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School of Education to host workshop on African genocides and the Holocaust

Friday, January 27, 2012, By Jennifer Russo

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…

#140cuse conference releases speaker list

Thursday, January 26, 2012, By J.D. Ross

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…

G. James Daichendt to speak on ‘Rethinking Street Art’ Jan. 31

Thursday, January 26, 2012, By Erica Blust

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,…

SU once again among nation’s top universities producing Peace Corps volunteers

Wednesday, January 25, 2012, By News Staff

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…

Campus & Community

Register for Global Game Jam at SU—a 48-hour game creation event this weekend!

Tuesday, January 24, 2012, By News Staff

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

New entrepreneurial position ignites the student voice

Tuesday, January 24, 2012, By News Staff

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,…

SU’s Newhouse School, HootSuite form partnership for digital and social learning

Tuesday, January 24, 2012, By Wendy S. Loughlin

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,…

Exhibition of Medieval and Renaissance books opens at Bird Library

Monday, January 23, 2012, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

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…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell professors, alumnus win Musgrave Prize for outstanding paper

Monday, January 23, 2012, By News Staff

Two Maxwell professors and their former graduate student have won the Richard Musgrave Prize, presented annually to the authors of the most outstanding paper published in the National Tax Journal. Professors William Duncombe and John M. Yinger, along with alumnus…

Discovery SVP kicks off this semester’s Newhouse Global Leaders in Digital and Social Media speaker series

Friday, January 20, 2012, By Wendy S. Loughlin

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…