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Call for SU Showcase sustainability video submissions

Wednesday, March 23, 2011, By News Staff

Whether you’re a film major, an avid YouTube video creator or a student who is passionate about environmental issues, here’s your chance to show off your filmmaking skills in front of a campuswide audience.  Students for Tomorrow’s Environmental Policy (STEP)…

Health & Society

Listening devices help preserve confidentiality in hospitals for hearing-impaired patients

Tuesday, March 22, 2011, By News Staff

It’s against the law to share a person’s medical information with others without written consent. However, it’s almost impossible to prevent outsiders from overhearing private conversations in hospital rooms between doctors and hearing-impaired patients. It’s an all-too-common situation that a…

Newly wrapped buses debut on Connective Corridor route

Monday, March 21, 2011, By News Staff

The buses link the University Hill with downtown Syracuse.

U.S. Senator Scott Brown to hold SU Bookstore book signing March 26

Monday, March 21, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University Bookstore will host U.S. Senator Scott Brown for a book signing on Saturday, March 26, from 1-2 p.m. Brown will sign copies of his new memoir “Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks and Second Chances”…

Media, Law & Policy

Comcast CEO, Foursquare co-founders to be honored at fifth annual Mirror Awards ceremony June 7

Wednesday, March 16, 2011, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Comcast Corporation chairman and CEO Brian L. Roberts will receive the Fred Dressler Achievement Award, and Foursquare co-founders Dennis Crowley ’98 and Naveen Selvadurai will receive the i-3 award for impact, innovation and influence at the fifth annual Mirror Awards…

Takesue short narrative film ‘That Which Once Was’ premieres at SXSW

Wednesday, March 16, 2011, By Erica Blust

“That Which Once Was,” a short narrative film by Kimi Takesue, assistant professor of film in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Transmedia, premiered on March 13 at the “South by Southwest” (SXSW) Film Festival in Austin, Texas.

SU’s Newhouse School awards first Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting

Friday, March 11, 2011, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Craig Harris of The Arizona Republic is the first recipient Craig Harris, a reporter with The Arizona Republic, is the first recipient of the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, given by Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public…

SU in the News: Friday, March 11, 2011

Friday, March 11, 2011, By News Staff

  SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE Red Orbit reported on the recent research news from a team in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science that uses shape memory polymers to provide greater insight into how cells sense…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Friday, March 11

Friday, March 11, 2011, By News Staff

LCS Dean Laura Steinberg co-authors op-ed on G.I. Bill and for-profit education in Huffington Post and Wall Street Journal

Ebner’s new book on Mussolini reviewed in Financial Times

Thursday, March 10, 2011, By News Staff

“Ordinary Violence in Mussolini’s Italy” (Cambridge University Press, 2010), by Michael Ebner, assistant professor of history in the Maxwell School, is an analysis of the way in which the Fascist regime used political violence and confinement to rule Italy between…