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Arts & Culture

Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series presents award-winning novelist Terese Svoboda

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By News Staff

The Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series will continue on Oct. 26 with novelist Terese Svoboda, author of the recently published “Bohemian Girl” (Bison Books, 2011), which critics describe as a cross between “True Grit” and “Huckleberry Finn.” The reading…

Business & Economy

Whitman’s Harris to deliver keynote address at World Commodities Week in London

Thursday, October 6, 2011, By News Staff

Jeffrey Harris, Dean’s Professor of Finance in the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, will speak at the seventh annual World Commodities Week, Oct. 25-27 in London. The conference examines commodities investment, commodity trading and alternative investment strategies. Harris,…

Arts & Culture

Urban ‘improvisationist’ Walter Hood to deliver Werner Seligmann lecture at Syracuse Architecture

Wednesday, October 5, 2011, By Elaine Wackerow

Walter Hood, professor and former chair of the University of California, Berkeley Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design Department, will deliver the Werner Seligmann lecture at the Syracuse University School of Architecture on Tuesday, Oct. 11, at 4:30 p.m. in Slocum…

Campus & Community

Carnegie Religion and Media Program to host public conversation with Asma Uddin

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The Carnegie Religion and Media Program in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will host Asma T. Uddin for a public conversation, “Feminist, Muslim and on the Web: A Devout Woman’s Journey in Reclaiming Her Faith and Founding a…

Veterans

IVMF’s Schmeling participates in small business resource workshop hosted by Congressman Hanna

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, By News Staff

James Schmeling, managing director of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University, participated in a small business resource workshop hosted by Congressman Richard Hanna on Monday, Sept. 26. Schmeling spoke on opportunities for veterans with disabilities. Hanna…

Campus & Community

Social historian Eric Lott to deliver Stephen Crane lecture Oct. 7

Thursday, September 22, 2011, By News Staff

Eric Lott, social historian and professor at the University of Virginia, will deliver the Stephen Crane Annual Lecture on Friday, Oct. 7, at 3 p.m., in 500 Hall of Languages. Among his writings, Lott is the author of the critically…

STEM

Nicholson delivers opening colloquium at MIT

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, By J.D. Ross

School of Information Studies (iSchool) Associate Professor Scott Nicolson delivered the opening colloquium for the Comparative Media Studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is currently a visiting professor.

Campus & Community

Connective Corridor funds help Syracuse Stage get a facelift

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, By News Staff

Region’s premier theater house spruces up its look, inside and out

Health & Society

BBI chairman to deliver keynote at disability conference

Tuesday, September 13, 2011, By News Staff

University Professor Peter Blanck, chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, will deliver the keynote address at the Coleman Institute Conference on Oct. 13. Blanck’s talk, “Toward the Right to Equal Technology Access for People with Cognitive…

Campus & Community

Counseling Center offers free stress reduction class for students

Wednesday, September 7, 2011, By News Staff

The Syracuse University Counseling Center is offering a free course in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) to SU and SUNY-ESF students.