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Campus & Community

Dulye Leadership Experience prepares SU students to stand out in tough job market

Wednesday, November 28, 2012, By News Staff

For every job opening today, there are more than five job seekers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So what does it take to compete and— more importantly—win in the toughest job market in decades? The answers await at…

Campus & Community

Info session to explore exchange program in Denmark

Wednesday, November 28, 2012, By News Staff

Syracuse University students have the opportunity this Friday to learn about an IT-focused study abroad program, now in exploratory stages, that is proposed between the School of Information Studies (iSchool) at Syracuse and Denmark’s leading IT university, ITU in Copenhagen….

Arts & Culture

Award-winning novelist concludes Fall 2012 Raymond Carver Reading Series

Tuesday, November 27, 2012, By News Staff

Adam Levin G’04, author of the breakthrough novel “The Instructions” (McSweeney’s, 2010), will present the final installment of the fall 2012 Raymond Carver Reading Series on Wednesday, Dec. 5, at 5:30 p.m. in Gifford Auditorium. The reading will be preceded…

Campus & Community

Who Are You? postcard project

Monday, November 26, 2012, By News Staff

On Nov. 27-29, the STOP Bias initiative out of the Division of Student Affairs, is collecting brief anonymous statements from students answering the question, “Who are you?” As an institution that sees value in a community of diverse scholars, and…

Arts & Culture

Grammy-winning country music artist is next in Raymond Carver Reading Series

Wednesday, November 14, 2012, By News Staff

Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell will present the next installment of the Fall 2012 Raymond Carver Reading Series Wednesday, Nov. 28, at 5:30 p.m. in Gifford Auditorium. The reading will be preceded by a question-and-answer session from 3:45-4:30 p.m. The event…

Living history: campaigns and campus

Thursday, November 8, 2012, By Roxanna Carpenter

The Syracuse University campus community has never shied away from participation in civic life. Here are some examples, in word and image, of our campus ties to political campaigns and personalities over the years. Presented chronologically, source material is primarily…

Media, Law & Policy

Cold Case Justice Initiative hands over 196 new names of potential victims in civil rights era killings to Department of Justice

Wednesday, November 7, 2012, By Scott McDowell

The Directors of the Cold Case Justice Initiative (CCJI) at SU recently hand-delivered to Justice Department officials a list of 196 additional names of suspicious civil rights era killings.  The FBI has been working from a previous list of 122…

Media, Law & Policy

International students find much to interest them in U.S. presidential election

Tuesday, November 6, 2012, By Kathleen Haley

The debates, the media coverage, seemingly endless campaigning. Americans have endured months of buildup to the U.S. presidential election. Two students—Chi Chen, a junior studying psychology, and Yutian Yang, a third-year Ph.D. student in chemical engineering—have watched the U.S. process,…

Arts & Culture

Student-faculty projects draw international spotlight

Friday, November 2, 2012, By Carol Boll

When architecture professor Anda French looks at downtown Syracuse, she sees more than a city; she sees a studio for creating spontaneous stories and generating interactive conversations.

STEM

Engineers study how contaminated soil can be drained, utilized

Thursday, November 1, 2012, By News Staff

LCS research published in Geosynthetics International Each year, 400 million cubic yards of soil are dredged from water bodies in the United States alone. Much of this byproduct is contaminated, deemed unusable and put into landfills. Mahmoud M. Khachan, Shobha…