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Chief scientist for NASA to give convocation address for L.C. Smith

Wednesday, May 2, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

NASA’s chief scientist, Waleed Abdalati ’86, will deliver the 2012 address to bachelor’s degree candidates of Syracuse University’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science at the college’s convocation ceremony on Saturday, May 12, at 9 a.m. in Manley…

STEM

Varshney to receive IEEE Judith A. Resnik Award for pioneering work in wireless technology

Tuesday, May 1, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Professor Pramod K. Varshney in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, an engineer whose pioneering and continuing contributions to distributed detection techniques and data fusion methods have fueled the success of wireless sensor networks benefiting aerospace, defense…

Annual Faculty Recognition Awards program honors teaching excellence

Monday, April 30, 2012, By News Staff

Kazaz, Massey named Meredith Professors At the annual Faculty Awards Recognition event held recently at Goldstein Alumni & Faculty Center, Chancellor Nancy Cantor and Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina congratulated the winners of the 2011-12 University teaching awards, including…

2012-13 Remembrance Scholars chosen

Friday, April 27, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University’s Remembrance Scholar Committee has chosen the 35 students who will be the 2012-13 Remembrance Scholars. The scholarships were founded as a tribute to—and means of remembering—the 35 students who were killed in the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing of…

Giving students a new perspective on food waste

Friday, April 27, 2012, By News Staff

Think back to when you were a kid. Did your parents ever make you finish all of the food on your plate before you could be excused from the table? While many of us can probably recall such memories, you’d…

Campus & Community

SU Ph.D. student Jessica Kuskey wins Mary Hatch Marshall Essay Award

Thursday, April 26, 2012, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Jessica Kuskey, a Ph.D. student in the English Department in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, received the Mary Hatch Marshall Essay Award at the Syracuse University Library Associates annual spring luncheon on April 26. Her essay is titled…

Campus & Community

OTN to host benefit concert on Saturday

Thursday, April 26, 2012, By News Staff

Join Orange Television Network, headlining act Good Neighbors and opening act Stephen Babcock for “Funk Cancer,” a benefit concert event at Funk N Waffles this Saturday at 7pm. All proceeds will support Paige’s Butterfly Run, a local non-profit funding pediatric…

Arts & Culture

‘Sweet lovers love the spring’ in ‘As You Like It’

Wednesday, April 25, 2012, By News Staff

At the heart of the joyful play “As You Like It” is perhaps Shakespeare’s greatest comic heroine, Rosalind. As a woman disguised as a man, she exists not fully as either but in between, where she can relish the privilege…

Syracuse University study finds autumn advantage for invasive plants in eastern United States

Wednesday, April 25, 2012, By News Staff

Much like the fabled tortoise and the hare, the competition between native and invasive plants growing in deciduous forests in the Eastern United States is all about how the plants cross the finish line in autumn. A new study by…

SU’s Bruce Smith wins Poetry Society of America award

Wednesday, April 25, 2012, By Rob Enslin

Bruce Smith, professor of English in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, has won the William Carlos Williams Award, presented by the Poetry Society of America (PSA). The critically acclaimed poet was nominated on the merit of his latest…