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SU Marching Band Uniform Campaign Achieves Goal

Tuesday, August 13, 2013, By Erica Blust

New uniforms to debut at Oct. 5 ACC football home game versus Clemson “A New Look for a New Era,” the campaign to outfit the Syracuse University Marching Band (SUMB) in new uniforms for its Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) debut…

Urban Cinematheque Will Feature Movie, Arts Booths

Monday, August 12, 2013, By News Staff

The Urban Video Project (UVP) and Light Work/Community Darkrooms will host the second annual Urban Cinematheque—an end-of-summer free outdoor film screening paired with an arts and culture fair Friday, Aug. 30. The fair will represent a wide array of the…

Veterans

IVMF Hosts Seventh V-WISE Entrepreneurship Training Conference for Female Veterans and Military Spouses

Monday, August 12, 2013, By News Staff

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) has announced the seventh offering of its Veteran Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (V-WISE) program, hosted in Seattle, Aug. 16-18. V-WISE is the first federally funded program focused on engaging entrepreneurial opportunity…

SU Chemists Develop ‘Fresh, New’ Approach to Making Alloy Nanomaterials

Friday, August 9, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Potential applications include gas storage, heterogeneous catalysis and lithium-ion batteries Chemists in The College of Arts and Sciences have figured out how to synthesize nanomaterials with stainless steel-like interfaces. Their discovery may change how the form and structure of nanomaterials…

Chemists Design ‘Smart’ Nanoparticles to Improve Drug Delivery, DNA Self-Assembly

Friday, August 9, 2013, By Rob Enslin

A team of chemists in SU’s College of Arts and Scientists has used a temperature-sensitive polymer to regulate DNA interactions in both a DNA-mediated assembly system and a DNA-encoded drug-delivery system. Their findings, led by Associate Professor Mathew M. Maye…

CHAT Program of Burton Blatt Institute Launches Camp for Children

Thursday, August 8, 2013, By Celestia Ohrazda

CHAT Camp is a unique five-day experience for children locally who use assistive/augmentative communication (AAC) devices to communicate. This event will bring together agencies, speakers and professionals from the world of special needs to focus on communication in a whole…

Health & Society

Report Examines Changing Nursing Home Trends in New York

Thursday, August 8, 2013, By News Staff

A new report authored by Thomas Dennison, professor of practice in public administration and international affairs at the Maxwell School, notes that nursing homes have evolved since the ’90s from primarily providing residential care for seniors to focusing on both…

Arts & Culture

‘Emerging Fashion Designers’ to Feature SU Designers, Photographers

Wednesday, August 7, 2013, By Erica Blust

Seven 2013 alumnae of the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) fashion design program are among the 100 designers selected for the fourth edition of “Emerging Fashion Designers,” an image-driven publication that showcases the most promising graduates of fashion…

The Limits of War

Monday, August 5, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

Is torture legal? Is one death justified to save thousands of lives? Are soldiers responsible for obeying an officer’s command to kill civilians? In partnership with the American Red Cross of the Central New York Region, four Syracuse University students challenged a group of young people at the Southside Academy Charter School to think about these questions.

Janklow Launches Arts Leadership Advanced Certificate Program

Monday, August 5, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Provides students with ‘broad perspective’ of organizational leadership The College of Arts and Sciences has announced the establishment of the Janklow Arts Leadership Advanced Certificate Program. Designed for recent college graduates as well as experienced practitioners, the 15-credit-hour program provides…