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Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series final installments include novelist and poet

Tuesday, November 15, 2011, By News Staff

The final two installments of the Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series will feature memoirist and poet Peter Balakian, who will read from his latest work, “Ziggurat,” on Nov. 30; and award-winning poet Christopher Kennedy, who will share his work…

Media, Law & Policy

Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research receives National Science Foundation grant

Friday, November 11, 2011, By News Staff

The Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (IQMR) is beginning its 11th year—and its fourth at the Maxwell School—with a new grant of $150,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Associate Professor of Political Science Colin Elman is principal investigator…

AAS prof Steinbeck to present concert of jazz, blues, gospel

Thursday, November 10, 2011, By News Staff

Paul Steinbeck, an assistant professor of musicology in the Department of African American Studies in The College of Arts and Sciences, will present a concert of jazz, blues and gospel music Thursday, Nov. 17, from 6:30-8 p.m. at the Community…

Journalist Bob Herbert to talk about America’s current challenges in Nov. 15 University Lecture

Monday, November 7, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Award-winning journalist and author Bob Herbert will speak on the challenges facing modern-day America on Nov. 15 at Syracuse University in the final University Lecture of the fall 2011 semester. Herbert’s presentation, “Wounded Colossus,” will begin at 7:30 p.m. in…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Friday, November 4

Friday, November 4, 2011, By News Staff

Wall Street Journal quotes Whitman School’s John Torrens on small business owners and social media crowd funding

SU holds Veterans Day National Roll call on Nov. 11

Thursday, November 3, 2011, By News Staff

On Veterans Day, Nov. 11, Syracuse University will join more than 175 colleges and universities from 50 states and the District of Columbia in a Remembrance Day National Roll Call. The event is designed to honor the more than 6,270…

Renaissance art, theater expert headlines ‘Sex and Power’ program at SU Nov. 10-11

Monday, October 31, 2011, By Rob Enslin

The Ray Smith Symposium in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences continues its yearlong examination of “Sex and Power from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment” with a mini-residency by a gender and sexuality expert in art and theater….

‘Democracy Now!’ host Amy Goodman to speak Nov. 3

Friday, October 28, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The Syracuse Peace Council and Syracuse University’s Tully Center for Free Speech will present “Independent Media: Speaking Up for Democracy” with “Democracy Now!” host Amy Goodman on Thursday, Nov. 3, at 7 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The event is free…

Veterans

IVMF’s Schmeling to present on universal design, explore opportunities to assist international organizations during Latin American trip

Monday, October 24, 2011, By News Staff

James Schmeling, managing director of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University and executive director of the Global Universal Design Commission, will travel to São Paulo, Brazil through Oct. 28 to present on Universal Design (UD)…

Arts & Culture

National Geographic film ‘Human Footprint’ to be shown Oct. 20

Wednesday, October 19, 2011, By News Staff

The Syracuse University Sustainability Division will be showing the National Geographic Channel film “Human Footprint,” on Thursday, Oct. 20, at 7 p.m. in Watson Theater in the Menschel Media Center. Admission is free and open to the public. Moviegoers should…