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School of Education lecture series to present ‘Our Schools Suck’ March 3

Thursday, February 24, 2011, By News Staff

The public conversation about the problems with urban schools often places the blame on students who attend those schools, focusing on youths’ poor attitudes and negative values. The latest installment in the Syracuse University School of Education‘s Landscape of Urban…

Music business manager Phil Sarna to speak March 1

Wednesday, February 23, 2011, By Erica Blust

Phil Sarna, managing director of PS Business Management, LLC, will present a lecture on Tuesday, March 1, 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…

XL Projects to exhibit ‘New Directions in Photography’ March 9-27

Wednesday, February 23, 2011, By Erica Blust

What does it mean to be an art photographer today? In the exhibition “New Directions in Photography,” the third-year art photography graduate students in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) prove that the photographic medium has outgrown…

Artist Gerard Haggerty to speak March 8

Tuesday, February 22, 2011, By Erica Blust

Artist Gerard Haggerty will give a talk on Tuesday, March 8, at 6:30 p.m. in Shemin Auditorium in the Dorothea Ilgen Shaffer Art Building. The free, public lecture is sponsored by the painting program as part of the Department of…

Hendricks Chapel to host lunchtime discussion on religious pluralism on March 1

Tuesday, February 22, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Rabbi Brad Hirschfield will lead a lunchtime discussion on “How Big Is Your God? Religious Pluralism in an Age of Increasing Extremism” on Tuesday, March 1, in the Noble Room in Syracuse University’s Hendricks Chapel. Lunch will be served at…

Health & Society

Cynthia Sass, SU alum, nutrition health expert, presents ‘Stop Counting, Start Living’ March 3

Tuesday, February 22, 2011, By Michele Barrett

Syracuse University alumna Cynthia Sass, one of the most well-known and respected registered dietitians in the country, will present, “Stop Counting, Start Living,” on March 3 at 7 p.m., in Heroy Auditorium, on the SU campus. This informative discussion, which…

iSchool to host second annual ‘Girls are I.T.’ event in March

Tuesday, February 22, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies (iSchool), in conjunction with the Girl Scouts of NYPENN Pathways and Say Yes to Education Syracuse, will host a number of middle school-aged girls from the Central New York area on Saturday, March 5,…

Penn State’s Michael Berube to lecture on humanities March 4

Tuesday, February 22, 2011, By News Staff

Michael Berube, professor and director of the Institute for Arts and the Humanities at Pennsylvania State University, will visit campus on Friday, March 4, to deliver two talks on the humanities.  On Friday morning, Berube will give the talk “Narrative…

Craig Scott ’86, Syracuse Architecture alum and visiting critic, to lecture

Tuesday, February 22, 2011, By Elaine Wackerow

Craig Scott, co-founder with Lisa Iwamato of San Francisco architectural design firm IwamotoScott, will speak at the Syracuse University School of Architecture on Tuesday, March 1, at 5 p.m. in Slocum Hall Auditorium. His lecture, “IwamotoScott: three avenues,” is free…

Campus & Community

Research participants needed

Monday, February 21, 2011, By News Staff

Participants are needed for a study of life perspective, health behaviors and health.