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‘The Submission’ author Amy Waldman to speak March 22

Monday, March 12, 2012, By Erica Blust

Amy Waldman, author of the acclaimed novel “The Submission” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011), which tells the story of a competition to design a memorial for the victims of a terrorist attack and of the American Muslim who wins it,…

Award-winning screenwriter, producer, playwright Aaron Sorkin ’83 to deliver 2012 Commencement address

Thursday, March 8, 2012, By News Staff

Aaron Sorkin ’83, award-winning screenwriter for films such as “A Few Good Men,” “The American President,” “The Social Network” and “Moneyball,” as well as TV shows including “Sports Night,” “The West Wing,” “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” and HBO’s…

IVMF issues brief on compelling business case for hiring a veteran, reaching beyond public cliches

Tuesday, March 6, 2012, By News Staff

Today, the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University issued an employment brief titled “The Business Case for Hiring a Veteran: Beyond the Clichés.” The publication draws from academic literature to suggest a robust, specific and compelling…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Monday, March 5

Monday, March 5, 2012, By News Staff

Newhouse School’s Roy Gutterman quoted in Washington Post on launch of Honest Appalachia website for rural whistleblowers

VPA’s John Thompson to exhibit original art of ‘The Flying Bed’ at SU Florence

Monday, March 5, 2012, By Erica Blust

John Thompson, a professor of illustration in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), will exhibit original art from the picture book “The Flying Bed” (The Blue Sky Press, 2007) at SU Abroad’s center in Florence, Italy, March…

‘Life Gets Better Together’ conference takes stand against LGBTQ-based bullying

Friday, March 2, 2012, By News Staff

The ‘Life Gets Better Together’ conference for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) youth advocacy will take place on Saturday, March 24, on the Syracuse University campus in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Designed to empower participants…

Exhibition design by museum studies graduate students to be displayed at Design Gallery

Friday, March 2, 2012, By Erica Blust

First-year museum studies graduate students in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts will present “Creativity through Exhibition Design II”—a show of work from their “Practicum” course—at the Design Gallery at The Warehouse March 9-30. The exhibition is free…

‘I Like America and America Likes Me’ at XL Projects

Thursday, March 1, 2012, By Erica Blust

Exhibit showcases artwork of international graduate students

Arts & Culture

‘Red,’ sizzling bio-drama of famed painter Mark Rothko, to run at Syracuse Stage March 7-25

Wednesday, February 29, 2012, By News Staff

Play won 2010 Tony Award for Best Play The 2010 Tony Award-winner for Best Play, ‘Red’ is an intense and exciting bio-drama of the famed abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko at the time that he was working on a commission…

Viral video the means for iSchool student’s life-philosophy message

Wednesday, February 29, 2012, By Diane Stirling

A two-minute YouTube video-gone-viral may have initiated the proverbial 15 minutes of fame for Sam Morrison, but there’s much more to the man and his story.  The backflips that led to the School of Information Studies student’s recognition around the world…