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School of Education Responds to Controversial NCTQ Report

Wednesday, June 19, 2013, By Jennifer Russo

In response to a growing national debate over teacher quality, the School of Education posted an explanation on its website this week about its approach to training teachers who will perform at the highest level. In announcing this new web…

STEM

A&S Professor Wins National Nuclear Physicist Award

Wednesday, June 19, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Paul Souder, professor of physics in The College of Arts and Sciences, is the co-recipient of the 2013 Outstanding Nuclear Physicist Award from Jefferson Science Associates (JSA). He shares the award with Douglas Beck, professor of physics at the University…

iSchool and IBM Host zEnterprise Summer Seminar

Monday, June 17, 2013, By News Staff

Syracuse University and IBM’s System z Academic Initiative co-hosted the zEnterprise Summer Seminar at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) earlier this month. This three-day seminar, held June 3-5, brought together IBM employees and college educators from across North America…

Media, Law & Policy

Television Reporter Edward Hotaling ’59 Dies

Monday, June 17, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Edward Hotaling ’59, a legendary television reporter whose research in 2000 uncovered the use of slave labor in building the White House and Capitol building, died June 3 in Staten Island. He was 75. Hotaling’s discovery led to a Congressional…

Campus & Community

Cash Operations Year-End Deadlines

Monday, June 17, 2013, By News Staff

Attention University Community: Fiscal 2013 Year End Cash Operations has set a deadline of 3:30 p.m. on June 28 to receive deposits at the Schine and Archbold Cash Operations offices for credit in fiscal year 2012-2013. Please make your deposits…

Media, Law & Policy

Q&A with Professor Roy Gutterman: Balancing Privacy and National Security

Monday, June 17, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

Recent revelations about the U.S. government’s surveillance programs in counterterrorism have jarred the American public into a debate about privacy rights versus national security. A former National Security Agency contractor employee, Edward Snowden, leaked information that the N.S.A. collects the…

Campus & Community

Academic Calendar for 2017-18 Announced

Wednesday, June 12, 2013, By News Staff

The Syracuse University academic calendar for 2017-18 has now been published.  The dates are available in the multi-year calendar (Fall 2013 – Summer 2018) on the Registrar’s Office website.  The calendar continues to meet the needs of our diverse campus…

Video: Say Yes Celebrates Five Years in Syracuse

Tuesday, June 11, 2013, By Keith Kobland

Say Yes to Education ensures a college education to city school students who graduate from high school. Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor was among local dignitaries who spoke at a celebratory news conference held at Roberts Elementary School.

Business & Economy

Desire, Resources for Self-Employment Grow with Age, Says Whitman Study

Tuesday, June 11, 2013, By News Staff

Starting a business is no longer a “young person’s game,” according to new research by Maria Minniti, a professor at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. Minniti and her co-authors, professors Teemu Kautonen and Simon Down of Anglia Ruskin…

Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz Named Interim Senior Vice President and Dean of Student Affairs

Friday, June 7, 2013, By News Staff

Chancellor Nancy Cantor today named Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz interim Senior Vice President and Dean of Student Affairs at Syracuse University. Kantrowitz, currently Associate Vice President for Inclusion, Community and Citizenship within SU’s Division of Student Affairs, will succeed Thomas V….