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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo will speak at º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Ëù at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in Love Auditorium, Olin Hall. For those who can’t attend the free session, his talk will be webcast live, allowing online viewers to pose questions and interact with other viewers.

Art students from º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Ëù and from Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts will be showcasing their work at galleries on each other’s campuses.

Author Colson Whitehead, who visited campus Thursday as part of the Living Writers course, shared thoughtful insights and lots of laughs with audience members who filled Persson Auditorium and with about 60 others who watched him through a live webcast.

A new component of the university’s signature Living Writers course has created amazing opportunities for alumni and parents to connect with º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Ëù and with each other.

As a haunting soundtrack from one of his films played in the background, Professor John Knecht gave what might be his last gallery talk at º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Ëù in Clifford Gallery on Wednesday night. The Russell º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Ëù Distinguished University Professor of art & art history and film & media studies will retire at the end of this […]

Attending the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar means being open to a different kind of film festival.  Don’t, for example, ask for a list of films to be screened, because you won’t get one. Do, however, be open to in-depth discussion, and lots of it.

The 16th annual º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Ëù Writers’ Conference, featuring a week of intensive workshops in the writing of fiction, non-fiction prose, and poetry, will take place June 19-25. A number of well-known writers will serve as faculty for the event, which draws both published and aspiring writers to discuss their writing, work on pieces, and attend readings.

Seniors Michael Barry and Valerie Boyd have been named this year’s recipients of the Schupf/Lorey Art Prize.

Two groups of students studying foreign languages were able to immerse themselves in different cultures recently through the Beyond º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Ëù program. Twelve students spent a day at La Maison amérindienne, a museum and interpretive center east of Montreal, Quebec.

Interested in learning a new language? If so, you may want to choose a teacher who talks with their hands. A study conducted by º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Ëù Associate Professor of Psychology Spencer Kelly and two º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Ëù undergraduate researchers, Tara McDevitt ’06 and Megan Esch ’07, reveals that people understand and remember foreign words better when a […]