Search Results for: ,OuB

Student’s Company Offers Strategies for Social Television

Tuesday, March 11, 2014, By Kathleen Haley

Melanie Witkower ’14 was interning at a television production company last spring when she noticed a better way to connect a show’s production with fans online. Witkower now has a company that links the small screen with its life in social media and the fans that make it a hit.

Rachel Kushner Next in Raymond Carver Reading Series

Friday, March 7, 2014, By Renée K. Gadoua

Rachel Kushner, a two-time finalist for the National Book Award and a finalist for Great Britain’s inaugural Folio Prize, is the next writer in the spring 2014 Raymond Carver Reading Series at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 19, in Gifford Auditorium….

Gillibrand: Over $1 Million for SU to Help Women Veteran Entrepreneurship

Monday, February 24, 2014, By News Staff

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Monday announced a federal grant worth $1.3 million for Syracuse University to strengthen entrepreneurship opportunities for women veterans. The federal investment will be used by the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University…

Media, Law & Policy

College of Law Student Wins ABA Student Writing Competition

Friday, February 14, 2014, By Cyndi Moritz

Sean J. Quinn ’06, a third-year student in the SU College of Law, has been named the winner of the 12th annual American Bar Association (ABA) Health Law Student Writing Competition. His winning entry was titled “Down on the Pharma:…

Arts & Culture

Filmmaker Kiarostami to Hold Residency in VPA

Wednesday, February 12, 2014, By Erica Blust

Iranian filmmaker, photographer, video artist and poet Abbas Kiarostami will be in residence at SU for two weeks this spring as the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) 2014 Sandra Kahn Alpert Visiting Artist. In late March, Kiarostami will…

STEM

Physicist’s Work with Quarks May Resolve Unanswered Questions about Universe

Thursday, February 6, 2014, By Rob Enslin

A physicist in The College of Arts and Sciences has helped determine that colliding quarks and electrons “know” the difference between left and right.

Arts & Culture

Poet Corey Zeller Is Next Writer in Carver Series

Wednesday, February 5, 2014, By Renée K. Gadoua

Poet Corey Zeller is the next writer in the spring 2014 Raymond Carver Reading Series at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12, in Gifford Auditorium. A question-and-answer session will precede the reading from 3:45-4:30 p.m. The event is free and open…

Business & Economy

From Fight Ring to Business Enterprise

Tuesday, February 4, 2014, By Kathleen Haley

In the fight ring, the individual competitor stands alone, backed only by his resolve and weeks of grueling training. For Daniel Goldberg ’15, that mental stamina and discipline he developed as a Muay Thai fighter translates well into his role of entrepreneur.

Arts & Culture

Endowment to Support Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures

Monday, February 3, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

When he arrived on the Syracuse University campus in 1988, he was chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics (LLL). Today, Harold G. Jones is an emeritus professor of Spanish, a philanthropist and, most recently, the man responsible…

STEM

Four Professors Receive Prestigious CAREER Awards from National Science Foundation

Friday, January 31, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Four professors in The College of Arts and Sciences have received Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards—the highest honor given by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in support of early-career development activities of teacher-scholars. The recipients are Arindam “Ari” Chakraborty…