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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…
SU garners $3 million NSF grant for education, research in soft and biological materials
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Syracuse University $3 million over the next five years to develop an Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training Program (IGERT) in Soft Interfaces. IGERT is the NSF’s flagship interdisciplinary program to educate Ph.D.-level…
Students to explore ethics of eating
For six weeks this semester, Syracuse University students will have the opportunity to explore what the food they consume means and how the world relates to one’s diet through the “Ethics of Eating” seminar. The series of dialogues and dinners…
SU in the News: Tuesday, September 13
Money Magazine notes SU programs that help make community college transfers more seamless
K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series: Dr. Christopher Fedo
Conflicting provenance indicators in first-cycle sediments derived from granodiorite in an arid environment: the “stepladder effect”
K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series: Dr. Paul Tomascak from SUNY Oswego
The Department of Earth Sciences presents the fall 2011 K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series, this week featuring Dr. Paul Tomascak from SUNY Oswego.
Columbia professor addresses public monuments, collective memory at SU Milton Lecture Sept. 20
Michele Moody-Adams—a moral and political philosopher who works on contemporary ethical issues in law, politics, class, race, and gender, as well as on theoretical issues in moral objectivity and moral psychology—is delivering the Milton First-Year Lecture in Syracuse University’s College…
SU philosopher Laurence Thomas to be feted in daylong symposium Sept. 21
A symposium honoring Laurence Thomas, internationally renowned philosopher in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 21, from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. in The Killian Room (500) of the Hall of Languages. The event includes remarks…
Comedy and Tragedy in the New England Appalachians: The Sebago Pluton Story
The Department of Earth Sciences presents the fall 2011 K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series, this week featuring Paul Tomascak from SUNY Oswego.