The Department of Public Safety honored 11 of its employees, along with three members of the University community, at the fourth annual DPS Awards Ceremony, held at Drumlins Country Club on Thursday, May 3. The awards honored the exceptional achievements of DPS staff members throughout the 2011 calendar year. Their outstanding accomplishments continue to contribute [...]

Construction is expected to be completed by the end of 2012.

Mark Robbins, dean of Syracuse University's School of Architecture and senior adviser on architecture and urban initiatives at the University, has been named executive director of the International Center of Photography (ICP), as announced by the ICP board of trustees. Robbins, who since 2004 has served as dean of the School of Architecture, will depart [...]

Nine students from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will soon embark on a 15-hour flight to Mumbai, India, as part of the SU Abroad course “Bollywood Snapshots: SU Internships in Mumbai.” This is the fourth time the course has been offered. Under the direction of Tula Goenka, associate professor of television-radio-film in [...]

The Jack Reilly Institute for Early Childhood and Provider Education in the Falk College, along with Child Care Solutions, has invited the community to the sixth annual Jack Reilly Distinguished Lecture, featuring Craig T. Ramey. The event is free and open to the public and will be held on Wednesday, May 16, at 7 p.m. [...]

Thirteen Syracuse University seniors have been selected as 2012-2013 Imagining America Engagement Fellows, a yearlong program of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA). Providing a transition from undergraduate academic study to employment and graduate education, the program offers students assistance in finding a job and, thanks to the generous support of the [...]

The La Casita Cultural Center, 109 Otisco St., Syracuse, will host members of the Caribbean/Latin American Coalition of Central New York (CLAC) to share stories and information about their recent trips to San Salvador and to La Estancia, Syracuse’s sister community in rural El Salvador. The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 17, [...]

Symphony Syracuse will present the final concert of its spring series on Friday, May 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the Crouse-Hinds Concert Theater of the John H. Mulroy Civic Center, 411 Montgomery St., Syracuse. The featured work is Symphony No. 5 by Peter Tchaikovsky, a work from the summer of 1888. Tchaikovsky conducted the first [...]

In an announcement Tuesday in New York, several alumni from the College of Visual and Performing Arts were nominated for 2012 Tony Awards. The list of nominations includes Frank Langella '59 for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for "Man and Boy"; Josh Young '03 for Best Performance by [...]

The Shaped Clay Society, a student-run group in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ ceramics program, will host a sale of work May 10-12 from 10 a.m.–6 p.m. on the second floor of the Comstock Art Facility (ComArt), 1055 Comstock Ave. Active on campus and in the community, the Shaped Clay Society uses various [...]

The Belfer Audio Archive of Syracuse University Library has accepted the donation of more than 700 78-rpm recordings from the Onondaga Historical Association (OHA). The recordings were formerly part of the collections of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. The OHA took ownership of them when the orchestra declared bankruptcy in 2011. The collection donated is comprised [...]

Ryan Badman, a junior math and physics major in The College of Arts and Sciences, received a 2012 Goldwater Scholarship. The highly competitive, national award is presented to outstanding students who are pursuing careers in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering. Badman is one of 282 nationwide scholars to receive the 2012 [...]

NASA's chief scientist, Waleed Abdalati '86, will deliver the 2012 address to bachelor’s degree candidates of Syracuse University’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science at the college’s convocation ceremony on Saturday, May 12, at 9 a.m. in Manley Field House. Abdalati was appointed NASA chief scientist in January 2011, serving as the principal [...]

Professor Pramod K. Varshney in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, an engineer whose pioneering and continuing contributions to distributed detection techniques and data fusion methods have fueled the success of wireless sensor networks benefiting aerospace, defense and even biomedical applications, is being honored by IEEE with the 2012 IEEE Judith A. [...]

University College of Syracuse University and Le Moyne College have invited citizens to attend a discussion on Wednesday, May 2, at 7 p.m. at Grewen Auditorium on the Le Moyne College campus. Rebecca Garden and Joel Potash will discuss narrative medicine, which uses poems, novels and, particularly, stories written by people with illness and disability [...]

Scott Samson, professor of earth sciences in The College of Arts and Sciences, will receive the 2012 William Wasserstrom Prize for the Teaching of Graduate Students. The award will be presented during the 2012 Graduate School Doctoral Hooding Ceremony and Reception on Friday, May 11, at 5 p.m. The prize is awarded annually in memory [...]

Syracuse University’s Department of Drama in the College of Visual and Performing Arts will present its annual senior showcase on Saturday, May 5, at 2 p.m. in the Archbold Theatre at Syracuse Stage, 820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse. The showcase is free and open to the public. No tickets are required. The senior showcase features [...]

