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Campus & Community

Get Involved with Local Youth Beyond the Hill

Thursday, January 31, 2013, By News Staff

Syracuse University students are getting creative! Through the ‘Cuse Spot at Wilson Park, SU/ESF students are creating their own original classes to teach at a local community center. This February marks the third annual “February Winter Break Program,” where university…

Arts & Culture

Glorious Storytelling in August Wilson’s Politically Potent, Humorous ‘Two Trains Running’

Thursday, January 24, 2013, By News Staff

In “Two Trains Running,” an optimistic ex-con enters the insular confines of Memphis Lee’s diner and awakens a cast of older and skeptical characters to the possibilities of a new era. Set in the turbulence of 1969, a time much like today, “Two Trains Running” is one of the most humorous and politically potent of Wilson’s 20th-Century Cycle plays.

STEM

Modifications of a nanoparticle can change chemical interactions with cell membranes

Wednesday, January 23, 2013, By News Staff

Researchers at Syracuse University’s Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering at L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science are studying the toxicity of commonly used nanoparticles, particles up to one million times smaller than a millimeter that could potentially…

Campus & Community

Center for European Studies call for proposals

Wednesday, January 16, 2013, By News Staff

Proposal deadline: Monday, Feb. 18 Center for European Studies Graduate Summer Research Grants 2013 Maxwell Graduate and Doctoral Students The Center for European Studies of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, in the Maxwell School of Syracuse University,…

Campus & Community

PLACA Summer Research Grants call for proposals

Wednesday, January 16, 2013, By News Staff

Proposal deadline: Monday, Feb. 18 PLACA Summer Research Grants Syracuse University Graduate Students Attention Graduate and Doctoral Students: This year the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean (PLACA) will grant awards to graduate students of up to $1,500 to…

Arts & Culture

A vote for Syracuse Poster Project—and local artists and poets

Tuesday, December 18, 2012, By News Staff

In 1992, the City of Syracuse received a federal grant for downtown renovations that included the installation of large-scale poster kiosks. Syracuse resident Jim Emmons, like many others, was excited about the prospect of having quality art in downtown, but was disappointed to find out-of-date event posters, if anything at all, inside the displays.

Business & Economy

Whitman School, Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship announce call for submissions for 2013 Panasci Business Plan Competition

Monday, December 10, 2012, By News Staff

The Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship and the Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises (EEE) in the Whitman School of Management have announced a call for submissions for the 2013 Panasci Business Plan Competition. The competition accepts business plan ideas from…

Campus & Community

South Asia Center call for Summer 2013 proposals

Wednesday, December 5, 2012, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s South Asia Center announces its FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Fellowship Competition for Summer 2013. The Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) Program, funded by the U.S. Department of Education under Title VI, assists students in…

Campus & Community

South Asia Center call for FLAS Academic Year 2013-14 applications

Wednesday, December 5, 2012, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s South Asia Center announces its FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Fellowship Competition for Academic Year 2013-14. The Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) Program, funded by the U.S. Department of Education under Title VI, assists students…

Arts & Culture

Irving Berlin’s musical ‘White Christmas’ delivers romance, comedy, holiday cheer

Thursday, November 29, 2012, By News Staff

The title song alone is a celebration and a reminder of a time when the simplest pleasures mattered most and having a big heart was genuinely considered a virtue. Two successful showmen join forces to help out their old army…