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Campus & Community

Campus, city, county debut one-mile walking loops as part of Healthy Monday

Monday, September 10, 2012, By News Staff

New signs designed by students and staff who are part of the Healthy Monday Syracuse team at SU are making it easy for people to find and follow a series of mile-long walking loops located in city and county parks,…

Campus & Community

Workshop on the OECD iLibrary will be held Sept. 18

Monday, September 10, 2012, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

A workshop on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development iLibrary, one of the most comprehensive online resources on the world economy, society, education and the environment, will be held Tuesday, Sept. 18, from noon-1:30 p.m. in the Peter Graham…

Campus & Community

Colleen Bench appointed assistant vice president for student affairs

Monday, September 10, 2012, By News Staff

Colleen O’Connor Bench has been appointed assistant vice president for the Division of Student Affairs (DSA). Bench joined the University in 1991 and became director of the Parents Office in 1993, where she has managed the administrative, financial and operational…

STEM

ISchool student awarded scholarship to cloud computing conference

Monday, September 10, 2012, By News Staff

Cloud computing has expanded into a useful resource for businesses to collaborate, store information and create programs to improve their organizations. At the School of Information Studies (iSchool), students, faculty members and entrepreneurs work closely together to both understand these…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Monday, September 10

Monday, September 10, 2012, By News Staff

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE In a new opinion piece for The Huffington Post, Chancellor Cantor writes about the challenges facing higher education and how institutions should take an “outside-in” approach in determining what students and families, the public and…

Health & Society

Valerie Kinloch to talk of urban youth expression in SOE Landscape of Urban Education lecture Sept. 20

Monday, September 10, 2012, By Jennifer Russo

The Syracuse University School of Education has announced the fall 2012 speakers in its annual Landscape of Urban Education lecture series. The series will kick off with Valerie Kinloch and her presentation “Crossing Boundaries in Literacy Research: Implications for Urban…

Media, Law & Policy

Q&A with political speech expert Amos Kiewe

Monday, September 10, 2012, By Cyndi Moritz

Amos Kiewe, professor and department chair of Communication and Rhetorical Studies and an expert in political rhetoric, answers a few questions on speeches at the just-concluded political conventions. Q:How do you think the two nominees did in their convention speeches?…

Campus & Community

Former professor Anna Gorbatsevich dies; funeral Friday at 5 p.m.

Friday, September 7, 2012, By News Staff

Former Russian language and literature Professor Anna Vasilevna Gorbatsevich passed away on Thursday morning on Sept.8. Funeral services will be today at 5 p.m. atSt. Mary’s Russian Orthodox Church – The church service is at St. Mary’s Russian Orthodox Church, 607 Tecumseh…

Arts & Culture

Faculty, staff have advance opportunity to buy One World concert tickets

Friday, September 7, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

SU faculty and staff will have an advance opportunity to purchase tickets for the upcoming One World concert. This advance sale opportunity will be online only beginning Saturday, Sept. 8, at 10 a.m. EDT. Prices range from $35-$55, with a…

STEM

First hour of first class, #ElectionClass trends on Twitter

Friday, September 7, 2012, By Diane Stirling

Within the first 45 minutes of the first session of the new course “Social Media in the 2012 Election,” the class hashtag became a top trending topic in the United States on Twitter.