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EPA awards funding to Syracuse University to support environmental education

Thursday, September 13, 2012, By News Staff

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck announced Sept. 13 that EPA has provided more than $130,000 to Syracuse University to fund educational projects in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the eight federally recognized Tribal…

Health & Society

School of Education’s Dean Biklen speaks at Conference of State Parties for Convention on Rights of People with Disabilities

Wednesday, September 12, 2012, By Jennifer Russo

School of Education Dean Douglas Biklen was invited to speak at the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities Fifth Conference of State Parties at the UN headquarters in New York City on Sept. 12. Biklen spoke…

Media, Law & Policy

INSCT welcomes national security leaders for Sept. 14-15 conference

Wednesday, September 12, 2012, By Jaclyn D. Grosso

For the first time, Syracuse University will welcome the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Standing Committee on Law and National Security, which conducts studies, sponsors programs and conferences and coordinates working groups on law and national security-related issues. The two-day seminar,…

Have you noticed ‘It?’

Tuesday, September 11, 2012, By Kathleen Haley

At the Schine and Goldstein student centers, at Maxwell Hall, and in front of the Life Sciences Complex, among other locations, signs have invited the campus community to consider the intriguing question: “What is it?”

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage plans open house for Sept. 29

Monday, September 10, 2012, By News Staff

Syracuse Stage will hold its 2012 Open House on Saturday, Sept. 29, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Festivities will include guided backstage tours, free performances of the annual Bank of America Children’s Show “A Thousand Cranes” (directed by Stage’s Director of…

STEM

ISchool student awarded scholarship to cloud computing conference

Monday, September 10, 2012, By News Staff

Cloud computing has expanded into a useful resource for businesses to collaborate, store information and create programs to improve their organizations. At the School of Information Studies (iSchool), students, faculty members and entrepreneurs work closely together to both understand these…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Monday, September 10

Monday, September 10, 2012, By News Staff

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE In a new opinion piece for The Huffington Post, Chancellor Cantor writes about the challenges facing higher education and how institutions should take an “outside-in” approach in determining what students and families, the public and…

Health & Society

Valerie Kinloch to talk of urban youth expression in SOE Landscape of Urban Education lecture Sept. 20

Monday, September 10, 2012, By Jennifer Russo

The Syracuse University School of Education has announced the fall 2012 speakers in its annual Landscape of Urban Education lecture series. The series will kick off with Valerie Kinloch and her presentation “Crossing Boundaries in Literacy Research: Implications for Urban…

Media, Law & Policy

Q&A with political speech expert Amos Kiewe

Monday, September 10, 2012, By Cyndi Moritz

Amos Kiewe, professor and department chair of Communication and Rhetorical Studies and an expert in political rhetoric, answers a few questions on speeches at the just-concluded political conventions. Q:How do you think the two nominees did in their convention speeches?…

STEM

First hour of first class, #ElectionClass trends on Twitter

Friday, September 7, 2012, By Diane Stirling

Within the first 45 minutes of the first session of the new course “Social Media in the 2012 Election,” the class hashtag became a top trending topic in the United States on Twitter.