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Spring 2012 Raymond Carver Reading Series features Native American poet

Thursday, February 2, 2012, By News Staff

The Spring 2012 Raymond Carver Reading Series will continue on Feb. 15 with Syracuse University alumnus and award-winning poet Santee Frazier G’09 at 5:30 p.m. in Gifford Auditorium. The reading will be preceded by a question-and-answer session from 3:45-4:30 p.m….

IJPM’s fifth annual Law, Politics and the Media Lecture Series kicks off Feb. 8

Friday, January 27, 2012, By News Staff

The fifth annual Law, Politics and the Media Lecture Series presented by the Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media at Syracuse University will run from Feb. 8 to April 18, with eight scheduled lectures designed…

Renowned artist Shimon Attie to lead speaker series on memory, commemoration

Tuesday, January 17, 2012, By Erica Blust

Internationally renowned artist Shimon Attie will lead and host a new cross-disciplinary speaker series at Syracuse University on art, memory, community and commemoration. “Memory and Commemoration, as Fact or Fiction” will feature four speakers, including Attie, whose work addresses the…

New track in speech-language graduate program focuses on high-needs preschoolers

Wednesday, December 7, 2011, By News Staff

$1.25 million federal Department of Education grant will support initiative Last year, more than 700,000 preschoolers were eligible for services under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA); 46 percent of those children were identified with speech or language…

Designer, acoustician John Storyk to speak Dec. 1

Tuesday, November 29, 2011, By Erica Blust

Designer and acoustician John Storyk, principal and founding partner of Walters-Storyk Design Group (WSDG), will present a lecture on Thursday, Dec. 1, at 6:45 p.m. in the Lender Auditorium, located on the concourse level of the Martin J. Whitman School…

Campus & Community

Reid joins Whitman as communications specialist

Wednesday, November 23, 2011, By News Staff

Karla Scoon Reid of Baldwinsville joined the Whitman School of Management earlier this fall as a communications specialist. In her role, Reid supports Whitman’s marketing and communications function through research, writing and editing. She helps produce content for all print…

SU’s Bruce Smith named a 2011 National Book Award finalist

Friday, November 18, 2011, By Rob Enslin

An English professor in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences has been named a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award (NBA) in poetry. Bruce Smith, who also teaches in the college’s creative writing program, was nominated for the prestigious…

Klamm named assistant director of digital and social media at Syracuse University

Monday, October 31, 2011, By News Staff

Dan Klamm has joined Syracuse University’s Division of Advancement and External Affairs (AEA) as assistant director of digital and social media.

STEM

Attacking cancer cells with nanoparticles

Monday, October 24, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University chemists develop novel way to get cancer drugs to tumors About every three days, Colleen Alexander, a chemistry graduate student, feeds cells that cause a deadly type of brain cancer. It’s a ritual that involves assessing the health…

STEM

Syracuse University scientists discover new way to determine when water was present on Mars and Earth

Wednesday, October 19, 2011, By News Staff

Record of past may be locked inside mineral common to both planets The discovery of the mineral jarosite in rocks analyzed by the Mars Rover, Opportunity, on the Martian surface had special meaning for a team of Syracuse University scientists…