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Health & Society

School of Education’s Dotger receives NSF award to design and test clinical simulations for the preparation of math and science teachers

Thursday, May 26, 2011, By Jennifer Russo

Benjamin H. Dotger, assistant professor in Teaching and Leadership Programs in the School of Education, has been awarded a $449,898 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his project titled “The Science and Mathematics Simulated Interaction Model (SIM).”  The…

Campus & Community

Case worker steers student up the hill to SU degree

Monday, May 16, 2011, By Eileen Jevis

At the age of 17, Oubon Phommanyrath was living on her own in the Salvation Army Transitional Apartments on Salina Street in Syracuse. Phommanyrath had fled from a physically and emotionally abusive home life at age 14, ending up on…

Arts & Culture

Acclaimed poet, disability rights advocate named director of SU’s Renée Crown University Honors Program

Wednesday, May 11, 2011, By Rob Enslin

The Renée Crown University Honors Program, an all-University program administered by Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, announces the appointment of Stephen Kuusisto as its new director. Kuusisto is an accomplished poet, scholar and disability rights advocate who comes…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse University announces 2011-12 University Lectures season

Friday, May 6, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Twelve distinguished guests will share their global experiences and perspectives with the Syracuse University and Central New York communities next fall and spring in eight presentations during the University Lectures 2011-12 season. Guests during the fall 2011 semester will include…

Arts & Culture

‘The Clean House’ premieres at Syracuse Stage

Friday, April 29, 2011, By News Staff

Matilde (pronounced Ma-chil-gee) has a problem: she’s a cleaning lady who doesn’t like to clean. She’d rather think up the perfect joke. Now that her parents (once the funniest people in Brazil) are dead—her mother died laughing—she is the funniest…

Campus & Community

Sociologist explores impact of Sullivan-Clinton Campaign on Native American, New York history

Monday, April 25, 2011, By Rob Enslin

The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign, the largest military offensive ever against the Haudenosaunee (“People of the Longhouse”), is the subject of a multimedia presentation by Robert Spiegelman in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Spiegelman will discuss “New York’s Missing Link:…

Media, Law & Policy

Finalists announced in fifth annual Mirror Awards

Wednesday, April 20, 2011, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Winners will be announced at awards luncheon June 7 in New York City Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications has announced the finalists in the fifth annual Mirror Awards competition. The competition drew over 200 entries. Finalists, chosen…

VPA’s Owen Shapiro has film accepted into two festivals

Wednesday, April 13, 2011, By Erica Blust

Owen Shapiro, professor of film in the School of Art and Design’s Department of Transmedia, had “Vinyl and Red Lips,” a 22-minute experimental video that he completed in January with Pedro Cuperman, associate professor in SU’s College of Arts and Sciences and editor of Point of Contact, accepted into the Athens International Film Festival (late April) and the San Gio Video Festival (July).

Campus & Community

Teres to read and sign books at Barnes & Noble

Wednesday, April 6, 2011, By News Staff

Harvey Teres, professor of English in The College of Arts and Sciences, will be at Barnes & Noble in DeWitt for a reading and book signing of “The Word On the Street: Linking the Academy and the Common Reader” (University of Michigan Press, 2010) at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 20.

Syracuse University Geology Club hosts 2011 CNY Earth Sciences Student Symposium

Tuesday, April 5, 2011, By News Staff

Snowball Earth and how and why mountains move are among the topics to be presented during the 2011 CNY Earth Sciences Student Symposium, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Friday, April 15, on the Syracuse University campus. Guest speakers include well known scientists…