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VPA’s Zeke Leonard honored with Continuum + Arthur Pulos Award for innovation in interdisciplinary design education
Zeke Leonard, an assistant professor of environmental and interior design in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), is the recipient of the 2012 Continuum + Arthur Pulos Award, which recognizes innovation in interdisciplinary design education at SU….
New Design Gallery exhibition examines history of hand tools, woodworking
In recent years, the connection between process and product has slowly separated, creating a rift between the two.
iSchool students to launch video games designed to make science fun
Think science is boring? Think video games are a waste of time? Students at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) disagree. A group of student programmers, artists and researchers are launching two unique video games designed to make science fun….
Colleen Bench appointed assistant vice president for student affairs
Colleen O’Connor Bench has been appointed assistant vice president for the Division of Student Affairs (DSA). Bench joined the University in 1991 and became director of the Parents Office in 1993, where she has managed the administrative, financial and operational…
Social media become vital tool in business, presidential campaign
When U.S. Sen. Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, the young Democrat’s victory made history in more ways than one. It not only shattered the color barrier to the highest office in the land; it also heralded social media as a powerful—and powerfully underestimated—strategic tool that aspiring politicians from that day forth would ignore at their own peril.
Small awarded grant to redesign web evaluation tools
School of Information Studies (iSchool) faculty member Ruth Small received a $21,800 SPARKS! Ignition Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to redesign the Website Motivational Analyis Checklist (WebMAC). smallOriginally designed in 1999, WebMAC has seven web…
‘Those Who Can: New Work from the School of Art and Design’ on display at Palitz Gallery in NYC
The Palitz Gallery at Syracuse University’s Lubin House in New York City is presenting “Those Who Can: New Work from the School of Art and Design.” The exhibit, which runs through Sept. 13, features recent work from Department of Foundation…
L.C. Smith College awards Faculty Excellence Awards to catalog green infrastructure in Syracuse, design hands-on fuel cell lab
The recipients of the 2012 L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Excellence Awards are professors David Chandler (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) and Jeongmin Ahn (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering). Their ideas were selected as…
Deutsche Bank VP Marc Norman named director of UPSTATE: Center for Design at the School of Architecture
Marc Norman has been named the new director of UPSTATE: A Center for Design, Research, and Real Estate at the Syracuse University School of Architecture, effective July 1. UPSTATE initiates and implements projects that focus on the importance of design…
McLaughlin named board president of CNY Library Resources Council
Pamela McLaughlin, director of communications and external relations for Syracuse University Library, was elected president of the board of the Central New York Library Resources Council, one of nine multi-type library systems in New York state whose mission is to…