Newhouse School of Communications

Events:

February 10

3-D Piano launch
Tuesday, February 10, 2009,
Time: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Location: Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College

A six-DVD series on piano teaching and playing “3-D Piano” will be launched with a special concert event on Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 7 p.m. in the Rose and Jules R. Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College. The event is free and open to the public, but an R.S.V.P. is required by Jan. 30 by calling (315) 449-2443 or e-mailing ThreeDPiano@gmail.com. Free parking is available in Syracuse University pay lots; special needs parking is available in the Quad 1 lot by request.

“3-D Piano” is an instructional DVD series produced by Richard Breyer, professor of television, radio and film in SU’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, and Fred Karpoff, associate professor of music in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in SU’s College of Visual and Performing Arts.

More than four hours of video and an accompanying book guide users through the concepts of the three-dimensional technique in the teaching and playing of piano.

Web and print graphics for the project were designed by Greg Hedges, Newhouse visiting professor of visual and interactive communications.

The Feb. 10 event will include a performance of Brahms by the Boccaccio Trio (Jeremy Mastrangelo, associate concertmaster of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and adjunct in the Setnor School, violin; David LeDoux, principal cellist of the SSO, cello; and Karpoff, piano); a 10-minute screening of excerpts from the series; and a book display.

A dessert reception will follow on the second floor of Crouse College in front of the Winged Victory sculpture.

For more information, contact Mylinda Smith at (315) 443-9252 or msmith@syr.edu. More information about Karpoff is available at http://www.fredkarpoff.com.

February 17

Larry Tye lecture
Tuesday, February 17, 2009,
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3

The Newhouse School will host author and journalist Larry Tye, who will speak on Edward Bernays, the “father of public relations,” as part of the Newhouse Leaders in Communications Lecture Series. The event is free and open to the public. Parking is available in SU pay lots.  

A former journalist with the Boston Globe, Louisville Courier-Journal and Anniston (Alabama) Star, Tye is the author of “The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations.”  Bernays is widely regarded as one of the most influential publicists of the 20^th century. PR industry historian Scott Cutlip describes Bernays as "perhaps public relations' most fabulous and fascinating individual, a man who was bright, articulate to excess, and most of all, an innovative thinker and philosopher of this vocation that was in its infancy.” 

Tye is also the author of “Home Lands: Portraits of the New Jewish Diaspora” and “Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class”; and co-author (with Kitty Dukakis) of “Shock: The Healing Power of Electroconvulsive Therapy.” His biography of Negro League baseball legend Satchel Paige is due for release in June. 

He has won a series of national reporting awards, including the Edward J. Meeman environmental prize, the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, and the National Wildlife Federation's Conservation Achievement Award. He also won awards from the Associated Press, AP Sports Editors, Sigma Delta Chi, the Audubon Society, the Sierra Club, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health and the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. 

A reception will follow his talk. For more information, contact Nancy Sharp at (315) 443-9235 or nwsharp@syr.edu.

     

February 24

Hip-hop journalist and author Kim Osorio
Tuesday, February 24, 2009,
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, N3

 

Kim Osorio, former editor-in-chief of The Source magazine, will visit the Newhouse School on Tuesday, Feb. 24. She will speak at 1:00 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3. A book-signing will follow. The event is free and open to the public. Parking is available in SU pay lots.   

Osorio was the first female editor-in-chief of The Source, which covers hip-hop music, culture and politics. She led the publication during some of its highest-selling issues, but later sued for sexual harassment and received a reported $15.5 million settlement.

She is the author of Straight from the Source: An Expose from the Former Editor in Chief of the Hip-Hop Bible (VH1, 2008), in which she gives a behind-the-scenes look at her years at The Source.  

Osorio is currently an editor-at-large for BET.com and a frequent on-air contributor to BET News. She was formerly the vice president of content for Global Grind, a leading hip-hop media company.  

The event is co-sponsored by the Newhouse magazine department, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and ED2010. For more information contact Shelly Griffin at (315) 443-4004 or migriffi@syr.edu.

February 26

Prof. Harriet Brown book signing
Thursday, February 26, 2009,
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: Newhouse 3, Rms 432-434

 

Professor Brown will sign copies of her recently-released book, FEED ME! Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight and Body Image. There will also be a panel discussion during the event. Panelists include Mary Tantillo, director of the University of Rochester Eating Disorders Program; Cris Haltom, a therapist from Ithaca specializing in eating disorders; and Harriet Brown, editor of and contributor to FEED ME!. A free book will be raffled off and cupcakes will be served.

“Soldiers Without Swords" documentary
Thursday, February 26, 2009,
Time: 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Location: Hergenhan Auditorium, NH3

 

 “Soldiers Without Swords” is a powerful documentary of the American black press by   filmmaker Stanley Nelson. The showing is sponsored by the Newhouse Diversity Committee, in celebration of Black History Month.

February 2

Brian Mullaney, Smile Train founder
Tuesday, February 2, 2010,
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3

Brian Mullaney, co-founder and president of the cleft lip and cleft palate charity Smile Train, will visit the Newhouse School on Tuesday, February 2. His talk is free and open to the public. Parking is available in SU pay lots.

Mullaney, a former advertising executive, has been involved with various surgery-related children's charities for more than 20 years. He founded Smile Train, an international charity that supports cleft lip and cleft palate surgery for children in need and cleft-related training to doctors, in 1999. Previously, he started a children’s charity in New York City that provided free plastic surgery for hundreds of indigent children, and served on the board of Operation Smile, an international children’s charity treating facial deformities. 

Mullaney has visited many of the poorest countries in the world, where he has met with thousands of children suffering from cleft lip and palate, and thousands of surgeons and other medical professionals.

Mullaney earned a degree in business economics from Harvard University and worked in advertising for more than 25 years. In 1990, he co-founded Schell/Mullaney advertising, a high-tech marketing agency that was later sold to CKS, the first publicly-held, interactive advertising agency in the U.S.

For more information about Mullaney’s visit, contact Kevin O’Neill at (315) 443-9206 or kboneil@syr.edu.

February 5

Society for News Design competition judging
Friday, February 5, 2010,
Time: 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Location: SU Campus

Judging for the 31st annual Society for News Design international creative news design competition will take place Feb. 5-8 and Feb. 12-16, on the Syracuse University campus.

For more information, contact Marshall Matlock at (315) 263-8899 or mmatlock@dreamscape.com.

If you have an event you would like added to the calendar, please contact Robyn Kobasa, rskobasa@syr.edu