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NSF grant funds study on barriers to smart grid technology adoption
If existing, readily available smart grid technologies are beneficial to utility companies, their customers and the environment as a whole, why aren’t utilities adopting them? That’s the question three School of Information Studies (iSchool) faculty members will probe with a…
LGBT activist speaks at Villa Rossa Lecture Series
On Oct. 10, the Villa Rossa Lecture Series at Syracuse University in Florence hosted Vladimir “Vladi” Luxuria, an Italian actress, writer, politician and television host. The lecture, entitled “Across Ocean and Gender, Discovering the Unknown,” explored her time spent traveling…
La Casita Cultural Center will present an episode of PBS series ‘Black in Latin America’
La Casita Cultural Center will present an episode of the acclaimed PBS series “Black in Latin America“, from 5:30-7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26, at the center, 109 Otisco St., Syracuse. The screening of the episode “Haiti and the Dominican Republic:…
Environmentalist Bill McKibben kicks off 2012-13 University Lectures series Oct. 10
Bill McKibben, one of America’s best known environmentalists, will kick off the 2012-13 http://lectures.syr.edu”>University Lectures season on Wednesday, Oct. 10. McKibben will speak on “350: The Most Important Number in the World” at 7:30 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The lecture,…
SU Wind Ensemble concert to feature trumpet soloists Vincent and Gabriel DiMartino
The Syracuse University Wind Ensemble will present a concert featuring world-class father-and-son trumpet soloists Vincent and Gabriel DiMartino on Saturday, Oct. 13, at 2 p.m. in the Rose and Jules R. Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College. The concert is free and…
Disabilities as Ways of Knowing: A Series of Creative Writing Conversations — Anne Finger visits SU
Ms. Anne Finger, renowned author and longstanding disability rights activist, will be visiting the Syracuse University campus this October, to join us in celebrating Disability Awareness Month, and to inaugurate what is hoped to be an annual series of disability-themed…
SUstainable CommuNitY Film Series presents ‘Blue Gold’ on Oct. 4
The world’s fresh water supply is becoming scarce as we pollute and waste one of our most precious and limited resources. This scary and intriguing scene sets the stage for the second movie in the SUstainable CommuNitY Film Series. The…
Shattering barriers: Jerry Robinson
Nothing stops Jerry Robinson. Nothing. After graduating as salutatorian in college and landing a job with a global financial company, Robinson continues to do what he knows best—shatter barriers. The budding scholar, born with cerebral palsy, is now pursuing a…
Syracuse University to host series of graduate studies informational expos
Syracuse University will host its first-ever series of three Graduate Studies Informational Expos in Syracuse, New York City and Washington, D.C., this fall. Each expo will include representatives from SU’s nine schools and colleges, highlighting the university’s more than 200…
Fall 2012 Raymond Carver Reading Series welcomes award-winning poet Ira Sadoff
The Fall 2012 Raymond Carver Reading Series continues with award-winning poet Ira Sadoff, hailed by critics as a “master of language, concentration, vision, irony.” Sadoff will read from his works beginning at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 10, in Gifford Auditorium….