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SU student-athlete Jenna Caira to represent Canada in 2011 Pan American Games

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, By News Staff

Jenna Caira, a physical education major in SU’s School of Education and softball pitcher at SU, will represent Canada in the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. The entire Canadian team will travel to Mexico on Oct. 12 and…

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,…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Architecture presents lecture by renowned architect, educator Peter Eisenman

Thursday, September 22, 2011, By Elaine Wackerow

Syracuse University School of Architecture presents the lecture “Project or Practice?” by internationally renowned architect, distinguished author and teacher Peter Eisenman on Friday, Sept. 30, at 5 p.m. The event is free and open to the public and will take…

Campus & Community

Social historian Eric Lott to deliver Stephen Crane lecture Oct. 7

Thursday, September 22, 2011, By News Staff

Eric Lott, social historian and professor at the University of Virginia, will deliver the Stephen Crane Annual Lecture on Friday, Oct. 7, at 3 p.m., in 500 Hall of Languages. Among his writings, Lott is the author of the critically…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse student PR firm offers new service for budding entrepreneurs

Monday, September 19, 2011, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Hill Communications, a student-run public relations firm based in Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, is offering a new service called SPRINT, designed to support budding entrepreneurs. SPRINT—which stands for Start, Prioritize, Research, Identify, Navigate and Transmit—is an…

Arts & Culture

VPA ceramist Margie Hughto to show new work at Everson Museum

Tuesday, September 13, 2011, By Erica Blust

Margie Hughto, professor of ceramics in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Art, will show new work in the solo exhibition “Margie Hughto: A Fired Landscape” Oct. 1-Jan. 12 at the Everson Museum of Art, 401 Harrison…

Campus & Community

‘Haitian Education Mission Project’ at Sept. 15 IRP

Friday, September 9, 2011, By Eileen Jevis

Karen Dross, a retired Syracuse City School District teacher and volunteer in Haiti, will present the “Haitian Education Mission Project” at the Sept. 15 session of Institute for Retired People (IRP). Meetings are held on every first and third Thursday of…

Campus & Community

SU United Way campaign set to launch Sept. 23

Friday, September 9, 2011, By Jennifer DeMarchi

Syracuse University is preparing to launch its 2011 United Way campaign, “Live United,” which will begin Sept. 23 and run through Dec. 9. Volunteering to lead SU’s 2011 campaign efforts are Chief Tony Callisto, director of the Department of Public…

STEM

Developmental biologist garners highly competitive National Institutes of Health grant

Thursday, September 8, 2011, By News Staff

Katharine Lewis, associate professor of biology in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, aims to systematically identify genes that instruct spinal cord nerve cells (neurons) to develop into specialized cells that are critical to walking, running and countless movements…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse School professor wins Murray Prize from University of Iowa

Friday, September 2, 2011, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Harriet Brown, assistant professor of magazine in Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, has won the 2011 John F. Murray Prize in Strategic Communication for the Public Good from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at The…