Arts & Culture

“Faculty Works,” a new series of informal presentations by Syracuse University humanities scholars, gets under way at the SU Humanities Center.

Salt Hill, a quarterly journal published by writers affiliated with Syracuse University’s creative writing program in The College of Arts and Sciences, was recently recognized by The Best American Short Stories 2009 and The Best American Essays 2009.

Plastic and plasticity are the twin subjects of a weekend symposium at Syracuse University.

One of the world’s leading experts on how the brain comprehends, produces and acquires language—Yosef Grodzinsky—is visiting Syracuse University.

Kala Pierson, a New York City-based composer and sound/media artist, has been announced as the winner of the inaugural Gregg Smith Choral Competition Contest in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Approximately 50 young cellists from across New York State will come to Syracuse on Saturday, Nov. 14, for Cello Fest.

Gregg Pasquarelli, Syracuse Architecture NYC spring 2010 visiting critic and principal of ShOP Architects, New York City, will speak at the Syracuse University School of Architecture on Tuesday, Nov. 10.

Jerusalem-based artist Ayana Friedman will visit Syracuse University on Nov. 3-5 to discuss Holocaust teacher education programs, and the art of the children of Holocaust survivors.

Karin Ruhlandt-Senge, professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, was appointed Distinguished Professor.

Soprano Julianna Sabol and pianist Kevin Moore, both members of the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music faculty, will present a concert Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 12:30 p.m. in the Everson Museum of Art’s Hosmer Auditorium.