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Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage, SU Drama to participate in nationwide premiere of ‘Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays’

Monday, October 31, 2011, By News Staff

Witty, warm and occasionally wacky, “Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays” is an evening of new short plays by an A-list lineup of writers with two Pulitzer Prizes, four Obies, one Emmy and three Tony nominations. Be there as…

Media, Law & Policy

McMahon gives talk at human rights forum

Thursday, October 27, 2011, By News Staff

Anthropology Associate Research Professor Felicia McMahon participated in the “I Am Unspoken” forum, giving voice to human rights violations.

Campus & Community

Exploring IBM’s Watson and the Jeopardy! Challenge

Wednesday, October 26, 2011, By Cyndi Moritz

Jim De Piante, IBM project manager on the Watson supercomputer project, will speak about the development of Watson and the Jeopardy! gameshow challenge on Nov. 3.

Arents Awards honor four distinguished alumni Nov. 12 as part of Orange Central

Tuesday, October 25, 2011, By News Staff

Four distinguished Syracuse University alumni representing excellence in the areas of law, sustainability innovation, social and environmental activism, and public service will be honored with George Arents Awards during the University’s 2011 Orange Central celebration. At the Arents Award luncheon…

Arts & Culture

Stone Canoe hosts public literary showcases in community

Tuesday, October 25, 2011, By Eileen Jevis

Poets and writers featured in Stone Canoe, A Journal of Arts, Literature and Social Commentary, will read from their works at two separate events scheduled locally.  Stone Canoe Poetry Night will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 26, from 7- 8:30…

Campus & Community

SU’s ‘Greek or Treat’ engages Syracuse area youth

Tuesday, October 25, 2011, By News Staff

On Friday, Oct. 28, the Syracuse University Greek community will be hosting its seventh annual Greek or Treat event from 3-5:30 p.m. This annual event welcomes Syracuse youth into the fraternity and sorority houses located on Walnut Avenue and Walnut…

STEM

Attacking cancer cells with nanoparticles

Monday, October 24, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University chemists develop novel way to get cancer drugs to tumors About every three days, Colleen Alexander, a chemistry graduate student, feeds cells that cause a deadly type of brain cancer. It’s a ritual that involves assessing the health…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Friday, October 21

Friday, October 21, 2011, By News Staff

PBS NewsHour interviews Maxwell School Dean James Steinberg on recent events in Libya

Arts & Culture

SU Drama to present reading of ‘It Can’t Happen Here’

Wednesday, October 19, 2011, By Erica Blust

Event is part of nationwide celebration of Federal Theatre Project The Syracuse University Department of Drama in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will present a staged reading of Sinclair Lewis and John C. Moffitt’s “It Can’t Happen…

STEM

Syracuse University scientists discover new way to determine when water was present on Mars and Earth

Wednesday, October 19, 2011, By News Staff

Record of past may be locked inside mineral common to both planets The discovery of the mineral jarosite in rocks analyzed by the Mars Rover, Opportunity, on the Martian surface had special meaning for a team of Syracuse University scientists…