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SU Women in Information Technology partners with nonprofit organization to support girls’ education in India
Women in Information Technology (WIT), a student-led organization at the School of Information Studies, recently partnered with the Syracuse Chapter of Nanhi Kali to help raise money to educate young girls in India.
SU professor to chair national Water Sciences & Technology Board
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.
Tutorial offered on Visual History Archive, world’s largest collection of eyewitness accounts of Holocaust
Librarian Lydia Wasylenko and Professor Sam Gruber will introduce the Visual History Archive as an instructional and research tool to interested faculty and students at a special meeting on Friday, April 23, at 10 a.m. in 204 Tolley.
iSchool offers new course on social Web technologies
The Syracuse School of Information Studies (iSchool) will offer a new course during the fall 2010 semester on social web technologies.
Attorney Paul Kerson to discuss Holocaust property seizure and legal recovery April 16
New York attorney Paul Kerson will lead a discussion at Syracuse University about Nazi property seizure and the story of a long legal battle leading to recompense for elderly holocaust survivors.
College of Human Ecology to hold book signing April 15
The College of Human Ecology and its College Research Center will host a book signing on April 15 for the SU and local community featuring the published works of professor emerita Alice Sterling Honig and professor of health and wellness, social work and anthropology Sandra Lane.
Streaming video testimony of survivors commemorates Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Ha-Shoah)
To commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day, Monday April 12, the Judaic Studies Program in partnership with the University Library is presenting “Holocaust Voices: Excerpts from the (Steven Spielberg) Visual History Archive at the University Library.”
Syracuse Technology Garden entrepreneur in residence provides support for student ventures
John Liddy is entrepreneur in residence at the Syracuse Technology Garden.
Harvard medical sociologist Christakis to speak on health and social networks for Center for Health and Behavior annual lecture April 12
Nicholas A. Christakis, an internist and social scientist who conducts research on social factors that affect health, health care and longevity, will deliver the Center for Health and Behavior’s eighth annual lecture, “Social Networks and Health,” on Monday, April 12 at 4 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3
SU biologists’ work with ‘glow-in-the-dark’ sperm sheds light on sexual selection
The findings are said to have huge implications for reproductive biology.