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SU Brass Ensemble Announces Spring Season

Tuesday, April 2, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Performances slated for Watertown, Cicero, Rome, Fayetteville and Auburn The Syracuse University Brass Ensemble (SUBE), directed by James T. Spencer, announces its spring concert schedule, with performances in Watertown, Cicero, Rome, Fayetteville and Auburn. All concerts are free and open…

STEM

Research Shows Potential for Quasicrystals

Monday, April 1, 2013, By News Staff

Ever since their discovery in 1984, the burgeoning area of research looking at quasiperiodic structures has revealed astonishing opportunities in a number of areas of fundamental and applied research, including applications in lasing and sensing. Quasiperiodic structures, or quasicrystals, because…

Campus & Community

‘Learning and the Massive Open Online Course’ to Be Presented April 3 and 4

Tuesday, March 26, 2013, By News Staff

Over the past year, the massive open online course (MOOC) has emerged as a significantly different course model. But how robust is the MOOC as a vehicle for learning? Join us April 3 and 4 for the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative…

Veterans

Michael Schoeneck Joins IVMF as Program Manager for Boots to Business and VetNet

Tuesday, March 19, 2013, By News Staff

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University (IVMF) has appointed Michael Schoeneck as the Boots to Business and VetNet program manager. In this role, he will be responsible for the management, coordination and administration of the IVMF’s…

Kirk VanGilder Visits SU March 20-21 for Conversations on Creating Spaces for Inclusion

Thursday, March 14, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Rev. Kirk VanGilder, professor of religion at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., will visit Syracuse University March 20-21 for a series of conversations on creating spaces for inclusion. “Without Walls: What Temporary Deaf Spaces Can Tell Us About Managing Identity…

German Author and Scholar Present Joint Reading on Holocaust Memories in Literature March 6

Monday, February 25, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Susanna Piontek and Guy Stern will examine translation and fictionalization of actual memories The literary representation of Holocaust memories will be the subject of a presentation by the husband-and-wife team of Susanna Piontek and Guy Stern in Syracuse University’s College…

Report from Institute for Veterans and Military Families and Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism Argues for a National Veterans Strategy

Tuesday, February 19, 2013, By News Staff

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) and the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT) at Syracuse University released a policy report Feb. 19 that details what the authors describe as a “historic opportunity” related to the potential…

Campus & Community

Disability Culture, Faith and Secularism, Part II: Creating Spaces for Inclusion

Friday, February 15, 2013, By News Staff

Without Walls: What Temporary Deaf Spaces Can Tell Us about Managing Identity Politics The Rev. Kirk VanGilder WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20 Noble Room, Hendricks Chapel The Rev. Kirk VanGilder is a professor of Religion at Gallaudet University, who was born hard…

Raymond Carver Reading Series to Feature Award-Winning Novelist Justin Torres

Friday, February 15, 2013, By News Staff

The Spring 2013 Raymond Carver Reading Series continues with novelist Justin Torres, author of the critically acclaimed “We the Animals” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011) at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27, in Gifford Auditorium. The reading will be preceded by a…

Campus & Community

Disabilities as Ways of Knowing—A Series of Creative Writing Conversations: Part II

Friday, February 15, 2013, By News Staff

The Disability Experience and Poetic Verse Reading by Poets Jim Ferris, Laurie Clements Lambeth, and Stephen Kuusisto March 28 Reading 7-8 p.m. at Watson Theater Reception and book signing from 8-9 p.m. at Light Work Jim Ferris, Laurie Clements Lambeth…