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Award-winning filmmaker Tze Chun to screen ‘Children of Invention’ April 13

Monday, April 11, 2011, By Erica Blust

Award-winning filmmaker Tze Chun will present his feature debut, “Children of Invention,” on Wednesday, April 13, at 6 p.m. in 121 Dorothea Ilgen Shaffer Art Building. The screening is sponsored by the film program in the College of Visual and…

Standard & Poor’s boosts SU’s credit rating outlook

Monday, April 11, 2011, By Kevin C. Quinn

Standard & Poor’s credit ratings services has boosted Syracuse University’s outlook to “positive” from “stable” based on the overall financial position of the University.   According to Standard & Poor’s, SU’s ‘A+’ rating continues to reflect its view of Syracuse’s “comprehensive…

Campus screenings of ‘Wretches & Jabberers’ planned April 16, 28

Wednesday, April 6, 2011, By Jennifer Russo

The Syracuse University School of Education will host three screenings of the documentary film “Wretches & Jabberers,” on Saturday, April 16, at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m., and on Thursday, April 28, at 7 p.m. at the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium…

Syracuse University students launch local Project Paper Crane campaign for Japan relief

Tuesday, April 5, 2011, By News Staff

On March 11, a massive earthquake initiated a tragic sequence of events in Japan that has led to more than 27,600 dead or missing, 173,200 homeless and hundreds of thousands more without adequate access to water, food or electricity. Syracuse University…

Whitman maintains prestigious AACSB International accreditation

Tuesday, April 5, 2011, By News Staff

The Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University has maintained its business accreditation by AACSB International—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Today, 620 business schools in 38 countries—less than five percent of business schools worldwide—maintain this distinguished hallmark…

Arts & Culture

SU, Syracuse Stage, Ping Chong & Co. bring ‘Cry for Peace: Voices from the Congo’ workshop to NYC

Friday, April 1, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University, in association with Syracuse Stage and Ping Chong & Company, will present a workshop presentation of “Cry for Peace: Voices from the Congo” on Tuesday, April 5, at the Beckett Theater at Theater Row, 410 West 42nd St.,…

Campus & Community

‘Tapped’ documentary on bottled water to be screened April 7

Wednesday, March 30, 2011, By News Staff

Take a peek behind the scenes of the fastest-growing beverage category in the U.S.

Carnegie Religion and Media Program to sponsor public interviews with authors Lisa Miller, Jimmy Creech

Monday, March 28, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The Carnegie Religion and Media Program at Syracuse University will sponsor public interviews with Lisa Miller, religion writer at Newsweek, and Jimmy Creech, author of a new memoir about his fight for gay and lesbian rights in the United Methodist…

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…

Science pioneer J. Craig Venter to deliver 2011 Commencement address, six honorary degrees to be conferred

Friday, March 25, 2011, By News Staff

J. Craig Venter, a world-renowned scientist regarded as one of the most influential people in the world for his efforts to decode the human genome, will deliver the Commencement address to the 2011 graduates of Syracuse University, Syracuse University College…