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Campus & Community

Alston named senior vice president for human capital development

Friday, October 14, 2011, By News Staff

Kal Alston has been named senior vice president for human capital development at Syracuse University. Alston’s appointment to this newly created position addresses the need for the strategic leadership of major initiatives and projects related to the inclusion and development…

Campus & Community

iSchool and MLB.com to offer second annual ‘MLB.com College Challenge’

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By J.D. Ross

For the second year the School of Information Studies (iSchool) and MLB.com are co-sponsoring the MLB.com College Challenge, a contest that invites iSchool students to develop new ideas that could end up on MLB.com, Major League Baseball’s official website.

Arts & Culture

SU Brass Ensemble kicks off 2011-12 season with ‘Silver Screen’ concert in Rome Oct. 23

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By Rob Enslin

The Syracuse University Brass Ensemble (SUBE), a 35-piece group housed in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, kicks off the 2011-12 season with its popular “Silver Screen” program. The concert—emceed by WCNY-FM’s Bruce Paulsen, with projected images coordinated by…

Arts & Culture

Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series presents award-winning novelist Terese Svoboda

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By News Staff

The Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series will continue on Oct. 26 with novelist Terese Svoboda, author of the recently published “Bohemian Girl” (Bison Books, 2011), which critics describe as a cross between “True Grit” and “Huckleberry Finn.” The reading…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Thursday, October 13

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By News Staff

Rehab Management magazine reports U.S. Department of Education support for BBI leadership of Southeast ADA Center

Arts & Culture

VPA announces associate dean appointments

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By Erica Blust

The College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) has announced two associate dean appointments. The appointments will allow Arthur Jensen, VPA’s senior associate dean of academic affairs and a professor of communication and rhetorical studies in the Department of Communication…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell School names two Robertson Fellows

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By News Staff

The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs enters its second year of collaboration with the Robertson Foundation for Government by naming the two newest Robertson Fellows. Laura Alexander of Tamarac, Fla., and Nathan Strand of Gaithersburg, Md., began their…

Media, Law & Policy

University to host two-day conference on urban revitalization

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By News Staff

Speakers, workshops will focus on urban transformations through art and design A conference on “Urban Revitalization: Transformations through Art and Design” will be held Friday and Saturday, Oct. 28 and 29, at the Warehouse Auditorium, 360 W. Fayette St. The…

Arts & Culture

SU’s Ray Smith Symposium explores homosexuality, male culture in Renaissance Italy Oct. 20-21

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By Rob Enslin

The Ray Smith Symposium in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences continues its yearlong examination of “Sex and Power from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment” with a mini residency by Italian Renaissance scholar Michael Rocke. Rocke—the Nicky Mariano…

Media, Law & Policy

Ondrich researching connection between housing values, retirement

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By News Staff

Jan Ondrich, professor of economics in the Maxwell School, will conduct research into how housing values affect retirement decisions, particularly in the context of the Great Recession.