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Acclaimed singer-songwriter Pete Yorn to deliver 2011 convocation address for SU’s College of Visual and Performing Arts

Wednesday, March 30, 2011, By Erica Blust

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Pete Yorn will deliver the 2011 convocation address to bachelor’s and master’s degree candidates of Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) at the college’s convocation ceremony on Saturday, May 14, at 7 p.m. in the…

Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship to be given March 30

Tuesday, March 29, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University will honor students, faculty, staff and community partners who exemplify SU’s commitment to engagement with the community and Scholarship in Action with the 2011 Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship at a celebration dinner on Wednesday, March…

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SU Drama presents ‘Curse of the Starving Class’

Tuesday, March 29, 2011, By News Staff

The Syracuse University Department of Drama will present Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard’s deeply unsettling, darkly funny family melodrama “Curse of the Starving Class” April 1-10 in the Storch Theatre at Syracuse Stage. Centering on a family in a dire…

Syracuse University physicists first to observe rare particles produced at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN

Monday, March 28, 2011, By News Staff

Shortly after experiments on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, began yielding scientific data last fall, a group of scientists led by a Syracuse University physicist became the first to observe the decays of…

LGBT advocate, author Jimmy Creech will discuss his journey April 7-8

Monday, March 28, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Jimmy Creech, a civil rights activist, author and former United Methodist pastor who was defrocked for performing a same-sex wedding, will visit Syracuse April 7-8 for a series of events titled “Free to Love Without Fear: Defying the Church’s Persecution…

Nigel Hall to perform at Funk ‘n’ Waffles with Sophistafunk

Tuesday, March 22, 2011, By News Staff

MEISA, Syracuse University’s chapter of Music and Entertainment Industry Student Association, will present Nigel Hall with Sophistafunk Thursday, March 24, at 8:30 p.m. at Funk ‘n’ Waffles. MEISA is a student run group that books, markets and produces high-quality musical…

SU physicist receives NSF CAREER Award for work with quantum nanomachines

Wednesday, March 9, 2011, By News Staff

Matthew LaHaye, assistant professor of physics in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, received a five-year, $600,000 National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to further his research in the emerging field of quantum nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). The…

Bruce Smith, SU English professor publishes sixth book in April 2011

Friday, March 4, 2011, By News Staff

Devotions, a book of poems by Bruce Smith, professor of English at Syracuse University, is set to be released in April 2011. Devotions, (University of Chicago Press Books Apr 2011) are mediations, provocations and messages from the chatter of the…

Intersection of emotion, affect, space underscores mini seminars in SU Humanities Center

Friday, March 4, 2011, By Rob Enslin

The Syracuse University Humanities Center in The College of Arts and Sciences concludes it 2010-11 mini seminar series with presentations by two nationally renowned scholars. Kimerer LaMothe, a philosopher, dancer and religion scholar, will speak on “Missing in Action: The…

Bruce Smith, SU English professor, publishes sixth book in April 2011

Friday, March 4, 2011, By News Staff

“Devotions,” a book of poems by Bruce Smith, professor of English in The College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University, is set to be released in April 2011. “Devotions” (University of Chicago Press Books) is made up of meditations,…