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Dave Bing to keynote 27th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration on Jan. 21

Monday, January 9, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University will hold its 27th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on Saturday, Jan. 21, 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…

Syracuse University recognized as partner in federal program to increase summer employment opportunities for 180,000 youth nationwide

Thursday, January 5, 2012, By News Staff

SU officials attend Jan. 5 White House announcement of Summer Jobs+ program The White House has announced Summer Jobs+, a new call to action for businesses, nonprofits and government to work together to provide pathways to employment for low-income and…

Campus & Community

SU students tutor, mentor through Literacy Corps

Tuesday, January 3, 2012, By News Staff

Tutoring and mentoring through the Syracuse University Literacy Corps (SULC) is a unique, challenging and rewarding experience working with students in the Syracuse City School District to improve their literacy skills. This year, more than 244 tutors from SU at 50…

Light Work announces ‘Looking & Looking’

Wednesday, December 21, 2011, By Jessica H. Reed

Light Work has announced the exhibition “Looking & Looking,” featuring photographs by Jen Davis and Amy Elkins. Both artists create work that focuses on gaze and identity, with Davis looking at herself and Elkins looking at young male athletes. The…

Business & Economy

Whitman’s Smith chosen by NAED to conduct study

Tuesday, December 20, 2011, By News Staff

Susan Smith, professor of marketing practice in the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, has been selected by the National Association of Electrical Distributors (NAED) Education and Research Foundation to conduct its next research study, “Maximizing Marketing Efforts in…

Paris Noir’s ‘jazz moment’

Monday, December 19, 2011, By Rob Enslin

Popular study abroad program enters second decade In “Shadow and Act,” a collection of essays about the black experience, Ralph Ellison describes jazz as the “art of assertion within and against the group.” Each jazz moment, he writes, springs from…

Whitman names winners in semiannual student Capstone Competition

Monday, December 19, 2011, By Lindsay Wickham

Sixty-three student teams representing more than 300 Whitman seniors competed in the semiannual Capstone Business Plan Competition held Dec. 9-10 at the Whitman School of Management. At the conclusion of both the fall and spring semesters, Whitman’s Department of Entrepreneurship…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Friday, December 16

Friday, December 16, 2011, By News Staff

New iSchool and Microsoft partnership in social networking experiment reported in industry media

SU’s South Side Innovation Center receives support to train entrepreneurs for clean energy sector

Wednesday, December 14, 2011, By News Staff

New program to put residents of Syracuse’s South Side and others on career pathway to employability and entrepreneurship The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced today that it is providing funding to Syracuse University’s South Side…

The NewsHouse: Syracuse University students develop digital products for MLB during overnight hack-a-thon

Wednesday, December 14, 2011, By News Staff

More than 70 students, from across nearly every SU school, gathered at the iSchool for the second annual MLB.com College Challenge.