television shows such as “Parks and [...]

The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will host documentary photographer Gerd Ludwig on Thursday, Feb. 2, at 7 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3. The event is free and open to the public. Parking is available in SU pay lots. In the early 1990s, Ludwig became a contract photographer for National [...]

Feel free to stop by a Free Fitness class the week of Jan 22-27. Check out a fitness class to see if you like it.

National and local media report on iSchool participation in SOPA blackout

Doug Craig, senior vice president of digital and home entertainment with Discovery Communications, will visit the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Wednesday, Feb. 15 as a guest of the Newhouse Global Leaders in Digital and Social Media Speaker Series. He will speak on “Digital and Social TV: The Power of Real-Time Engagement” at [...]

Free tickets for eighth blackbird's performance of Schoenberg's "Pierrot lunaire" can be reserved for SU students, faculty and staff.

The set depicts four hard-working canines.

Regression models presented in the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Journal of Infrastructure Systems by researchers at Syracuse University’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science are expected to help utility companies predict the service life of wastewater pipeline infrastructure and take a proactive approach to pipeline replacements and maintenance. Ossama (Sam) Salem, Yabroudi [...]

The Syracuse Orange and Georgetown Hoyas have a long-standing tradition of battling on the basketball court. They are now joining the same team to combat hunger in their local communities. “Can It! Rivals on the Court: Teammates in the Fight Against Hunger,” is a University-wide interfaith initiative that will kick off on both campuses in [...]

The Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition in Syracuse University’s David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics wants to help SU and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry students, faculty and staff, and members of the community at large, improve eating habits and promote general well-being by making healthy food [...]

Samba Laranja: the Syracuse University Brazilian Ensemble will return for its third appearance at Jazz at Lincoln Center with two shows on Friday, Jan. 27, at 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., and on Saturday, Jan. 28, at 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. The performances, which will feature popular and folk music from Brazil, will be [...]

Artist Arena CEO and founder Mark Weiss will give a talk on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 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 Visual and Performing Arts’ [...]

The Alumni Speaker Series will kick off the spring semester with Marco Forte ’95, vice president of primetime sales for ABC Television Network, and Mitch Messinger ’92, G’93, publicity director for ABC Daytime and SOAPnet. Forte and Messinger will share their career stories, speaking about how they rose to successful positions with ABC, utilizing college [...]

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.

Rachel's Restaurant at the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel is offering the luncheon buffet for a special, discounted price from Monday, Jan. 23, through Friday, Jan.27.

William DiCosimo and Ulf Oesterle, faculty members in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music, were elected co-chairs of the Entrepreneurship in the Arts special interest group at the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE). They will lead the Entrepreneurship in [...]

The Point of Contact Gallery will present “Constrain/Contain,” a spatial experiment and first solo exhibit by New York environmental artist Sam Horowitz, opening on Jan. 27, with an artist’s reception at 6 p.m. The exhibition runs through March 15. In today’s virtual era, when we can communicate at light speed, inhabit cyber realities and continually [...]

Walter Broadnax, Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, has been named the Elliot Richardson Lecturer for the 2012 American Society for Public Administration’s (ASPA) annual conference in March. Broadnax is a distinguished scholar, instructor, administrator and public policy expert who has served in senior- and executive-level positions [...]

Syracuse University’s Office of Residence Life and Division of Student Affairs will sponsor Dream Week 2012, “Yesterday’s Dream. Today’s Action. Tomorrow’s Reality.” Events will take place on the SU campus from Jan. 23-27. All of the Dream Week events are free and are open to the SU and greater Syracuse communities. For more information on [...]

The Syracuse University Humanities Center has announced its internal faculty fellows for Spring 2012. They are Amy Kallander, assistant professor of history, as well as Rania Habib and Stefano Giannini, both assistant professors of languages, literatures and linguistics (LLL). The fellowship program carries a one semester teaching reduction so each fellow may complete a proposed [...]

Launch of Janklow Arts Leadership Program reported in New York Times

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Acclaimed interior designer and College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) alumnus Thom Filicia ’93 will give a talk on Friday, Jan. 20, at 1 p.m. in the auditorium of The Warehouse, first floor, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse. The talk is free and open to the public. Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the [...]

Rivka Galchen, author of the critically acclaimed "Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel" (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008), will open the Spring 2012 Raymond Carver Reading Series at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 1, in Gifford Auditorium. The reading will be preceded by a question-and-answer session from 3:45-4:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. [...]

The Syracuse University Counseling Center is offering a free course in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) to SU and SUNY-ESF students.

Internationally renowned artist Shimon Attie will lead and host a new cross-disciplinary speaker series at Syracuse University on art, memory, community and commemoration. “Memory and Commemoration, as Fact or Fiction” will feature four speakers, including Attie, whose work addresses the complex issues of public remembrance and memory making. The series is co-sponsored by the College [...]

