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Say Yes Camp opens July 2 for nearly 3,000 SCSD K-5 students

Friday, June 29, 2012, By News Staff

Coach Jim Boeheim and other supporters to visit Dr. King camp on Tuesday, July 3 Nearly 3,000 K-5 students will begin Say Yes Summer Camp on Monday, July 2, and one group of campers will get a very special visit…

New endowed chair in Newhouse School will support journalism innovation

Thursday, June 28, 2012, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Digital journalist Dan Pacheco was named Horvitz Chair last month The Peter A. Horvitz Endowed Chair in Journalism Innovation, newly established in Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, will help lead the school’s continued efforts toward expanding teaching…

Maxwell School MPA convocation to feature U.S. Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry

Thursday, June 28, 2012, By News Staff

The director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, John Berry, will present the Maxwell School’s MPA convocation address on June 29 at 10 a.m. in Hendricks Chapel to more than 100 graduates and their friends and families. Berry, a…

Jan Cohen-Cruz to be honored by ATHE for leadership in community-based theater

Wednesday, June 27, 2012, By Jamie Haft

Jan Cohen-Cruz, University Professor and director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA) from 2007-2012, will receive the prestigious Award for Leadership in Community-Based Theatre and Civic Engagement from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)….

Carl Schramm named University Professor

Wednesday, June 27, 2012, By News Staff

SU Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric F. Spina today announced the appointment of Carl J. Schramm as University Professor. An internationally recognized leader in entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth, Schramm comes to Syracuse following a decade as president of 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…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell Professor Ralph Ketcham receives Onondaga Citizens League Civic Education Award

Monday, June 18, 2012, By Eileen Jevis

Onondaga Citizens League announced the recipient of the 2012 Levi L. Smith Civic Education Award at its annual meeting on June 6. Ralph Ketcham, professor emeritus of history, public affairs and political science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and…

EarthScope national seismic monitoring project arrives in Upstate New York

Friday, June 15, 2012, By News Staff

Upstate New York is about to become part of EarthScope, the largest science project on the planet. Robert Moucha, a geophysicist in the Department of Earth Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, is in charge of scouting locations…

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,…