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Arts & Culture

Poet Jennifer Grotz to present next installment of Raymond Carver Reading Series

Thursday, October 27, 2011, By News Staff

The Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series continues on Nov. 9 with poet Jennifer Grotz, a faculty member at the University of Rochester. Grotz will read from her latest work, “The Needle” (Houghton Mifflin, 2011), which explores both Polish and…

Business & Economy

Whitman Dean Melvin T. Stith is inaugural inductee to PhD Project Hall of Fame

Wednesday, October 26, 2011, By News Staff

Melvin T. Stith G’73 ,’77, dean of the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, is an inaugural inductee into the newly established PhD Project Hall of Fame. The PhD Project is an award-winning program that aims to increase diversity…

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

Imagining America announces board developments, strategic directions

Monday, October 24, 2011, By Jamie Haft

A new chair, vice chair and three new members have been elected to the National Advisory Board of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA). The board is responsible for ensuring that IA realizes its potential to animate…

Health & Society

Center on Human Policy to celebrate 40th anniversary with research and advocacy conference, Nov. 11-12

Monday, October 24, 2011, By Jennifer Russo

The Center on Human Policy will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a two-day research and advocacy conference on Nov. 11-12 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, coinciding with Syracuse University’s Orange Central weekend. Alumni, friends, advocates and supporters from around the…

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

Media, Law & Policy

Disney’s Hyperion Books vice president Mindy Stockfield ’93 to visit SU

Friday, October 21, 2011, By News Staff

The Alumni Speaker Series will welcome Mindy Stockfield ’93 to campus on Friday, Oct. 28. Stockfield is the vice president of marketing and digital media for Disney’s Hyperion Books. She will speak about how she has used her advertising degree from…

Arts & Culture

Principal of world-renowned engineering firm Buro Happold to lecture at Syracuse Architecture

Tuesday, October 18, 2011, By Elaine Wackerow

Craig Schwitter, PE, managing principal of Buro Happold, North America, will lecture at the Syracuse University School of Architecture on Tuesday, Oct. 25, at 5 p.m. in Slocum Hall Auditorium. Buro Happold is one of the top building services engineering…

Media, Law & Policy

Hon. Joanne Alper ’72, Charles Gardner Geyh to discuss judicial independence during Orange Central

Monday, October 17, 2011, By News Staff

Would America’s judges better serve the cause of judicial independence if they openly aired their personal views? This question and other issues of judicial impartiality will be explored when the Hon. Joanne F. Alper ’72, circuit court judge of the…

Campus & Community

Halloween fun run/walk combines fitness with festivities

Monday, October 17, 2011, By News Staff

Ghouls and goblins normally come out on Halloween night, but this year, they can be found running and walking around campus in the middle of the day. In an effort to provide a fun, healthy addition to the day’s festivities…