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Students launch buy-local program during run-up to SU Showcase
Syracuse University students in The College of Arts and Sciences’ Soling 300: “Sustainable SU” class are running a buy-local initiative they’ve created to help support a more sustainable Syracuse green economy. The Stamp-Pede Local Businesses program offers prizes for shopping…
Award-winning memoirist concludes Spring 2012 Raymond Carver Reading Series
Kelle Groom will read from ‘I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl’ Kelle Groom, author of the memoir “I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl” (Free Press/Simon and Schuster, 2011), will conclude the Spring…
Green filmmaker Antonio Saillant to speak at SU Showcase April 18
As part of SU Showcase for Sustainability 2012, innovative director and producer Antonio Saillant will present on greening the entertainment industry. Saillant will speak at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18, in the Schine Student Center Goldstein Auditorium. He will…
Long-term research reveals causes, consequences of environmental change
As global temperatures rise, the most threatened ecosystems are those that depend on a season of snow and ice, scientists from the nation’s Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network say.“The vulnerability of cool, wet areas to climate change is striking,”…
Two anthropology Ph.D. students receive major NSF fellowships
Melinda Gurr and Lauren Hosek, both second-year doctoral students in anthropology, have received highly prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. The awards support advanced graduate study for three years, at $30,000 per year. In selecting Gurr and Hosek, the…
SU in the News: Tuesday, April 10
Southern California Public Radio interviews College of Law’s David Cay Johnston on elimination of universal service obligation for landlines
SU, Cornell Student Assembly host White House Young America Series event April 18 to discuss the critical issues facing young Americans
Organizers welcome area college students, young adults to SU campus to explore civic engagement ideas and models The White House Young America Series (WHYAS) offers a special forum in which issues critical to young Americans in the 21st century can…
TRAC: IRS audit program on ‘global high wealth’ individuals not effective
According to an analysis of very timely court data by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), the special government effort to target “global high wealth” individuals—including those with assets or incomes in the tens of millions of dollars—completed audits on…
Faculty and staff volunteers needed for Mayfest April 27
The students’ spring tradition, Mayfest, will be taking place on Friday, April 27 from 1-6 p.m. in Walnut Park, and we need your help to make it a success.
SU in the News: Monday, April 9
New York Times quotes Rick Burton of Falk College on New Balance running shoe ad campaign