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STEM

iSchool/Center for Digital Literacy Awarded National Leadership Grant

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, By J.D. Ross

The School of Information Studies (iSchool) and its Center for Digital Literacy (CDL) have been awarded a National Leadership Grant for $190,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).  The two-year grant, titled “Investigating Self-Determination Variables in Summer…

STEM

Endowed gift expands neuroscience program in The College of Arts and Sciences

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, By News Staff

Sandra J. Hewett appointed inaugural Bishop Professor Beverly Petterson Bishop ’44 and Charles Bishop ’42, G’44 graduated from Syracuse University in 1944, she with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, he a master’s degree in chemistry. They went on to earn…

Campus & Community

‘Food, Inc.’ documentary screening to be held Sept. 29

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, By News Staff

The Syracuse University Sustainability Division will be showing the Academy Award nominee for best documentary feature film, “Food, Inc.,” on Sept. 29 at 8 p.m. in Watson Theater in the Menschel Media Center. Admission is free and open to the…

Campus & Community

Muslim, feminist, First Amendment advocate Asma Uddin to share experiences

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Asma T. Uddin, a Muslim, feminist and First Amendment advocate, will share her work on both Muslim gender issues and religious freedom for people of all faith traditions during a luncheon discussion at Hendricks Chapel on Monday, Oct. 3. The…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Monday, September 26

Monday, September 26, 2011, By News Staff

NPR’s Fresh Air interviews Arts and Sciences’ Dana Spiotta on her new novel, “Stone Arabia”

Business & Economy

Syracuse University receives designation as Economic Development Administration University Center

Friday, September 23, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University has received a $500,000 award from the U.S. Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) and the designation as an EDA University Center. The award is aimed at igniting innovation and accelerating entrepreneurship, and launching student ventures throughout upstate…

Arts & Culture

‘Koppel-Langella: One on One’ to air Sept. 29 on PBS

Friday, September 23, 2011, By News Staff

“Koppel-Langella: One on One,’’ the conversation between Tony Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor Frank Langella ’59 and former “Nightline” anchor Ted Koppel ’60, H’82, is set to air at 9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, on WCNY channels 24.1 and 24.4…

Arts & Culture

SU Drama to present pro-union classic ‘The Cradle Will Rock’

Friday, September 23, 2011, By News Staff

Here’s how Marc Blitzstein described his 1937 musical: “a labor opera composed in a style that falls somewhere between realism, romance, vaudeville, comic strip, Gilbert & Sullivan, Brecht and agitprop [agitation and propaganda].” In other words, it has great laughs,…

Campus & Community

Syracuse Center of Excellence earns highest LEED certification

Friday, September 23, 2011, By News Staff

The SyracuseCoE was designed to exemplify the highest level of LEED standards.

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Thursday, September 22

Thursday, September 22, 2011, By News Staff

NPR quotes Maxwell School’s Len Burman on the federal tax rate for capital gains and dividends