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Arts & Culture

Design students to propose ways to reuse former Tupper Lake factory

Tuesday, December 4, 2012, By Erica Blust

This semester the industrial and interaction design (IID) program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Design challenged its fourth-year students to envision a creative new use for the former Oval Wood Dish (OWD) factory in Tupper Lake, N.Y.

Campus & Community

ESF celebrates December Convocation

Tuesday, December 4, 2012, By News Staff

The SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) will award 179 degrees, including 57 master’s degrees and 12 doctor of philosophy degrees, during the 2012 December Convocation on Friday, Dec. 7, at 1 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. Three alumni will be honored…

Arts & Culture

Getting to know: Glassblower Sally Prasch

Tuesday, December 4, 2012, By News Staff

The shelves, drawers, nooks and crannies of Sally Prasch’s laboratory in the basement of the Center for Science and Technology are packed with a myriad of glass items—round and square rods, tubes, connectors, valves, stopcocks, ampules and more—from the minuscule…

STEM

Wireless Grids Lab innovation featured in Emergency Management Magazine

Monday, December 3, 2012, By J.D. Ross

The November/December 2012 issue of Emergency Management magazine features the Wireless Grids Lab’s iDAWG: Intelligent Deployable Augmented Wireless Gateway technology. In an article covering emerging innovation, the iDAWG is highlighted for its ability to provide interoperable communications channels between many…

STEM

Winners named in first Student App Competition

Monday, December 3, 2012, By Diane Stirling

Eleven student teams from several Syracuse University schools showcased their big ideas for web and mobile apps Nov. 28 at the inaugural SU Student App Competition. This was a different type of entrepreneurship competition, according to event founder Keisuke Inoue,…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell’s Henry Lambright penning history of Mars exploration program for NASA

Saturday, December 1, 2012, By Carol Boll

As a graduate student at Columbia University in the early 1960s, Henry Lambright immersed himself in government and political science studies only to discover that his true passion lay a bit farther afield—in outer space.

Campus & Community

NAACP Chairman Roslyn Brock to keynote 2013 Martin Luther King Jr. celebration

Wednesday, November 28, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Roslyn M. Brock, chairman of the national board of directors for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), will be the keynote speaker for Syracuse University’s 28th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, “Yesterday’s Dream, Tomorrow’s Promise,” on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, in the Carrier Dome.

Business & Economy

Whitman hires Goodroe as assistant director of graduate recruitment

Tuesday, November 27, 2012, By News Staff

Danielle Goodroe has been named assistant director of graduate recruitment at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. She will support the enrollment management of the Whitman graduate programs. Primary responsibilities will include supporting the recruitment of…

Veterans

LaCorte-Klein joins IVMF as employment policy and program manager

Monday, November 26, 2012, By News Staff

Nicole LaCorte-Klein has joined the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University (IVMF) as employment policy and program manager. LaCorte-Klein previously worked for SU’s Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) as a senior research associate. She brings more than 20…

Campus & Community

President Obama appoints Suzanne Thorin to National Institute of Museum and Library Services board

Wednesday, November 21, 2012, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Suzanne E. Thorin, Dean of Libraries and University Librarian at Syracuse University, has been appointed by President Barack Obama to the National Museum and Library Services Board.