The American Library Association has chosen a book written by School of Information Studies Professor R. David Lankes as its 2012 “Best Book in Library Literature.” Lankes’ “The Atlas of New Librarianship” was named winner of the annual American Library Association’s (ALA) ABC-CLIO/Greenwood award, the ALA announced. In naming the book’s selection and praising its innovativeness, [...]

Play won 2010 Tony Award for Best Play The 2010 Tony Award-winner for Best Play, ‘Red’ is an intense and exciting bio-drama of the famed abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko at the time that he was working on a commission for a series of murals for New York’s Four Seasons restaurant. On paper, the play [...]

At the March 1 session of the Institute for Retired People (IRP) Amy Samuels, education and outreach coordinator at the Onondaga Environmental Institute, will discuss the county’s Save the Rain campaign, which aims to raise public awareness and understanding of what can be done to help reduce stormwater runoff and improve the environment through the [...]

NPR's All Things Considered features EBV, speaks with founder Mike Haynie of IVMF

A two-minute YouTube video-gone-viral may have initiated the proverbial 15 minutes of fame for Sam Morrison, but there’s much more to the man and his story.  The backflips that led to the School of Information Studies student’s recognition around the world are simply Morrison’s means. He’s also got a mission, a method and a message. That [...]

The Interfaith Student Council, as part of the Better Together interfaith initiative and in conjunction with Israel Week, will host a Speed Faithing event on Monday, March 5, starting at 6:30 p.m. at the Winnick Hillel Center, 102 Walnut Place. The event will be a fun and interactive conversation about the participants’ diverse religious and [...]

Because of a scheduling conflict, the multiaward-winning documentary “Manufactured Landscapes” will be screened on Wednesday, Feb. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in Heroy Geology Lab Auditorium.

The Onondaga Citizens League (OCL) is offering a series of informational seminars focused on the design and development of cities, including a historical perspective on how Syracuse took shape. Participants will learn what led to Syracuse’s street layouts, neighborhood patterns and well known properties and how they have changed over time. The importance of sound [...]

James Barrett ’13, owner and operator of James Barrett Co., will host his first-ever trunk show at J. Michael on Marshall Street on Friday, March 2, from noon-5 p.m. Apparel items will be available in custom colors and the event features a Peace Tee inventory sale. Other items for sale include the hoodless and zip [...]

The American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) has selected Katherine McDonald, assistant professor of public health in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics and faculty fellow at the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI), as the recipient of the 2012 Early Career Award. The award recognizes McDonald for her achievements and [...]

Relay For Life is a life-changing event that gives everyone in communities across the globe a chance to celebrate the lives of people who have battled cancer, remember loved ones lost and fight back against the disease.

Syracuse University’s ArtsEngage will welcome the Paul Taylor Dance Company for an evening of modern dance at 7 p.m. Friday, March 2, in the Crouse-Hinds Theater in the James H. Mulroy Civic Center, 800 S. State St. The evening’s performance will include choreography set to the music of the Andrews Sisters, the St. Louis Melody [...]

SU Showcase for Sustainability 2012—the campuswide, spring academic event celebrating the “green economy” this year—is seeking students to share their bold and creative visions for a greener future. Applicants for the SU Showcase video competition will be considered for a limited number of sustainability fellowships. Fellows will be recognized during the April 18-19 event and [...]

Anthony Otero of the University Events Office writes in Huffington Post on students' use of interactive technology

This spring, the Warehouse Gallery presents “Noriko Ambe: Inner Water,” an installation addressing the challenges of art-making in the aftermath of tragedies and disasters such as the earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear crisis in Japan on March 11, 2011. The exhibition is intended for audiences of all ages. All events are free and open to [...]

In support of the campuswide White Ribbon Campaign, Syracuse University Library will host a presentation by Vera House representatives at 3 p.m. Thursday, March 8, in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, located on the first floor of Bird Library. The event is free and open to the campus community.   Vera House’s White Ribbon Campaign is led [...]

Students in the Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts will present the following free concerts March 3-4.

Sarah Wendel ’11 has the job of her dreams thanks to the mentorship she received through Syracuse University’s Nationally Competitive Scholarships Committee (NCSC). Wendel, who graduated in May 2011 with a bachelor's degree in biology and a minor in Chinese studies from The College of Arts and Sciences, is working in a National Institutes of Health (NIH) [...]

Syracuse University Ambulance recently was represented at the 19th annual National Collegiate EMS Foundation Conference, held in Baltimore, Md. While at the conference, SUA received two awards recognizing accomplishments made over the past year.  SUA received an award for EMS Website of the Year, an honor given to one collegiate EMS agency’s website that is “beautifully designed, easy [...]

WaterPort, a team created by Whitman School of Management seniors Christopher Grant, Victoria Di Napoli, William Crane and Hunt Lau, is competing in the 2012 Dell Social Innovation Challenge. The company’s goal is to create a portable and self-sustained rainwater harvesting and filtration system to bring additional potable water to impoverished villages, notably in Africa and India. [...]

The Division of Student Affairs has announced the 2013 Senior Class Marshals. Current juniors Stephanie Kranz and Kishauna Soljour will carry the class of 2013 banner to open Syracuse University’s 159th Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 12, 2013, continuing a longstanding tradition of representing their class on this special occasion. In addition, this year the [...]

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will present Syracuse University's School of Education Dean Douglas Biklen with the 2011 UNESCO/Emir Jaber al-Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah Prize, honoring him for his work promoting quality education and equal opportunity for persons with educational disabilities. Biklen will accept the award at a ceremony on Feb. 29, [...]

