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Health & Society

Pairing of Music Education Majors, BMW Preschoolers Creates Beautiful Music

Friday, March 20, 2015, By Michele Barrett

A creative collaboration involving BMW teachers and music education faculty members recently connected college-aged and preschool students for a valuable learning experience.

STEM

The Power of Women in STEM: Opportunities Past, Present and Future

Friday, March 20, 2015, By Lindsay Wickham

MedTech Association and Women Inspiring the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (WISE) will host “The Power of Women in STEM: Opportunities Past, Present and Future” on Thursday, April 9. The event will be held in the Milton Room, located on the fourth…

Arts & Culture

Sanford Sternlicht Publishes Book on Iconic Playwright August Wilson

Friday, March 20, 2015, By Rob Enslin

Sanford Sternlicht G’62, professor emeritus of English, is the author of “August Wilson’s Twentieth-Century Cycle Plays: A Reader’s Companion” (Texas Tech University Press, 2015). Described as a “short literary guide” to the iconic playwright, the book is written with teachers,…

STEM

Students’ Project Reduces Energy Consumption, Pollution on Campus

Friday, March 20, 2015, By Matt Wheeler

By investigating uncomfortable temperatures in Maxwell Hall, four students in the College of Engineering and Computer Science have helped reduce the building’s overall energy usage, pollution and cost of heating. Their efforts have provided Maxwell’s occupants with a cozier environment…

Campus & Community

University Signs on to ‘Justice and Dignity’ Resolution

Friday, March 20, 2015, By Kevin Morrow

Syracuse University is a signatory of, and participant in, a resolution supporting social justice and human dignity authored by the National Association of Schools and Colleges of the United Methodist Church (NASCUMC). Chancellor Kent Syverud has appointed Tiffany Steinwert, dean…

Campus & Community

Philanthropy Week Celebration Starts Monday

Friday, March 20, 2015, By News Staff

On Monday, March 23, Syracuse University begins its annual Philanthropy Week celebration, a series of events to raise awareness about the critical role philanthropy plays at the University—and in society as a whole.

Campus & Community

Call for New Student Convocation Faculty Speaker Nominations

Thursday, March 19, 2015, By Shannon Andre

The New Student Convocation Planning Committee is seeking nominations for the 2015 New Student Convocation faculty speaker. The selected speaker will give the faculty address to the incoming undergraduate students during the Convocation on Aug. 27. A hallmark feature of…

Health & Society

Scholar Spotlight: Nick Granados-Kramer ’17

Thursday, March 19, 2015, By News Staff

Sophomore Nick Granados-Kramer is a triple major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Education. The Hyde Park, N.Y., native studies secondary science education, chemistry and physics, and has high ambitions to be a science teacher….

Ronald L. Caravan to Present Faculty Recital March 22

Wednesday, March 18, 2015, By Erica Blust

Ronald L. Caravan, an instructor of music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music, will present a faculty recital on Sunday, March 22, at 2 p.m. in the Rose…

Nobel Laureate Robert J. Shiller to Speak at Maxwell School

Wednesday, March 18, 2015, By News Staff

Renowned behavioral economist and 2013 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences Robert J. Shiller will deliver the inaugural Paul Volcker Lecture in Behavioral Economics on Thursday, March 19, at 4 p.m. in Maxwell Auditorium. The lecture, “Speculative Prices, Inflation, and Behavioral…