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Lane presents keynote address at March of Dimes conference

Monday, April 4, 2011, By Michele Barrett

Sandra Lane, professor of public health and anthropology in the College of Human Ecology, and research professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Upstate Medical University, presented the keynote address at the March of Dimes, NYS Chapter 33rd Annual Perinatal Nurses Conference on March 29 in New York City.

Exhibition explores approaches to art and civic dialogue

Monday, April 4, 2011, By News Staff

Community Folk Art Center is presenting “You Are Here,” which opens on Friday, April 8, and runs until Saturday, April 23. The exhibition explores various intersections of citizenship and art practice. The show grew out of a year-long graduate seminar…

Syracuse iSchool sends students to Silicon Valley for spring break

Friday, April 1, 2011, By News Staff

The Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) sent 12 students to Silicon Valley in California during the University’s spring break to visit technology startups and businesses. “I’m extremely grateful to the staff and the iSchool at Syracuse University for…

VPA Advisory Council member, former professor establishes $1M endowed professor of practice in design innovation

Friday, April 1, 2011, By Erica Blust

Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) has announced the creation of the Iris Magidson Professor of Practice in Design Innovation. The professorship, which will be based in the college’s Department of Design, was established through a $1…

STEM

LCS’s Dacheng Ren given prestigious NSF CAREER Award to study biofilms

Wednesday, March 30, 2011, By News Staff

Dacheng Ren, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering in Syracuse University’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, has been given the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award by the National Science Foundation (NSF)…

James B. Steinberg named dean of Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

Wednesday, March 30, 2011, By Kevin C. Quinn

James B. Steinberg, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, has been named dean of SU’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and University Professor of Social Science, International Affairs and Law. The appointment, which will become effective this summer, was…

Maude Barlow, leading expert on water issues, to close University Lectures 2010-11 season

Tuesday, March 29, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Maude Barlow, co-founder of the Blue Planet Project and chair of the Food & Water Watch, will be the final guest in the 2010-11 University Lectures season at Syracuse University on Tuesday, April 5. Her presentation, “The Global Water Crisis and…

Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship to be given March 30

Tuesday, March 29, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University will honor students, faculty, staff and community partners who exemplify SU’s commitment to engagement with the community and Scholarship in Action with the 2011 Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship at a celebration dinner on Wednesday, March…

SU visiting professor explores art, nature, gender in Renaissance Italy April 6

Tuesday, March 29, 2011, By Rob Enslin

Mary Garrard, a nationally renowned feminist art historian, will come to Syracuse University in April as the William Fleming Visiting Professor in Art History. In this capacity, Garrard will deliver the 2011 Doris Lecture, “Art Versus Nature: A Renaissance Competition…

Arts & Culture

SU Drama presents ‘Curse of the Starving Class’

Tuesday, March 29, 2011, By News Staff

The Syracuse University Department of Drama will present Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard’s deeply unsettling, darkly funny family melodrama “Curse of the Starving Class” April 1-10 in the Storch Theatre at Syracuse Stage. Centering on a family in a dire…