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New York Bar Foundation presents second installment of $250,000 grant to EBV program

Thursday, April 12, 2012, By News Staff

Representatives from the New York Bar Foundation will present the second installment of a $250,000 grant to the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) at Syracuse University on Friday, April 13. The grant monies enable 35 additional veterans to…

Students launch buy-local program during run-up to SU Showcase

Wednesday, April 11, 2012, By News Staff

Syracuse University students in The College of Arts and Sciences’ Soling 300: “Sustainable SU” class are running a buy-local initiative they’ve created to help support a more sustainable Syracuse green economy. The Stamp-Pede Local Businesses program offers prizes for shopping…

mcgarrybowen New York CEO Bill Borrelle to visit Newhouse April 17

Wednesday, April 11, 2012, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Bill Borrelle, CEO of mcgarrybowen New York, will visit the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Tuesday, April 17, as a guest of the Eric Mower Advertising Forum. He will speak on “Time to ‘Unlearn’: How to Get Unshackled…

Exhibition to feature photographic survey of Syracuse public sculpture, work of artist in residence

Wednesday, April 11, 2012, By News Staff

Syracuse’s public sculpture, and the current work of Brendan Rose, the city’s public artist in residence, will be the subject of a new photographic survey on view April 19-May 12 at the Syracuse Public Artist in Residence (SPAR) Space located…

Award-winning memoirist concludes Spring 2012 Raymond Carver Reading Series

Wednesday, April 11, 2012, By News Staff

Kelle Groom will read from ‘I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl’ Kelle Groom, author of the memoir “I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl” (Free Press/Simon and Schuster, 2011), will conclude the Spring…

Green filmmaker Antonio Saillant to speak at SU Showcase April 18

Wednesday, April 11, 2012, By News Staff

As part of SU Showcase for Sustainability 2012, innovative director and producer Antonio Saillant will present on greening the entertainment industry. Saillant will speak at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18, in the Schine Student Center Goldstein Auditorium. He will…

IVMF acknowledged for support of veterans, military families on first anniversary of Joining Forces

Wednesday, April 11, 2012, By News Staff

Haynie attends celebration at White House On Wednesday, April 11, First Lady Michelle Obama and Jill Biden kicked off a White House celebration for military families and organizational leaders that have played key roles in supporting the nation’s troops, veterans…

Long-term research reveals causes, consequences of environmental change

Tuesday, April 10, 2012, By News Staff

As global temperatures rise, the most threatened ecosystems are those that depend on a season of snow and ice, scientists from the nation’s Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network say.“The vulnerability of cool, wet areas to climate change is striking,”…

Media, Law & Policy

Two anthropology Ph.D. students receive major NSF fellowships

Tuesday, April 10, 2012, By News Staff

Melinda Gurr and Lauren Hosek, both second-year doctoral students in anthropology, have received highly prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. The awards support advanced graduate study for three years, at $30,000 per year. In selecting Gurr and Hosek, the…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Tuesday, April 10

Tuesday, April 10, 2012, By News Staff

Southern California Public Radio interviews College of Law’s David Cay Johnston on elimination of universal service obligation for landlines