STEM

When attending the internationally known and highly regarded South by Southwest (SXSW) festivals in Austin, Texas, ask questions and say yes.

Hope A. Olson, professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, will give a guest lecture on classification and culture at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies.

Marie L. Radford G’75 and R. David Lankes ’92, G’99 will celebrate the publication of their new book “Reference Renaissance: Current and Future Trends” (Neal-Schuman, 2010) on Monday, April 5 at 4 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons on the first floor of Bird Library.

Syracuse University’s Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) will host Virginia Valian, one of the leading experts on gender equality in the academy, on the SU campus on Friday, April 16.

A team led by Syracuse University researcher Radhakrishna Sureshkumar has discovered a new and broadly applicable technique to engineer nanoscale templates.

Patrick J. Magari ’85, G’90, Ph.D. ‘92, owner and principal engineer of Creare Inc., will present this year’s Nunan Lecture in Syracuse University’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science.

Brand-Yourself.com, a Web 2.0 company created by a team of Syracuse University students, is among 10 semi-finalists vying for $200,000 in New York’s Creative Core® Emerging Business Competition.

The iSchool invites all interested students, faculty and staff members to “Tomorrow Happened Last Week … But It’s Happening Again Friday!” from 4- 6 p.m. on March 26 in the Innovation Studio, 011 Hinds Hall.

On Saturday, March 6, the Syracuse University School of Information Studies hosted 39 Girl Scouts from cities across Central New York.

A team of scientists from the international Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment, which includes physicists from Syracuse University, has identified two events in a new analysis of experimental data that have characteristics consistent with particles that make up dark matter.