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Help Make the City of Syracuse Bloom

Thursday, June 20, 2013, By News Staff

The Westcott Neighborhood Bulb project started 10 years ago. The original goal of the project was to beautify the Westcott neighborhood, and in the process help build community. The idea was to raise funds and offer 18 free perennial bulbs…

Syracuse University Chancellor and President Nancy Cantor Named Chancellor of Rutgers University-Newark

Thursday, June 20, 2013, By Kevin C. Quinn

At a meeting today of the Rutgers University Board of Governors, Rutgers President Robert L. Barchi named Chancellor Nancy Cantor as the new chancellor of Rutgers University-Newark. Cantor, who last fall announced upcoming plans to conclude her tenure at SU,…

School of Education Responds to Controversial NCTQ Report

Wednesday, June 19, 2013, By Jennifer Russo

In response to a growing national debate over teacher quality, the School of Education posted an explanation on its website this week about its approach to training teachers who will perform at the highest level. In announcing this new web…

WISE Women’s Business Center Announces Three New Board Members, Roster for 2013

Wednesday, June 19, 2013, By Lindsay Wickham

The WISE Women’s Business Center announced the appointment of Jennifer Creighton, Alyse Holstein and Gwen Webber-McLeod to its board of advisors, as well as the full slate of officers and board members for 2013. “I am excited to welcome our…

iSchool and IBM Host zEnterprise Summer Seminar

Monday, June 17, 2013, By News Staff

Syracuse University and IBM’s System z Academic Initiative co-hosted the zEnterprise Summer Seminar at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) earlier this month. This three-day seminar, held June 3-5, brought together IBM employees and college educators from across North America…

Media, Law & Policy

Television Reporter Edward Hotaling ’59 Dies

Monday, June 17, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Edward Hotaling ’59, a legendary television reporter whose research in 2000 uncovered the use of slave labor in building the White House and Capitol building, died June 3 in Staten Island. He was 75. Hotaling’s discovery led to a Congressional…

Media, Law & Policy

Q&A with Professor Roy Gutterman: Balancing Privacy and National Security

Monday, June 17, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

Recent revelations about the U.S. government’s surveillance programs in counterterrorism have jarred the American public into a debate about privacy rights versus national security. A former National Security Agency contractor employee, Edward Snowden, leaked information that the N.S.A. collects the…

Campus & Community

Academic Calendar for 2017-18 Announced

Wednesday, June 12, 2013, By News Staff

The Syracuse University academic calendar for 2017-18 has now been published.  The dates are available in the multi-year calendar (Fall 2013 – Summer 2018) on the Registrar’s Office website.  The calendar continues to meet the needs of our diverse campus…

STEM

Success in Engineering

Tuesday, June 11, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

L.C. Smith Associate Dean Julie Hasenwinkel and her colleagues are putting strategies in place to help keep students engaged and strengthen retention rates beginning this fall. Their efforts got a recent boost.

Business & Economy

Three Whitman Faculty Join Academy of Management Journal Editorial Board

Tuesday, June 11, 2013, By News Staff

Three faculty members from the Martin J. Whitman School of Management have accepted invitations to serve on the editorial review board for the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ). The peer-reviewed AMJ is considered one of the top academic journals in…