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Nominations sought for Syracuse University’s Martin Luther King Jr. Unsung Heroes Awards

Monday, November 15, 2010, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The Syracuse University Martin Luther King Jr. 2011 Celebration Committee is seeking nominations for the Unsung Heroes Awards, which will be presented during the evening celebration in the Carrier Dome on Jan. 23, 2011. The theme for this year’s celebration…

Kirt Wilson chosen as keynote speaker for Syracuse University’s 2011 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration

Monday, November 15, 2010, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Kirt Wilson, associate professor of communication arts and sciences at Penn State and an African American scholar, will be the keynote speaker for Syracuse University’s 26th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, “Heirs of a King: Remembering and Continuing the…

Campus & Community

Lillian Slutzker honored by International Center of Syracuse

Friday, November 5, 2010, By News Staff

The Global Citizen Award will be presented to her at the 2010 Central New York International Citizen Awards Dinner.

Veterans

Whitman’s EBV Program, partnership with PepsiCo, celebrated at ‘Salute a Soldier Day’ at the Carrier Dome

Thursday, November 4, 2010, By Ray Toenniessen

As part of Syracuse University’s Courage Day celebrations honoring military and veteran organizations on Saturday, Nov. 6, four graduates of the Whitman School of Management’s Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) program have been selected to serve as honorary…

Campus & Community

Geological structure and evolution of the SE Tibetan Plateau

Monday, November 1, 2010, By News Staff

The Department of Earth Sciences presents the fall 2010 K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series, this week featuring Rob van der Hilst from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He will lecture on ”Geological structure and evolution of the SE Tibetan Plateau.” The…

Media, Law & Policy

TRAC: Federal water pollution convictions decrease in past decade

Thursday, October 14, 2010, By News Staff

According to a new analysis of Justice Department data by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), during the first two years of the Obama administration, federal criminal convictions for water pollution remain lower than any year since the first Clinton administration.

Arts & Culture

Design competition to focus on solutions for common paring knife

Tuesday, September 28, 2010, By Erica Blust

Design solutions for the common paring knife will be the challenge of this year’s Junior Prize competition of the industrial and interaction design program.

Campus & Community

Sept. 16 IRP looks at evolution of Near Westside Initiative

Thursday, September 9, 2010, By Eileen Jevis

The Institute for Retired Professionals will host Maarten Jacobs, director of the Near Westside Initiative, at its Sept. 16 meeting.

Media, Law & Policy

‘Barack Obama and 21st Century Politics’ breaks down revolutionary movements behind president’s campaign

Wednesday, September 8, 2010, By News Staff

A new book by Horace Campbell looks at the economic, political, and social forces that converged to form Obama’s electoral revolution.

Health & Society

Banner-raising ceremony at Roberts School on May 18 to salute Schools of Promise inclusion initiative

Thursday, April 29, 2010, By News Staff

Roberts is the second Syracuse school to implement Schools of Promise, an initiative to include all students in general education classrooms, especially those children who have traditionally been marginalized.