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Campus & Community

Geological structure and evolution of the SE Tibetan Plateau

Monday, November 1, 2010, By News Staff

The Department of Earth Sciences presents the fall 2010 K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series, this week featuring Rob van der Hilst from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He will lecture on ”Geological structure and evolution of the SE Tibetan Plateau.” The…

Media, Law & Policy

IJPM, College of Law host defense and prosecuting attorneys, local newspaper columnist on Nov. 4 to discuss Lake Pleasant murder case

Thursday, October 28, 2010, By News Staff

The Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics and the Media (IJPM) and the College of Law at Syracuse University will host “The Toughest Call: The Lake Pleasant Murder Case,” a panel discussion on Thursday, Nov. 4.

Campus & Community

Music industry executive Shanti Das ’93 to present lecture, book signing Oct. 28

Wednesday, October 27, 2010, By Erica Blust

Shanti Das ’93, an accomplished music industry executive and founder and CEO of PressReset.me, an Atlanta-based marketing, consulting and life mentoring firm, will present a lecture on Thursday, Oct. 28.

STEM

iSchool Professor awarded NSF grant to study socially intelligent computing

Thursday, October 14, 2010, By News Staff

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) Professor Kevin Crowston $478,858 over three years to investigate the capabilities of social computational computer support systems in the context of citizen science.

Media, Law & Policy

TRAC: Federal water pollution convictions decrease in past decade

Thursday, October 14, 2010, By News Staff

According to a new analysis of Justice Department data by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), during the first two years of the Obama administration, federal criminal convictions for water pollution remain lower than any year since the first Clinton administration.

Campus & Community

New autism documentary ‘Wretches & Jabberers’ to premiere at 2010 Syracuse International Film Festival

Friday, October 8, 2010, By Jennifer Russo

“Wretches & Jabberers: And Stories from the Road,” a new documentary film directed and produced by Oscar winner and twice Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Gerardine Wurzburg, will premiere as part of the 2010 Syracuse International Film Festival.

STEM

iSchool’s Renee Franklin Hill part of $800,000 multi-institutional grant to recruit diverse students into LIS programs

Wednesday, September 29, 2010, By News Staff

The Institute of Museum and Library Services is providing $799,493 to researchers at Syracuse University, the University of Maryland and Towson University for the project “Diverse Populations, Information and Library Education.”

Arts & Culture

Design competition to focus on solutions for common paring knife

Tuesday, September 28, 2010, By Erica Blust

Design solutions for the common paring knife will be the challenge of this year’s Junior Prize competition of the industrial and interaction design program.

Campus & Community

County Executive Joanie Mahoney at TMR this week

Tuesday, September 21, 2010, By Eileen Jevis

The Sept. 23 session of Thursday Morning Roundtable will feature Joanie Mahoney, Onondaga County executive.

STEM

SU researchers utilize computer simulations to explore biofilm fragmentation

Monday, September 20, 2010, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s Radhakrishna Sureshkumar has been awarded a three-year, $426,290 grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to investigate how biofilms deform and break up under mechanical stress.