SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE
The Whitman School of Management Case Competition is noted in a Buffalo News story about honors for University of Buffalo MBA students in the competition.
9WSYR (view clip) and the Post-Standard reported on SU students and staff taking part in a community cleanup over the weekend.
YNN News and the Post-Standard (video report) covered Friday’s Mayfest student celebration in Walnut Park. The popular SU/SUNY-ESF students-only tradition is co-produced by the SU Student Association and University Union in partnership with SU and the City of Syracuse.
The Post-Standard and The Batavian report that Terry Anderson, news correspondent and ex-hostage in Lebanon, will serve as a visiting professional at Syracuse University for the 2011-12 academic year.
A review of the VPA MFA 2011 master of fine arts exhibition at the SUArt Galleries appeared in the Post-Standard Stars magazine.
The Post-Standard reported on SU’s “Explore the Corridor” weekend event held along the Connective Corridor.
Chancellor Nancy Cantor issued a campus message that addressed stories about the AAU in Inside Higher Ed and the Chronicle of Higher Education.
FACULTY QUOTES
SU alumnus Rami Khouri ’70, G’98, Director of the Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut and editor-at-large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper, was interviewed on NPR‘s Morning Edition about reaction to Osama bin Laden’s death and is quoted in Wall Street Journal and Reuters articles on Al Qaeda following bin Laden’s death. Khouri is also quoted in The National (Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.) story on the role of the Gulf Cooperation Council in the Yemen conflict and in a Washington Post article about Syrian unrest.
Jean Jonassaint, associate professor of languages, literatures and linguistics at The College of Arts and Sciences, is quoted in a New York Times article about the father of Haitian letters, Franketienne.
Michael Barkun, professor emeritus at the Maxwell School, is quoted on conspiracy theories in a Bloomberg Businessweek article about rumors and fringe theories, including those such as the issue of President Obama’s birth certificate.
Eric Kingson, professor of social work in the College of Human Ecology’s School of Social Work, was interviewed Friday on Social Security for the Leslie Marshall show, a nationally syndicated talk radio show originating in Los Angeles.
SU senior magazine journalism major Caitlin Dewey has won the New York Times Fashion & Style section Modern Love: College Essay Contest.
A letter by David Cay Johnston, distinguished visiting lecturer in the College of Law, on the San Francisco Chronicle yielding to anonymous complaints from the White House, was published in the Poynter Romenesko column and cited in an East Bay Express story on the topic. Also, Johnston is quoted in a Huffington Post article on decreased funding for IRS policing of tax evasion.
Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, is quoted about filming Batman in Pittsburgh for a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article on the history and future of Allegheny County business and government; and on WJBC (Illinois) about the royal wedding.
Roosevelt “Rick” Wright Jr., associate professor of television, radio and film in the Newhouse School, is quoted in an Erie Times-News story on Erie’s market strength in the broadcast-radio industry.
A guest column by David Rubin, professor and dean emeritus at the Newhouse School, about classical music in Central New York following the bankruptcy of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, appeared in Saturday’s Post-Standard.
Khristopher Dodson, program manager at SyracuseCoE, authored a Sunday Post-Standard op-ed on green infrastructure and efforts to save the rain. The Environmental Finance Center at SU is also mentioned.
In a Post-Standard story on Civil Rights-era Freedom Riders and the WCNY taping of recollections for its “Voices from the Back of the Bus” show, A. Dale Tussing, economics professor emeritus in the Maxwell School, is quoted.
—–
To subscribe to SU in the News by daily e-mail, send a message to listserv@listserv.syr.edu with the following in the message body: subscribe SUINTHENEWS
Loretta Awuku, Sylvia Page and Johnson Akano—three graduate students pursuing linguistic studies master’s degrees from the College of Arts and Sciences—spent the past year researching and contributing to assessment and curricular development processes. The research team’s project, Peer-to-Peer Student Outreach…
Academic Affairs and Institutional Effectiveness (IE) presented awards to faculty and staff members, students, offices and programs and hosted a poster presentation during the One University Assessment Celebration on April 25 in the School of Education’s Education Commons. In her…
As the Syracuse campus transitions into the Maymester and Summer Sessions, Campus Dining reminds students, faculty and staff remaining on campus that some of their locations remain open throughout the summer months for all of their breakfast, lunch and snacking…
Over 30 bins of items were donated by students to ’Cuse Collections, an event hosted by Sustainability Management that provides the items to local community groups. Containers were placed on North Campus and South Campus to provide Syracuse University and…
“I think the Rolls-Royce of Falk College, undoubtedly, is the analytics program,” said David Falk, benefactor of the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, to a room of senior sport analytics students and their families during their capstone poster…
If you need help with your subscription, contact sunews@syr.edu.