Since its founding in 2005, the Syracuse University Sport Management (SPM) Club, a student-run organization in the Falk College’s Department of Sport Management, has donated nearly $155,000 to Central New York charities. As a result of its most successful annual sport auction to date in December 2011, the SPM Club made a $30,444 gift to [...]

Senator Bill Bradley to be inaugural speaker on April 10 What does it mean to be an ethical citizen? What does the need for public responsibility demand from us, whether we work in the private or the public sectors, and whether we are entry-level employees or top leaders? The Tanner Lecture Series on Ethics, Citizenship, [...]

Several companies have contributed nearly $500,000 in support of Say Yes Scholarship Endowment fund On Saturday, March 3, the second annual "Say Yes Day" at the Carrier Dome will celebrate Say Yes to Education and the commitment of its supporters to citywide education transformation. During the men's basketball game against the University of Louisville at 4 [...]

Whitman School's John Torrens quoted in Money on entrepreneurial behavior within corporations

Syracuse University Library and the SU Humanities Center, along with their partners in the Central New York Humanities Corridor (Colgate University, Cornell University, Hamilton College, SU and the University of Rochester), will award four visiting scholar grants of $2,500 each in 2012 to support research at two or more Corridor institutions. This program’s primary goal [...]

John Laverty, professor of applied music and performance in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music, has produced the new album “Rock Stars” on Mark Records, which features soloists Joseph Alessi on trombone and Stanley Drucker on clarinet, both of whom are renowned musicians and [...]

The College of Visual and Performing Arts is now accepting applications for the Sandra Kahn Alpert Visiting Artist Program. The program was established by Alpert, 1945 alumna of VPA, and her husband, Clement C. Alpert, to bring leading visual artists to the SU campus to engage in direct interaction with students and faculty in the [...]

The rise of Afro-Latin American social movements is the basis of a new book, edited by Syracuse University professors Kwame Dixon and John Burdick. “Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America” (University Press of Florida, 2012) is a collection of original essays detailing the experience of blackness and cultural difference, black political mobilization and state responses to [...]

William Myhill, director of legal research and writing; Kelly Bunch L’09, law and policy research associate; and L. Elaine Sutton Mbionwu, assistant director of BBI’s Southeast ADA Center, will present four workshops at the 2012 Orlando ADA Symposium.  The symposium, March 12-14, is designed to provide the latest information on ADA regulations and guidelines, implementation [...]

Registration for the spring Staff 2 Staff sessions is now available online.

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

The Schine Box Office will close at 5 p.m. on Friday, 3/9/12.

Join us Friday, March 2, from 5-7 p.m. in Room 105 Life Sciences Complex as Aman Ali and Bassam Tariq talk about their project, 30 Mosques in 30 Days.

Maxwell School's Leonard Burman writes on taxes in national and regional media

CNY Business Journal reports on BBI entrepreneurship training program for people with disabilities in Ghana

South Side Innovation Center featured in Post-Standard 2012 Progress Edition

Entertainment attorney John P. Kellogg ’73, G ’75, assistant chair of the Music Business/Management Department at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, will give a talk on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 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 [...]

The California E.A.R. Unit, a chamber ensemble dedicated to the creation, performance and promotion of the music of our time, will give a performance on Wednesday, March 7, at 10 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 [...]

140 female veterans expected to attend Women represent approximately 15 percent of active duty military, 20 percent of the reserves, 16 percent of the National Guard and 20 percent of new military recruits. More than 11 percent of United States forces serving in Iraq and Afghanistan are women, and the total female veteran population in the [...]

This weekend, Syracuse University students will have the opportunity to participate in a student-run brainstorming session to produce ideas and data that could help NASA create practical applications to benefit humanity.  SU is one of three institutions invited by NASA to contribute concepts as part of the International Space Apps Challenge, which encourages scientists and [...]

Artist talk will be Tuesday, April 10, at 6:30 p.m., at Everson Museum of Art auditorium For the months of March–May, Urban Video Project, Light Work and the Everson Museum of Art will present the video “Flo Flow” (2011) by William Wegman. It will be the world premiere of the video, which was created specifically [...]

College students with an interest in the Adirondacks have a new opportunity to spend a full semester living and studying in the heart of the 6 million-acre forest preserve.

The Syracuse University Sustainability Division and the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) student organization is hosting a “zero-waste” showing of the multi award-winning documentary “Manufactured Landscapes” on Wednesday, Feb. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in Gifford Auditorium, in Huntington Beard Crouse Hall. Admission is free and open to the public. Doors open at 7 p.m. [...]

Peter Blanck, University Professor and chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, will be a featured speaker March 6 in the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, at a seminar on genetic discrimination. The Centre for Disability Law and Policy at the National University of Ireland is co-host of the seminar “Genetic Discrimination–Transatlantic [...]

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University has begun publishing IVMF Research Briefs on a weekly basis. Theses briefs highlight the most cited and most recent articles pertaining to veterans in the areas of wellness, family, employment and education. The focus is on actionable research that may impact policy and practice [...]

Breuer was one of the most influential architects and furniture designers of the 20th century.

There’s a small, highly motivated group of students concerned about the environment, and they’re working to start a grassroots movement to enhance sustainability on Syracuse University’s campus. No, this is not a flashback to the 1960s. It’s happening right now thanks to SU student Emma Edwards, a freshman policy studies major in The College of [...]

“Design and Aging,” an exhibition of student design projects focused on solutions to problems associated with aging, is on view at the Design Gallery at The Warehouse through March 19. The exhibition is free and open to the public. The Design Gallery is located on the first floor of The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., [...]