SU in the News: Tuesday, January 19, 2010

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE

Menachem Z. Rosensaft, distinguished visiting lecturer at Syracuse University College of Law, authored a Huffington Post column on the appointment of Hannah Rosenthal as the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism.

Christopher Kyle, associate professor of history in the Maxwell School and College of Arts and Sciences, guided an audio tour for WTOP Radio (listen to audio segment) in Washington, D.C., through a Folger Shakespeare Library exhibition of “Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper.”

The Whitman School of Management’s Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) is mentioned (second item) in a Tallmadge Express (Ohio) roundup of veterans’ news.

Dan Klamm, outreach and marketing coordinator in SU’s Center for Career for Career Services, wrote a article for the Post-Standard Moneywise section on job seekers using social networking tools.

Sean Kirst’s Post-Standard column focusing on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. mentioned King’s speech at Sims Hall on campus in 1965; the Say Yes to Education program; and the book by Gerald Grant, Hannah Hammond Professor of Education and Sociology Emeritus in the School of Education, proposing consolidated school districts. Additionally, Kelly Homan Rodoski, communications manager in the Office of News Services and chair of SU’s 2010 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee, appeared on Channel 9’s Bridge Street program to talk about this weekend’s Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. Also, the Post-Standard reported SU student Diamond Breland received a Recognition Award from the NAACP Youth Chapter.

A photo of SU Chancellor Nancy Cantor and Thomas Walsh, executive vice president for advancement and external affairs in SU’s Division of Advancement and External Affairs, touring the SU-IBM Green Data Center accompanied a Post-Standard “Green Central New York” magazine story on environmentally-friendly innovations in higher education. Also, photos of SU students Kerry Maguire and Evin Robinson and presenting during a SAGE project seminar and the Near West Side green home construction update were included in the section.

News 10 Now previewed the spring semester for area colleges and universities and spoke to students as they returned to campus.

Colleen Woolpert, a graduate art photography student in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, is featured in CNYLink .

FACULTY QUOTES

Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, is quoted in a Toronto Sun article on the 2010 award show season. He also commented in the New York Daily News, Globe and Mail , WBAL-AM in Baltimore and WJR-AM (listen to audio segment) in Detroit on NBC, Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien.

David Burnham, co-director of SU’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), is quoted in an Associated Press article reviewing terrorism prosecutions in 2009.

Jeffrey Stonecash, professor of political science in the Maxwell School and College of Arts and Sciences, is quoted in Newsday story on campaign fundraising levels in upcoming state elections.

SU senior Cathiana Vital is quoted in a Post-Standard article on Americans with Haitian relatives.

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