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Homecoming Court Selection Committee announces 2012 Homecoming Court

Monday, November 5, 2012, By News Staff

The Homecoming Court Selection Committee has announced the 2012 Syracuse University Homecoming Court. This longstanding tradition is just one of many student events, programs and activities that take place during SU’s annual Homecoming event, Orange Central. Voting for this year’s…

Media, Law & Policy

Smart kids, visual stories

Thursday, November 1, 2012, By News Staff

The first thing the kids noticed was the glass. Walking through the halls of Newhouse 3 in the first year of their participation in the “Smart Kids, Visual Stories” project, students from Syracuse city school Levy K-8 couldn’t fathom how the university felt so comfortable allowing so much exposed glass.

STEM

Engineers study how contaminated soil can be drained, utilized

Thursday, November 1, 2012, By News Staff

LCS research published in Geosynthetics International Each year, 400 million cubic yards of soil are dredged from water bodies in the United States alone. Much of this byproduct is contaminated, deemed unusable and put into landfills. Mahmoud M. Khachan, Shobha…

Arts & Culture

Pianist Anton Nel to present concert, master class at Setnor School

Friday, October 26, 2012, By Erica Blust

Pianist Anton Nel, whose remarkable and multifaceted career has taken him to North and South America, Europe, Asia and South Africa, will be in residence Nov. 3-4 at the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in…

Campus & Community

University College’s de Berly hosts delegation of Russian university educators

Friday, October 26, 2012, By News Staff

Geraldine de Berly, University College (UC) senior associate dean and English Language Institute (ELI) director, hosted a luncheon and led an open dialogue on higher education opportunities for a delegation of seven Russian university educators at University College on Tuesday, Oct. 23.

Campus & Community

Preserving the legacies of 270 lives

Thursday, October 25, 2012, By Kathleen Haley

Everyday items have become extraordinary reminders of the lives lost on Dec. 21, 1988, in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am 103.

Business & Economy

Getting to Know: Risk Management Director David Pajak

Wednesday, October 24, 2012, By Kathleen Haley

As the director of risk management and chief emergency management officer at SU, David Pajak looks at the details with an eye on the big picture. In their shared mission and vision, the Risk Management Department, Environmental Health and Safety…

Campus & Community

Dynamics of Water Droplets seminar

Tuesday, October 23, 2012, By News Staff

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Seminar Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Dynamics of Water Droplets Date and Time: Friday, Oct. 26, 2:15-3:10 p.m., Watson Theatre, Watson Hall by Professor Chang Kyoung Choi Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics Michigan Technological University Contact Person:…

Campus & Community

FSAP offers session on ‘Legal and Financial Issues in Health Care Planning’

Tuesday, October 23, 2012, By News Staff

“Legal and Financial Issues in Health Care Planning,” the next presentation in the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (FSAP) WorkLife series, will be held at noon Wednesday, Oct. 24, in the Hillyer Room, 6th floor – 606 ES Bird Library….

STEM

Guest lecturer to address moral impact of climate change on Nov. 9

Monday, October 22, 2012, By Rob Enslin

Ethics and climate change is the theme of an upcoming lecture in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Stephen Gardiner, a renowned philosopher at the University of Washington in Seattle, will discuss “Geoengineering and Moral Schizophrenia” on Friday, Nov….