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SU Press book to receive scholarship prize

Monday, February 20, 2012, By News Staff

The New York Academy of History will be giving the Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship to a Syracuse University Press publication, Laurence Hauptman’s “Seven Generations of Iroquois Leadership: The Six Nations Since 1800.” This award, named in honor…

Ron Meyer, head of Universal Studios, will visit Newhouse March 1

Friday, February 17, 2012, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Universal Studios president and COO Ron Meyer will visit the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Thursday, March 1. A Q-and-A with Meyer and Newhouse Professor of Practice Richard Dubin will take place at 3 p.m. in the Joyce…

Walmart India’s Raj Jain to lecture at Whitman School March 5

Friday, February 17, 2012, By News Staff

As part of the Whitman School of Management’s Jonathan Holtz Global Speaker Series, Raj Jain, president of Walmart India and managing director and CEO of Bharti Walmart Pvt. Ltd., will speak on Monday, March 5, at Whitman’s Lender Auditorium, room…

A look at abolitionist, suffragist Lucretia Mott at next session of IRP

Wednesday, February 15, 2012, By Eileen Jevis

At the Feb. 16 session of the Institute for Retired People (IRP), Carol Faulkner, associate professor and chair of the Department of History at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School, will discuss Lucretia Mott and the Seneca Falls Convention. Mott, a Quaker…

SU helps Jewish Center of Norwich celebrate restoration efforts Feb. 16

Wednesday, February 15, 2012, By Rob Enslin

The Jewish Center of Norwich—which made headlines in 2008, when it was vandalized by local youths—is the subject of a forthcoming event involving Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences and its Judaic studies program. SU friends and alumni, as…

IVMF partners with Veterans Green Jobs

Wednesday, February 15, 2012, By News Staff

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University has partnered with Veterans Green Jobs, a national Denver-based nonprofit organization focused exclusively on putting veterans to work in the green jobs sector. Veterans Green Jobs recently launched Veterans Green…

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SU in the News: Monday, February 13

Monday, February 13, 2012, By News Staff

Research by Arts and Sciences’ Susan Parks linking whale stress to underwater noise reported by international and online media

Designer Suzanne Tick to speak Feb. 14

Friday, February 10, 2012, By Erica Blust

Suzanne Tick, principal of Suzanne Tick Inc., which specializes in material development for commercial and residential interiors, will present a lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 14, at 5 p.m. in Slocum Auditorium. The free, public talk is sponsored by the School…

SU’s Jaklin Kornfilt co-edits prestigious linguistics journal

Friday, February 10, 2012, By Rob Enslin

Jaklin Kornfilt, professor of linguistics in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, believes learning has no boundaries. Witness her recent involvement with Lingua (Elsevier, 2011), an international journal devoted to problems of general linguistics. A majority of the editorial…

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SU mobile app for Blackberry launched

Friday, February 10, 2012, By News Staff

The Syracuse University official mobile application was launched for Blackberry devices on Jan. 19 and can now be found in the Blackberry App World.