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Queering Education Research Institute to host ‘A Day of Art, Education and Action’ April 1

Monday, March 21, 2011, By News Staff

The Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI) will offer a half-day workshop on April 1 for area K-12 educators on improving school climate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer and questioning (LGBTQ) students. Pre-service teachers, students and allies are also…

Whitman’s iMBA ranked among top 40 international online MBA programs by Financial Times

Monday, March 21, 2011, By News Staff

The iMBA program in the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University has been ranked among the top 40 international online MBA programs for 2011 by the Financial Times. Rankings were released in the March 14 edition. The Financial Times…

Media, Law & Policy

Comcast CEO, Foursquare co-founders to be honored at fifth annual Mirror Awards ceremony June 7

Wednesday, March 16, 2011, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Comcast Corporation chairman and CEO Brian L. Roberts will receive the Fred Dressler Achievement Award, and Foursquare co-founders Dennis Crowley ’98 and Naveen Selvadurai will receive the i-3 award for impact, innovation and influence at the fifth annual Mirror Awards…

Campus & Community

IDEAS Collaborative–Saving the Arts at this week’s Thursday Morning Roundtable

Tuesday, March 15, 2011, By Eileen Jevis

The March 17 session of Thursday Morning Roundtable (TMR) will feature Heidi Holtz, director of grant making at the Rosamond Gifford Foundation, and Steve Butler, executive director of the Cultural Resources Council. They will present “IDEAS Collaborative.”

Painter Ophrah Shemesh to speak March 29

Tuesday, March 15, 2011, By Erica Blust

Israeli-born, New York-based painter Ophrah Shemesh will present a lecture on Tuesday, March 29, at 6:30 p.m. in Shemin Auditorium in the Dorothea Ilgen Shaffer Art Building. The free, public lecture is sponsored by the painting program as part of…

DVD series collaboration between Newhouse and VPA honored by Music Teachers National Association

Tuesday, March 15, 2011, By Erica Blust

“3-D Piano: The Three-Dimensional Pianist,” a six-part DVD series on piano teaching and playing produced by Syracuse University professors Fred Karpoff and Richard Breyer, has been named the 2011 winner of the Frances Clark Keyboard Pedagogy Award by the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA).

South Side Innovation Center named finalist for NBIA’s Incubator of the Year award

Monday, March 14, 2011, By News Staff

The South Side Innovation Center (SSIC), the area’s leading small business incubator and training center, has been named one of two finalists for the National Business Incubator Association (NBIA) Incubator of the Year award in the general and special focus…

SU’s Newhouse School awards first Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting

Friday, March 11, 2011, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Craig Harris of The Arizona Republic is the first recipient Craig Harris, a reporter with The Arizona Republic, is the first recipient of the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, given by Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public…

International Bridges for Justice founder Karen Tse to present University Lecture March 22

Thursday, March 10, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Karen Tse, an award-winning human rights defender and founder of International Bridges for Justice (IBJ), will speak about her work to champion human rights around the world in the next University Lecture at Syracuse University on Tuesday, March 22. Tse’s…

STEM

LCS research team shapes cell behavior research

Wednesday, March 9, 2011, By News Staff

A team led by James Henderson, assistant professor of biomedical and chemical engineering in Syracuse University’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (LCS) and researcher in the Syracuse Biomaterials Institute, has used shape memory polymers to provide greater…