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Arts & Culture

‘Good People’ a Funny, Compelling Play for Our Times

Thursday, April 18, 2013, By News Staff

In this 2011 Tony-nominated play set in Boston, Margie is a single mom who just lost her job, is behind on her rent, and like many today, has zero prospects.

Campus & Community

Past, Present, and Future Use of Underground Space

Tuesday, April 16, 2013, By News Staff

This presentation on Friday, April 26, at 3:30 p.m. in 105 Life Sciences Complex, provides an overview of a very important concept that needs to be embraced more readily by engineers, architects, geologists, and planners—the creation and development of underground…

Student Startups Win More Than $200,000 at Emerging Talk

Tuesday, April 16, 2013, By News Staff

Student startups won a combined $218,000 in seed funding at the third annual Emerging Talk conference on April 12 and 13 in the Whitman School of Management. More than 300 students, faculty, entrepreneurs, investors and community members came out to…

Library Awarded $280,000 NEH Grant for Phase Two of Marcel Breuer Digital Project

Thursday, April 11, 2013, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded the Syracuse University Library a $280,000 grant for phase two of a project that created a digital scholarly edition of the works of Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer. The new project, titled…

Five Candidates to Receive Honorary Degrees at 159th Commencement Exercises

Thursday, April 11, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The five 2013 honorary degree candidates are: Alan Gerry, Judith S. Kaye, Commencement speaker Nicholas Kristof, Wangarai Muta Maathai (posthumously), and Charles Payne ’70.

Fans, Alumni Plan for Final Four Fever

Wednesday, April 3, 2013, By Keith Kobland

With only 53,000 seats available at the Georgia Dome for the Final Four, it’s a safe bet many SU fans will be watching Saturday night’s SU-Michigan game on TV. Throughout the United States and abroad, there are opportunities to view…

Chauncey D. Holmes Lecture to Feature International Earthquake Expert

Tuesday, April 2, 2013, By News Staff

22 undergraduates to be recognized for Earth sciences excellence A record-setting 22 Syracuse University undergraduate students will be recognized for excellence in introductory earth science during the annual Chauncey D. Holmes Lecture and Award Ceremony, 7 p.m. Thursday, April 18,…

STEM

Research Shows Potential for Quasicrystals

Monday, April 1, 2013, By News Staff

Ever since their discovery in 1984, the burgeoning area of research looking at quasiperiodic structures has revealed astonishing opportunities in a number of areas of fundamental and applied research, including applications in lasing and sensing. Quasiperiodic structures, or quasicrystals, because…

VPA Students Named Semi-Finalists in Design Museum Boston Street Seats Challenge

Monday, April 1, 2013, By Erica Blust

A bench design by two second-year industrial and interaction design majors in the College of Visual and Performing Arts was named one of 20 semi-finalist winners in Design Museum Boston’s Street Seats International Design Challenge. Ryan Pierson and Sally Zheng’s…

Tickets on Sale for April 10 presentation of Meryl Tankard’s ‘The Oracle’

Monday, April 1, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky’s searing 1913 ballet score “The Rite of Spring,” Syracuse University Arts Engage will present “The Oracle,” conceived and directed by prominent Australian choreographer Meryl Tankard, on Wednesday, April 10, at 7:30…