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BE Wise campaign educates students about alcohol poisoning

Wednesday, January 23, 2013, By News Staff

Over the past several years, alcohol poisoning has been a growing problem among students. As a way to address this issue, the Division of Student Affairs is kicking off a new campaign, “BE Wise,”  this semester to help educate students…

Arts & Culture

La Casita hosts New York City-based performance artist

Tuesday, January 8, 2013, By News Staff

Cuban-American performance artist Carmelita Tropicana (a.k.a. Alina Troyana) will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, at La Casita Cultural Center, 109 Otisco St., Syracuse. The performance is free and open to the public. Troyana will present “Border Beasts: A…

STEM

Hydrologist named fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science

Wednesday, December 5, 2012, By News Staff

Donald Siegel, professor of Earth Sciences in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, is one of the nation’s most well known, respected and admired hydrologists. His discoveries that much of the world’s potable groundwater found deeper than 600 feet…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage sponsors ‘White Christmas’ cover contest

Friday, November 16, 2012, By News Staff

Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” is the most-recorded song in American musical history. Now theatergoers have the opportunity to put their spin on it by entering the a “White Christmas” cover contest. The contest rules are: 1. Grab your friends, mics,…

Campus & Community

Annual ‘Stand Up for Education’ Comedy show Nov. 10

Thursday, November 8, 2012, By News Staff

Along with the other Orange Central events taking place this week, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc,. and Omega Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., in collaboration with the Orange Central Planning Committee, will host the third annual stand up comedy show on…

Media, Law & Policy

Smart kids, visual stories

Thursday, November 1, 2012, By News Staff

The first thing the kids noticed was the glass. Walking through the halls of Newhouse 3 in the first year of their participation in the “Smart Kids, Visual Stories” project, students from Syracuse city school Levy K-8 couldn’t fathom how the university felt so comfortable allowing so much exposed glass.

STEM

Engineers study how contaminated soil can be drained, utilized

Thursday, November 1, 2012, By News Staff

LCS research published in Geosynthetics International Each year, 400 million cubic yards of soil are dredged from water bodies in the United States alone. Much of this byproduct is contaminated, deemed unusable and put into landfills. Mahmoud M. Khachan, Shobha…

Campus & Community

‘Unsteady Vortex Formation of Low-Aspects-Ratio, Bio-Inspired Propulsors’

Wednesday, October 31, 2012, By News Staff

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Seminar Friday, Nov. 2, 2:15-3:10 p.m., Watson Theatre, Watson Hall Dr. Matthew Ringuette Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering The State University of New York at Buffalo In recent years substantial effort has been…

Media, Law & Policy

Imagining America launches web series, ‘The New Activists: Students in the Community’

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By News Staff

“The New Activists: Students in the Community” is Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life’s (IA’s) new web series of short videos profiling high school, undergraduate and graduate students who are tapping their creativity and knowledge to address pressing…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Monday, October 1

Monday, October 1, 2012, By News Staff

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE A Kalamazoo Gazette preview of the upcoming TEDxKalamazoo event in October notes William Ward, professor of practice in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, will make a presentation there. Statistics from Syracuse University’s Transactional…