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Business & Economy

Brand-Yourself.com named finalist in New York’s Creative Core Emerging Business Competition

Wednesday, April 14, 2010, By News Staff

Brand-Yourself.com, a Web 2.0 company created by a team of Syracuse University students, has been named one of five finalists competing for $200,000 in New York’s Creative Core® Emerging Business Competition

Arts & Culture

Upcoming lecture focuses on gender justice, feminist mediation, Islamic reformation in Malaysia

Thursday, April 8, 2010, By Rob Enslin

Azza Basarudin, a future of minority studies (FMS) postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Women’s & Gender Studies (WGS) at Syracuse University, is giving a free lecture titled “Gender Justice, Feminist Mediation and Islamic Reformation in Malaysia.”

STEM

Students to explore social media’s role during three-day charrette

Tuesday, April 6, 2010, By News Staff

In response to social media’s growing influence on society, the School of Information Studies and College of Visual and Performing Arts are setting students to work on the problem of developing new ways for businesses to communicate internally as well as connect with their clientele through interactive, user-driven information technologies.

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse School to hold Media Literacy Day for local sixth-graders April 16

Monday, April 5, 2010, By News Staff

The Newhouse School of Public Communications will host 65 sixth grade students from the Syracuse City School District’s Edward Smith Elementary School on Friday, April 16, for Newhouse’s annual Media Literacy Day.

Campus & Community

Seven SU faculty members to be honored April 6 for teaching excellence; Doerr and Himley named Meredith Professors

Friday, April 2, 2010, By News Staff

On Tuesday, April 6, Syracuse University will name Helen M. Doerr, dual professor of teaching and leadership programs and mathematics in The College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Education, and Margaret Himley, professor of writing and rhetoric, and co-director of the LGBT Studies Program and minor in Arts and Sciences, as this year’s Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professors. Additionally, SU will recognize the 2010 recipients of the Teaching Recognition Awards, and Theodore L. Brown, associate professor in the School of Architecture, will receive the 2010 University Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award.

Health & Society

Harvard medical sociologist Christakis to speak on health and social networks for Center for Health and Behavior annual lecture April 12

Friday, March 26, 2010, By News Staff

Nicholas A. Christakis, an internist and social scientist who conducts research on social factors that affect health, health care and longevity, will deliver the Center for Health and Behavior’s eighth annual lecture, “Social Networks and Health,” on Monday, April 12 at 4 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3

Acclaimed photographer Annie Leibovitz will conclude stellar University Lectures season on April 29

Monday, March 22, 2010, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

She will visit Syracuse University on Thursday, April 29.

Campus & Community

SU named to 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction

Monday, March 22, 2010, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for the fourth consecutive year.

Arts & Culture

SU Florence School of Architecture hosts international student workshop in Medieval city in Tuscany

Monday, March 22, 2010, By News Staff

The focus of the third edition of the Florence Architecture Workshop was the historical center of San Miniato, a Medieval city set on hills in the Tuscan countryside west of Florence.

Ninno named community relations associate at Syracuse University

Friday, March 19, 2010, By News Staff

As liaison, Ninno will work to strengthen lines of communication with surrounding neighborhoods.