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Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell School receives major gift from Chicago businessman Andrew Berlin

Thursday, September 23, 2010, By News Staff

The Maxwell School has announced that it has received a $500,000 endowment gift to fund faculty research relating to issues of national security.

STEM

World-renowned literacy activist Stephen Krashen to deliver CDL lecture on Sept. 27, Brown Bag lecture on Sept. 28

Wednesday, September 22, 2010, By News Staff

Literacy activist and expert on second language learning Stephen Krashen believes that the best way to improve reading is to read.

Arts & Culture

Special Collections Research Center opens fall exhibition ‘The Silent Scream: Conflict in Novels Without Words’

Wednesday, September 22, 2010, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Syracuse University Library’s Special Collections Research Center has amassed a fine collection of graphic novels, or novels without words.

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Symposium hosts yearlong Perpetual Peace Project

Wednesday, September 22, 2010, By Rob Enslin

The Syracuse University Humanities Center has announced the Perpetual Peace Project, a joint initiative with the Slought Foundation, the European Union National Institutes of Culture, International Peace Institute and United Nations University through 2011.

STEM

Wiles receives 2010 Science and Technology Outreach Award from TACNY

Tuesday, September 21, 2010, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Jason R. Wiles, assistant professor of biology, has received the 2010 Science and Technology Outreach Award from the Technology Alliance of Central New York (TACNY).

Pro Football Hall of Famer Floyd Little ’67 and wife DeBorah to host Orange Central Bash Oct. 15; includes presentation of 2010 Orange Circle Awards honoring those who work to better the world

Monday, September 20, 2010, By Veronica Hotaling

Beginning at 4 p.m. in Goldstein Auditorium at the Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center, the fast-paced, celebratory reception and awards presentation are free and open to the public.

Illuminating Oppression: 8th Annual Human Rights Film Festival to feature award-winning films

Thursday, September 16, 2010, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Award-winning films come from around the world.

Campus & Community

Digital Witness Symposium explores how new digital media are transforming human rights activism

Thursday, September 16, 2010, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Illuminating Oppression: 8th Annual Human Rights Film Festival at Syracuse University will inaugurate a new strand of its annual programming this year with the Digital Witness Symposium on Friday, Oct. 1, at 11 a.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3.

SU in the News: Thursday, September 16, 2010

Thursday, September 16, 2010, By News Staff

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE Peter Blanck, University Professor and director of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI), is referenced in an ITS Business Edge blog posting on the percentage of people with disabilities in science and engineering jobs. WSYR-TV covered…

Health & Society

USAID partnership program provides funding to SU’s School of Education for quality teaching education collaboration with Kenya’s Kenyatta University

Thursday, September 16, 2010, By Jennifer Russo

Syracuse University will receive $860,700 for “Building Capacity through Quality Teacher Preparation,” a partnership project between SU and Kenyatta University in Kenya, East Africa.