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Ancient rocks provide clues for oxygen appearance in Earth’s atmosphere

Thursday, December 1, 2011, By News Staff

The appearance of oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere probably did not occur as a single event, but as a long series of starts and stops, according to an international team of researchers who investigated rock cores from the northwest region…

Elman receives $600,000 National Science Foundation grant to establish Qualitative Data Repository

Thursday, December 1, 2011, By News Staff

The Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School will be the home of the new Qualitative Data Repository, which is to be established with a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of $600,000. Associate Professor of Political Science Colin…

Campus & Community

Engineered Perspectives Exhibition Opens at SUArt

Wednesday, November 30, 2011, By News Staff

The SUArt Galleries is pleased to present “Engineered Perspectives: Railroad Culture in the Modern World,” opening Dec. 1 and on view until Jan. 22, 2012.

Business & Economy

Whitman’s Lumpkin named co-editor of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Tuesday, November 29, 2011, By News Staff

Whitman School of Management faculty member G. Thomas Lumpkin has been named co-editor of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (SEJ) by the Strategic Management Society (SMS). The announcement was made at the SMS annual meeting in Miami Beach, Fla. Lumpkin, the…

Nominations sought for Syracuse University Martin Luther King Jr. Unsung Heroes Awards

Tuesday, November 29, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The Syracuse University Martin Luther King Jr. 2012 Celebration Committee is seeking nominations for the Unsung Heroes Awards, which will be presented during the 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration in the Carrier Dome on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012. The…

SU veteran entrepreneurship programs cited in Interagency Task Force on Veterans Small Business Development report

Monday, November 28, 2011, By News Staff

As more than 1 million servicemen and women prepare to return home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan over the next five years, the Interagency Task Force on Veterans Small Business Development, created by President Obama, has issued a…

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…

Ray Smith Symposium continues ‘Sex and Power’ theme with visits by Baroque musicologist, Medieval historian

Friday, November 18, 2011, By Rob Enslin

The Ray Smith Symposium in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences continues its yearlong examination of “Sex and Power from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment” with mini-residencies by two eminent scholars. Wendy Heller, professor of music and director…

Aging Studies Institute established at SU

Friday, November 18, 2011, By News Staff

Interdisciplinary research institute will consolidate research, training on age-related issues Syracuse University has announced the formation of the Aging Studies Institute (ASI), a collaborative initiative of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the David B. Falk College…

Rabbi Brad Hirschfield to speak on religion, politics on Nov. 28

Thursday, November 17, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The Carnegie Religion and Media Program in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will host a public conversation on “Religion and Politics: How Much is Too Much” with Rabbi Brad Hirschfield on Monday, Nov. 28, at 10:35 a.m. in…