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New Course Will Help Students Build Concrete Skills in Community Organizing

Wednesday, April 3, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

A new course in the fall 2013 semester will teach students key skills of organizing by leading a community engagement project on campus. “Community Organizing: People, Power and Change” (SWK 400/CFE 400) will meet on Wednesdays from 2:15-5 p.m., and…

Fans, Alumni Plan for Final Four Fever

Wednesday, April 3, 2013, By Keith Kobland

With only 53,000 seats available at the Georgia Dome for the Final Four, it’s a safe bet many SU fans will be watching Saturday night’s SU-Michigan game on TV. Throughout the United States and abroad, there are opportunities to view…

SU Brass Ensemble Announces Spring Season

Tuesday, April 2, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Performances slated for Watertown, Cicero, Rome, Fayetteville and Auburn The Syracuse University Brass Ensemble (SUBE), directed by James T. Spencer, announces its spring concert schedule, with performances in Watertown, Cicero, Rome, Fayetteville and Auburn. All concerts are free and open…

Have No Idea Where to Go with Your Idea? Come to Emerging Talk!

Tuesday, April 2, 2013, By News Staff

It takes an entrepreneurial ecosystem to help college students turn an idea into a venture.  And plenty of students are taking on the challenge of executing their ideas. Where do you find these students?  How do these students meet others…

International Exchange: Cultivating Fulbright Students

Tuesday, April 2, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

Third-year Ph.D. anthropology student Stephen Johnson returned from India last summer knowing that he hadn’t fully explored all of his questions for his Ph.D. topic on the relationship between Tibetan refugees and Indian communities.

Now he has another opportunity—and a prestigious, international distinction that has made it possible.

STEM

Research Shows Potential for Quasicrystals

Monday, April 1, 2013, By News Staff

Ever since their discovery in 1984, the burgeoning area of research looking at quasiperiodic structures has revealed astonishing opportunities in a number of areas of fundamental and applied research, including applications in lasing and sensing. Quasiperiodic structures, or quasicrystals, because…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage Announces 2013 Production of ‘A Christmas Carol’

Monday, April 1, 2013, By News Staff

The beloved holiday classic “A Christmas Carol” returns to Central New York after a seven-year absence in an all-new adaptation and production from director Peter Amster (“Moby Dick,” “The 39 Steps,” “This Wonderful Life,” “The Fantasticks”). “He was a tightfisted…

Campus & Community

2013 Summer Parking Upgrade Information

Monday, April 1, 2013, By News Staff

Summer upgrades for 2013 will be offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. In order to be considered for an upgrade, you must email Lanita Oliver at ljoliver@syr.edu no sooner than April 15 at 12:01 a.m. All requests will be processed…

Setnor School of Music’s Baker Artists Program to Provide New Opportunities for On- and Off-Campus Learning

Monday, April 1, 2013, By Erica Blust

A new program in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music will create more opportunities for students to learn from and connect with music professionals both on and off campus. The Baker Artists Program will allow…

Landscape of Urban Education Lecture Presents Revealing Look at Rosa Parks

Monday, April 1, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The School of Education’s Landscape of Urban Education Lecture Series will present historian Jeanne Theoharis, author of “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks” (Beacon Press, 2013) on Wednesday, April 3. The lecture begins at 4 p.m. in the Miron…