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Atlanta elementary school students inspired by adults with disabilities

Tuesday, November 1, 2011, By News Staff

Successful adults with disabilities from throughout the metro-Atlanta area inspired children at Gwinnett County’s Nesbit Elementary School on Oct. 12 to dare to dream for their futures as part of a new disability mentoring day and career expo pilot program….

Strategy and policy advisor Jason Yaley ’05 MPA ‘06 to visit SU

Friday, October 28, 2011, By News Staff

The Alumni Speaker Series will wrap up the fall semester with a highly anticipated visit from Jason Yaley, A&S ’05 MPA ’06. Yaley works out of the Pentagon as strategy and policy advisor to the vice chairman of the Joint…

Arts & Culture

601 Tully announces inaugural multimedia exhibition ‘The Butterfly Effect’

Thursday, October 27, 2011, By Jennifer Russo

The gallery at 601 Tully, a center for engaged artistic practice located on the Near West Side of Syracuse, announces its inaugural multimedia exhibition, “The Butterfly Effect.” The show will run from Oct. 29-Dec. 9 at the gallery at 601…

Arts & Culture

Imagining America announces board developments, strategic directions

Monday, October 24, 2011, By Jamie Haft

A new chair, vice chair and three new members have been elected to the National Advisory Board of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA). The board is responsible for ensuring that IA realizes its potential to animate…

STEM

Syracuse University scientists discover new way to determine when water was present on Mars and Earth

Wednesday, October 19, 2011, By News Staff

Record of past may be locked inside mineral common to both planets The discovery of the mineral jarosite in rocks analyzed by the Mars Rover, Opportunity, on the Martian surface had special meaning for a team of Syracuse University scientists…

Business & Economy

SSIC social entrepreneurship program receives funding from CNY Community Foundation

Friday, October 14, 2011, By News Staff

Next session begins Oct. 25 The South Side Innovation Center’s (SSIC) Women of Faith in Business, a unique one-year-old program that works with female social entrepreneurs in the Syracuse area, has received funding from the Central New York Community Foundation….

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell School names two Robertson Fellows

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By News Staff

The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs enters its second year of collaboration with the Robertson Foundation for Government by naming the two newest Robertson Fellows. Laura Alexander of Tamarac, Fla., and Nathan Strand of Gaithersburg, Md., began their…

Mercury pollution in Great Lakes Region is nearly forgotten, but not gone

Tuesday, October 11, 2011, By News Staff

The scope and intensity of mercury pollution in the Great Lakes region is much greater than previously reported, but additional mercury controls should bring needed improvement, according to a new summary of scientific research on the subject. Despite general declines…

Gabrielle Bernstein ’01 brings Spirit Junkie to SU

Tuesday, October 11, 2011, By News Staff

The Alumni Speaker Series will kick off on Wednesday, Oct. 19, with a visit from best-selling author, motivational speaker and spiritual guru Gabrielle Bernstein ’01. Having recently released her book “Spirit Junkie: A Radical Road to Self-love and Miracles” (Harmony,…

Campus & Community

Protect yourself from digital device theft

Monday, October 10, 2011, By Christopher C. Finkle

You can protect your devices from theft, and yourself from resulting data loss and identity theft, by following this advice.