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Campus & Community

‘Ensuring Successful Students and Schools’ is focus of next IRP

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By Eileen Jevis

The Oct. 18 session of the Institute for Retired People (IRP) will feature Sharon Contreras, superintendent of the Syracuse City School District. She will discuss the district’s five-year plan for ensuring the success of the city’s students. The IRP program…

Arts & Culture

SU Humanities Center, Society for New Music present program of music, film and video Oct. 28

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By Rob Enslin

The world premiere of “Cantos,” an ambitious multimedia work by New York State composer Rob Deemer, is part of the next installment of Syracuse Symposium, whose theme this year is “Memory-Media-Archive.” The premiere is part of a program titled “Aural…

Four alumni to be honored with George Arents Award at Orange Central celebration

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Four distinguished Syracuse University alumni—leaders in the fields of social media, design, athletics, philanthropy and community service—will be honored with the George Arents Award at a celebration dinner in the Goldstein Auditorium on Thursday, Nov. 8, during the University’s 2012 Orange Central celebration.

Campus & Community

Professor Anna Vasilevna Gorbatsevich remembered

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By News Staff

Anna Vasilevna Gorbatsevich, professor emerita of Russian, passed away at her home on Sept. 6 at the age of 88. She was a resident of Syracuse for more than 60 years. Gorbatsevich was born near Warsaw, Poland, where she studied to become…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse alums produce documentary on impact of 9/11 on small town

Tuesday, October 16, 2012, By News Staff

As she grew up in small-town Somerset County, Pa., S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications alumna Laura Beachy ‘12 wanted to create a story that would honor the unsung heroes of United Flight 93.

Campus & Community

Disability Mentoring Day 2012 is Oct. 17

Tuesday, October 16, 2012, By News Staff

Syracuse University is participating in the 12th annual Disability Mentoring Day of Greater Syracuse this year on Wednesday, Oct. 17. Disability Mentoring Day is an international event held on the third Wednesday of October, National Disability Employment Awareness Month. This…

Media, Law & Policy

Noted author and intellectual Michael Sandel to spark reflection on ‘Markets, Morals and Civic Life” in Tanner Lecture

Tuesday, October 16, 2012, By News Staff

Michael Sandel, the nation’s leading public intellectual on issues of social justice and fairness, will take a thought-provoking look at some of the most hotly debated ethical and social dilemmas of our time at the Campbell Institute of Public Affairs’…

Media, Law & Policy

SU Law students compete in 35th Annual Grossman Trial Competition

Tuesday, October 16, 2012, By Jaclyn D. Grosso

The Syracuse University College of Law Moot Court Honor Society will host the final round of the 35th Annual Lionel O. Grossman Trial Competition on Thursday, Oct. 18 in Syracuse at James M. Hanley Federal Building in the ceremonial courtroom…

Arts & Culture

Folk arts curator to discuss quilts as visual discourse of conflict, reconciliation and memory Oct. 22

Monday, October 15, 2012, By Rob Enslin

Syracuse Symposium, whose theme this fall is “Memory-Media-Archive,” continues with a presentation on the social significance of traditional material culture.

Veterans

IVMF partners with GE to launch employer toolkit

Monday, October 15, 2012, By News Staff

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University (IVMF) and GE today announced a partnership to empower the nation’s employers to adopt a collaborative and strategic approach to veteran employment. GE is both lead corporate sponsor of the…