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Whitman alumna, IBM senior vice president to deliver IBM Centennial Lecture

Friday, October 28, 2011, By News Staff

Colleen Arnold ’81 M.B.A., senior vice president of application management services at IBM, will deliver the IBM Centennial Lecture on Tuesday, Nov. 1, on the Syracuse University campus. Her address, “Opportunities and Challenges for the Next Generation,” will use examples…

‘Democracy Now!’ host Amy Goodman to speak Nov. 3

Friday, October 28, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The Syracuse Peace Council and Syracuse University’s Tully Center for Free Speech will present “Independent Media: Speaking Up for Democracy” with “Democracy Now!” host Amy Goodman on Thursday, Nov. 3, at 7 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The event is free…

Media, Law & Policy

McMahon gives talk at human rights forum

Thursday, October 27, 2011, By News Staff

Anthropology Associate Research Professor Felicia McMahon participated in the “I Am Unspoken” forum, giving voice to human rights violations.

Campus & Community

Exploring IBM’s Watson and the Jeopardy! Challenge

Wednesday, October 26, 2011, By Cyndi Moritz

Jim De Piante, IBM project manager on the Watson supercomputer project, will speak about the development of Watson and the Jeopardy! gameshow challenge on Nov. 3.

Business & Economy

Whitman Dean Melvin T. Stith is inaugural inductee to PhD Project Hall of Fame

Wednesday, October 26, 2011, By News Staff

Melvin T. Stith G’73 ,’77, dean of the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, is an inaugural inductee into the newly established PhD Project Hall of Fame. The PhD Project is an award-winning program that aims to increase diversity…

Campus & Community

SU’s ‘Greek or Treat’ engages Syracuse area youth

Tuesday, October 25, 2011, By News Staff

On Friday, Oct. 28, the Syracuse University Greek community will be hosting its seventh annual Greek or Treat event from 3-5:30 p.m. This annual event welcomes Syracuse youth into the fraternity and sorority houses located on Walnut Avenue and Walnut…

Arts & Culture

Imagining America announces board developments, strategic directions

Monday, October 24, 2011, By Jamie Haft

A new chair, vice chair and three new members have been elected to the National Advisory Board of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA). The board is responsible for ensuring that IA realizes its potential to animate…

STEM

Attacking cancer cells with nanoparticles

Monday, October 24, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University chemists develop novel way to get cancer drugs to tumors About every three days, Colleen Alexander, a chemistry graduate student, feeds cells that cause a deadly type of brain cancer. It’s a ritual that involves assessing the health…

Arts & Culture

Sixth annual ‘Bird After Dark’ to take place Nov. 4

Monday, October 24, 2011, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Syracuse University Library and the Office of Residence Life in the Division of Student Affairs will host the sixth annual “Bird After Dark” on Friday, Nov. 4, from 9:45 p.m.-1 a.m. in Bird Library. Students interested in participating should register…

Arts & Culture

New spring course offers drumming as cross-cultural community building

Monday, October 24, 2011, By News Staff

Beginning Nov. 9, students can register for a new spring course, EDU 200, “Rhythm and Roots: Building Cross-Cultural Community through Drumming.” Instructed by renowned music educator Nisha Purushotham, this one-credit course uses African diaspora drumming to create community across difference,…