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Author Dana Spiotta in the spotlight for next installment of Raymond Carver Reading Series
The Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series will continue with award-winning fiction writer Dana Spiotta, assistant professor of creative writing in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 28 in Gifford Auditorium in H.B. Crouse Hall…
Maria Hinojosa is first guest of University Lectures 2011-12 season
Maria Hinojosa, host of National Public Radio’s “Latino USA” and one of the most influential Latino/a journalists in the nation, will kick off the University Lectures 2011-12 season at Syracuse University on Tuesday, Sept. 27. Hinojosa will speak on “Making…
Organist, Poister Competition winner Adam Pajan to perform in Setnor Auditorium Sept. 25
Organist Adam Pajan, winner of the 2011 Arthur Poister Scholarship Competition in Organ Playing, will present an organ recital on Sunday, Sept. 25, at 4 p.m. on the historic Holtkamp organ in the Rose and Jules R. Setnor Auditorium, Crouse…
Syracuse University Industrial Assessment Center awarded $1.5 million to support Department of Energy initiative
The Syracuse University-Industrial Assessment Center (SU-IAC) has been awarded $1.5 million over five years to support the Department of Energy’s (DoE) Industrial Assessment Center (IAC) program to train undergraduate- and graduate-level engineering students in manufacturing efficiency and to help them…
‘Wretches & Jabberers’ to screen as part of disability-themed Shared First Year Experience, Sept. 19
As part of Syracuse University’s disability-themed Shared First Year Experience, the documentary film “Wretches & Jabberers: And Stories from the Road” will be shown on Monday, Sept. 19, at 7 p.m. in the Goldstein Auditorium of Schine Student Center. The…
Charles M. Payne to present annual Harry S. and Elva K. Ganders lecture
The Syracuse University School of Education will present its annual Harry S. and Elva K. Ganders Lecture on Thursday, Sept. 15, featuring Charles M. Payne. The lecture, “Syracuse City, Forty Years of Urban Education Landscape: From Croton-on-Campus to the Promised Neighborhood,”…
Leading public intellectual Kwame Anthony Appiah to give opening lecture Tuesday
Best-selling author/philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah will deliver the keynote lecture of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium™ on Tuesday, Sept. 13. Syracuse Symposium™ is a semester-long exploration of the public humanities presented by the Syracuse University Humanities Center for The College of…
SU physicist aids in discovery of predicting breaking points in disordered solids
In solid materials with regular atomic structures, figuring out where the material will break under stress is relatively easy. But for disordered solids, like glass or sand, their disordered structure makes such predictions a more daunting task. A collaboration of…
Patent awarded for ‘method and system of controlling airfoil actuators’
Syracuse University has been awarded a patent for the development of a “Method and System of Controlling Airfoil Actuators.” This research will lead to greater maneuverability options for wing design on airplanes and is being considered for applications to wind…
SU in the News: Tuesday, September 6, 2011
National Journal quotes Maxwell School Dean James Steinberg on America in the decade following 9/11