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Campus & Community

Syracuse University to build Library facility on South Campus

Wednesday, May 25, 2011, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

The Syracuse University Board of Trustees recently approved the Library’s plan to construct the South Campus Library Facility (SCLF), a high-density storage facility to be located adjacent to the Hawkins Building on Jamesville Avenue. The design-development phase of the project…

Business & Economy

Whitman launches master’s advantage programs in finance, accounting and business administration; partners with institutions

Tuesday, May 24, 2011, By News Staff

The Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University has launched the Whitman Advantage Program for master’s work in finance, accounting and business administration. The one-year degree programs are well suited to the needs of individuals with an undergraduate degree who…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University pilots ‘Transfer Transition Team,’ innovating model for community college transfers

Tuesday, May 24, 2011, By News Staff

With a grant from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, Syracuse University is piloting a revolutionary new practice for transfer enrollment—combining academic advising with predictive financial aid modeling for community college students.   This proposed new model is possible through the work…

BBI research associate elected to Society for Disability Studies board

Friday, May 20, 2011, By News Staff

Omolara Funmilola Akinpelu, research associate with the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, has been elected to serve on the board of directors of the Society for Disability Studies (SDS). Akinpelu’s three-year term begins at the conclusion of June’s…

STEM

Energy-saving transportation project receives NYSERDA funding

Friday, May 20, 2011, By News Staff

Lawrence L. Tavlarides, professor of chemical engineering and materials science in the L. C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (LCS), has received $260,000 in funding from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to explore…

Sarkar named IEEE Distinguished Lecturer

Friday, May 20, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Tapan K. Sarkar, professor of electrical engineering and computer science in Syracuse University’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (LCS), has been named a distinguished lecturer of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Antennas and Propagation…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Wednesday, May 18

Thursday, May 19, 2011, By News Staff

AP notes School of Education’s Vincent Tinto will keynote North Dakota University System Retention Summit

Arts & Culture

Belfer’s ‘Sound Beat’ radio program awarded NEA grant

Wednesday, May 18, 2011, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

“Sound Beat,” a public radio program originating in the Belfer Audio Archive at the Syracuse University Library, was awarded a $15,000 Arts on Radio and Television grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).  “Sound Beat” is a daily…

Business & Economy

Whitman to host 31st annual Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference June 8-11

Wednesday, May 18, 2011, By News Staff

The 31st annual Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC), co-sponsored by the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, will be held June 8-11 at Whitman. The BCERC, widely considered the premier conference for entrepreneurship research, was established in 1981…

Campus & Community

History of the American wilderness movement at this week’s IRP

Wednesday, May 18, 2011, By Eileen Jevis

Thomas Welch, professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at SUNY Upstate Medical University, will present “Exploitation, Exploration and Expeditioning: Three Men, Their Mountains and the Birth of the American Wilderness Movement” at the May 19 session of  the…