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SU-SIFE helps local businesses ‘go green’
The local business community is now a little more sustainable thanks to a new green business certification program that received support from nearly two dozen Syracuse University student volunteers. Eight businesses graduated from the Green Core Company program on May…
Acclaimed poet, disability rights advocate named director of SU’s Renée Crown University Honors Program
The Renée Crown University Honors Program, an all-University program administered by Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, announces the appointment of Stephen Kuusisto as its new director. Kuusisto is an accomplished poet, scholar and disability rights advocate who comes…
StoryFest IV will feature four renowned local storytellers May 19
Four well-known local storytellers will headline this year’s StoryFest, an annual storytelling event held in honor of the late Syracuse educator Ted Grace. StoryFest IV: A Family Storytelling Event will begin at 6:30 p.m. May 19 at Corcoran High School’s…
Advocate, author Jessie C. Gruman presents ‘The Patient in Patient-Centered Care’
Jessie C. Gruman, president of the Center for Advancing Health and candidate to receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Syracuse University, will present “The Patient in Patient-Centered Care: What Clinicians Need to Know” on Friday, May 13….
Holocaust Remembrance Day service will be held at Hendricks Chapel April 27
A Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) service will be held on Wednesday, April 27, at 8 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The service will focus on remembering the victims and survivors of the Holocaust, and the groups that were persecuted. The…
Syracuse Stage to hold local equity auditions May 5, 6
Syracuse Stage will be holding local equity auditions from 10 a.m.-6 p.m., May 5-6 for roles in the upcoming 2011-12 season. Auditions will take place at Syracuse Stage, 820 E. Genesee St. Please call (315) 443-4008 to schedule an appointment. Actors…
School of Education launches new free mobile app to assist parents, advocates
Syracuse University School of Education professor Alan Foley has designed and launched a new iPhone app to help parents better advocate for their children with disabilities. iAdvocate is a free application available through iTunes that provides information on advocacy strategies…
Local minority business owner Juanita Bass is WISE Women’s Business Center success story
Juanita Bass of Juanita’s Soul Classics Inc., located in Frankfort, N.Y., is a minority-owned, local business success story that has emerged through the ongoing efforts of WISE (Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship) Women’s Business Center. WISE is an entrepreneurship…
Syracuse University students launch local Project Paper Crane campaign for Japan relief
On March 11, a massive earthquake initiated a tragic sequence of events in Japan that has led to more than 27,600 dead or missing, 173,200 homeless and hundreds of thousands more without adequate access to water, food or electricity. Syracuse University…
Godfrey has New York City premiere of ‘Anika-Two Monologues from the Holocaust’
Daniel S. Godfrey, professor and composer-in-residence in the in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, had his “Anika-Two Monologues from the Holocaust” (soprano, baritone, and an ensemble of seven players) premiered by Sequitur at Symphony Space in New York City on Monday, April 4 .