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Supporting military families: IVMF issues response on report by departments of Treasury and Defense

Monday, February 20, 2012, By News Staff

Report concerns best practices for streamlining occupational licensing across state lines for military spouses The Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University issues the following statement in response to a recent report issued jointly by the departments of…

Arts & Culture

‘The Lower Depths’: Provocative portrait of outcasts from master of Russian realism

Monday, February 20, 2012, By News Staff

A masterpiece of Russian realism, “The Lower Depths,” was Maxim Gorky’s first great play, and its premiere production in 1902 helped establish the reputation of the famed Moscow Art Theatre and its influential director, Constantine Stanislavsky. Presented by the Department…

Latin America and community is focus for La Casita event

Friday, February 17, 2012, By News Staff

La Casita Cultural Center will present “Latin American Understandings of Community,” a roundtable discussion with Paulina Ochoa, a political theorist from Yale University, at 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 6, at the center, 109 Otisco St., Syracuse. The event is free…

Ron Meyer, head of Universal Studios, will visit Newhouse March 1

Friday, February 17, 2012, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Universal Studios president and COO Ron Meyer will visit the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Thursday, March 1. A Q-and-A with Meyer and Newhouse Professor of Practice Richard Dubin will take place at 3 p.m. in the Joyce…

Three renowned authors will be featured during Spring 2012 University Lectures

Friday, February 17, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Jonathan Franzen kicks off series March 6 Jonathan Franzen, award-winning author of “The Corrections” and “Freedom,” will kick off the 2012 University Lectures series at Syracuse University on Tuesday, March 6. Franzen is the first in a trio of noted…

Campus & Community

Otto’s Army goes for Naismith Student Section of the Year

Thursday, February 16, 2012, By News Staff

Otto’s Army is in the running for the Naismith Award for the Best Student Section in the Nation. Otto’s Army made the top cut and is now in a second round of voting that determines the top eight finalists.

Campus & Community

WAER’s Spring membership drive

Thursday, February 16, 2012, By News Staff

If WAER has won your heart, let us know with a pledge of financial support during our Spring membership drive, Feb. 12-18.

Campus & Community

Many prospective students to visit campus on Feb. 20

Thursday, February 16, 2012, By News Staff

The Office of Undergraduate Admissions will welcome many visitors to campus for the Winter Campus Day for high school juniors on Monday, Feb. 20.

A look at abolitionist, suffragist Lucretia Mott at next session of IRP

Wednesday, February 15, 2012, By Eileen Jevis

At the Feb. 16 session of the Institute for Retired People (IRP), Carol Faulkner, associate professor and chair of the Department of History at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School, will discuss Lucretia Mott and the Seneca Falls Convention. Mott, a Quaker…

SU helps Jewish Center of Norwich celebrate restoration efforts Feb. 16

Wednesday, February 15, 2012, By Rob Enslin

The Jewish Center of Norwich—which made headlines in 2008, when it was vandalized by local youths—is the subject of a forthcoming event involving Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences and its Judaic studies program. SU friends and alumni, as…