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With third issue on the way, award-winning Stone Canoe journal makes first step in Second Life

Tuesday, July 8, 2008, By News Staff

With third issue on the way, award-winning Stone Canoe journal makes first step in Second LifeJuly 08, 2008Kevin Morrowkdmorrow@syr.edu Syracuse University’s Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts and Ideas from Upstate New York, has developed a devoted following and a…

Syracuse University Library receives major gift of more than 200,000 78-rpm sound recordings from family of late Manhattan record store owner Morton J. Savada

Wednesday, July 2, 2008, By News Staff

Syracuse University Library receives major gift of more than 200,000 78-rpm sound recordings from family of late Manhattan record store owner Morton J. SavadaJuly 02, 2008Pamela McLaughlinpwmclaug@syr.edu Syracuse University Library’s Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive has received a major gift…

$50,000 grant to Syracuse University will enable 32 NYC high school students to earn six credits of college-level instruction for free through Summer College in New York City

Monday, June 30, 2008, By News Staff

$50,000 grant to Syracuse University will enable 32 NYC high school students to earn six credits of college-level instruction for free through Summer College in New York CityJune 30, 2008Patrick Farrellpmfarrel@syr.edu Syracuse University and the Friends of the High School…

National higher education consortium urges reform that values public scholarship

Friday, June 27, 2008, By News Staff

Peter Englot315 443 1921 Higher education leaders in the humanities, arts and design from across the United States are amplifying a wave of reform to recognize public scholarship in faculty tenure and promotion decisions. The catalyst for this movement is…

Syracuse iSchool helps launch new international academy of library and information science in China

Thursday, June 26, 2008, By News Staff

Margaret Costello Spillett315 443 1069 Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) Dean Elizabeth D. Liddy and iSchool associate professor Jian Qin participated earlier this month in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the International Collaborative Academy of Library and Information Science…

Bonzi appointed to new position dedicated to instructional quality in SU School of Information Studies

Wednesday, June 25, 2008, By News Staff

Bonzi appointed to new position dedicated to instructional quality in SU School of Information StudiesJune 25, 2008Margaret Costello Spillettmcostell@syr.edu Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) associate professor Susan Bonzi has been named to the new position of director of…

SU part-time faculty approve three-year union contract

Tuesday, June 24, 2008, By News Staff

Kevin Morrow443-3784 Syracuse University part-time faculty members on Monday approved a three-year collective bargaining agreement between the University and Adjuncts United, a labor union affiliated with the New York State United Teachers Union (AU/NYSUT). Voting for the more than 500…

SU researcher dies unexpectedly at age 37

Monday, June 23, 2008, By News Staff

Kevin Morrow315-443-3784 Todd Reynolds, a post-doctoral fellow at Syracuse University’s Center on Human Policy, Law, and Disability Studies, died unexpectedly of natural causes Sunday (June 22) at his home in Syracuse. He was 37. Reynolds had recently completed an advanced…

Two VPA students win Disney Imagineering’s ImagiNations competition

Monday, June 23, 2008, By News Staff

Erica Blust315 443 5891 Lauren Baldesarra ’09 and Jason Christopher Yeadon’09, communications design majors in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) School of Art and Design, have won the first place and best in show awards of the…

New book by Syracuse University’s Gustav Niebuhr explores religious cooperation in the United States

Friday, June 20, 2008, By News Staff

Rob Enslin 315 443 3403 Religious cooperation in the United States is the subject of a powerful new book by R. Gustav Niebuhr, associate professor of religion and the media at Syracuse University and former religion reporter for The New…