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Campus & Community

Deadline extended for Summer FLAS proposals

Tuesday, February 21, 2012, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s South Asia Center announces its FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Fellowship Competition for Summer 2012.

Campus & Community

Call for participation for Imagining America 2012 National Conference

Monday, February 20, 2012, By Jamie Haft

‘Linked Fates and Futures: Communities and Campuses as Equitable Partners?’ is the conference theme, Oct. 5-7 in New York.

Supporting military families: IVMF issues response on report by departments of Treasury and Defense

Monday, February 20, 2012, By News Staff

Report concerns best practices for streamlining occupational licensing across state lines for military spouses The Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University issues the following statement in response to a recent report issued jointly by the departments of…

Arts & Culture

‘The Lower Depths’: Provocative portrait of outcasts from master of Russian realism

Monday, February 20, 2012, By News Staff

A masterpiece of Russian realism, “The Lower Depths,” was Maxim Gorky’s first great play, and its premiere production in 1902 helped establish the reputation of the famed Moscow Art Theatre and its influential director, Constantine Stanislavsky. Presented by the Department…

STEM

Grant funds virtual SLS-public K-12 library book creation course

Monday, February 20, 2012, By J.D. Ross

A grant for a new course that uses technology to virtually connect School of Information Studies (iSchool) distance students with classes of Syracuse City School students with disabilities, so they can convey study plans and carry out hands-on projects, has…

Walmart India’s Raj Jain to lecture at Whitman School March 5

Friday, February 17, 2012, By News Staff

As part of the Whitman School of Management’s Jonathan Holtz Global Speaker Series, Raj Jain, president of Walmart India and managing director and CEO of Bharti Walmart Pvt. Ltd., will speak on Monday, March 5, at Whitman’s Lender Auditorium, room…

Media, Law & Policy

Rubinstein co-authors article for Anthropology Today

Thursday, February 16, 2012, By News Staff

Robert A. Rubinstein, professor of anthropology and international relations in the Maxwell School, recently co-authored the article “‘Material Support’ U.S. anti-terrorism law threatens human rights and academic freedom,” which was published in Anthropology Today in February. The federal law prohibiting…

New study links whale stress to ship noise

Friday, February 10, 2012, By News Staff

Data collected around 9/11 terrorist attacks by SU biologist plays key role in study Hunted almost to extinction, North Atlantic Right Whales are among the most endangered in the world, with fewer than 500 alive today. Syracuse University biologist Susan…

Call for SU honorary degree nominations by March 16

Friday, February 10, 2012, By News Staff

The Syracuse University Senate Committee on Honorary Degrees invites all students, faculty, staff and alumni to nominate candidates to receive honorary degrees at the 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 Commencement ceremonies. The deadline for all nominations is March 16, 2012….

Campus & Community

Nominations for 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 honorary degrees

Friday, February 10, 2012, By News Staff

The Senate Committee on Honorary Degrees is soliciting nominations from faculty, staff, alumni, and students for candidates to receive honorary degrees at the 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 Commencement ceremonies.