SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE
An NPR “All Things Considered” piece featured the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) as a means of giving veterans a new professional start. Mike Haynie, EBV founder and executive director of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families, spoke with NPR, in addition to EBV program graduates from the University of Connecticut and SU.
The Post-Standard reported on Douglas Biklen, dean of the School of Education, being named winner of the UNESCO/Amir Jaber al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah Prize to Promote Quality Education for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities. Biklen will receive the prize, awarded every two years, today in a ceremony hosted by the Government of Kuwait.
FACULTY QUOTES
Media Line quotes Mehrzad Boroujerdi, director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and The College of Arts and Sciences, on Iran’s parliamentary elections on Friday.
Next Gov quotes Milton Mueller, professor in the iSchool, on ICANN’s (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) management of the domain-name system.
A Post-Standard opinion piece by Aaron Menenberg, graduate student in international relations at the Maxwell School, examines the reaction to the recent desecration of several copies of the Quran in Afghanistan.
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Three professors have been named Meredith Professor Faculty Fellows. Part of the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professorship Program, the Faculty Fellows program was launched this year. Fellows will work in partnership with the Center for Teaching and Learning…
The Syracuse WorkForce Run was held at Onondaga Lake Parkway Tuesday, bringing together workers from across Central New York for a night of food, fun, fitness and friendly competition among area employers. This year’s event, which raised funds for Ronald…
Oren Lyons Jr. ’58, H’93 and Roy Simmons Jr. ’59, H’14 formed a lifelong friendship that stems from their days starring for the Syracuse University men’s lacrosse team from 1955-58. Recently, Lyons and Simmons were honored with the Alfie Jacques…
Katherine McDonald, professor of public health and senior associate dean for research and administration in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, will join Syracuse University’s Office of Research in a new role as associate vice president…
Chancellor Kent Syverud has appointed Dean Mark Lodato of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications as academic dean representative to the Board of Trustees. In addition, Andrea Rose Persin, assistant dean of budget, finance and administration in the College…
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