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Campus & Community

Stressbusters event Dec. 8 to feature dogs, massages, music and food

Friday, December 7, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Student Centers and Programming Services, within the Division of Student Affairs, will hold the bi-annual Stressbusters event in Schine Dining Saturday, Dec. 8, from 10 p.m.-1 a.m. The event, sponsored by Orange After Dark, is for students and is free when a…

Media, Law & Policy

Bottar elected to SU College of Law Board of Advisors

Thursday, December 6, 2012, By Jaclyn D. Grosso

Syracuse University College of Law has named Michael A. Bottar L’03 to its Board of Advisors. Bottar is a partner with Bottar Leone, PLLC, in Syracuse, N.Y., where his practice is limited to the prosecution and trial of medical malpractice,…

Arts & Culture

Applicants sought for 2013-14 SU Humanities Center-CNY Humanities Corridor Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellowship

Thursday, December 6, 2012, By News Staff

Fellowship has been established in partnership with New York Council for the Humanities The SU Humanities Center and the New York Council for the Humanities have announced the call for applications for the 2013-14 Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellowship. The…

Campus & Community

Neighbors helping neighbors through the United Way

Thursday, December 6, 2012, By Kathleen Haley

Fritz Diddle sees the impact the United Way has every day in his work at On Point for College—it’s in the success of hundreds of young people in the community.

Veterans

IVMF holds Dec. 11 panel on promise of Post-9/11 GI Bill, empowering ‘Next Greatest Generation’

Tuesday, December 4, 2012, By News Staff

On Tuesday, Dec. 11 in Washington, D.C., the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University (IVMF) will bring together leading voices in the veterans’ community, government, higher education and private industry for a broad and far-reaching dialogue on…

Arts & Culture

Irving Berlin’s musical ‘White Christmas’ delivers romance, comedy, holiday cheer

Thursday, November 29, 2012, By News Staff

The title song alone is a celebration and a reminder of a time when the simplest pleasures mattered most and having a big heart was genuinely considered a virtue. Two successful showmen join forces to help out their old army…

Campus & Community

NAACP Chairman Roslyn Brock to keynote 2013 Martin Luther King Jr. celebration

Wednesday, November 28, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Roslyn M. Brock, chairman of the national board of directors for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), will be the keynote speaker for Syracuse University’s 28th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, “Yesterday’s Dream, Tomorrow’s Promise,” on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, in the Carrier Dome.

Campus & Community

Dulye Leadership Experience prepares SU students to stand out in tough job market

Wednesday, November 28, 2012, By News Staff

For every job opening today, there are more than five job seekers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So what does it take to compete and— more importantly—win in the toughest job market in decades? The answers await at…

STEM

Project ENABLE launches training website for school librarians to better serve students with disabilities

Wednesday, November 21, 2012, By News Staff

Project ENABLE (Expanding Nondiscriminatory Access by Librarians Everywhere) has launched a training website, made possible by a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian grant from the Institute of Museum & Library Services. Librarians and other educators can freely access the self-paced…

Campus & Community

Tools and tips for analyzing social media using the So.cl research dataset

Tuesday, November 20, 2012, By News Staff

Analyzing social media may be a daunting task, given its overwhelming size and messy, unstructured nature. Further, for those new to analyzing social behavior in online systems, there are any number of pitfalls that make it challenging to find the…