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Award-winning ecologist to present 2012 Life Sciences Lecture ‘Is Mother Nature Short Sighted?’

Tuesday, April 17, 2012, By News Staff

Hanna Kokko, laureate fellow at Australian National University, will present “Is Mother Nature Shortsighted?” for the 2012 Jack and Pat Bryan Life Sciences Lecture at Syracuse University. The lecture, which will begin at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, May 1, in the…

IVMF, Whitman School awarded $854,525 grant to implement management certificate and degree programs for veterans

Tuesday, April 17, 2012, By News Staff

The Graduate Management Admission Council® (GMAC®), owner of the GMAT® exam and the leading membership organization of graduate business and management schools worldwide, today awarded the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) and the Whitman School of Management a $854,525…

SU Showcase 2012 fellows selected

Tuesday, April 17, 2012, By News Staff

Eight fellows will be recognized and have their sustainability videos screened during SU Showcase on Wednesday, April 18, starting at 3:30 p.m. in Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center.  Representing both individual and team efforts, the videos were selected from the…

Director of summer programs announced

Tuesday, April 17, 2012, By Eileen Jevis

Michelle Singletary has been named director of SummerStart and Syracuse Success Initiative (SSUI) at Syracuse University effective May 15. Singletary joined Syracuse University’s Office of Residence Life (ORL) in June 2006 as the assistant director. Prior to her role in…

Senior fashion designers to present annual fashion show April 26

Tuesday, April 17, 2012, By Erica Blust

Senior fashion design students in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will present their collections in the annual Fashion Show on Thursday, April 26, at 12:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The shows will take place in Goldstein…

Arts & Culture

Bond to moderate discussion with playwright of ‘The Brothers Size’ Saturday at Syracuse Stage

Monday, April 16, 2012, By News Staff

Timothy Bond, producing artistic director of Syracuse Stage and Syracuse University’s Department of Drama, will moderate a discussion with playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney on Saturday, April 21, at 5 p.m. in the Storch Theatre at Syracuse Stage. Sponsored by SU…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell’s Model U.N. team named Outstanding Delegation

Monday, April 16, 2012, By News Staff

Maxwell’s Model United Nations delegation won top honors following a week-long conference in New York City. The team of 20 undergraduate international relations students represented the Republic of Gabon, earning an Outstanding Delegation Award for the simulation. Several students took…

Health & Society

School of Education’s Dotger receives grant from Arthur Vining Davis Foundations

Monday, April 16, 2012, By Jennifer Russo

Benjamin Dotger, associate professor of teaching and leadership in the Syracuse University School of Education, has been awarded a grant for $199,650 from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to establish a simulated interaction model (SIM) for pre-service secondary teachers. In…

SU humanities panel explores ‘cultural politics of images’ April 18

Monday, April 16, 2012, By Rob Enslin

The cultural politics of images is the subject of the next installment of “IMAGES? Precisely!,” a lecture series organized by Mark Linder, inaugural Chancellor’s Fellow in the Humanities, as part of the Syracuse University Humanities Center’s new Transdisciplinary Humanities Project….

Paul Roberts to deliver SU Showcase keynote on realities of a sustainable future

Monday, April 16, 2012, By News Staff

How do we build a sustainable future, especially when much of the present seems so unsustainable? Journalist and author Paul Roberts will tackle this issue during his SU Showcase keynote presentation, “The Real Cost of Change: The Economic and Political…