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Syracuse University endowment outperforms many with 17.2 percent return

Monday, November 1, 2010, By News Staff

The Syracuse University endowment returned 17.2 percent in fiscal year 2010, outperforming many peer institutions and rebounding from losses seen during the 18-month international economic crisis.   The market value of SU’s endowment was approximately $849 million on June 30, the…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse alumnus Paul Savaiano to give campus lecture Nov. 8

Monday, November 1, 2010, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Paul Savaiano ’09, account planner with Leo Burnett, will visit Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Monday, Nov. 8 as a guest of the Advertising Young Star Speaker Series. He will speak on “The Arts and Beauty…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse students capture ‘Democracy in Action’

Monday, November 1, 2010, By Wendy S. Loughlin

To capture “Democracy in Action,” about 150 Newhouse School students will be at the polls on Election Day talking to voters, candidates and election workers. “We want the young reporters to find and tell those inspiring stories of citizens doing…

Visual culture, contemporary philosophy scholar Ariella Azoulay to lecture Nov. 5

Monday, November 1, 2010, By Erica Blust

Ariella Azoulay, a professor of visual culture and contemporary philosophy at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, will present a lecture on Friday, Nov. 5, at 4 p.m. in Shemin Auditorium, located in the Dorothea I. Shaffer Art Building. The lecture is…

Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud to speak at Maxwell

Monday, November 1, 2010, By News Staff

On Monday, Nov. 8, Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, an international diplomat, will give an address on the history of Saudi Arabia, particularly the events that led to the creation of the modern state in 1932 and the climate…

Campus & Community

Geological structure and evolution of the SE Tibetan Plateau

Monday, November 1, 2010, By News Staff

The Department of Earth Sciences presents the fall 2010 K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series, this week featuring Rob van der Hilst from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He will lecture on ”Geological structure and evolution of the SE Tibetan Plateau.” The…

Arts & Culture

Multimedia artist Jennifer Schmidt to hold residency, present Nov. 2 lecture

Thursday, October 28, 2010, By Erica Blust

Artist Jennifer Schmidt, who often works with print media and graphic design to create sculptural installations, video and screenprinted ephemera, will present a lecture on Tuesday, Nov. 2.

Campus & Community

Music industry executive Shanti Das ’93 to present lecture, book signing Oct. 28

Wednesday, October 27, 2010, By Erica Blust

Shanti Das ’93, an accomplished music industry executive and founder and CEO of PressReset.me, an Atlanta-based marketing, consulting and life mentoring firm, will present a lecture on Thursday, Oct. 28.

Campus & Community

Bandier’s Soyars Leadership Lecture Series

Wednesday, October 27, 2010, By News Staff

Thursday, Oct. 27, at 6:45 p.m., Shanti Das will be coming to speak in Whitman 007. Das is one of the most successful females in the music industry field. She is a graduate of SU and has gone on to…

Campus & Community

University Lectures presents Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas D. Kristof on Nov. 3

Wednesday, October 27, 2010, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Nicholas D. Kristof, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times columnist, will share his experiences on reporting from conflicted parts of the world during the next University Lectures presentation on Wednesday, Nov. 3.