Stephanie Woodward, a second-year student at Syracuse University College of Law and a research assistant with the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at SU, has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Olinsky Law Group/Burton Blatt Institute Fellowship. The fellowship was established through a generous gift from disability law attorney Howard D. Olinsky L’85, a [...]

Amanda Brown, assistant professor of linguistics in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been named this year’s recipient of the Prize for the Teaching of Master’s Students. The prize is awarded annually by the college in recognition of superior graduate teaching. Brown will be feted at the college’s convocation for master’s degree candidates [...]

Kazaz, Massey named Meredith Professors At the annual Faculty Awards Recognition event held recently at Goldstein Alumni & Faculty Center, Chancellor Nancy Cantor and Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina congratulated the winners of the 2011-12 University teaching awards, including the 2012 Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professorships for Teaching Excellence, the 2011-12 Teaching [...]

On April 26, 15 teams from Syracuse University and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry competed in the 2012 New York State Business Plan Competition (NYSBPC). Student startups from around the state competed for more than $150,000 in prizes before a judging panel of more than 30 regional and national venture capitalists, angel [...]

Syracuse University’s Remembrance Scholar Committee has chosen the 35 students who will be the 2012-13 Remembrance Scholars. The scholarships were founded as a tribute to—and means of remembering—the 35 students who were killed in the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The students, who were returning from a semester [...]

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded $500,000 to Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs to study how housing affordability affects decisions made by older adults about their health care, living arrangements and well-being. The project is one of five grants awarded by the MacArthur Foundation as part of its [...]

The Department of Drama in the College of Visual and Performing Arts has announced its 2012-2013 season. Offerings will include Stephen Sondheim’s legendary musical “Merrily We Roll Along”; the passionate Jacobean drama “’Tis Pity She’s a Whore”; the comic “Top Girls,” set in the early days of Margaret Thatcher’s England; magic and romance in “A [...]

Think back to when you were a kid. Did your parents ever make you finish all of the food on your plate before you could be excused from the table? While many of us can probably recall such memories, you’d probably think this wasn’t a universal experience among residence hall diners. That’s because in every [...]

Syracuse University’s Lutheran Campus Ministry will hold its sixth annual Music Festival and Basket Auction on Sunday, April 29, from 2-5 p.m. at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 210 Hazel St. in Liverpool. The event will include music coordinated by Gayle Ross, including SU performers, soloists and ensembles, with everything from piano to voice and folk [...]

An exhibition of thesis work by bachelor of fine arts degree candidates from the Department of Art in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts will be held May 2-13 at XL Projects, 307–313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse. A reception will be held on Thursday, May 3, from 6-8 p.m. The show is free [...]

The Office of Student Activities, within the Division of Student Affairs, honored individual students and recognized student organizations for their hard work and dedication at the 44 Stars of Excellence Awards and Gala Celebration on April 17. Sponsored by Macy’s and Bloomingdales, the event was hosted by student leaders Victor Roberts and Erin Carhart, and [...]

Six distinguished guests will share their diverse global experiences and perspectives.

At the heart of the joyful play “As You Like It” is perhaps Shakespeare’s greatest comic heroine, Rosalind. As a woman disguised as a man, she exists not fully as either but in between, where she can relish the privilege of speaking with a man’s authority informed by a woman’s heart, a combination she needs [...]

In the interest of transparency and accountability in Syracuse University’s business transactions, employment practices and relationships with external parties, SU is continuing its annual process whereby disclosure of potential conflicts of interest (COI) can be reported. Beginning Monday, April 30, all full-time and regular part-time faculty and staff (excluding student employees, temporary employees, those whose [...]

Much like the fabled tortoise and the hare, the competition between native and invasive plants growing in deciduous forests in the Eastern United States is all about how the plants cross the finish line in autumn. A new study by a Syracuse University biologist has found that the leaves of invasive plants continue to function [...]

Share in the tradition dating back to 1875! Traditional derby fare, a ladies' hat contest, a raffle and, of course, the Run for the Roses are all part of the 2012 Kentucky Derby Party hosted by the Syracuse Stage Guild on Saturday, May 5, from 4-7:30 p.m. in the Grille Room at Bellevue Country Club. [...]

Bruce Smith, professor of English in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, has won the William Carlos Williams Award, presented by the Poetry Society of America (PSA). The critically acclaimed poet was nominated on the merit of his latest book, “Devotions” (University of Chicago Press, 2011). The same collection has also led to his [...]

