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Campus & Community

SU Climate Action Plan work starting with College of Visual and Performing Arts

Monday, May 24, 2010, By News Staff

VPA is the first Syracuse University school selected to begin implementing the University’s Climate Action Plan (CAP), the blueprint released in September 2009 designed to make SU climate neutral by 2040.

Campus & Community

SU Library expands research capabilities with purchase of Web of Science archive

Friday, May 7, 2010, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

The Syracuse University Library announces the purchase of the Web of Science archive. Coverage of both the Science Citation Index and the Social Sciences Citation Index now extends from 1900-present. The Arts and Humanities Citation Index now covers from 1975-present. Previous coverage for all three databases was from 1985-present.

Campus & Community

New undergraduate scholarship honors David Smith for 35 years of service, helps students facing unexpected financial hardship

Friday, May 7, 2010, By Veronica Hotaling

The University has created the David and Debbie Smith Undergraduate Scholarship Endowed Fund to help students facing unexpected financial hardship stay in school.

STEM

SU Women in Information Technology partners with nonprofit organization to support girls’ education in India

Thursday, May 6, 2010, By News Staff

Women in Information Technology (WIT), a student-led organization at the School of Information Studies, recently partnered with the Syracuse Chapter of Nanhi Kali to help raise money to educate young girls in India.

Campus & Community

Mexican folk art collection closes at the Community Folk Art Center with Cinco de Mayo celebration sponsored by La Casita

Friday, April 30, 2010, By News Staff

“Tesoros del Pueblo” (Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico), an exhibition featuring the collection of Alejandro Garcia, opened at the Community Folk Art Center (CFAC) on Jan. 23. The show will close on Wednesday, May 5 from 7-9 p.m. with a Cinco de Mayo program sponsored by La Casita Cultural Center Project.

Campus & Community

La Casita film series Cine Ciclo concludes May 4 at Blodgett School with screening of ‘Machuca’

Friday, April 30, 2010, By News Staff

La Casita Cultural Center Project will close the spring 2010 Cine Ciclo series with the screening of “Machuca” (Chile, 2004) on Tuesday, May 4 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Blodgett School cafeteria, located at 312 Oswego St. in the Near West Side area of Syracuse. Cine Ciclo is a Hispanic film series conceptualized and coordinated by students of Spanish at The College of Arts and Science’s Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.

Campus & Community

Pixar comes to Syracuse: weekend of activities with Pixar post-production supervisor Cynthia Slavens

Wednesday, April 28, 2010, By News Staff

The Syracuse International Film Festival continues its spring 2010 programming this weekend with the popular annual event “Pixar: New Technologies in Animation.” For the past six years, Jim Morris, Syracuse University alumnus and Pixar head of production, has sent an…

Campus & Community

University Union makes history with sold-out Block Party concert; Drake to perform for Dome crowd of 9,584

Tuesday, April 27, 2010, By News Staff

University Union is proud to announce record-breaking ticket sales for the annual Block Party concert this Friday, April 30, at 7 p.m. Headlining “The Away From Home Tour” is rising Canadian hip hop star Drake with supporting acts K-Os and…

Media, Law & Policy

Emmy Foundation honors students from SU’s Newhouse School with College Television Award

Friday, April 23, 2010, By Wendy S. Loughlin

A group of television-radio-film (TRF) students from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications won an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation College Television Award for Outstanding Narrative Series for their television series “Limelight.”

Health & Society

Syracuse University students partner with Uno Chicago Grill to raise ‘dough’ for Special Olympics

Monday, April 19, 2010, By News Staff

Students in the College of Human Ecology’s Department of Sport Management will host a fundraiser to support the Special Olympics on April 28 and April 29 at Carousel Center’s Uno Chicago Grill.