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Campus & Community

Westcott Street Cultural Fair needs volunteers

Wednesday, September 1, 2010, By News Staff

The Westcott Street Cultural Fair (Sept. 19) is a unique neighborhood event that embraces diversity and fosters a sense of community.

Health & Society

Eatman receives international early career honors in the area of service learning and community engagement

Monday, August 30, 2010, By Jennifer Russo

Timothy K. Eatman, assistant professor of higher education in Syracuse University’s School of Education and director of research for Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, has been selected to receive the International Association for Research on Service-learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) Early Career Award.

STEM

SU professor awarded NSF grant to design more secure Web browsers

Friday, August 27, 2010, By News Staff

Wenliang Du, professor of computer science in the L.C Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, has received a $471,970 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to explore ways to make web browsers a safer environment for information gathering and dissemination.

STEM

Syracuse University research team uses nanobiotechnology-manipulated light particles to accelerate algae growth; may be a key to creating efficient biofuel production

Tuesday, August 24, 2010, By News Staff

Scientists and engineers seek to meet three goals in the production of biofuels from non-edible sources such as microalgae: efficiency, economical production and ecological sustainability. A team led by Syracuse University’s Radhakrishna Sureshkumar, professor and chair of biomedical and chemical engineering in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, has uncovered a process that is a promising step toward accomplishing these three goals.

Campus & Community

Chancellor’s Leadership Award catalyzes project, conference on transnationalizing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) studies

Tuesday, August 24, 2010, By News Staff

On Sept. 23-25, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Studies Program at Syracuse University will host an inaugural conference, “Transnationalizing LGBT Studies” that will cross geographic and cultural borders to explore LGBT scholarship and activism from a transnational perspective.

Newhouse School announces five new faculty appointments

Monday, August 23, 2010, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will welcome five new faculty appointments with the start of the 2010-11 academic year.

Campus & Community

SU named by G.I. Jobs magazine as a 2011 Military Friendly School

Monday, August 23, 2010, By News Staff

For the second year in a row, SU has been named by G.I. Jobs magazine as a Military Friendly School, ranking the University in the top 15 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools nationwide that are doing the most to embrace America’s veterans.

Campus & Community

Information about Ramadan observance

Friday, August 20, 2010, By News Staff

Ramadan will continue until September 10, when the university will recognize the celebration of Eid-ul-Fitr. Classes are cancelled that day.

Campus & Community

Near Westside Initiative commissions artist to transform downtown bridges into public art; installation of ‘A Love Letter to Syracuse’ begins on Tuesday, Aug. 24

Friday, August 20, 2010, By News Staff

Using the arts as its tool, the Near Westside Initiative has commissioned internationally known artist Steve Powers to create a public art project to visually disrupt a physical barrier at the most critical intersection of the Connective Corridor and Near Westside.

STEM

Syracuse iSchool students create educational resource on digital libraries

Wednesday, August 18, 2010, By News Staff

The wiki went public in late April on the iSchool’s web site.