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Arts & Culture

‘A Christmas Carol’ Returns to Syracuse Stage

Tuesday, November 19, 2013, By News Staff

The beloved family classic returns to Central New York after a seven-year absence in an adaptation new to Syracuse audiences. “A Christmas Carol” follows the story of Ebenezer Scrooge’s fateful Christmas Eve journey from an embittered, ungenerous creature into a…

STEM

Philip Kaplan ’97 to Speak at iSchool Convocation

Tuesday, November 19, 2013, By J.D. Ross

The School of Information Studies (iSchool) announced that San Francisco entrepreneur Philip Kaplan, a 1997 graduate of the school’s information management and technology program, will deliver the convocation speech at the Class of 2014 ceremony in May. His selection was…

Campus & Community

Freeman Hrabowski Named 2014 MLK Keynote Speaker

Tuesday, November 19, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Freeman A. Hrabowski III, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), will be the keynote speaker for Syracuse University’s 29th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, “Pursuing the Dream: Above All Odds”  on Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014, in…

Media, Law & Policy

Stern Caps off Fall 2013 Mower Forum Speaker Series

Tuesday, November 19, 2013, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Greg Stern, CEO of Butler, Shine, Stern and Partners (BSSP), will visit the Newhouse School on Wednesday, Dec. 4, as a guest of the Eric Mower Advertising Forum. He will speak on “My Inadvertent Career: The BSSP Story” at 6:30…

Media, Law & Policy

Cultivating Entrepreneurial Journalists

Monday, November 18, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

Dan Pacheco, Newhouse’s Peter A. Horvitz Endowed Chair of Journalism Innovation, wants communications students to explore all the ways that storytelling brings words, photos and video to life in compelling ways. A new program, in conjunction with Kickstarter, is giving Newhouse students more opportunities to make that happen.

Campus & Community

Annual Faculty and Staff Holiday Gala in SU Bookstore Nov. 20

Friday, November 15, 2013, By News Staff

Join us Nov. 20 from 4:30-7 p.m. for an evening of holiday savings discounts, author signings and food sampling from recipes selected from cookbooks available for purchase in the University Bookstore. Invited authors and guests include: Edward L. Galvin, Margaret…

STEM

A&S Professor’s Neuroimaging Work Featured in Nature Article

Friday, November 15, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Leave it to Corey White, assistant professor of psychology in The College of Arts and Sciences, to get a head start on the competition. White is the focus of a Nov. 6 article in the journal Nature about young scientists…

Arts & Culture

Memoirist Strayed to Give Next Carver Reading

Friday, November 15, 2013, By Renée K. Gadoua

Cheryl Strayed G ’02, author of The New York Times bestselling memoir “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail” (Knopf, 2012), will present the next Raymond Carver Reading Series at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20, in Gifford…

Business & Economy

#IDEAchat to Launch During Global Entrepreneurship Week

Thursday, November 14, 2013, By News Staff

This year, Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) is Nov. 18-24 and IDEA is prepped and ready to keep Syracuse on the GEW map. #IDEAchat is a weekly web show with entrepreneurs, investors, students, faculty and community leaders about topics that matter….

Health & Society

Thwarting a Devastating Disease

Thursday, November 14, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

Assistant Professor David Larsen saw the damaging effects of the lack of health care and clean water in the favelas of Belem, Brazil, while working among the people ten years ago. Impacted by the work, he now conducts research to halt the impact of deadly—yet preventable—infectious diseases.