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STEM

SU professor contributes to call for accelerated conservation in New England

Wednesday, May 19, 2010, By News Staff

New England forests are at a turning point. A new study released today by the Harvard Forest reports that, following almost 200 years of natural reforestation, forest cover is declining in all six New England states.

Campus & Community

May 20 Institute for Retired Professionals meeting focuses on hydrofracking

Tuesday, May 18, 2010, By News Staff

Locally, hydrofracking (hydraulic fracturing) is a hot topic.

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse mourns passing of beloved professor, Bill Glavin, 67

Saturday, May 8, 2010, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Bill Glavin, longtime professor in the Newhouse School, died Friday, May 7, at Francis House in Syracuse. He was 67.

STEM

SU professor to chair national Water Sciences & Technology Board

Friday, April 30, 2010, By Rob Enslin

Donald I. Siegel, a Meredith Professor in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed chair of the Water Sciences & Technology Board. The nationally renowned scientist, whose research encompasses contaminant hydrology, paleohydrogeology and wetland hyrdology, will serve a three-year term beginning in July.

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell School to host April 28 screening of ‘An Inconvenient Tax,’ featuring Moynihan Professor Len Burman

Wednesday, April 14, 2010, By News Staff

A new documentary film, “An Inconvenient Tax,” will be screened for the first time in upstate New York at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University on Wednesday, April 28, at 4 pm in Maxwell Auditorium.

Campus & Community

‘Age Power’ is topic at Institute for Retired Professionals April 15 event

Wednesday, April 14, 2010, By Eileen Jevis

Mary Pagán, gerontologist and exercise physiologist for Wellness Enterprises, LLC, will discuss what people can do stay vibrant and healthy at this week’s Institute for Retired Professionals (IRP).

STEM

SU marks 60th anniversary of condensed matter physics program, 50-year career of physics professor Arnold Honig with weekend celebration April 24-25

Wednesday, April 14, 2010, By Rob Enslin

The Department of Physics is marking the 60th anniversary of its pioneering condensed matter physics program with a daylong symposium.

Arts & Culture

African American Studies colloquium features NYU professor speaking on Chicago’s overlooked black arts movement

Monday, April 5, 2010, By Rob Enslin

Jacqueline Goldsby explores the Chicago scene in her lecture, “A Salon for the Masses: Black Reading Circles & the Chicago Renaissance.”

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.

STEM

Team led by SU professor discovers new technique to engineer nanoscale templates

Thursday, March 25, 2010, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

A team led by Syracuse University researcher Radhakrishna Sureshkumar has discovered a new and broadly applicable technique to engineer nanoscale templates.