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Office of Residence Life’s school supply drive fills classrooms of local schools

Thursday, October 6, 2011, By News Staff

The Office of Residence Life completed its second annual student supply drive, “Student to Student,” for the Syracuse City School District. On Thursday, Sept. 29, SU campus members delivered 18 boxes of school supplies to seven K-8 schools. In addition,…

Arts & Culture

Urban ‘improvisationist’ Walter Hood to deliver Werner Seligmann lecture at Syracuse Architecture

Wednesday, October 5, 2011, By Elaine Wackerow

Walter Hood, professor and former chair of the University of California, Berkeley Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design Department, will deliver the Werner Seligmann lecture at the Syracuse University School of Architecture on Tuesday, Oct. 11, at 4:30 p.m. in Slocum…

Campus & Community

iSchool to Host Career Fair

Wednesday, October 5, 2011, By News Staff

The School of Information Studies will host a Career Fair on Thursday, October 6, from 9:00 – 11:30 AM in Hinds Hall. Employers at the fair will be looking for students interested in both internship and full-time opportunities. The list…

Media, Law & Policy

LinkedIn higher ed expert John Hill to visit SU’s Newhouse School Oct. 12

Monday, October 3, 2011, By Wendy S. Loughlin

John Hill, higher education evangelist with LinkedIn, will visit Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Wednesday, Oct. 12, as the kick-off speaker for the Newhouse Global Leaders in Digital and Social Media Speaker Series. He will speak…

STEM

iSchool’s Dedrick to study wind energy jobs

Thursday, September 29, 2011, By J.D. Ross

School of Information Studies (iSchool) Associate Professor Jason Dedrick has been awarded a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to analyze jobs associated with the wind energy industry in the United States and around the globe. Dedrick will address this issue…

Media, Law & Policy

Google engineer Bill Halpin ’88, G’95, G’05 to visit SU’s Newhouse School Oct. 3

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Bill Halpin ’88, G’95, G’05, MTS/software engineer at Google, will visit Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Monday, Oct. 3, as a guest of the advertising department’s Eric Mower Advertising Forum. He will speak at 2:15 p.m….

STEM

iSchool/Center for Digital Literacy Awarded National Leadership Grant

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, By J.D. Ross

The School of Information Studies (iSchool) and its Center for Digital Literacy (CDL) have been awarded a National Leadership Grant for $190,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).  The two-year grant, titled “Investigating Self-Determination Variables in Summer…

Business & Economy

Whitman School welcomes new faculty members

Thursday, September 22, 2011, By News Staff

The Whitman School of Management welcomes four new faculty members this fall: Jeffrey Harris (finance), D. Craig Nichols (accounting), Alexandra Kostakis ’91 (entrepreneurial practice) and Peter Scott (entrepreneurial practice). “We are delighted to welcome Jeff, Craig, Alex and Peter to the…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell School to establish Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics

Tuesday, September 20, 2011, By News Staff

The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs has announced that it has received a major gift from Robert B. Menschel to establish the Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics at the school, in recognition of Volcker’s exceptional accomplishments and…

Veterans

SU named by G.I. Jobs magazine as a 2012 military friendly school

Tuesday, September 20, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University has been named by G.I. Jobs magazine as a Military Friendly School for 2012. According to the magazine, the honor ranks the University in the top 20 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools nationwide that are doing…