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Community Folk Art Center to host ‘Dogs in Transition: Pit Bulls & Mill Dogs’ by artist Cyrus Mejia

Friday, September 10, 2010, By News Staff

CFAC will be hosting the exhibition “Dogs in Transition: Pit Bulls and Mill Dogs” by Cyrus Mejia from Sept. 25-Dec. 11.

Campus & Community

Orange Central meeting to be held Sept. 10

Thursday, September 9, 2010, By News Staff

Orange Central is only a little over a month away, so come help plan all the fun activities that will make up Orange Central this year.

Arts & Culture

‘Art and Civic Dialogue: the Seminar on the Future of Art and Education’ launches at VPA

Tuesday, September 7, 2010, By Erica Blust

The seminar will be team taught by arts professional David A. Ross ’71 and artist Carrie Mae Weems.

Arts & Culture

Sanford Sternlicht revisits ‘Modern Irish Drama’

Friday, September 3, 2010, By Rob Enslin

One of the most significant periods of Western theater is the subject of a newly updated and expanded book by Sanford Sternlicht G’62, English professor emeritus in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences.

STEM

Syracuse iSchool’s Milton Mueller receives NSF funding to research social impact of network surveillance technologies

Friday, September 3, 2010, By News Staff

Syracuse University School of Information Studies Professor Milton Mueller’s $304,000 grant proposal “Deep Packet Inspection and the Governance of the Internet” has received funding by the National Science Foundation.

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

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.

Arts & Culture

Radke ’73 charts success with Leonardo exhibition, recent discoveries

Tuesday, August 17, 2010, By Rob Enslin

Professor Gary Radke has set about garnering recognition for Leonardo da Vinci’s achievements as a sculptor.