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Campus & Community

Place of Remembrance, Gateway to Campus undergo planned summer refurbishing work

Monday, July 16, 2012, By News Staff

One of Syracuse University’s most symbolic and cherished campus locations is undergoing a planned refurbishing this summer—a project that will ensure the structural longevity of the area that honors the 35 SU study abroad students whose lives were lost in…

Campus & Community

Project Advance Summer Institute 2012 welcomes teachers from Vietnam, pilots new courses

Friday, July 13, 2012, By Martin Walls

Syracuse University Project Advance (SUPA) kicked off the 2012 edition of its Summer Institute training on June 25. The annual event this year brings 116 high school teachers from across the Northeast and abroad to the SU campus to be…

STEM

IBM publishes Sawyer’s collaborative networks research report

Friday, July 13, 2012, By J.D. Ross

The IBM Center for The Business of Government has published research findings by School of Information Studies (iSchool) Professor Steven Sawyer regarding how multi-organizational networks can collaborate to address complex public challenges. The report is entitled “Designing Collaborative Networks: Lessons…

Arts & Culture

Araca Project announces 2012 season of works by emerging theater artists

Wednesday, July 11, 2012, By Erica Blust

Six works by up-and-coming theater artists make up the 2012 season of the Araca Project, an early career development initiative of the Department of Drama in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), the University of Michigan and…

STEM

L.C. Smith College awards Faculty Excellence Awards to catalog green infrastructure in Syracuse, design hands-on fuel cell lab

Tuesday, July 10, 2012, By News Staff

The recipients of the 2012 L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Excellence Awards are professors David Chandler (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) and Jeongmin Ahn (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering). Their ideas were selected as…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse 2, Part 2

Monday, July 9, 2012, By Wendy S. Loughlin

$18 million renovation will bring school fully into digital age

Media, Law & Policy

SU Voices: “FCC vs. Fox”

Thursday, July 5, 2012, By News Staff

by Roy Gutterman Curse words and nudity, even fleeting or spontaneous profanity and brief naked bodies may still be off-limits on broadcast television, but the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) needs to issue clearer guidelines and standards with plenty of notice…

Stanton’s open source e-book introduces data science

Thursday, July 5, 2012, By Diane Stirling

In a world increasingly muddled by the proliferation of information, how can anyone hope to filter, organize, curate and make sense of it all? That’s the job of data scientists, an emerging professional specialty in the information field. An introduction…

STEM

Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant to support Project ENABLE

Thursday, July 5, 2012, By News Staff

The Institute of Museum and Library Services has awarded a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant to the Center for Digital Literacy at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies to support Project ENABLE. Project ENABLE (Expanding Nondiscriminatory Access by…

Nonprofit expert named to Bantle Chair

Thursday, July 5, 2012, By News Staff

Steven Rathgeb Smith, a prominent expert on nonprofit organizations, public management and social policy, has been named to fill the Louis A. Bantle Chair in Business and Government Policy at the Maxwell School. Smith, currently the Evans Professor of Public Affairs…