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Arts & Culture

A fantastical, musical adventure for the holidays in ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’

Thursday, November 17, 2011, By News Staff

London. The war is on and the bombs are falling. Four children—Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy—flee the perils of the Blitz to the safety of the countryside. In an old wardrobe, they discover a portal to the land of Narnia,…

Syracuse University and The King Center announce The King Center Audio and Visual Digitization Project

Wednesday, November 16, 2011, By Scott McDowell

The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (The King Center) and Syracuse University announce The King Center Audio and Visual Digitization Project, a collaboration that will ensure that the slain civil rights leader’s legacy will be preserved for…

‘Seymourofus Cross-generational Conversation’ at La Casita Cultural Center Nov. 17

Tuesday, November 15, 2011, By News Staff

On Thursday, Nov. 17, from 1:30-2:30 p.m., La Casita will host “Seymourofus Cross-generational Conversation,” a community discussion led by Seymour School third-graders on issues of cultural memory, spaces of belonging and active participation in Syracuse. And from 2:30-4 p.m., community…

Arts & Culture

Sherman presents video art in Nova Scotia

Tuesday, November 15, 2011, By Erica Blust

Tom Sherman, professor of art video in the Department of Transmedia in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, presented his recent video art at the ADJA Gallery in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. He also presented his video and lecture at the McLuhan100 Conference in Toronto on Nov. 10. His presentation was “Technology as language: Cultural engineering begets personal humans.”

Alumnus’s $100,000 gift to BBI will support next generation of disability leaders

Tuesday, November 15, 2011, By News Staff

In support of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, Howard D. Olinsky, L’85, a disability law attorney representing clients across the country, has announced a commitment of $100,000 to BBI, one of the institute’s most generous private donations….

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Monday, November 14

Monday, November 14, 2011, By News Staff

CNN features collaboration between SU and Fort Drum soldiers, created by Maxwell School’s William Smullen

Media, Law & Policy

Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research receives National Science Foundation grant

Friday, November 11, 2011, By News Staff

The Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (IQMR) is beginning its 11th year—and its fourth at the Maxwell School—with a new grant of $150,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Associate Professor of Political Science Colin Elman is principal investigator…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Thursday, November 10

Thursday, November 10, 2011, By News Staff

Whitman School’s EBV, job creation and business training are highlighted in national and regional media

AAS prof Steinbeck to present concert of jazz, blues, gospel

Thursday, November 10, 2011, By News Staff

Paul Steinbeck, an assistant professor of musicology in the Department of African American Studies in The College of Arts and Sciences, will present a concert of jazz, blues and gospel music Thursday, Nov. 17, from 6:30-8 p.m. at the Community…

Burfoot-Rochford appointed director of Early Education and Child Care Center

Thursday, November 10, 2011, By News Staff

Holley Burfoot-Rochford has been appointed director of Syracuse University’s Early Education and Child Care Center on South Campus. Former director Joan Supiro retired at the end of September, after 32 years of service. Burfoot-Rochford comes to SU from the Children’s…