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Native American author launches Syracuse Symposium

Monday, August 30, 2010, By Rob Enslin

Leslie Marmon Silko will speak Sept. 8.

Health & Society

Eatman receives international early career honors in the area of service learning and community engagement

Monday, August 30, 2010, By Jennifer Russo

Timothy K. Eatman, assistant professor of higher education in Syracuse University’s School of Education and director of research for Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, has been selected to receive the International Association for Research on Service-learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) Early Career Award.

Rothschild promoted to associate dean of admissions

Sunday, August 29, 2010, By News Staff

Nancy Machles Rothschild has been promoted to the position of associate dean of admissions at Syracuse University, effective Sept. 1.

STEM

SU professor awarded NSF grant to design more secure Web browsers

Friday, August 27, 2010, By News Staff

Wenliang Du, professor of computer science in the L.C Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, has received a $471,970 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to explore ways to make web browsers a safer environment for information gathering and dissemination.

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage announces youth auditions for ‘A Christmas Story’ and ‘The Miracle Worker’

Thursday, August 26, 2010, By News Staff

Syracuse Stage is seeking boys and girls ages 7-12 of all ethnicities.

Ducre receives Fulbright award for research and study on feminist epistemology

Tuesday, August 24, 2010, By News Staff

Kishi Animashaun Ducre, assistant professor in the Department of African American Studies in The College of Arts and Sciences, has received a Fulbright award to research and teach in Trinidad and Tobago on feminist epistemology and research methods. She will leave in January 2011 and stay in residence for six months.

STEM

Syracuse University research team uses nanobiotechnology-manipulated light particles to accelerate algae growth; may be a key to creating efficient biofuel production

Tuesday, August 24, 2010, By News Staff

Scientists and engineers seek to meet three goals in the production of biofuels from non-edible sources such as microalgae: efficiency, economical production and ecological sustainability. A team led by Syracuse University’s Radhakrishna Sureshkumar, professor and chair of biomedical and chemical engineering in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, has uncovered a process that is a promising step toward accomplishing these three goals.

Campus & Community

Chancellor’s Leadership Award catalyzes project, conference on transnationalizing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) studies

Tuesday, August 24, 2010, By News Staff

On Sept. 23-25, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Studies Program at Syracuse University will host an inaugural conference, “Transnationalizing LGBT Studies” that will cross geographic and cultural borders to explore LGBT scholarship and activism from a transnational perspective.

Syracuse iSchool assistant professor awarded IMLS grant to assess information literacy

Monday, August 23, 2010, By News Staff

Working with a three-year grant from Institute of Museum and Library Services, Megan Oakleaf will develop and test rubrics that evaluate student learning.

Newhouse School announces five new faculty appointments

Monday, August 23, 2010, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will welcome five new faculty appointments with the start of the 2010-11 academic year.