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Campus & Community

Mitchell elected faculty representative to Board of Trustees

Monday, July 18, 2011, By News Staff

Don Mitchell, distinguished professor of geography in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and The College of Arts and Sciences, has been elected by the Syracuse University Board of Trustees as faculty representative. The appointment became effective May…

Copeland-Morgan contributes to College Board report on enrolling and educating transfer students from community colleges

Friday, July 15, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s Youlonda Copeland-Morgan, associate vice president of enrollment management, is one of the four-year institution leaders interviewed for this report. Her remarks focus on recent policy changes SU’s Enrollment Management has made in financial aid that contribute to improving access and retention for transfer students at SU.

Campus & Community

Wireless Grids Corp., Syracuse University partner to offer ‘WeJay’

Tuesday, July 12, 2011, By News Staff

Wireless Grids Corp. (WGC) and Syracuse University announce an agreement to offer a promising social media application of WGC’s social radio application called “WeJay.” Under the agreement, WeJay will be made available to SU students, faculty, staff and other affiliates…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Friday, July 8

Friday, July 8, 2011, By News Staff

National and regional media note the passing of SU student-athlete and Hall of Fame NFL player John Mackey ’63

Arts & Culture

SU’s Janklow Arts Leadership Program appoints founding director, professor of practice

Friday, July 8, 2011, By Rob Enslin

The Department of Art and Music Histories in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences has announced the appointment of Mark Nerenhausen as founding director and professor of practice of the new Janklow Arts Leadership Program. Nerenhausen brings more than…

Veterans

James Schmeling appointed managing director, co-founder of Institute for Veterans and Military Families

Tuesday, July 5, 2011, By News Staff

James Schmeling has been appointed managing director of the newly established Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University, which he co-founded with Mike Haynie, Barnes Professor of Entrepreneurship in SU’s Whitman School of Management. Schmeling was previously…

STEM

How hot did Earth get in the past?

Tuesday, July 5, 2011, By News Staff

A team of scientists uncovers new information.

STEM

Discovery by SU physicist alters conventional understanding of sight

Friday, June 24, 2011, By News Staff

A discovery by a team of researchers led by a Syracuse University physicist sheds new light on how the vision process is initiated. For almost 50 years, scientists have believed that light signals could not be initiated unless special light-receptor…

Campus & Community

GET Curriculum Workshop explored best practices for experiential learning

Wednesday, June 22, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

In 2008, Syracuse University and JPMorgan Chase & Co., through a unique university-industry collaboration, piloted the Global Enterprise Technology (GET) program. As information technology curricula must adapt to rapid changes in the workplace and in an ever-expanding global marketplace, this…

Campus & Community

Graduate student shares passion for science with middle school students during Science Horizons Summer Program

Wednesday, June 22, 2011, By Eileen Jevis

When Nadia Essi was selected as the only eighth-grade student from Levy Middle School to attend a science camp at Syracuse University, she was excited to learn more about a subject she had come to love. “My fifth-grade teacher, Mrs….