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Stone Canoe to award IVMF Prize for Written Work by a Veteran beginning in 2013

Friday, March 30, 2012, By News Staff

Three critically acclaimed authors—all vets—to judge first prize Beginning in 2013, Stone Canoe, A Journal of Arts, Literature and Social Commentary published by Syracuse University, will award the Institute for Veterans and Military Families Prize for Written Work by a Veteran. The…

Newhouse to host advance screening of new HBO comedy ‘Veep’

Thursday, March 29, 2012, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Alumni involved with the show will attend, answer questions  Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture in Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, will host an advance screening of the new HBO comedy…

Health & Society

National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Club honors two School of Education colleagues for excellence and leadership

Thursday, March 29, 2012, By News Staff

Two members of the School of Education’s Partnership for Better Education and Center for Graduate Preparation and Achievement received honors from the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Club. Christabel O. B. Sheldon, director of the Ronald E….

U.S. deputy secretary of state to speak at Maxwell on U.S. foreign policy priorities

Wednesday, March 28, 2012, By News Staff

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns will visit the Maxwell School on Friday, April 6, to give a talk on U.S. foreign policy priorities. The lecture, from 12:30-2 p.m., will be followed by an audience Q-and-A session. Burns is…

Arts & Culture

Department of Drama Presents ‘Quilters’ a joyous, moving, musical celebration from the American Frontier

Tuesday, March 27, 2012, By News Staff

The memories, hopes, dreams and prayers of the indomitable women of the American frontier enliven this hauntingly beautiful musical. Based on oral histories from the pioneers of the prairie states, “Quilters” celebrates with unassuming honesty and simplicity the fears, joys,…

Colgate University’s Marlowe to lecture on archaeological origins in Roman antiquities collecting

Tuesday, March 27, 2012, By News Staff

Elizabeth Marlowe, assistant professor of art & art history at Colgate University, will present the lecture “False Friends: Context, Connoisseurship and the History of Roman Art” on Thursday, April 19, at 5 p.m. in Slocum Auditorium (second floor). The event, which…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Wednesday, March 21

Wednesday, March 21, 2012, By News Staff

Whitman School’s John Torrens writes in Wall Street Journal on equity-based crowd funding

Student entrepreneurs network, inspire and compete for seed funding at Emerging Talk

Thursday, March 15, 2012, By News Staff

It’s not easy to be a full-time student while holding down a job, let alone also create that job you’re holding down.  It’s not easy to solve math and chemistry problems, let alone decide which of the world’s problems are…

Former Sandbox company wins top industry startup award at SXSW

Thursday, March 15, 2012, By News Staff

Diane Stirling(315) 443-8975 A .com company launched from the School of Information Studies/Syracuse Tech Garden Sandbox in 2009 by three Syracuse University graduates was named “Best Bootstrapped Startup” at the tech industry’s pinnacle conference of the year last night. BrandYourself.com…

Jewish environmentalism to be addressed at next B.G. Rudolph Lecture April 1

Thursday, March 15, 2012, By Rob Enslin

Jewish environmentalism is the topic of the next B.G. Rudolph Lecture at Syracuse University. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, director of Jewish studies at Arizona State University, will address “Judaism and Environmentalism: Are They Compatible?” on Sunday, April 1, at 3 p.m. at…