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Campus & Community

Director appointed for new Disability Cultural Center

Wednesday, September 21, 2011, By News Staff

The Division of Student Affairs has appointed Diane R. Wiener as the first director of SU’s new Disability Cultural Center. Wiener will begin on Oct. 17. “Dr. Wiener is to fill an important role at Syracuse University,” says Thomas V….

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell School to establish Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics

Tuesday, September 20, 2011, By News Staff

The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs has announced that it has received a major gift from Robert B. Menschel to establish the Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics at the school, in recognition of Volcker’s exceptional accomplishments and…

Veterans

Institute for Veterans and Military Families appoints directors

Tuesday, September 20, 2011, By News Staff

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University announces the appointment of four staff members who will direct operations and development, education programs, employment training and communications. Ray Toenniessen of Syracuse has been named director of operations…

Arts & Culture

English Department adds film, creative writing tracks

Monday, September 19, 2011, By Cyndi Moritz

Starting this semester, the Department of English in The College of Arts and Sciences is adding two new tracks that students can pursue within the English and textual studies (ETS) major: film and screen studies and creative writing. The tracks are…

Campus & Community

SU to host Imagining America for new five-year term

Monday, September 19, 2011, By News Staff

Beginning in the fall semester, a national search will begin for a new director of Imagining America.

Business & Economy

Whitman hosts second annual Retail Summit Sept. 22-23

Monday, September 19, 2011, By News Staff

The Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University will host the second annual Retail Summit on Sept. 22-23, to educate students about the field and provide opportunities for them to hear from high-profile members of the Retail Advisory Board, all…

STEM

SU garners $3 million NSF grant for education, research in soft and biological materials

Thursday, September 15, 2011, By News Staff

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Syracuse University $3 million over the next five years to develop an Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training Program (IGERT) in Soft Interfaces. IGERT is the NSF’s flagship interdisciplinary program to educate Ph.D.-level…

Arts & Culture

‘Wretches & Jabberers’ to screen as part of disability-themed Shared First Year Experience, Sept. 19

Thursday, September 15, 2011, By Jennifer Russo

As part of Syracuse University’s disability-themed Shared First Year Experience, the documentary film “Wretches & Jabberers: And Stories from the Road” will be shown on Monday, Sept. 19, at 7 p.m. in the Goldstein Auditorium of Schine Student Center. The…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Wednesday, September 14

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, By News Staff

Yahoo quotes William J. Ward of the Newhouse School on the role social media might have played in 9/11

STEM

Nicholson delivers opening colloquium at MIT

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, By J.D. Ross

School of Information Studies (iSchool) Associate Professor Scott Nicolson delivered the opening colloquium for the Comparative Media Studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is currently a visiting professor.