A memorial service for Cheryl Spear, doctoral candidate in Syracuse University’s School of Education and passionate advocate for disability, civil and human rights, will be held Friday, Jan. 20, at 6 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The service will be fully accessible and all in the Syracuse University and greater Syracuse communities are welcome to join [...]

The first annual SU Student Leadership Conference on Feb. 25 will feature motivational speaker Jon Vroman as its opening keynote speaker, and SU alumnus and medical student Sean Haley '10 as its closing keynote speaker. The conference will take place from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel & Conference Center and other [...]

Proceeds from 'Before Our Eyes: Inside the Changing World of Book Publishing' to benefit ProLiteracy It is possible for a group of undergraduate students to write, edit, print, publish and market a book about the publishing industry all in one semester? Yes, as 10 intrepid Soling Program students recently proved—and that's a good thing because [...]

The Syracuse Youth Orchestra (SYO) and Syracuse Youth String Orchestra (SYSO) will present a concert on Sunday, Jan. 29, at 4:30 p.m. in the Fayetteville-Manlius High School auditorium, 8201 East Seneca Turnpike, Manlius. Tickets for the concert are $10 for adults and $5 for patrons age 16 and under. Tickets may be purchased at the [...]

The Sheraton Syracuse Unversity Hotel is presenting live jazz entertainment at Sitrus on the Hill this Friday, Jan. 20.

Tonight (Jan. 17) at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Syracuse University will announce the launch of the Janklow Arts Leadership Program, a new M.A. program named for the great literary agent and College of Arts and Sciences alumnus Morton L. Janklow. Anchored in the University’s College of Arts and Sciences, the program [...]

New York Times and Guardian quote William Banks of the College of Law and Maxwell School on Iranian nuclear scientists attacks

Syracuse University visit includes book signing, free public lecture on Italian cooking Syracuse University’s Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics has partnered with the Syracuse Rescue Mission to present the First Iron Fork Competition, Jan. 29 from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. in Syracuse [...]

The Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts is celebrating the recent publication of five new books by its faculty. All titles are available online through the publisher or commercial bookseller. “Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form: Sighting Memory” by Anne Demo and Bradford Vivian (Routledge, 2011); “Confronting Anti-Semitism: [...]

The College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) has announced that 10 seniors have been named VPA Scholars, the college’s highest undergraduate academic honor. The VPA Scholars program was established to recognize the achievements of the college’s top seniors in art, design and transmedia; communication and rhetorical studies; drama; and music. Students are selected based [...]

Huffington Post notes New York Knick Carmelo Anthony’s gifts to SU and his inclusion in "Giving Back 30"

Geoffrey Sheldon, a senior music education major with performance honors in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, will present a trumpet recital Friday, Jan. 20, at 8 p.m.

Applications are now being accepted for the Class of 2013 senior class marshals. The application deadline is Feb. 3. All current juniors who will be on campus during the entire 2012-2013 academic year are eligible to apply, or may be nominated by faculty, staff or classmates. Senior class marshals are some of the University’s most [...]

Seattle Post-Intelligencer features IVMF's online Operation Endure & Grow program

From the Sunshine Coast of South Africa to a remote ashram in India, Ruth Colvin and her husband have traveled around the world, visiting 62 countries and providing literacy training in 26 developing countries. The founder of Literacy Volunteers of America, Inc., which merged with Laubach Literacy in 2003 to become ProLiteracy, Colvin has been [...]

Syracuse University shuttle service will be operating on an abbreviated schedule on Monday, Jan. 16, due to the observance of the Martin Luther King holiday.

A new endowed chair in Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will help lead the school’s continued efforts toward expanding teaching and innovation in digital and new media. The Peter A. Horvitz Endowed Chair in Journalism Innovation will develop and teach new courses that will allow students to explore the intersection of journalism [...]

Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will host a screening of the film “Black Males/Black Dreams: Climbing to the Mountain Top” on Wednesday, Jan. 25, at 7 p.m. the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3. The event is free and open to the public. Parking is available in SU pay lots. Produced by [...]

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 renowned hagiographer John Kitchen. Associate professor of history and classics at the University of Alberta, Kitchen will present a keynote lecture titled “Saints and [...]

All Syracuse University employees are being asked to go online to review and acknowledge their annual pay notices as soon as possible.

The La Casita Cultural Center, 109 Otisco St., Syracuse, will present an introductory workshop on the use of theater as a means for social change on Saturday, Jan. 21, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The workshop is free and open to adults as well as college and high-school students. No theatre experience is necessary. To register, [...]

Korea Times quotes Maxwell School's Margaret Hermann on North Korea's new leader Kim Jong-un

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