Check out the many academic and social events happening throughout Commencement Weekend, May 13-16, 2010. Learn more

Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, will present "A Voice for Children" on Tuesday, April 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. Read more
Scholarship in Action is the bold vision that propels Syracuse University — a vision for education that's not static or for its own sake, but breaks out of the traditional "ivory tower." It drives us to forge innovative and sustained partnerships across our local and global communities. And that makes SU a place where students become leaders, scholars become collaborators, and the community is continually energized by new ideas.
Frank Bisignano is awarded SU’s prestigious Chancellor’s Medal for Outstanding Achievement during a ceremony in New York City. (Photo: Eric Weiss)
Collaborators and the public invited to “discover a new angle on sustainability."
Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to life at Syracuse Stage Feb. 24-March 14.
Global news sources have reported that earthquakes ranging from 6.0 to 7.2 in magnitude have shaken the Chilean coast today (Thursday, March 11). Syracuse University has confirmed that all 19 SU Abroad undergraduate students currently in Santiago are safe and unharmed.

SU leads a precedent-setting partnership that positions Syracuse schoolchildren for academic achievement and serves as a national model for urban education reform. By providing support to all city school students, the initiative seeks to help more children succeed academically, graduate from high school, and pursue higher education. Learn more

Members of the Whitman School's Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) organization traveled to impoverished Chumanzana, Guatemala, to help build and create a successful thread supply store.
March 14,2010 at 2:00 PM
Syracuse Stage
In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatic and theatrical daring, Alice, Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike.
More infoMarch 16,2010 at 12:00 PM
Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 1st Floor Bird Library
March 16,2010 at 3:00 PM
341 Eggers Hall
March 17,2010 at 9:00 AM
Brittonfield Office Park
March 17,2010 at 12:00 PM
ESF Greenhouse Complex, Illick Hall
March 17,2010 at 12:00 PM
South Side Innovation Center, 2610 S. Salina St.
Led by Chancellor Nancy Cantor, SU practices Scholarship in Action, a bold vision to serve the public good through academic excellence, innovation, and engaging the world.