As a part of the Syracuse University Sustainability Division’s recycling campaign, a new e-waste recycling program was launched for students on campus. Through this Sustainability Division and Bird Library joint venture, collection bins are located in the library’s first floor recycling room for students to drop-off their e-waste. “The purpose of this program is to [...]

The Central New York Regional Economic Development Council has announced that Syracuse University has signed an incentive proposal and is officially moving forward with the first stages of the transformational New York Energy Regional Innovation Cluster project on the strength of a $3 million grant awarded as part of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s Regional Council [...]

The National Newspaper Association (NNA) has opened its new website, www.nnaweb.org, to its members and the public with a new video, “We Believe in Newspapers.” The video was directed and produced by Alex Parker-Magyar, a student in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and a member of a New Jersey newspaper family with deep [...]

Symphony Syracuse will present an afternoon of favorites by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on Sunday, April 29, at Inspiration Hall (formerly St. Peter's Church), 709 James St., Syracuse. The 2:30 p.m. concert will feature violinist Rimma Bergeron-Langlois, former associate concertmaster of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra (SSO) and current concertmaster of the Orlando Philharmonic. She will perform [...]

The SU Library is celebrating the opening of the new Robert G. Ortwine Gallery on the sixth floor of Bird Library with a showing of works by College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) faculty members Kevin Larmon and Jude Lewis. The Ortwine Gallery was given by Bruce A. Ortwine ’75 in memory of his [...]

The Syracuse University Contemporary Music Ensemble will present a concert on Thursday, May 3, 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; parking for patrons with disabilities is available in the Q1 lot. [...]

New research on 'output interference' published in Psychological Science Students of all ages could improve their test scores if the category of information changed abruptly midway through the test, according to a new study on memory by researchers from Syracuse University, the University of South Florida and Indiana University. The study was recently published in [...]

Marilyn Higgins, vice president of community engagement & economic development  at Syracuse University, is one of five newly appointed to the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor Commission. Higgins, nominated by Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle (NY-25), will be sworn in Wednesday, April 25, at 10 a.m. at the Crystal Ristorante in Amsterdam, N.Y.  The commission includes [...]

Syracuse University will conduct an e-mail/text message/cell voice/campus phone test of the ORANGE ALERT Campus Crisis Alert Notification System on Wednesday, April 25, at 12:30 p.m. This will also include a test of the ORANGE ALERT outdoor siren system on SU’s North and South campuses.  For the purpose of this test, the ORANGE ALERT message [...]

The red carpet will go down on Montgomery Street on Wednesday, May 9, as Syracuse prepares for the world premiere of “Crooked Arrows,” the first mainstream film featuring the sport of lacrosse. Neal Powless, a former All American lacrosse player, Onondaga Nation citizen and staff member in the Office of Multicultural Affairs at Syracuse University, [...]

According to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), the latest available data from the Justice Department show that in January 2012 the federal government prosecuted 546 individuals in white-collar crime cases, down 13 percent from the previous month and down more than 40 percent since August 2011, when there were 930 such prosecutions reported. A significant [...]

The Office of Multicultural Affairs, within the Division of Student Affairs, is bringing Judy Shen-Filerman, founder and principal of Dreambridge Partners, to campus on Tuesday, April 24, to conclude SU’s celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Shen-Filerman will give a presentation on “The Voice of Leadership as an Asian-American” at 7:30 p.m. in the [...]

La Casita Cultural Center, 109 Otisco St., Syracuse, will host a closing reception and silent auction for “The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala,” an exhibition of the work of award-winning photographer Efrén López, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, May 10. The celebration will also recognize the artwork of students from the Westside Academy [...]

A new restaurant, Windows on the Green Bistro, is now open at Drumlins Country Club. This new restaurant will be serving contemporary American cuisine in a casual atmosphere overlooking the beautiful Drumlins golf courses.  Windows on the Green Bistro will serve patrons fresh, local ingredients through delicious, health-conscious recipes. Emphasis will be on the creative use [...]

Sixty-seven of Syracuse University’s prospective first-year students will present their ideas on public policies that can improve their communities at the 66th annual Maxwell Citizenship Scholarship Conference, sponsored by the Public Affairs Program in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. The participants have applied and been accepted for admission in the fall 2012 [...]

Edward Glaeser, author of the recent book “Triumph of the City” (Penguin Press HC, 2011), will be the guest speaker at the Andrew F. Smith Lecture in International Economics and Development at the Maxwell School on April 26. The lecture will ask, "Do Big Cities Make Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier?" The lecture [...]