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SU in the News: Friday, April 22

Friday, April 22, 2011, By News Staff

Maxwell School’s Len Burman speaks with NPR Morning Edition on the federal budget battle

Arts & Culture

Say Yes to Education, National Grid Foundation honor Delaware Academy, Seymour Dual Language Academy, John T. Roberts School

Thursday, April 21, 2011, By News Staff

Student authors to be recognized at book-signing event Author! Author! Thirty-three of Syracuse’s newly published young authors will be treated like celebrities at Barnes & Noble Booksellers in DeWitt, N.Y., on Wednesday, April 27, at 4:30 pm. The student authors…

Coplin authors article on making high school instruction more skills-friendly

Thursday, April 21, 2011, By News Staff

Professor Bill Coplin, director of the public affairs program in the Maxwell School, has coauthored an article “Skills for Career, College and Citizenship: Five Steps to Improve High School Education.”

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Thursday, April 21

Thursday, April 21, 2011, By News Staff

AP and LA Daily News feature “Wretches and Jabberers” documentary, co-produced by School of Education Dean Biklen

Campus & Community

Prospective first-year students present ideas on improving their own communities through public policies

Thursday, April 21, 2011, By News Staff

On Saturday, April 30, 85 of Syracuse University’s prospective first-year students will present their ideas on public policies that can improve their community at the 65th annual Maxwell Citizenship Scholarship Conference, sponsored by the Public Affairs Program in the Maxwell School…

Arts & Culture

‘Many Faiths One Humanity’ participants to share contemplative videos April 25

Thursday, April 21, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

In March, a diverse group of 11 Syracuse University students—Buddhist, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Pagan, undecided and hyphenated combinations thereof—traveled to London for “Many Faiths, One Humanity,” an interfaith study experience and experiment in religious pluralism. Interlaced among the experiences were…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University joins ranks of sustainability leaders by achieving Climate Registered status

Thursday, April 21, 2011, By News Staff

Measuring its carbon footprint is the first step toward reducing it Syracuse University became one of the first educational institutions—and the first private university—in North America to achieve Climate Registered™ status by successfully measuring its carbon footprint according to the…

Health & Society

Ethiopia trip provides Syracuse University audiology student opportunity to ‘pay it forward’

Thursday, April 21, 2011, By News Staff

“Do you want to go to Ethiopia?” The question came during a winter break phone call to Caithlin MacNeil, a second-year audiology graduate student, from a faculty member she had recently worked with on a research project. The phone call…

Campus & Community

SU Warehouse site of EPA announcement: Syracuse, Onondaga County named one of 10 top green communities in nation

Wednesday, April 20, 2011, By News Staff

Before a standing-room-only crowd at Syracuse University’s Warehouse, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency named the City of Syracuse and Onondaga County one of 10 top green communities in the nation. “It’s an amazing vision,” said EPA Deputy Administrator Bob Perciasepe,…

Campus & Community

SU improves conflict-of-interest reporting

Wednesday, April 20, 2011, By News Staff

To improve transparency and accountability in Syracuse University’s business transactions, employment practices and relationships with external parties, SU is instituting a new way to facilitate disclosure of potential conflicts of interest (COI) for all full-time and regular part-time faculty and…