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Business & Economy

AltruHelp, Syracuse University announce social entrepreneurship collaboration

Wednesday, September 21, 2011, By News Staff

AltruHelp, a social media platform, toolbox and online community to support volunteering and corporate social responsibility, has announced a collaboration with the Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service (CPCS) and the Martin J. Whitman School of Management…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University accepts invitation to join Atlantic Coast Conference

Sunday, September 18, 2011, By Kevin C. Quinn

Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Commissioner John D. Swofford today confirmed that the ACC has invited Syracuse University to join the conference and that the ACC presidents have voted to officially accept Syracuse as a conference member. Syracuse University Chancellor and…

Arts & Culture

Author Dana Spiotta in the spotlight for next installment of Raymond Carver Reading Series

Friday, September 16, 2011, By News Staff

The Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series will continue with award-winning fiction writer Dana Spiotta, assistant professor of creative writing in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 28 in Gifford Auditorium in H.B. Crouse Hall…

Arts & Culture

Maria Hinojosa is first guest of University Lectures 2011-12 season

Friday, September 16, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Maria Hinojosa, host of National Public Radio’s “Latino USA” and one of the most influential Latino/a journalists in the nation, will kick off the University Lectures 2011-12 season at Syracuse University on Tuesday, Sept. 27. Hinojosa will speak on “Making…

London, Wilmoth paper published in Journal of Poverty

Thursday, September 15, 2011, By News Staff

The latest issue of the Journal of Poverty features a paper co-authored by Maxwell School sociology professors Andrew London and Janet Wilmoth titled “Work-Related Disability, Veteran Status, and Poverty: Implications for Family Well-Being.” The authors find that households with nondisabled…

STEM

Syracuse University Industrial Assessment Center awarded $1.5 million to support Department of Energy initiative

Thursday, September 15, 2011, By News Staff

The Syracuse University-Industrial Assessment Center (SU-IAC) has been awarded $1.5 million over five years to support the Department of Energy’s (DoE) Industrial Assessment Center (IAC) program to train undergraduate- and graduate-level engineering students in manufacturing efficiency and to help them…

Arts & Culture

University commemorates Latino heritage in September, October

Thursday, September 15, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s Office of Multicultural Affairs hosts Latino Heritage Month from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. From lectures to performances, luncheons, semi-formals and art exhibitions, Latino Heritage Month offers a wide range of festivities for all to enjoy. “To enhance…

Arts & Culture

All tickets for David Sedaris University Lecture are distributed

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

All tickets for the upcoming University Lectures presentation of “An Evening with David Sedaris” at Syracuse University have now been distributed. Sedaris will speak on Tuesday, Oct. 11, at 6 p.m. in the Schine Student Center’s Goldstein Auditorium. All ticketholders…

Campus & Community

Women of the University Community hosts fall gathering Oct. 3, encourages new membership

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, By News Staff

The Women of the University Community (WUC) fall gathering will be held on Monday, Oct. 3, from 5-6:30 p.m. in the atrium of the Life Sciences Building.

STEM

Nicholson delivers opening colloquium at MIT

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, By J.D. Ross

School of Information Studies (iSchool) Associate Professor Scott Nicolson delivered the opening colloquium for the Comparative Media Studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is currently a visiting professor.