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Aging Studies Institute established at SU

Friday, November 18, 2011, By News Staff

Interdisciplinary research institute will consolidate research, training on age-related issues Syracuse University has announced the formation of the Aging Studies Institute (ASI), a collaborative initiative of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the David B. Falk College…

Arts & Culture

A fantastical, musical adventure for the holidays in ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’

Thursday, November 17, 2011, By News Staff

London. The war is on and the bombs are falling. Four children—Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy—flee the perils of the Blitz to the safety of the countryside. In an old wardrobe, they discover a portal to the land of Narnia,…

‘Great Jewish Writers’ series continues with Nov. 29 lecture on Grace Paley

Wednesday, November 16, 2011, By Rob Enslin

The Judaic Studies Program in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences and the Jewish Federation of Central New York continue their “Great Jewish Writers” lecture series with a special program on Grace Paley. Harvey Teres, professor of English and…

Media, Law & Policy

NPR’s Michel Martin to speak at Newhouse School Nov. 30

Wednesday, November 16, 2011, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Michel Martin, host of the NPR talk show “Tell Me More,” will visit Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Wednesday, Nov. 30, as part of the Leaders in Communications speaker series. She will speak on “Just Because…

SU Brass Ensemble rings in holidays with family concerts

Wednesday, November 16, 2011, By Rob Enslin

The Syracuse University Brass Ensemble (SUBE), a 35-piece group housed in The College of Arts and Sciences, continues its 2011-12 season with three holiday concerts. Performances are Sunday, Nov. 27, at 7 p.m. at Saints Peter and John Episcopal Church…

Whitman School accepts invitation to join inaugural Aspen Undergraduate Business Consortium

Tuesday, November 15, 2011, By News Staff

In March 2012, the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program will launch a new consortium of undergraduate institutions, the Aspen Undergraduate Business Consortium, designed to further the aim of better integrating liberal learning into undergraduate business education. The Whitman School…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Tuesday, November 15

Tuesday, November 15, 2011, By News Staff

Newhouse School’s William Ward quoted by Associated Press on NASA and Twitter

Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series final installments include novelist and poet

Tuesday, November 15, 2011, By News Staff

The final two installments of the Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series will feature memoirist and poet Peter Balakian, who will read from his latest work, “Ziggurat,” on Nov. 30; and award-winning poet Christopher Kennedy, who will share his work…

Arts & Culture

Sherman presents video art in Nova Scotia

Tuesday, November 15, 2011, By Erica Blust

Tom Sherman, professor of art video in the Department of Transmedia in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, presented his recent video art at the ADJA Gallery in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. He also presented his video and lecture at the McLuhan100 Conference in Toronto on Nov. 10. His presentation was “Technology as language: Cultural engineering begets personal humans.”

Arts & Culture

VPA’s Waggoner releases ‘Terror and Memory’

Tuesday, November 15, 2011, By Erica Blust

Andrew Waggoner, professor of composition in the Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, just had his new CD, “Terror and Memory” released on Albany Records.