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FIXit: SU’s Housing and Food Services Maintenance Zone
FIXit staff is here to serve your maintenance and housekeeping needs twenty-four-hours a day, seven days a week.
Best-selling author Deborah Tannen to speak on ‘family talk’ Sept. 16
Deborah Tannen, a best-selling author and university professor of linguistics at Georgetown University, will give the talk “She Said/He Said/We Said: How Family Talk Sheds Light on Language and Gender” on Thursday, Sept. 16, at 6 p.m.
Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture in the Sciences and Humanities focuses on Afghanistan, Vietnam wars
George Packer, critically acclaimed author and staff writer for The New Yorker, will present “An American Dilemma: Obama, Afghanistan and Vietnam” at 4 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 16.
‘Art and Civic Dialogue: the Seminar on the Future of Art and Education’ launches at VPA
The seminar will be team taught by arts professional David A. Ross ’71 and artist Carrie Mae Weems.
Four distinguished alumni to be honored with Arents Awards Oct. 15
The awards will be part of the Orange Central celebration.
TRAC: Asylum denial rates at 25-year low
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.
University Lectures series to present special conversational panel discussion on Gulf of Mexico oil spill
The long-term impacts of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill will be explored in a special University Lectures presentation at Syracuse University on Tuesday, Oct. 26.
SU professor awarded NSF grant to design more secure Web browsers
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.
Department of Public Safety releases ‘Cribs’-style safety video for South Campus students
The Syracuse University Department of Public Safety (DPS) has released its second student safety video, “South Campus Pads,” loosely based on the popular MTV series “Cribs.” The new video is aimed at the nearly 2,500 students who live on South Campus, and is full of personal safety tips, as well as guidelines for students to keep their property and apartments safe at all times.
Syracuse University research team uses nanobiotechnology-manipulated light particles to accelerate algae growth; may be a key to creating efficient biofuel production
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.