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Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist to present Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Public Affairs Lecture

Tuesday, February 21, 2012, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s 29th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Public Affairs Lecture will feature syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts Jr., of The Miami Herald, who won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Pitts will present “The Beloved Community” at 7 p.m….

Burton Blatt Institute, Eastern Washington University partner to promote entrepreneurship for people with disabilities in Ghana

Tuesday, February 21, 2012, By News Staff

Gary Shaheen G’86, Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University senior vice president, and Romel Mackelprang, Eastern Washington University professor and noted researcher on accessibility for people with disabilities, worked on site during the week of Feb. 7 with partners…

Campus & Community

Second annual ‘Cuse Spot to Run Programming for Local Youth

Monday, February 20, 2012, By News Staff

For the second year in a row, Syracuse University students will be sharing their skills and talents with youth at Wilson Park Community Center.  During the Syracuse City School District’s mid-winter break, community centers stay open to entertain community children…

Campus & Community

Call for participation for Imagining America 2012 National Conference

Monday, February 20, 2012, By Jamie Haft

‘Linked Fates and Futures: Communities and Campuses as Equitable Partners?’ is the conference theme, Oct. 5-7 in New York.

Foster discusses practical engaged scholarship within the academy in ‘Seamless Pursuits’ lecture

Monday, February 20, 2012, By Jennifer Russo

The School of Education and its Cultural Foundations of Education Department will present Kevin Michael Foster, professor from the University of Texas at Austin, and his lecture “Seamless Pursuits: Leadership and Community to Improve Student Lives and Academic Outcomes” on Monday,…

Campus & Community

The answer is coming with the wind … Long-term continental stable isotope records of paleoclimate and topography change

Monday, February 20, 2012, By News Staff

The Department of Earth Sciences presents the spring 2012 K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series, this week featuring Prof. Andreas Mulch, vice director of the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre and Professor at Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, Institute of Geoscience in Germany.

VPA’s Warren to travel to Cuba as part of ACDA International Conductor Exchange Program

Monday, February 20, 2012, By Erica Blust

John Warren, associate professor and director of choral activities in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), has been accepted into the American Choral Directors Association International…

Supporting military families: IVMF issues response on report by departments of Treasury and Defense

Monday, February 20, 2012, By News Staff

Report concerns best practices for streamlining occupational licensing across state lines for military spouses The Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University issues the following statement in response to a recent report issued jointly by the departments of…

SU Press book to receive scholarship prize

Monday, February 20, 2012, By News Staff

The New York Academy of History will be giving the Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship to a Syracuse University Press publication, Laurence Hauptman’s “Seven Generations of Iroquois Leadership: The Six Nations Since 1800.” This award, named in honor…

Arts & Culture

‘The Lower Depths’: Provocative portrait of outcasts from master of Russian realism

Monday, February 20, 2012, By News Staff

A masterpiece of Russian realism, “The Lower Depths,” was Maxim Gorky’s first great play, and its premiere production in 1902 helped establish the reputation of the famed Moscow Art Theatre and its influential director, Constantine Stanislavsky. Presented by the Department…