SU in the News: Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Tuesday, January 11, 2011, By News Staff

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE

An article on songs of African American women composers, co-authored by Eileen Strempel, assistant vice president for academic advancement in Enrollment Management and associate professor of fine arts in The College of Arts and Sciences, appeared in the January/February 2011 edition of the Journal of Singing. In the same issue, Strempel’s Atwood Project CD, “(In) Habitation,” an album of musical settings of Margaret Atwood poetry, was reviewed.

The Central New York Business Journal mentions the Whitman School of Management’s South Side Innovation Center (SSIC) in an article about Mirador Consulting.

Syracuse University, the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI), Whitman School, SSIC and their respective roles in the Start-Up NY program in Onondaga County are featured in a Rehab Management magazine article. Thomas Kruczek, executive director of the Whitman School Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship, and Gary Shaheen, BBI senior vice president, are quoted.

FACULTY QUOTES

Scott Pitnick, professor of biology in The College of Arts and Sciences, is quoted in Nature article on flatworms and sperm diversity.

David Yaffe, assistant professor in The College of Arts and Sciences, authored a Chronicle of Higher Education open letter to filmmaker Michael Moore about rising tuition and student-loan debt in higher education.

Eric Kingson, professor in the School of Social Work in the College of Human Ecology, was interviewed on Social Security in a BlogTalkRadio episode with Susie Madrak.

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 Sacramento Bee article on political rhetoric following the shootings in Arizona. Thompson is also quoted in a Reuters story about preliminary hearings in the case against Dr. Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson’s physician.

Jeffrey Stonecash, professor of political science in the Maxwell School and College of Arts and Sciences, is quoted in a YNN report about political partisanship and violence against elected officials.

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