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‘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…

Conference celebrates internationally renowned mathematician

Monday, March 26, 2012, By News Staff

Mathematical researchers and graduate students from across the United States and Canada will converge on the Syracuse University campus April 13-15 to celebrate internationally renowned mathematical theorist Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz and to discuss the intersection of two diverse areas of mathematical…

SU Humanities Center hosts lectures by renowned cultural critic March 27-28

Monday, March 26, 2012, By Rob Enslin

International cultural critic Taek-Gwang Lee is making two rare appearances at Syracuse University. On Tuesday, March 27, he will discuss “Towards Geo-Cinematology: Negotiating the Identity of East Asian Cinemas” at 4 p.m. in the SU Humanities Center Seminar Room (304)…

Cornerstone Promotion co-CEO Jon Cohen ’90 to speak March 27

Monday, March 26, 2012, By Erica Blust

Jon Cohen ’90, co-CEO of Cornerstone Promotion, will present a lecture on Tuesday, March 27, at 6:45 p.m. in the Lender Auditorium, located on the concourse level of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. The lecture is part of…

Join SU, SUNY-ESF in annual Earth Day communitywide cleanup

Monday, March 26, 2012, By News Staff

The Office of Off-Campus and Commuter Services within the Division of Student Affairs will host its annual Earth Day Communitywide Cleanup on Saturday, April 21, from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Each year, SU and SUNY-ESF students, faculty, staff and Syracuse-area residents…

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Episodic growth of high topography in eastern Tibet

Monday, March 26, 2012, By News Staff

The Department of Earth Sciences presents the spring 2012 K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series, this week featuring Eric Kirby from Penn State.

SU named to 2012 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction

Monday, March 26, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University is one of only eight institutions in New York state to be named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction. SU has been named for the sixth consecutive year. The honor roll, launched in…

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SU in the News: Friday, March 23

Friday, March 23, 2012, By News Staff

Peter Wilcoxen of the Maxwell School quoted in PRI on Churchill River hydroelectric plans in Canada

Light Work to exhibit ‘Pastoral’ by Alexander Gronsky

Thursday, March 22, 2012, By Jessica H. Reed

Gallery reception is Tuesday, March 27, 5-7 p.m. Light Work has announced the exhibition “Pastoral,” featuring landscape photographs by Alexander Gronsky. The photographs were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow, where the human need to find solace away from…

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Diamonds from ultra-high pressure terranes

Thursday, March 22, 2012, By News Staff

The Department of Earth Sciences presents the spring 2012 K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series, this week featuring Larissa Dobrzhinetskaya, from U.C. Riverside.