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Whitman School students lend expertise during tax season

Thursday, March 10, 2011, By News Staff

Each year, a group of students in Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management give of their time to offer free income tax preparation assistance to SU students, faculty and staff.

Health & Society

Harriet Brown’s ‘Brave Girl Eating’ wins Books for a Better Life award

Thursday, March 10, 2011, By News Staff

The Southern New York Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society presented the winners of the 15th annual Books for a Better Life Awards recently during a ceremony at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in Manhattan.

International Bridges for Justice founder Karen Tse to present University Lecture March 22

Thursday, March 10, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Karen Tse, an award-winning human rights defender and founder of International Bridges for Justice (IBJ), will speak about her work to champion human rights around the world in the next University Lecture at Syracuse University on Tuesday, March 22. Tse’s…

SU physicist receives NSF CAREER Award for work with quantum nanomachines

Wednesday, March 9, 2011, By News Staff

Matthew LaHaye, assistant professor of physics in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, received a five-year, $600,000 National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to further his research in the emerging field of quantum nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). The…

Syracuse University adjusts Academic Calendar beginning in 2011-12

Wednesday, March 9, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University today announced adjustments to its Academic Calendar. Starting in the 2011-12 academic year, the calendar will include a new, weeklong “fall break” period, during which each day is deemed a non-instructional day and no classes will take place….

V-WISE entrepreneurship program for women veterans announces Lead Star co-founders as national spokeswomen

Tuesday, March 8, 2011, By Ray Toenniessen

The Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, in partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration, has announced that Lead Star co-founders Angie Morgan and Courtney Lynch have been named honorary spokeswomen for the 2011 Veterans as Women Igniting the…

Newhouse creates Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship

Tuesday, March 8, 2011, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Serial entrepreneur, interactive marketer Sean Branagan ’80 to be inaugural director Lorraine Branham, dean of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, has announced the creation of the Newhouse Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship. Newhouse alumnus Sean Branagan ’80, a…

Steven Cohan, SU English professor, publishes new book

Friday, March 4, 2011, By News Staff

“The Sound of Musicals” (Palgrave Macmillan for the British Film Institute 2011), a new book edited by Steven Cohan, professor of English in The College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University, was released in February in the United States….

Jeffrey M. Stanton named University’s first associate vice president for research

Friday, March 4, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Jeffrey M. Stanton, associate dean for research and doctoral programs in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, has been named by Vice President for Research Gina Lee Glauser and Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric F. Spina as the…

Tillotson to lead Association for Science Teacher Education

Friday, March 4, 2011, By News Staff

John Tillotson, associate professor of science education with a dual appointment in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences and School of Education, was recently sworn in as president-elect of the Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE). The 800-member nonprofit…