SU in the News: Wednesday, October 12

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE

Charles T. Driscoll, University Professor of Environmental Systems Engineering in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, is quoted in the Associated Press, Environmental Protection Magazine, Detroit News and Syracuse.com on mercury contamination in the Great Lakes ecosystem, based on the “Great Lakes Mercury Connections” report Driscoll contributed to.

Gwinnett Daily Post (Atlanta) previewed the disability mentoring program and career expo launched by the Southeast ADA Center in Atlanta, a project of the Burton Blatt Institute.

World Interior Design Network highlighted that Ernie Davis Hall was certified LEED Gold for sustainable design and operations by the U.S. Green Building Council.

The Post-Standard reported on yesterday evening’s University Lecture by writer and humorist David Sedaris.

The Post-Standard interviewed alumna Kathrine Switzer ’68, upon her induction into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, N.Y. Switzer was the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon in 1967 as an SU student.

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 the Huffington Post on the “Angry Birds” app.

Leonard Burman, the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Professor of Public Affairs at the Maxwell School, authored a Forbes blog post on GOP candidate Herman Cain’s tax plan.

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