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SU Library, SU Humanities Center announce Central New York Humanities Corridor Visiting Scholar Program

Monday, February 27, 2012, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Syracuse University Library and the SU Humanities Center, along with their partners in the Central New York Humanities Corridor (Colgate University, Cornell University, Hamilton College, SU and the University of Rochester), will award four visiting scholar grants of $2,500 each…

VPA seeks applicants for Sandra Kahn Alpert Visiting Artist Program

Monday, February 27, 2012, By Erica Blust

The College of Visual and Performing Arts is now accepting applications for the Sandra Kahn Alpert Visiting Artist Program. The program was established by Alpert, 1945 alumna of VPA, and her husband, Clement C. Alpert, to bring leading visual artists…

Burton Blatt Institute, Eastern Washington University partner to promote entrepreneurship for people with disabilities in Ghana

Tuesday, February 21, 2012, By News Staff

Gary Shaheen G’86, Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University senior vice president, and Romel Mackelprang, Eastern Washington University professor and noted researcher on accessibility for people with disabilities, worked on site during the week of Feb. 7 with partners…

Newhouse School to hold 21st Alexia Photojournalism Seminar and Competition

Monday, February 20, 2012, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will host the annual Alexia Photojournalism Seminar and Competition Friday, Feb. 24, and Saturday, Feb. 25, on campus. Tom Kennedy, Alexia Tsairis Endowed Chair in Documentary Photography in the Newhouse School, will host…

A look at abolitionist, suffragist Lucretia Mott at next session of IRP

Wednesday, February 15, 2012, By Eileen Jevis

At the Feb. 16 session of the Institute for Retired People (IRP), Carol Faulkner, associate professor and chair of the Department of History at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School, will discuss Lucretia Mott and the Seneca Falls Convention. Mott, a Quaker…

Media, Law & Policy

Nabatchi publishes report on evaluating citizen participation

Monday, February 6, 2012, By News Staff

Tina Nabatchi, assistant professor of public administration in the Maxwell School, recently wrote “A Manager’s Guide to Evaluating Citizen Participation,” a guide for government program managers to determine the success of their efforts to improve citizen participation. President Obama’s 2009…

SU’s Dana Spiotta, Bruce Smith finalists for National Book Critics Circle awards

Friday, February 3, 2012, By Rob Enslin

Dana Spiotta and Bruce Smith, English faculty members in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, have been named finalists for the National Book Critics Circle awards. Spiotta was nominated in the fiction category for “Stone Arabia” (Scribner, 2011); Smith…

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Rubinstein advises United Nations on evaluation of its mission in Haiti

Thursday, February 2, 2012, By News Staff

Robert A. Rubinstein, professor of anthropology and international relations in the Maxwell School, former director of the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration, and author of “Peacekeeping Under Fire: Culture and Intervention,” is serving as an adviser to the United Nations, Office of Internal Oversight Services, for its evaluation of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).

Campus & Community

Last chance for students with reading disabilities to learn more about their reading, contribute to research

Monday, January 30, 2012, By News Staff

The research study “What Do You See When You Read?” is seeking native English-speaking Syracuse University or SUNY ESF undergraduates, aged 18-25, with diagnosed reading disabilities for participation.