Free student tickets to hear Oprah Winfrey speak at Syracuse University will be available starting on Sept. 10, the university announced today.

Winfrey will speak at 1 p.m. in Goldstein Auditorium on Sept. 29 as part of a day-long series of events to dedicate the Newhouse Studio and Innovation Center. SU students can pick up tickets starting at 11 a.m. on Sept. 10 at the Schine Box Office. Tickets are limited to one per student and any tickets not claimed by students will be made available to the general public starting Sept. 12 at noon.

Following her talk, Winfrey will attend the dedication ceremony at the Waverly Avenue entrance to Newhouse II at 2p.m. No tickets are required to attend the dedication ceremony but the university has asked alumni planning to attend to register online.

The dedication ceremony will mark the grand re-opening of Newhouse II, which is currently undergoing an $18 million renovation.Features of the Newhouse Studio and Innovation Center will include the Dick Clark Studios, Alan Gerry Center for Media Innovation and the Digital News Center.

Other events throughout the day include a symposium on “The Future of Digital Media” which will explore the roles that data, branding and experience play in reshaping storytelling for the digital age. Dan Pacheco, the Peter A. Horvitz Endowed Chair in Journalism Innovation at the Newhouse School, will lead the event. Panelists include Mitch Gelman, vice president of product at Gannett Digital; Kristina Hahn ’98, head of consumer packaged goods at Google; and Larry Hryb ’89, director of Xbox programming at Microsoft.

A second symposium will be held in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium at 3 p.m. Robert Thompson, trustee professor and director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Newhouse, will lead the symposium on the life and legacy of SU alumnus Dick Clark. The panelists for “Dick Clark: A Discussion about a Great American Broadcaster” include Eric Deggans, TV critic with National Public Radio; Mary Ann Watson, author, editor and professor of electronic media and film studies at Eastern Michigan University; and David Zurawick, TV critic at “The Baltimore Sun.”