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SBA Administrator Announces Funding to Support Expansion of Services to Vets

Wednesday, April 22, 2015, By News Staff

Maria Contreras-Sweet, the 24th administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and a member of President Obama’s Cabinet, held a press conference at the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) on Tuesday, April 21, to announce that the…

STEM

Chemistry Major to Receive Slepecky Research Prize April 24

Tuesday, April 21, 2015, By Sarah Scalese

Kewei Xu ’15, a chemistry major in the College of Arts and Sciences, will receive the Norma Slepecky Undergraduate Research Prize at the annual Slepecky Memorial Lecture and Awards Ceremony on Friday, April 24, at 3:30 p.m. in the auditorium…

Campus & Community

Nancy Leu ’15 leverages hard work, networking into pre-graduation job offer

Tuesday, April 21, 2015, By Amy Manley

Nancy Leu ’15 will have one less thing to worry about as she prepares for graduation ceremonies this May. The political science and policy studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School was offered a…

Business & Economy

Whitman School Hosts Annual Holtz Alumni Awards

Monday, April 20, 2015, By Kerri D. Howell

The Whitman School will honor Theodore Spall, Jr., ’69, with the Jonathan J. Holtz Alumnus of the Year Award at a ceremony on Wednesday, April 29, at 3 p.m. in Whitman’s Lender Auditorium. The Jonathan J. Holtz Alumnus of the…

Health & Society

Hinchman, Chandler-Olcott named co-editors of Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy

Monday, April 20, 2015, By Jennifer Russo

The International Literacy Association (ILA) has announced the appointment of Kelly Chandler-Olcott and Kathleen A. Hinchman as new co-editors of The Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (JAAL), the leading peer-reviewed journal for educators of literacy learners ages 12 and…

STEM

Professor Carlos R.P. Hartmann Dies; Service Saturday

Monday, April 20, 2015, By News Staff

Carlos R.P. Hartmann, 75, of Syracuse, professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, died April 21 at University Hospital.  A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 25, at Hendricks Chapel. A reception will  follow…

Campus & Community

Now You Can Access Your Data Anytime, from Anywhere, on Any Device

Monday, April 20, 2015, By Christopher C. Finkle

SU students, faculty and staff each have a home directory on the University’s file servers for safe, secure storage of their files. Information Technology and Services (ITS) has made it possible to access those files from anywhere, at any time,…

Health & Society

‘Sport and the Pursuit of Healthiness’ Multimedia Symposium April 24

Monday, April 20, 2015, By Michele Barrett

On Friday, April 24, Falk College and its Department of Sport Management will host “Sport and the Pursuit of Healthiness,” a multimedia symposium on how public health concerns are affecting sports participation and what is being done to make sports…

Campus & Community

Getting to Know: Assistant Provost for Equity and Inclusion Patricia L. Stith

Friday, April 17, 2015, By Cyndi Moritz

When Patricia Stith traveled with her husband, Melvin, to their undergraduate alma mater at the end of March, she knew they were going to be honored as two among a group of major donors to Norfolk State University in Virginia….

Campus & Community

Award-Winning Poet and Memoirist Mary Karr to Give 2015 Commencement Address

Friday, April 17, 2015, By News Staff

Karr will also be awarded an honorary degree, a Doctor of Humane Letters, at the 161st Commencement exercises.