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Veterans

EBV grad business ranked #106 by Inc. Magazine as one of 500 fastest growing private companies

Wednesday, September 5, 2012, By News Staff

Former Marine John Raftery credits EBV with helping him launch, grow Patriot Contractors Patriot Contractors, a specialty construction company owned and operated by 2007 Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) program graduate John Raftery (U.S. Marine Corps, retired), was…

Health & Society

Linda Stone Fish appointed David B. Falk Endowed Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy

Wednesday, September 5, 2012, By Michele Barrett

Linda Stone Fish was named the inaugural David B. Falk Endowed Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy at Syracuse University’s Falk College. For more than two decades, Stone Fish has devoted herself to training master’s and doctoral students in the…

Media, Law & Policy

Social media become vital tool in business, presidential campaign

Tuesday, September 4, 2012, By Carol Boll

When U.S. Sen. Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, the young Democrat’s victory made history in more ways than one. It not only shattered the color barrier to the highest office in the land; it also heralded social media as a powerful—and powerfully underestimated—strategic tool that aspiring politicians from that day forth would ignore at their own peril.

Campus & Community

Free Fitness Week (9/4-9/7)

Tuesday, September 4, 2012, By News Staff

Free fitness classes all this week (Tuesday through Friday).

Campus & Community

Free stress-reduction class for students

Tuesday, August 28, 2012, By News Staff

A free course in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction is offered to SU and SUNY-ESF students by the SU Counseling Center.

Media, Law & Policy

Mindset, Happiness and Law School

Wednesday, August 22, 2012, By Kathleen Haley

Law professor Peter H. Huang found out about the pressures of academic life at a young age. He was 14 when he enrolled at Princeton, and began Ph.D. studies in mathematics just three years later. His mother, who he affectionately…

Media, Law & Policy

Disability law expert named distinguished professor

Monday, August 13, 2012, By Jaclyn D. Grosso

Dean Hannah Arterian recently announced that Professor Arlene Kanter was named the Bond, Schoeneck & King Distinguished Professor at Syracuse University College of Law for 2012-14. Kanter teaches courses on U.S., comparative and international disability law and policy; education and…

Veterans

IVMF partners with US Business Leadership Network to further advance service-disabled veterans in employment and entrepreneurship

Monday, August 13, 2012, By News Staff

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University (IVMF) is pleased to announce a partnership with the US Business Leadership Network (USBLN®) focused on service-disabled veterans in employment and entrepreneurship. The partnership will advance joint initiatives undertaken by…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse professor brings Antarctic pioneer diary to life in ‘Aurora Passage’

Friday, August 10, 2012, By News Staff

On Saturday, Aug. 18, Arc Cinema in Australia will host the inaugural live performance of “Aurora Passage” by sound designer and composer Douglas Quin, associate professor in the Newhouse School. The performance is a multimedia composition combining piano, live narration,…

STEM

WiGiT’s iDAWG communications elements progressing to field test

Wednesday, August 8, 2012, By Diane Stirling

Technology improving interoperability of public emergency response communication devices with each other—and with cell phones, CB radios and walkie-talkies—is continuing development this summer, providing a testing ground for planners and experiential learning for School of Information Studies students. Hardware and…