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Campus & Community

SYRFILMFEST’11 calls for volunteers

Thursday, June 2, 2011, By News Staff

SYRFILMFEST’11 is seeking dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers who want to contribute to the continued success of one of the leading international film festivals in the country. By becoming part of the festival team, you will network with other people, see…

Business & Economy

SU-SIFE helps local businesses ‘go green’

Wednesday, June 1, 2011, By News Staff

The local business community is now a little more sustainable thanks to a new green business certification program that received support from nearly two dozen Syracuse University student volunteers.  Eight businesses graduated from the Green Core Company program on May…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Friday, May 27

Friday, May 27, 2011, By News Staff

Chancellor Cantor writes in Huffington Post on colleges and universities addressing global challenges

Business & Economy

SU-SIFE places fourth at 2011 National Exposition; adviser named Sam Walton Fellow of the Year

Friday, May 27, 2011, By News Staff

The Syracuse University SIFE (SU-SIFE) team, based in the Whitman School of Management, placed fourth at the 2011 SIFE USA National Exposition held earlier this month in Minneapolis. More than 400 teams competed as part of the exposition. This is…

Celebrated Syracuse University linguist and teacher of English as second language dies at age 80

Thursday, May 26, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University Associate Professor Emerita Jeanette D. Macero died on May 9 in Boston, Mass.

Health & Society

School of Education’s Dotger receives NSF award to design and test clinical simulations for the preparation of math and science teachers

Thursday, May 26, 2011, By Jennifer Russo

Benjamin H. Dotger, assistant professor in Teaching and Leadership Programs in the School of Education, has been awarded a $449,898 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his project titled “The Science and Mathematics Simulated Interaction Model (SIM).”  The…

Campus & Community

SU again featured in green colleges guidebook

Monday, May 23, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University is one of the most environmentally responsible colleges in the United States and Canada, according to The Princeton Review. The well-known education services company again selected SU for inclusion in the recently released second annual edition of its free downloadable…

BBI’s Marcia Scherer ’70 to receive mentor award from Rehabilitation Engineering Society of North America

Monday, May 23, 2011, By News Staff

Marcia Scherer ’70, of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, will receive the Sam McFarland Memorial Mentor Award from the Rehabilitation Engineering Society of North America (RESNA). The award recognizes Scherer for having influenced, counseled and nurtured others…

BBI research associate elected to Society for Disability Studies board

Friday, May 20, 2011, By News Staff

Omolara Funmilola Akinpelu, research associate with the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, has been elected to serve on the board of directors of the Society for Disability Studies (SDS). Akinpelu’s three-year term begins at the conclusion of June’s…

STEM

Energy-saving transportation project receives NYSERDA funding

Friday, May 20, 2011, By News Staff

Lawrence L. Tavlarides, professor of chemical engineering and materials science in the L. C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (LCS), has received $260,000 in funding from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to explore…