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Campus & Community

‘Food, Inc.’ documentary screening to be held Sept. 29

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, By News Staff

The Syracuse University Sustainability Division will be showing the Academy Award nominee for best documentary feature film, “Food, Inc.,” on Sept. 29 at 8 p.m. in Watson Theater in the Menschel Media Center. Admission is free and open to the…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Monday, September 26

Monday, September 26, 2011, By News Staff

NPR’s Fresh Air interviews Arts and Sciences’ Dana Spiotta on her new novel, “Stone Arabia”

Veterans

V-WISE hosts women veteran entrepreneurship training program Sept. 25-27 in Baltimore

Friday, September 23, 2011, By News Staff

For Waldorf, Maryland resident Helen M. Hall, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard, the upcoming Veteran Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (V-WISE) program—one of the first federally funded training programs focused on entrepreneurial opportunity for…

Campus & Community

Burton Blatt Institute sponsors screening of disability documentary at Syracuse International Film Festival

Friday, September 23, 2011, By News Staff

The Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University will sponsor a screening of “Dolphin Boy,” the award-winning documentary by Israeli director, screenwriter and producer Dani Menkin, at the 2011 Syracuse International Film Festival. “Dolphin Boy” will be shown 7 p.m. Wednesday,…

Business & Economy

Syracuse University receives designation as Economic Development Administration University Center

Friday, September 23, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University has received a $500,000 award from the U.S. Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) and the designation as an EDA University Center. The award is aimed at igniting innovation and accelerating entrepreneurship, and launching student ventures throughout upstate…

Arts & Culture

‘Koppel-Langella: One on One’ to air Sept. 29 on PBS

Friday, September 23, 2011, By News Staff

“Koppel-Langella: One on One,’’ the conversation between Tony Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor Frank Langella ’59 and former “Nightline” anchor Ted Koppel ’60, H’82, is set to air at 9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, on WCNY channels 24.1 and 24.4…

Arts & Culture

SU Drama to present pro-union classic ‘The Cradle Will Rock’

Friday, September 23, 2011, By News Staff

Here’s how Marc Blitzstein described his 1937 musical: “a labor opera composed in a style that falls somewhere between realism, romance, vaudeville, comic strip, Gilbert & Sullivan, Brecht and agitprop [agitation and propaganda].” In other words, it has great laughs,…

Campus & Community

Syracuse Center of Excellence earns highest LEED certification

Friday, September 23, 2011, By News Staff

The SyracuseCoE was designed to exemplify the highest level of LEED standards.

Campus & Community

Queer writer, activist Sarah Schulman to give public lecture

Thursday, September 22, 2011, By News Staff

Sarah Schulman, acclaimed writer, activist and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island, will present a free public lecture, titled “Solidarity Visit: Israel/Palestine and the Queer International” on Monday, Oct. 3, at…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Thursday, September 22

Thursday, September 22, 2011, By News Staff

NPR quotes Maxwell School’s Len Burman on the federal tax rate for capital gains and dividends