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Stuart Taub named director of Office of Sponsored Programs

Tuesday, June 26, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Stuart Taub, interim director at Syracuse University’s Office of Sponsored Programs, has been appointed director of the Office of Sponsored Programs. Taub’s appointment, made by Vice President for Research Gina Lee-Glauser, is effective July 1 and represents a service-centered support role…

Portrait of Thomas V. Wolfe unveiled at Hendricks Chapel

Tuesday, June 26, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

A portrait of Thomas V. Wolfe was formally unveiled at Hendricks Chapel on June 1. The portrait, part of the Syracuse University Art Collection, will be hung in the chapel’s narthex this summer, displayed alongside four other portraits of previous…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Monday, June 25

Monday, June 25, 2012, By News Staff

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE Syracuse University alumnus Aaron Sorkin ’83 is profiled in a Sunday Post-Standard Stars magazine cover feature on his new HBO series “The Newsroom.” In the Sunday Post-Standard, excerpts of a conversation between School of Architecture…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Friday, June 22

Friday, June 22, 2012, By News Staff

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE The Commencement speech delivered by Aaron Sorkin ’83 on May 13 was highlighted in NBC’s “Rock Center with Brian Williams” in a segment on Sorkin’s life. The Tallahassee Democrat, Denver Post and Epoch Times mention…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Wednesday, June 20

Wednesday, June 20, 2012, By News Staff

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE Syracuse University is mentioned in an Associated Press article about College of Visual and Performing Arts alumnus Aaron Sorkin ’83 and his new TV program “The Newsroom.” WCTV (CBS) in Tallahassee, Fla., reported on the…

Christine Ashby appointed director of School of Education’s Institute on Communication and Inclusion

Tuesday, June 19, 2012, By Jennifer Russo

School of Education Dean Douglas Biklen has announced the appointment of professor Christine Ashby as director of the Institute on Communication and Inclusion (ICI), effective June 1. The ICI, formerly the Facilitated Communication Institute, conducts research, training and dissemination of…

Syracuse University receives two water quality awards

Tuesday, June 19, 2012, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s Steam Station and Chilled Water Plant have been recognized for protecting local waterways from pollutants by carefully managing wastewater discharges. Both plants received an Onondaga County Industrial Achievement Award for maintaining 100 percent compliance with their Onondaga County…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Monday, June 18

Monday, June 18, 2012, By News Staff

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE Research by Mathew Maye, assistant professor of chemistry in The College of Arts and Sciences, and Rabeka Alam, chemistry doctoral student, on harnessing bioluminescence by using nanotechnology, is featured in Futurity, Science Daily, Phys.org, Smart…

Summer camp for physics teachers: Building particle detectors at SU

Friday, June 15, 2012, By News Staff

Ten high school physics teachers from Upstate New York will spend three weeks this summer at Syracuse University building cosmic ray counters, testing components of a neutrino detector and learning about the latest results of experiments being conducted on CERN’s…

STEM

SU students take second place in robotic lawnmower competition

Friday, June 15, 2012, By News Staff

A team of four Syracuse University students took second place in the static competition at the ninth annual ION Robotic Lawnmower Competition in Beavercreek, Ohio. The SU team spent $37,000 less on its design than the winning team. Andrew Cash,…