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STEM

iSchool professor publishes book on need for more people educated as information professionals

Monday, October 18, 2010, By News Staff

The book focuses on the disparity between the growth of careers within the information industry and the apparent lack of interest in studying and working in the field within the United States.

Campus & Community

School of Education master’s graduate Rob Buyea to speak on debut novel

Thursday, October 14, 2010, By News Staff

“Because of Mr. Terupt,” first book by Rob Buyea ’99, G’00, is based on author’s experiences teaching elementary school.

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.

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.”

Campus & Community

Music from Terezin will be featured in Nov. 7 Malmgren Series presentation

Wednesday, October 13, 2010, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The Malmgren Concert Series at Syracuse University’s Hendricks Chapel will present The Hawthorne String Quartet: Music from Terezín on Sunday, Nov. 7.

STEM

SU Project Advance forensic seminars probe crime, fungi

Monday, October 11, 2010, By News Staff

Syracuse University Project Advance (SUPA) brings two of Europe’s foremost forensic botanists to the United States this week for SUPA’s Forensic Science fall seminars. Patricia Wiltshire and David Hawksworth will be the featured speakers at the downstate seminar Wednesday, Oct. 13, on…

Campus & Community

Lowe’s Heroes donates supplies and manpower to revitalize Stone Soup Garden on Syracuse’s Near Westside

Thursday, October 7, 2010, By News Staff

On Friday, Oct. 8, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m., approximately 20 volunteers from the Lowe’s Heroes volunteers program will converge on the Stone Soup Garden, located at 410-412 Gifford St., Syracuse (next to St. Lucy’s Church), to help spruce up the community garden.

Campus & Community

Arts and Sciences’ Milton First-Year Lecture presents Harvard linguist Steven Pinker Oct. 6

Wednesday, October 6, 2010, By Rob Enslin

Steven Pinker—one of the world’s leading cognitive scientists, interested in all aspects of language and the mind—is delivering the Milton First-Year Lecture in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Open only to College first-year and transfer students, the lecture is Wednesday, Oct. 6.

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell School awarded graduate student fellowship grant by Robertson Foundation for Government

Monday, October 4, 2010, By News Staff

The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs has named two inaugural Robertson Fellows, funded by a grant from the Robertson Foundation for Government.

Arts & Culture

VPA designers collaborate on inspirational workspace for Student Sandbox

Monday, October 4, 2010, By Erica Blust

The renovated space is the result of a design process that began in 2009.