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Campus & Community

‘Haitian Education Mission Project’ at Sept. 15 IRP

Friday, September 9, 2011, By Eileen Jevis

Karen Dross, a retired Syracuse City School District teacher and volunteer in Haiti, will present the “Haitian Education Mission Project” at the Sept. 15 session of Institute for Retired People (IRP). Meetings are held on every first and third Thursday of…

STEM

SU physicist aids in discovery of predicting breaking points in disordered solids

Thursday, September 8, 2011, By News Staff

In solid materials with regular atomic structures, figuring out where the material will break under stress is relatively easy. But for disordered solids, like glass or sand, their disordered structure makes such predictions a more daunting task. A collaboration of…

STEM

Developmental biologist garners highly competitive National Institutes of Health grant

Thursday, September 8, 2011, By News Staff

Katharine Lewis, associate professor of biology in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, aims to systematically identify genes that instruct spinal cord nerve cells (neurons) to develop into specialized cells that are critical to walking, running and countless movements…

Campus & Community

Employees: Update your SU directory information by Sept. 15

Wednesday, September 7, 2011, By News Staff

In order to ensure that we have your most up-to-date and accurate information, we are asking you to view and/or change your information online through MySlice by Thursday, September 15.

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Tuesday, September 6, 2011, By News Staff

National Journal quotes Maxwell School Dean James Steinberg on America in the decade following 9/11

Campus & Community

Miller, Sparks to be honored with Eggers Senior Alumni Awards

Tuesday, September 6, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Distinguished alumni Edward S. Miller and Kenneth R. Sparks will be honored with the Melvin A. Eggers Senior Alumni Award during the annual Melvin A. Eggers Senior Alumni Award Dinner, to be held Friday, Sept. 9, from 5-8 p.m. at…

Arts & Culture

Th3 events slated for Thursday, Sept. 15

Tuesday, September 6, 2011, By Syracuse University Art Museum

Th3 (The Third Thursday: Syracuse’s Citywide Art Opening) has announced the start of the 2011-12 season of bringing cultural and visual arts events and attractions to the Syracuse and greater Central New York communities. Th3 is a consortium of Syracuse arts…

Health & Society

Alumni couple donates $100,000 to Burton Blatt Institute

Tuesday, September 6, 2011, By News Staff

Gift from Robert ’66 and Carol ’70 Tannenhauser will directly impact people with disabilities In support of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, Robert ’66 and Carol ’70 Tannenhauser have announced a commitment to BBI of $100,000, one…

Arts & Culture

Menkin film nominated for best documentary at Israeli Academy Awards

Friday, September 2, 2011, By News Staff

“Dolphin Boy,” the most recent film by Israeli writer/director/producer Dani Menkin, has been nominated for Best Documentary at the Ophir Awards, Israel’s equivalent of the American Academy Awards. Menkin wrote and directed the film together with Yonatan Nir. It tells…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse School professor wins Murray Prize from University of Iowa

Friday, September 2, 2011, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Harriet Brown, assistant professor of magazine in Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, has won the 2011 John F. Murray Prize in Strategic Communication for the Public Good from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at The…