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Paul Roberts to deliver SU Showcase keynote on realities of a sustainable future

Monday, April 16, 2012, By News Staff

How do we build a sustainable future, especially when much of the present seems so unsustainable? Journalist and author Paul Roberts will tackle this issue during his SU Showcase keynote presentation, “The Real Cost of Change: The Economic and Political…

‘Waste Land’ documentary to screen on April 17

Thursday, April 12, 2012, By News Staff

What happens in the world’s largest city of trash? Find out at the screening of “Waste Land,” a mesmerizing look at the extent of recycling that’s possible and the transformative power of art. “Waste Land” will be shown on Tuesday,…

New York Bar Foundation presents second installment of $250,000 grant to EBV program

Thursday, April 12, 2012, By News Staff

Representatives from the New York Bar Foundation will present the second installment of a $250,000 grant to the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) at Syracuse University on Friday, April 13. The grant monies enable 35 additional veterans to…

Campus & Community

iSchool to hold data science, social media program information session April 17

Thursday, April 12, 2012, By News Staff

The Graduate Recruitment Office of the School of Information Studies (iSchool) at Syracuse University is hosting an information session regarding two certificate programs on Tuesday, April 17.

Students launch buy-local program during run-up to SU Showcase

Wednesday, April 11, 2012, By News Staff

Syracuse University students in The College of Arts and Sciences’ Soling 300: “Sustainable SU” class are running a buy-local initiative they’ve created to help support a more sustainable Syracuse green economy. The Stamp-Pede Local Businesses program offers prizes for shopping…

Award-winning memoirist concludes Spring 2012 Raymond Carver Reading Series

Wednesday, April 11, 2012, By News Staff

Kelle Groom will read from ‘I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl’ Kelle Groom, author of the memoir “I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl” (Free Press/Simon and Schuster, 2011), will conclude the Spring…

Green filmmaker Antonio Saillant to speak at SU Showcase April 18

Wednesday, April 11, 2012, By News Staff

As part of SU Showcase for Sustainability 2012, innovative director and producer Antonio Saillant will present on greening the entertainment industry. Saillant will speak at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18, in the Schine Student Center Goldstein Auditorium. He will…

Long-term research reveals causes, consequences of environmental change

Tuesday, April 10, 2012, By News Staff

As global temperatures rise, the most threatened ecosystems are those that depend on a season of snow and ice, scientists from the nation’s Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network say.“The vulnerability of cool, wet areas to climate change is striking,”…

Short films by Department of Transmedia students to screen at Everson Museum April 24

Tuesday, April 10, 2012, By Erica Blust

The Everson Museum of Art will present “Video Now,” its annual screening of short videos created by students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Transmedia, on Tuesday, April 24, at 7 p.m. at the museum, 401…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Tuesday, April 10

Tuesday, April 10, 2012, By News Staff

Southern California Public Radio interviews College of Law’s David Cay Johnston on elimination of universal service obligation for landlines