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STEM

iSchool Professor awarded NSF grant to study socially intelligent computing

Thursday, October 14, 2010, By News Staff

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) Professor Kevin Crowston $478,858 over three years to investigate the capabilities of social computational computer support systems in the context of citizen science.

Campus & Community

Africa Initiative to present speaker on Nigerian politics

Thursday, October 14, 2010, By News Staff

The Africa Initiative of Syracuse University will present its fall lecture, featuring visiting guest speaker Efemini Andrew from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Port Harcourt.

Campus & Community

University Lectures series explores ethics during Oct. 19 visit by Randy Cohen

Thursday, October 14, 2010, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Randy Cohen, Emmy Award-winning writer and humorist and author of “The Ethicist” column in The New York Times Magazine, will visit Syracuse University Oct. 19 as the next guest of the University Lectures series.

Campus & Community

SU’s Class of 2011 launches philanthropic efforts at Orange Central

Wednesday, October 13, 2010, By Veronica Hotaling

The 2011 Senior Class Giving launch will be held Saturday, Oct. 16, on the Quad under the Alumni Relations tent (in front of Hinds Hall, next to the game-day concessions stand) starting at 10 a.m., two hours prior to the kickoff of the Syracuse vs. Pittsburgh football game.

STEM

Davidson presented with Wayne W. Stinchcomb Award

Wednesday, October 13, 2010, By News Staff

Barry Davidson, a Meredith Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (LCS), has been awarded the Wayne W. Stinchcomb Award for outstanding research, service and contributions to the field of composite materials.

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage, SU Drama present ‘Another American: Asking and Telling’

Wednesday, October 13, 2010, By News Staff

“Another American: Asking and Telling” takes the audience on a national tour of sexual politics, the American military, sanctioned discrimination and its human fallout.

‘Flipper and Dipper and the Treasures of 6 Bird’ now available through SU Bookstore

Wednesday, October 13, 2010, By News Staff

Kelly Homan Rodoski(315) 443-3784 Proceeds benefit Pan Am 103 Archives A children’s book that explores the history and traditions of Syracuse University is now available through the SU Bookstore. “Flipper and Dipper and the Treasures of 6 Bird” (Syracuse University…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Symposium continues ‘conflict’ theme with two-day Ingeborg Bachmann conference

Wednesday, October 13, 2010, By Rob Enslin

Austrian postwar writer Ingeborg Bachmann is the subject of a two-day conference at Syracuse University titled “Lay Down Your Weapons: Writing Against War.”

STEM

iSchool’s Milton Mueller writes new book on global politics of Internet governance

Wednesday, October 13, 2010, By News Staff

MIT Press has published Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) Professor Milton Mueller’s “Networks and States: The Global Politics of Internet Governance,”

Arts & Culture

Setnor School of Music celebrates 200th birthdays of Chopin, Schumann with Oct. 27 concert

Wednesday, October 13, 2010, By Erica Blust

Piano students in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will celebrate the 200th birthdays of composers Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann with a concert on Wednesday, Oct. 27.