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Fedrizzi, Lyons to present ‘Pioneering Innovation for Sustainability: Food, Shelter and Community’ Nov. 11
The demands and trends of urbanization and sprawl, and the pressures it poses on our environment and resources are tasking communities to develop and implement sustainable solutions today, for the challenges of tomorrow. Fifty years from now, what will people…
Whitman alumna, IBM senior vice president to deliver IBM Centennial Lecture
Colleen Arnold ’81 M.B.A., senior vice president of application management services at IBM, will deliver the IBM Centennial Lecture on Tuesday, Nov. 1, on the Syracuse University campus. Her address, “Opportunities and Challenges for the Next Generation,” will use examples…
Strategy and policy advisor Jason Yaley ’05 MPA ‘06 to visit SU
The Alumni Speaker Series will wrap up the fall semester with a highly anticipated visit from Jason Yaley, A&S ’05 MPA ’06. Yaley works out of the Pentagon as strategy and policy advisor to the vice chairman of the Joint…
Annual auction to aid Syracuse Public Interest Network to be held Nov. 11
The Syracuse Public Interest Network (SPIN) will host its 19th annual Public Interest Auction on Friday, Nov. 11, at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse. The event begins at 6 p.m. and includes both silent and live auctions for such items…
601 Tully announces inaugural multimedia exhibition ‘The Butterfly Effect’
The gallery at 601 Tully, a center for engaged artistic practice located on the Near West Side of Syracuse, announces its inaugural multimedia exhibition, “The Butterfly Effect.” The show will run from Oct. 29-Dec. 9 at the gallery at 601…
Invisible Children to present the documentary ‘Tony’ about 25-year Central African conflict
Invisible Children, a media-based nonprofit dedicated to ending Africa’s longest-running war, will screen its latest documentary, ‘Tony,’ on Thursday, Nov. 3, at 6:30 p.m. in Watson Theater. Following the 50-minute documentary, Grace, a native of Uganda and an ambassador for…
Imagining America announces board developments, strategic directions
A new chair, vice chair and three new members have been elected to the National Advisory Board of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA). The board is responsible for ensuring that IA realizes its potential to animate…
Attacking cancer cells with nanoparticles
Syracuse University chemists develop novel way to get cancer drugs to tumors About every three days, Colleen Alexander, a chemistry graduate student, feeds cells that cause a deadly type of brain cancer. It’s a ritual that involves assessing the health…
Library copyright issues subject of Open Access Week talk
As a part of Open Access Week 2011, the School of Information Studies (iSchool) will host Dorothea Salo.
SU in the News: Friday, October 21
PBS NewsHour interviews Maxwell School Dean James Steinberg on recent events in Libya