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School of Education Responds to Controversial NCTQ Report

Wednesday, June 19, 2013, By Jennifer Russo

In response to a growing national debate over teacher quality, the School of Education posted an explanation on its website this week about its approach to training teachers who will perform at the highest level. In announcing this new web…

STEM

A&S Professor Wins National Nuclear Physicist Award

Wednesday, June 19, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Paul Souder, professor of physics in The College of Arts and Sciences, is the co-recipient of the 2013 Outstanding Nuclear Physicist Award from Jefferson Science Associates (JSA). He shares the award with Douglas Beck, professor of physics at the University…

iSchool and IBM Host zEnterprise Summer Seminar

Monday, June 17, 2013, By News Staff

Syracuse University and IBM’s System z Academic Initiative co-hosted the zEnterprise Summer Seminar at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) earlier this month. This three-day seminar, held June 3-5, brought together IBM employees and college educators from across North America…

Vera House Honors Syracuse University Students with Special Appreciation Award

Monday, June 17, 2013, By News Staff

Two Syracuse University sophomore students, Eric and Anthony McGriff, twin brothers in The College of Arts and Sciences, were among a group of honorees who were presented with the Special Appreciation Award at the Vera House Annual Recognition and Celebration…

Media, Law & Policy

Television Reporter Edward Hotaling ’59 Dies

Monday, June 17, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Edward Hotaling ’59, a legendary television reporter whose research in 2000 uncovered the use of slave labor in building the White House and Capitol building, died June 3 in Staten Island. He was 75. Hotaling’s discovery led to a Congressional…

Campus & Community

Academic Calendar for 2017-18 Announced

Wednesday, June 12, 2013, By News Staff

The Syracuse University academic calendar for 2017-18 has now been published.  The dates are available in the multi-year calendar (Fall 2013 – Summer 2018) on the Registrar’s Office website.  The calendar continues to meet the needs of our diverse campus…

STEM

Success in Engineering

Tuesday, June 11, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

L.C. Smith Associate Dean Julie Hasenwinkel and her colleagues are putting strategies in place to help keep students engaged and strengthen retention rates beginning this fall. Their efforts got a recent boost.

Sperm Wars Ruled by Females?

Monday, June 10, 2013, By Rob Enslin

SU study finds that females play active, pivotal role in postcopulatory processes Females play a larger role in determining paternity than previously thought, say biologists in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Their findings are the subject of a…

Newhouse School to Name Dick Clark Studios After Legendary Icon and Alumnus

Wednesday, June 5, 2013, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The $18 Million state-of-the-art studio will be completed in Fall 2014.

Cold Case Justice Initiative at Syracuse University launches Five Cities Project this summer

Tuesday, June 4, 2013, By Scott McDowell

The Cold Case Justice Initiative (CCJI) at Syracuse University has announced in Atlanta that it is launching its Five Cities Project this summer. Its student workers will be sent into five southern cities to begin to take a full accounting of racially motivated killings that may have occurred during the period between 1955 and 1980.