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Campus & Community

BBI’s Southeast ADA Center, Leadership Network offer online toolkit to celebrate 22nd anniversary of ADA

Friday, July 13, 2012, By News Staff

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) will celebrate its 22nd anniversary on July 26. To celebrate this milestone, the Southeast ADA Center, a project of the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University, and its State Leadership Network have created an…

Veterans

IVMF, SBA, Marine Corps announce pilot program to assist military, vets to become business owners

Thursday, July 12, 2012, By News Staff

Mike Haynie, executive director and founder of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University (IVMF), U.S. Small Business Administration Administrator Karen Mills and U.S. Marine Corps Brigadier General R.F. Hedelund have announced the creation of Operation Boots…

Arts & Culture

Araca Project announces 2012 season of works by emerging theater artists

Wednesday, July 11, 2012, By Erica Blust

Six works by up-and-coming theater artists make up the 2012 season of the Araca Project, an early career development initiative of the Department of Drama in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), the University of Michigan and…

STEM

L.C. Smith College awards Faculty Excellence Awards to catalog green infrastructure in Syracuse, design hands-on fuel cell lab

Tuesday, July 10, 2012, By News Staff

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…

Veterans

IVMF, Startup Weekend partner with Google to host first Google for Entrepreneurs Day for Veterans, Service Members and Military Families

Monday, July 9, 2012, By News Staff

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University (IVMF) and Startup Weekend are partnering with Google to host the first ever Google for Entrepreneurs Day for Veterans, Service Members and Military Families in San Diego on Aug. 9….

Media, Law & Policy

SU Voices: “FCC vs. Fox”

Thursday, July 5, 2012, By News Staff

by Roy Gutterman Curse words and nudity, even fleeting or spontaneous profanity and brief naked bodies may still be off-limits on broadcast television, but the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) needs to issue clearer guidelines and standards with plenty of notice…

Crowston’s grant proposal recommended by NSF for three-year funding

Thursday, July 5, 2012, By Diane Stirling

A School of Information Studies professor’s proposal for a project researching the structuring of tasks and the motivation of participants involved in citizen science projects has been recommended for three years of funding by the National Science Foundation. Professor Kevin…

Stanton’s open source e-book introduces data science

Thursday, July 5, 2012, By Diane Stirling

In a world increasingly muddled by the proliferation of information, how can anyone hope to filter, organize, curate and make sense of it all? That’s the job of data scientists, an emerging professional specialty in the information field. An introduction…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Friday, June 29

Friday, June 29, 2012, By News Staff

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE The Post-Standard reported on the appointment of Carl J. Schramm as University Professor. An internationally recognized leader in entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth, Schramm comes to Syracuse following a decade as president of the Ewing…

Kathryn Lee, longtime University writer and educator

Wednesday, June 27, 2012, By News Staff

Kathryn Edwards Lee G’97 was a longtime member of the Syracuse University community, serving under three administrations beginning with Chancellor Melvin A. Eggers. She was a gifted writer and spent many years as speechwriter and assistant to Chancellor Kenneth A….