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Campus & Community

Skylab astronaut Gerald Carr to speak at Syracuse University and present Astronaut Scholars Award

Wednesday, September 8, 2010, By News Staff

Veteran Skylab Astronaut Gerald P. Carr will present the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation’s 2010-11 scholarship award to Syracuse University senior Nathaniel J. Miska during a public lecture on Friday, Sept. 17.

Arts & Culture

Renowned theater, opera, festival director Peter Sellars to speak at Syracuse University Sept. 16

Wednesday, September 8, 2010, By Erica Blust

Peter Sellars, a renowned theater, opera and festival director and one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the performing arts, will speak at Syracuse University on Thursday, Sept. 16.

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage’s 38th season starts with exuberant, uplifting performance by Rochester native

Tuesday, September 7, 2010, By News Staff

Set in a tough, Bronx high school, the nationally acclaimed and award-winning “No Child…” traces the efforts of a young teaching artist to engage a class of uninspired and underachieving 10th graders by challenging the students to put on a play.

Health & Society

Netherlands drug policy expert to speak on public health and safety impact of harm reduction, decriminalization Sept. 16

Tuesday, September 7, 2010, By News Staff

Janhuib Blans, public health and drug policy expert, director of the Bureau of Research, Training and Consultancy in the Netherlands, will present “Dutch Drug Policy: Examining the Public Health and Safety Impact of Harm Reduction and Decriminalization” Sept. 16.

Arts & Culture

‘Art and Civic Dialogue: the Seminar on the Future of Art and Education’ launches at VPA

Tuesday, September 7, 2010, By Erica Blust

The seminar will be team taught by arts professional David A. Ross ’71 and artist Carrie Mae Weems.

Arts & Culture

Sanford Sternlicht revisits ‘Modern Irish Drama’

Friday, September 3, 2010, By Rob Enslin

One of the most significant periods of Western theater is the subject of a newly updated and expanded book by Sanford Sternlicht G’62, English professor emeritus in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences.

Health & Society

Center for Health and Behavior announces Fall 2010 Seminar Series on range of health topics

Friday, September 3, 2010, By News Staff

The series is part of the CHB’s efforts to promote health and behavior research and to strengthen collaborations on-campus and within the community. Speakers represent a diverse range of disciplines and perspectives on health research.

Media, Law & Policy

TRAC: Asylum denial rates at 25-year low

Friday, September 3, 2010, By News Staff

According to a new analysis of Justice Department data by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), immigration judges are declining substantially fewer requests for asylum.

STEM

Syracuse iSchool’s Milton Mueller receives NSF funding to research social impact of network surveillance technologies

Friday, September 3, 2010, By News Staff

Syracuse University School of Information Studies Professor Milton Mueller’s $304,000 grant proposal “Deep Packet Inspection and the Governance of the Internet” has received funding by the National Science Foundation.

Campus & Community

New campus composting program in full swing, reduces food waste

Friday, September 3, 2010, By News Staff

A new composting program is diverting several tons of food waste away from SU Food Services’ dumpsters each month and returning it back to its organic origins.