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Campus & Community

New undergraduate scholarship honors David Smith for 35 years of service, helps students facing unexpected financial hardship

Friday, May 7, 2010, By Veronica Hotaling

The University has created the David and Debbie Smith Undergraduate Scholarship Endowed Fund to help students facing unexpected financial hardship stay in school.

Arts & Culture

Arts-based community developer, author William Cleveland to speak at VPA convocation May 15

Thursday, May 6, 2010, By Erica Blust

William Cleveland, the director of the Center for the Study of Art and Community (CSA&C) on Bainbridge Island, Wash., will deliver the keynote address at the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ convocation ceremony on Saturday, May 15.

STEM

iSchool students to offer observations on Interop 2010 conference at May 5 presentation

Monday, May 3, 2010, By News Staff

Four Syracuse iSchool students in the M.S. in telecommunications and network management program will share highlights from their recent trip to the Interop 2010 conference during a presentation at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, May 5.

STEM

SU professor to chair national Water Sciences & Technology Board

Friday, April 30, 2010, By Rob Enslin

Donald I. Siegel, a Meredith Professor in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed chair of the Water Sciences & Technology Board. The nationally renowned scientist, whose research encompasses contaminant hydrology, paleohydrogeology and wetland hyrdology, will serve a three-year term beginning in July.

Campus & Community

Syracuse University featured in green colleges guidebook

Friday, April 30, 2010, By News Staff

Syracuse University is one of the country’s most environmentally-responsible colleges according to The Princeton Review. The nationally known education services company selected SU for inclusion in a unique new resource it has created for college applicants, “The Princeton Review’s Guide to 286 Green Colleges.”

Health & Society

Banner-raising ceremony at Roberts School on May 18 to salute Schools of Promise inclusion initiative

Thursday, April 29, 2010, By News Staff

Roberts is the second Syracuse school to implement Schools of Promise, an initiative to include all students in general education classrooms, especially those children who have traditionally been marginalized.

Campus & Community

SU Student Association, University Union present Mayfest 2010 Friday afternoon in Walnut Park

Wednesday, April 28, 2010, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s Mayfest 2010 celebration will take place Friday, April 30, from 1-5:30 p.m. in Walnut Park, adjacent to the SU campus. This SU/SUNY-ESF students-only event has been co-produced by the SU Student Association and University Union in partnership with…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage to hold local Equity auditions May 11, 14

Tuesday, April 27, 2010, By News Staff

Syracuse Stage will hold local Equity auditions for the 2010/2011 season on Tuesday, May 11, from noon-8 p.m., and on Friday, May 14, from 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Campus & Community

Syracuse University to confer six honorary degrees May 16

Monday, April 26, 2010, By News Staff

Syracuse University will award honorary degrees to six individuals of exceptional achievement at its 156th Commencement exercises on Sunday, May 16, at the Carrier Dome.

Syracuse University announces new minor in Asian/Asian American studies

Thursday, April 22, 2010, By News Staff

Beginning in the fall 2010 semester, undergraduate students at Syracuse University will be able to add a minor in Asian/Asian American studies to their course of studies, to achieve a greater understanding of Asia and Asian American issues around international migration, immigrant settlement, transnationalism, and racial and ethnic formation in the United States.