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Author Ama Ata Aidoo visits SyracuseNovember 17, 2006SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu Author Ama Ata Aidoo, left, chats with an audience member during a booksigning after her recent lecture at the Community Folk Art Center. Aidoo was a guest of the African…

Nov. 29 visit by theoretical physicist Lisa Randall is final keynote presentation in 2006 Syracuse SymposiumNovember 16, 2006Kelly Homan Rodoskikahoman@syr.edu Noted Harvard University physicist and cosmologist Lisa Randall will be the final speaker in this year’s Syracuse Symposium, “Imagination,” presented…

Eliot Spitzer visits SyracuseNovember 15, 2006SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu Gov.-elect Eliot Spitzer picks out T-shirts at the Orange Shoppe in the Carrier Dome prior to the Nov. 15 SU-Northeastern men’s basketball game (he purchased five as gifts). Spitzer met earlier, and…

Civic writing course traverses Atlantic; participants from United Kingdom visit SU Nov. 13November 09, 2006Sara Millersemortim@syr.edu In the beginning of the Spring 2006 semester, Steve Parks, associate professor of writing and rhetoric in the Writing Program in The College of…

VPA inaugurates Billy Joel Visiting Composer Series with residency by Pulitzer Prize winner John Harbison, culminating in two free public performances November 01, 2006Jaime Winne Alvarezjlwinne@syr.edu Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will inaugurate the Billy Joel…

Filmmaker visits campusNovember 01, 2006SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu Award winning filmmaker Chris Wedge explains one of his images to the audience during his lectures Wednesday, Nov. 1. His talk was part of the 2006 Syracuse Symposium, “Imagination,” presented by Syracuse University’s…

VPA hosts visiting painter Ophrah Shemesh Nov. 7October 23, 2006Jaime Winne Alvarezjlwinne@syr.edu The Visiting Artist and Speakers Program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) School of Art and Design will present a lecture by Israeli-born, New York…

Whitman School presents ‘Insight CNY: An Entrepreneurial Vision for Growth’October 18, 2006Amy Schmitzaemehrin@syr.edu In order for Central New York to successfully compete on a national and international level in terms of economic growth, it’s important for community members to understand…

Ballentine Institute plans April visit with Warren BuffettOctober 11, 2006Amy Schmitzaemehrin@syr.edu Through the Ballentine Investment Institute in the Whitman School of Management, students in the Applied Portfolio Management program (the portfolio managers of the Orange Value Fund, LLC) will have…

Activists Angela Davis, Cindy Sheehan join feminist discussion of war at SU symposium Oct. 19-21October 05, 2006Carol K. Masiclatclkim@syr.edu In these turbulent times of international conflict, the roles of women have changed dramatically since the days of male-dominated warfare. More…