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Paris Noir’s ‘jazz moment’

Monday, December 19, 2011, By Rob Enslin

Popular study abroad program enters second decade In “Shadow and Act,” a collection of essays about the black experience, Ralph Ellison describes jazz as the “art of assertion within and against the group.” Each jazz moment, he writes, springs from…

College of Law launches LL.M. program

Monday, December 19, 2011, By Jaclyn D. Grosso

The Master of Laws (LL.M.) for foreign students at Syracuse University College of Law is a new 24-credit-hour graduate program designed to offer students with a foreign (non-U.S.) law degree or its equivalent, advanced study in American law. Applications are…

Whitman names winners in semiannual student Capstone Competition

Monday, December 19, 2011, By Lindsay Wickham

Sixty-three student teams representing more than 300 Whitman seniors competed in the semiannual Capstone Business Plan Competition held Dec. 9-10 at the Whitman School of Management. At the conclusion of both the fall and spring semesters, Whitman’s Department of Entrepreneurship…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Friday, December 16

Friday, December 16, 2011, By News Staff

New iSchool and Microsoft partnership in social networking experiment reported in industry media

School of Education awarded ‘Race to the Top’ grant to establish Syracuse Urban Inclusive Teacher Residents (SUITR) program

Friday, December 16, 2011, By News Staff

The New York State Education Department’s “Race to the Top” grant awarded $1.6 million to Syracuse University’s School of Education to start the teacher-preparation pilot program “Syracuse Urban Inclusive Teacher Residents (SUITR).” The grant is part of a statewide effort…

It’s a queer world: Chancellor’s Leadership Project unites LGBT scholars, activists, artists from around the world

Thursday, December 15, 2011, By Rob Enslin

When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently announced at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Switzerland, that the United States would consider gay rights when making future aid and asylum decisions, she acknowledged what scholars and activists have…

STEM

First Cyber Engineering Semester completed by inaugural cohort

Tuesday, December 13, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

On Dec. 14, Syracuse University celebrated the completion of its Cyber Engineering Semester program by the first cohort. The program—the first of its kind in the nation—prepares students to design, build and verify highly assured systems and to meet the…

Syracuse University Library acquires papers of architect Morris Lapidus

Tuesday, December 13, 2011, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Syracuse University Library has acquired the personal papers of the flamboyant and trend-setting architect Morris Lapidus. Lapidus, who died in 2001, is perhaps best known for hotels like the Fontainebleau, Americana and Eden Roc in Miami Beach, Fla., buildings which embodied…

New track in speech-language graduate program focuses on high-needs preschoolers

Wednesday, December 7, 2011, By News Staff

$1.25 million federal Department of Education grant will support initiative Last year, more than 700,000 preschoolers were eligible for services under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA); 46 percent of those children were identified with speech or language…

Campus & Community

Students award $5,000 to Onondaga County nonprofit

Tuesday, December 6, 2011, By News Staff

Students in an undergraduate Public Affairs Program (PAF) at the Maxwell School formed a board of directors of the Foundation of Young Philanthropists this semester and have selected a local nonprofit to award a $5,000 grant.