Search Results for: ,ElO

iSchool students win Travelers IT Case CompetitionNovember 19, 2007Margaret Costello Spillettmcostell@syr.edu On Nov. 16, a team of students from Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies (iSchool) won first place in the 2007 Travelers Information Technology Case Competition in Hartford, Conn….

iSchool project aims to train future scientists on new discovery methodsNovember 16, 2007Margaret Costello Spillettmcostell@syr.edu Advances in computing and information technology, such as high-powered microscopes, telescopes and sensors, have created a new method of scientific discovery — one that involves…

Build it green, and they will come; SU student designers wow attendees at international Greenbuild expositionNovember 16, 2007Martin Wallsmwalls@syracusecoe.org Education is a key component of sustainability, so when the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems (Syracuse CoE)…

CFAC hosts exhibitions focusing on Gullah life, culture and slave imagery in Confederate currencyNovember 16, 2007SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu The Community Folk Art Center has two exhibitions on view through Dec. 15: “Gullah Lifestyles: A Culture Under Attack — Paintings by…

Syracuse native Robert Koolakian comes home to speak on Armenian independence movement in Nov. 27 Syracuse Symposium presentationNovember 15, 2007Kelly Homan Rodoskikahoman@syr.edu Syracuse native and distinguished author, historian and social advocate Robert G. Koolakian will return to his hometown to…

Emeritus professor Horace Landry dies at 95November 14, 2007SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu Horace Landry, professor emeritus of accounting at Syracuse University and an active philanthropist, died Sunday at age 95. His funeral will be held Friday, Nov. 16, at 2 p.m….

SU London announces ‘Journey of Understanding’ participantsNovember 14, 2007Christine Heckman Four SU London students have been selected to take part in the Encompass Trust “Journey of Understanding” in which they will join young people from the United Kingdom, Israel, the…

SU’s Luk awarded National Science Foundation grantNovember 13, 2007Sara Millersemortim@syr.edu A research initiative led by Yan-Yeung Luk, assistant professor of chemistry in The College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University, has received an award from the National Science Foundation…

Syracuse University physicists, students help prepare precision silicon detector for Switzerland-based international study measuring properties of B meson particles November 12, 2007 Sara Millersemortim@syr.edu One of the most fragile detectors for the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment, a particle…

SU Library awarded Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to conduct ethnographic study of academic and library culturesNovember 08, 2007Pamela McLaughlinpwmclaug@syr.edu Syracuse University Library has been awarded a $53,000 planning grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to conduct an ethnographic…