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Spring 2012 Raymond Carver Reading Series opens with novelist Rivka Galchen

Tuesday, January 17, 2012, By News Staff

Rivka Galchen, author of the critically acclaimed “Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel” (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008), will open the Spring 2012 Raymond Carver Reading Series at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 1, in Gifford Auditorium. The reading will be preceded by…

Memorial service planned for Friday for doctoral candidate Cheryl Spear

Tuesday, January 17, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

A memorial service for Cheryl Spear, doctoral candidate in Syracuse University’s School of Education and passionate advocate for disability, civil and human rights, will be held Friday, Jan. 20, at 6 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The service will be fully…

Motivational speaker Jon Vroman, SU alum Sean Haley ‘10 to keynote February’s Student Leadership Conference

Tuesday, January 17, 2012, By News Staff

The first annual SU Student Leadership Conference on Feb. 25 will feature motivational speaker Jon Vroman as its opening keynote speaker, and SU alumnus and medical student Sean Haley ’10 as its closing keynote speaker. The conference will take place…

SU announces launch of Janklow Arts Leadership Program

Friday, January 13, 2012, By News Staff

Tonight (Jan. 17) at New York’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Syracuse University will announce the launch of the Janklow Arts Leadership Program, a new M.A. program named for the great literary agent and College of Arts and Sciences…

Health & Society

Food Network’s Anne Burrell to judge Syracuse’s Iron Fork Competition to benefit Syracuse Rescue Mission

Friday, January 13, 2012, By News Staff

Syracuse University visit includes book signing, free public lecture on Italian cooking Syracuse University’s Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics has partnered with the Syracuse Rescue Mission…

SU Press publishes ‘Off the Beaten Path,’ stories of people around the world from ProLiteracy’s Ruth Colvin

Wednesday, January 11, 2012, By News Staff

From the Sunshine Coast of South Africa to a remote ashram in India, Ruth Colvin and her husband have traveled around the world, visiting 62 countries and providing literacy training in 26 developing countries. The founder of Literacy Volunteers of…

Arts & Culture

La Casita presents free workshop on theater and social change

Tuesday, January 10, 2012, By News Staff

The La Casita Cultural Center, 109 Otisco St., Syracuse, will present an introductory workshop on the use of theater as a means for social change on Saturday, Jan. 21, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The workshop is free and open to…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Monday, January 9

Monday, January 9, 2012, By News Staff

“Ahead of the Bell” report notes EBV participants and graduates ring Closing Bell on NYSE

SU Opera Theater to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘The Gondoliers’

Monday, January 9, 2012, By Erica Blust

The Syracuse University Opera Theater will present Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Gondoliers” Jan. 27, 28 and 29 at 8 p.m. in the Rose and Jules R. Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College. Admission is free for SU students with a valid SU…

Five will receive Martin Luther King Jr. Unsung Hero Awards at Jan. 21 celebration

Monday, January 9, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Unsung Hero Awards will be presented to five members of the Syracuse University or greater Syracuse communities during Syracuse University’s 27th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, “A Living Legacy: The Fierce Urgency of…