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Social Entrepreneur Lauren Given Moynihan Spirit of Public Service Award
The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs has announced that Lauren Bush Lauren, the founder and CEO of FEED Projects, is the inaugural winner of the school’s Moynihan Spirit of Public Service Award, named for the late Sen. Daniel…
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Honors Nutrition Associate Professor Sudha Raj
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the world’s largest organization of food and nutrition professionals, will honor Falk College Associate Professor of Nutrition Sudha Raj with two awards at the 2014 Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo (FNCE) to be…
SU Champions National Cyber Security Month During October
National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM)—observed every October—was created as a collaborative effort between government and industry to ensure every American has the resources they need to stay safer and more secure online. Here at Syracuse University, Information Technology and…
R. David Lankes Writes About Being ‘The Boring Patient’
Professor R. David Lankes shares a personalized, humor-filled account of his experience being diagnosed with and living with cancer over the last two-plus years in his new book “The Boring Patient.”
University Community Mourns Passing of Professor Emerita Sari Knopp Biklen
Sari Knopp Biklen, professor emerita of cultural foundations of education and women’s studies, passed away on Sept. 16. “I know that I speak for all of her colleagues in expressing deep sadness over Sari’s passing,” says Eric F. Spina, Syracuse…
ITS Continues to Implement New Information Security Measures
Security threats to higher education are on the increase. In the last year alone, more than 3 million data records have been reported exposed at colleges and universities nationwide, and millions more have been exposed at other organizations and businesses….
Fiction Writer Anthony Marra Opens Carver Reading Series
The fiction writer Anthony Marra kicks off Syracuse University’s Fall 2014 Raymond Carver Reading Series with a reading Wednesday, September 17, at Gifford Auditorium in Huntington Beard Crouse Hall. A question-and-answer session is from 3:45 to 4:30 p.m., followed by…
Angela Woods ‘05 to Host U.S. State Department’s Critical Language Scholarship Program Seminar
Angela Woods ’05, a graduate of Syracuse University’s School of Education and a program officer for the U.S. State Department’s Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program, will present a two-part seminar to undergraduate and graduate students interested in applying to the…
Global Security Challenges for U.S. at Sept. 11 Thursday Morning Roundtable
The Sept. 11 session of TMR will feature Vice Admiral Robert Murrett (ret.), deputy director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT) at Syracuse University. Murrett, currently a professor of practice at SU’s Maxwell School and a member…
University, South Side Initiative Help Local Youth ‘Write Their Lives’
School may not have been in session, but learning was happening at the South Side Communication Center this summer.