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Campus & Community

Check calendar for cancellations

Tuesday, February 1, 2011, By News Staff

Several campus events have been cancelled because of severe weather.

Boston-area alumni and friends join forces, raising $1 million for The Campaign for Syracuse University

Monday, January 31, 2011, By Veronica Hotaling

Thonis Challenge exceeded by $150,000 Thanks to the leadership of the Boston Regional Council, Syracuse University Trustee Mike Thonis’ inspirational challenge and the loyalty of Boston-area alumni and friends, The Campaign for Syracuse University’s first regional campaign closed out 2010…

Jonathan Katz to lecture on controversial exhibition, censorship Feb. 7

Friday, January 28, 2011, By Jessica H. Reed

Light Work, Hendricks Chapel and the LGBT Resource Center have announced a Feb. 7 lecture by Jonathan Katz, co-curator of the important Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery exhibition “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture.” The talk will take place at…

Students, faculty explore business, cultural implications of Super Bowl in new course offering

Friday, January 28, 2011, By Michele Barrett

A new course, “The Super Bowl and Society,” debuted in the College of Human Ecology this semester.  With enrollment of more than 100 students, SPM 199 explores the evolution and strategic brilliance that has allowed a football game to become a…

SRC provides $5 million community matching gift to Say Yes to Education Syracuse—largest single external gift the program has ever received

Saturday, January 22, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse becomes first ‘Say Yes to Education City’ in the nation At a Jan. 22 reception at the Central New York Philanthropy Center, officials from SRC, Inc.—formerly Syracuse Research Corporation—announced that the company is making a $5 million community matching…

Campus & Community

Women in Scientific and Environmental Professions begins 13th year

Friday, January 21, 2011, By News Staff

Nina-Marie Lister, associate professor, urban and regional planning, Ryerson University, Toronto, and visiting associate professor, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, will launch this year’s Women in Scientific and Environmental Professions Speaker Series.

STEM

Burton Blatt Institute hosts seminar on rheumatoid arthritis

Thursday, January 20, 2011, By News Staff

Inspired by aunt’s battle, Professor Rebecca Bader’s research focuses on improving lives of those with RA Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common form of inflammatory arthritis, afflicting approximately 1 percent of the population and causing a significant financial and…

SU’s South Side Innovation Center awarded $85,000 grant from Chase

Thursday, January 20, 2011, By News Staff

Job creation in Syracuse has received a major boost with an $85,000 grant from Chase to the South Side Innovation Center (SSIC). SSIC, the area’s leading small business incubator and training center, was launched by Syracuse University’s Whitman School of…

Maxwell School professor to lead research team investigating climate change-induced conflict in Senegal and Mali

Wednesday, January 19, 2011, By News Staff

John McPeak, associate professor of public administration at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, will lead an international, multi-disciplinary team seeking to reduce climate change-related conflicts between pastoralists and farmers in the Senegal and Niger River basins in the West African countries of Senegal and Mali.

iSchool’s Milton Mueller serves on leading tech panel ‘State of the Net Conference’

Wednesday, January 19, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University School of Information Studies Professor Milton Mueller was a featured panelist at the annual State of the Net Conference in Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the Congressional Internet Caucus, the conference brings together some of the most prominent technology…