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Campus & Community

Mathematics department adds applied mathematics B.A. and B.S.

Thursday, September 29, 2011, By News Staff

New programs of study in Applied Mathematics are available, effective fall 2011, from the Mathematics Department (http://math.syr.edu) in The College of Arts and Sciences.

Campus & Community

Vanden Heuvel will speak on role of grassroots social movements, independent journalism

Thursday, September 29, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation magazine, will speak “On the Nation and Our Political Movement” in the next presentation of the University Lectures series at Syracuse University on Tuesday, Oct. 4, at 7:30 p.m. in Hendricks…

STEM

iSchool’s Dedrick to study wind energy jobs

Thursday, September 29, 2011, By J.D. Ross

School of Information Studies (iSchool) Associate Professor Jason Dedrick has been awarded a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to analyze jobs associated with the wind energy industry in the United States and around the globe. Dedrick will address this issue…

Campus & Community

SU Humanities Center, physics department team up for Wali Lecture Oct. 6

Wednesday, September 28, 2011, By Rob Enslin

Renowned particle physicist Ian Shipsey will deliver the Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture in the Sciences and Humanities at Syracuse University. The lecture, “Bionic Hearing: The Science and the Experience,” is on Thursday, Oct. 6, at 4 p.m. in Maxwell Auditorium….

Arts & Culture

‘New generation’ architect Bjarke Ingels of BIG to lecture at Syracuse Architecture

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, By Elaine Wackerow

Architect Bjarke Ingels, founding partner of BIG (Copenhagen, NYC), will speak at the Syracuse University School of Architecture on Tuesday, Oct. 4, at 5 p.m. in Slocum Hall Auditorium. His lecture, “Hedonistic Sustabinability,” is free and open to the public….

Arts & Culture

Art and science historians headline new ‘transdisciplinary humanities’ series at SU

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, By Rob Enslin

Art historian James Elkins and science historian Michael Lynch will headline the first installment of “IMAGES? Precisely!,” a new lecture series presented by The Syracuse University Humanities Center. The multimedia program, which is free and open to the public, is…

Business & Economy

Whitman School welcomes new faculty members

Thursday, September 22, 2011, By News Staff

The Whitman School of Management welcomes four new faculty members this fall: Jeffrey Harris (finance), D. Craig Nichols (accounting), Alexandra Kostakis ’91 (entrepreneurial practice) and Peter Scott (entrepreneurial practice). “We are delighted to welcome Jeff, Craig, Alex and Peter to the…

Veterans

Institute for Veterans and Military Families announces inaugural fellows

Tuesday, September 20, 2011, By News Staff

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University, an academic center committed to leveraging the national resources of higher education in service to our country’s veteran and military family communities, has announced its inaugural cadre of institute…

Arts & Culture

English Department adds film, creative writing tracks

Monday, September 19, 2011, By Cyndi Moritz

Starting this semester, the Department of English in The College of Arts and Sciences is adding two new tracks that students can pursue within the English and textual studies (ETS) major: film and screen studies and creative writing. The tracks are…

Campus & Community

SU to host Imagining America for new five-year term

Monday, September 19, 2011, By News Staff

Beginning in the fall semester, a national search will begin for a new director of Imagining America.