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NEW! Summer Institute for Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning

Monday, March 26, 2012, By News Staff

The Online Learning Services (OLS) group of Information Technology and Services (ITS) will offer its inaugural Summer Institute for Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning (SITETL) to be held this summer in two separate week-long sessions in
order to accommodate different schedules.

‘Citizen writer’ Terry Tempest Williams will close out 2011-12 University Lectures season

Monday, March 26, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Conservationist, free speech advocate and author Terry Tempest Williams will be the final guest of the University Lectures 2011-12 season on Thursday, March 29. Williams will speak on “The Writer as Witness” during a conversation with Don Mitchell, Distinguished Professor…

#CMGRchat tops Twitter’s worldwide trending topics

Monday, March 26, 2012, By Diane Stirling

An online gathering for community managers and others interested in social media practice that is hosted by two Syracuse University-affiliated social media professionals achieved worldwide “trending” status on Twitter this week. The chat ranked second, just below the topic of…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage’s ‘The Brothers Size’ moving to leading theaters in South Africa

Friday, March 23, 2012, By News Staff

Syracuse Stage’s production of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers Size, directed by Producing Artistic Director Timothy Bond, will move to leading theaters in South Africa, made possible by support from the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation. “The Brothers Size” began rehearsing…

Media, Law & Policy

Bahraini journalist Lamees Dhaif honored with Tully Free Speech Award

Thursday, March 22, 2012, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Lamees Dhaif, an independent Bahraini journalist and human rights activist, will come to Syracuse University April 2 as the recipient of the 2012 Tully Award for Free Speech. The award, presented annually by the Tully Center for Free Speech in…

Environmental activist, scholar Martin Sage dies

Thursday, March 22, 2012, By News Staff

Environmental activist and scholar Martin Sage, professor emeritus in the Department of Chemistry in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, died Feb. 3. He was 76. Although he retired in 2008, Sage remained active in the department and in…

Community engagement to be honored at annual CAPES Award ceremony March 26

Thursday, March 22, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University will honor students, faculty, staff and community partners who exemplify SU’s commitment to engagement with the community and Scholarship in Action with the 2012 Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship (CAPES). The awards will be given at…

Weeklong Diavolo Dance Theater residency includes opportunities for students, public performance

Wednesday, March 21, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

ArtsEngage, Syracuse University’s Office of the Arts Presenter, will sponsor a week-long residency with the Diavolo Dance Theater, an internationally renowned modern acrobatic dance company, April 9-13 at the newly renovated Landmark Theatre in downtown Syracuse. Diavolo company members are…

Cause Consulting’s Risa Sherman G’96 will speak at Newhouse March 29

Wednesday, March 21, 2012, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Risa Sherman G’96, senior consultant with Cause Consulting, will visit the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Thursday, March 29 as a guest of the public relations department. She will speak at 7:30 p.m. in the Halmi Screening Room,…

Teens learn to document their lives through photography

Monday, March 19, 2012, By News Staff

La Casita Cultural Center to exhibit work of students from the Westside Academy at Blodgett A group of 13 students from the Westside Academy at Blodgett has spent the past four weeks learning to document their lives through photographs and…