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Campus & Community

Students Invited to Answer the Question: Who Are You?

Tuesday, November 12, 2013, By News Staff

The STOP Bias initiative out of the Division of Student Affairs is hosting the second annual “Who Are You?” Postcard Project. The program invites students to submit anonymous statements that answer the question, “Who are you?” A display of these…

Campus & Community

Raising Money, One Pat on the Head at a Time

Thursday, November 7, 2013, By Keith Kobland

A United Way fundraiser held by the School of Information Studiesl provided students with a unique way to beat the stress of coursework, simply by spending a few minutes with man’s best friend. It’s called “Pet a Pup,” and it…

Campus & Community

‘Subject is Sports’ Hosts Live Q&A

Thursday, November 7, 2013, By News Staff

The Subject is Sports, a massive open online course (MOOC) hosted its first live Q &A session with students on Wednesday, Oct. 30. Rick Burton, David B. Falk Distinguished Professor of Sport Management and SPM graduate assistant Elissa Roberts fielded questions…

Arts & Culture

Stephen Dunn Is Next Carver Speaker

Wednesday, November 6, 2013, By Renée K. Gadoua

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn G’70 is the next speaker in this semester’s Raymond Carver Reading Series at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13, in Gifford Auditorium. A question-and-answer session will precede the reading from 3:45-4:30 p.m. The event is…

Health & Society

Maisto Gets Five-Year Extension of NIH Senior Scientist Award

Wednesday, November 6, 2013, By News Staff

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has once again selected Stephen Maisto, professor of psychology in The College of Arts and Sciences, for its Senior Scientist Research and Mentorship Award. Maisto’s K05 grant is from the National Institute on Alcohol…

STEM

SU Chemist Gets ‘Best Idea Grant’

Wednesday, November 6, 2013, By News Staff

Top-notch ideas drive today’s knowledge-based world. James Hougland has one, and he has been awarded a “Best Idea Grant (BIG)” from the Foundation for Prader-Willi Research (FPWR) to support his research. Hougland, an assistant professor of chemistry in The College…

STEM

Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute to Dedicate New Laboratory Suite Nov. 8

Tuesday, November 5, 2013, By Rob Enslin

In response to the growing international threat of bioterrorism, the Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute (FNSSI) in The College of Arts and Sciences has established a state-of-the-art laboratory suite. A dedication ceremony for the facility will be held on…

STEM

New York’s New Energy Leaders Debut at SyracuseCoE Symposium

Monday, November 4, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

This year’s SyracuseCoE Symposium included a statewide first: the three newest leaders of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s energy team appeared together for a discussion of the state’s emerging clean energy economy.

Campus & Community

SU London Organizes “Cultures of Memory Symposium”

Monday, November 4, 2013, By Jennifer DeMarchi

SU London helped to organize the 2013 “Cultures of Memory Symposium,” a multi-faceted, international symposium in which four organizing universities presented their distinct creative practices and scholarship related to memory. These include public memory projects concerned with Guantánamo Bay detention…

Campus & Community

Transmedia Visiting Artist Cathy Crane

Monday, November 4, 2013, By News Staff

Transmedia Visiting Artist Cathy Crane will give a talk on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2 pm. in Shemin Auditorium. Crane has been making experimental narrative and documentary films on 16mm for nearly 20 years. She was named a Guggenheim fellow in…