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Arts & Culture

‘The Lower Depths’: Provocative portrait of outcasts from master of Russian realism

Monday, February 20, 2012, By News Staff

A masterpiece of Russian realism, “The Lower Depths,” was Maxim Gorky’s first great play, and its premiere production in 1902 helped establish the reputation of the famed Moscow Art Theatre and its influential director, Constantine Stanislavsky. Presented by the Department…

Arts & Culture

Independent filmmaker awarded Burton Blatt Institute Prize for Arts Leadership

Friday, February 17, 2012, By News Staff

The 2012 Burton Blatt Institute Prize for Arts Leadership has been awarded to Sharon Greytak, an independent filmmaker and film professor at the College of Visual and Performing Arts, for her entire body of work and its importance to the…

Ron Meyer, head of Universal Studios, will visit Newhouse March 1

Friday, February 17, 2012, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Universal Studios president and COO Ron Meyer will visit the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Thursday, March 1. A Q-and-A with Meyer and Newhouse Professor of Practice Richard Dubin will take place at 3 p.m. in the Joyce…

Hendricks will host ‘Seeking Faith, Seeking Justice’ discussion March 7

Friday, February 17, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

From civil rights to the global HIV/AIDS crisis, where has the church been? Where should the church be today? These questions will be explored by Bishop Marcus Matthews in the next Hendricks Chapel Discussion Series event, “Seeking Faith, Seeking Justice,”…

Campus & Community

WAER’s Spring membership drive

Thursday, February 16, 2012, By News Staff

If WAER has won your heart, let us know with a pledge of financial support during our Spring membership drive, Feb. 12-18.

Nominations sought for Continuum + Arthur Pulos Award for collaborative and interdisciplinary work in design education

Wednesday, February 15, 2012, By Erica Blust

The Continuum + Arthur Pulos Award committee is seeking nominations for Syracuse University faculty members whose teaching and research exemplify excellence in collaboration and innovation and who have made a contribution to design education on campus. Continuum, a global innovation…

SU’s Jaklin Kornfilt co-edits prestigious linguistics journal

Friday, February 10, 2012, By Rob Enslin

Jaklin Kornfilt, professor of linguistics in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, believes learning has no boundaries. Witness her recent involvement with Lingua (Elsevier, 2011), an international journal devoted to problems of general linguistics. A majority of the editorial…

STEM

Oakleaf featured on ‘Power to the Librarians’ website

Wednesday, February 8, 2012, By J.D. Ross

Academic libraries face ongoing challenges in assessing and presenting their value to their parent institutions due to the dramatic effect that advancements in technology – and many other factors in higher education today – are having on libraries’ traditional role.

New structure in Academic Affairs leadership aimed at leveraging resources, expertise to advance University’s vision

Monday, February 6, 2012, By News Staff

Sedore and Staniec named to senior leadership appointments Two appointments in Syracuse University’s Office of Academic Affairs support a new structure that will enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of academic support units, improve “business processes” across Academic Affairs, drive toward…

SU’s Dana Spiotta, Bruce Smith finalists for National Book Critics Circle awards

Friday, February 3, 2012, By Rob Enslin

Dana Spiotta and Bruce Smith, English faculty members in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, have been named finalists for the National Book Critics Circle awards. Spiotta was nominated in the fiction category for “Stone Arabia” (Scribner, 2011); Smith…