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Arts & Culture

‘Fuddy Meers’ presents hilarious antics in a world where nothing is what it seems

Monday, October 31, 2011, By News Staff

With moments like a wild carnival ride, throwing the characters back and forth between perception and reality, playwright David Lindsay-Abaire masters off-beat humor in “Fuddy Meers” with a colorful cast of characters consisting of a lisping, limping man; a pot-smoking…

STEM

IBM recognizes SU physicist for excellence in research

Monday, October 31, 2011, By News Staff

Britton L.T. Plourde, associate professor of physics in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, received a 2011 IBM Faculty Award. The highly competitive and prestigious award is presented annually to recognize high-quality research programs and researchers’ contributions to their…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell, Newhouse to co-host Murrow Program for Journalists

Monday, October 31, 2011, By News Staff

For the sixth consecutive year, the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will co-host 17 international journalists participating in the State Department’s Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists. This year’s cohort represents…

Whitman alumna, IBM senior vice president to deliver IBM Centennial Lecture

Friday, October 28, 2011, By News Staff

Colleen Arnold ’81 M.B.A., senior vice president of application management services at IBM, will deliver the IBM Centennial Lecture on Tuesday, Nov. 1, on the Syracuse University campus. Her address, “Opportunities and Challenges for the Next Generation,” will use examples…

Annual auction to aid Syracuse Public Interest Network to be held Nov. 11

Friday, October 28, 2011, By Jaclyn D. Grosso

The Syracuse Public Interest Network (SPIN) will host its 19th annual Public Interest Auction on Friday, Nov. 11, at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse. The event begins at 6 p.m. and includes both silent and live auctions for such items…

Arts & Culture

Paying it forward in time and talents

Thursday, October 27, 2011, By News Staff

Alumna mentors Renée Crown Honors student for her Capstone Project When noted jewelry historian Mary Gilbert Palmer ’65 learned that Laura Marsolek, a junior art history and metalsmithing major, was planning an honors capstone project on Renaissance jewelry, Palmer agreed to…

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.

Campus & Community

Building Bridges: The Tools of Public Diplomacy

Tuesday, October 25, 2011, By News Staff

An engaging, two-day symposium, Building Bridges: The Tools of Public Diplomacy, is set to take place Oct. 27 and 28.

Media, Law & Policy

University to host fourth annual Public Diplomacy Symposium Oct. 27 and 28

Tuesday, October 25, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s Public Diplomacy Program and Association of Public Diplomacy Scholars will present the fourth annual Public Diplomacy Symposium “Building Bridges: The Tools of Public Diplomacy” on Oct. 27 and 28 on the SU campus. The event, which will include…

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…