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Steven Pinker—one of the world’s leading cognitive scientists, interested in all aspects of language and the mind—is delivering the Milton First-Year Lecture in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Open only to College first-year and transfer students, the lecture is Wednesday, Oct. 6.

Sally Gore G’04, head of research and scholarly communication services at University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Lamar Soutter Library, will speak on “Mitosis and the Life Cycle: A Metaphor for the Transformation of the Research Librarian.”

As the 2010 election season kicks into high gear, the University Lectures series will welcome Kathleen Hall Jamieson on Tuesday, Oct. 12, to explore the meanings within presidential speeches with an emphasis on the history of American oratory in the broad terms of politics, media and culture

The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs has named two inaugural Robertson Fellows, funded by a grant from the Robertson Foundation for Government.

The renovated space is the result of a design process that began in 2009.

Norman Balabanian, professor emeritus in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (LCS), will be remembered in a memorial service on Friday, Oct. 8, at 4 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel.

Keith Burton, president of the communications company Insidege, will visit the Newhouse School on Monday, Oct. 11.

Myung J. Lee, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at City University of New York (CUNY), will present on Wednesday, Oct. 6.

Syracuse University’s Rebecca Bader, assistant professor of biomedical and chemical engineering in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (LCS), has been awarded her first National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to research a drug delivery system that will minimize the negative effects of taking anti-rheumatic medications over a long time period.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services is providing $799,493 to researchers at Syracuse University, the University of Maryland and Towson University for the project “Diverse Populations, Information and Library Education.”