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Junior Ryan Badman named 2011-12 Astronaut Scholar

Monday, October 31, 2011, By News Staff

The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation named Syracuse University junior Ryan Badman a 2011-12 Astronaut Scholar. The $10,000 scholarship is presented to top science and engineering students who exhibit exceptional performance, initiative and creativity in their field, as well as intellectual daring…

Junior Ryan Badman named 2011-12 Astronaut Scholar

Monday, October 31, 2011, By News Staff

The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation named Syracuse University junior Ryan Badman a 2011-12 Astronaut Scholar. The $10,000 scholarship is presented to top science and engineering students who exhibit exceptional performance, initiative and creativity in their field, as well as intellectual daring…

Strategy and policy advisor Jason Yaley ’05 MPA ‘06 to visit SU

Friday, October 28, 2011, By News Staff

The Alumni Speaker Series will wrap up the fall semester with a highly anticipated visit from Jason Yaley, A&S ’05 MPA ’06. Yaley works out of the Pentagon as strategy and policy advisor to the vice chairman of the Joint…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Wednesday, October 26

Wednesday, October 26, 2011, By News Staff

Research by Arts and Sciences’ Suzanne Baldwin and Joseph Kula on jarosite and water on Mars featured in science media

Business & Economy

Whitman Dean Melvin T. Stith is inaugural inductee to PhD Project Hall of Fame

Wednesday, October 26, 2011, By News Staff

Melvin T. Stith G’73 ,’77, dean of the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, is an inaugural inductee into the newly established PhD Project Hall of Fame. The PhD Project is an award-winning program that aims to increase diversity…

Arents Awards honor four distinguished alumni Nov. 12 as part of Orange Central

Tuesday, October 25, 2011, By News Staff

Four distinguished Syracuse University alumni representing excellence in the areas of law, sustainability innovation, social and environmental activism, and public service will be honored with George Arents Awards during the University’s 2011 Orange Central celebration. At the Arents Award luncheon…

Arts & Culture

Imagining America announces board developments, strategic directions

Monday, October 24, 2011, By Jamie Haft

A new chair, vice chair and three new members have been elected to the National Advisory Board of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA). The board is responsible for ensuring that IA realizes its potential to animate…

Health & Society

Center on Human Policy to celebrate 40th anniversary with research and advocacy conference, Nov. 11-12

Monday, October 24, 2011, By Jennifer Russo

The Center on Human Policy will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a two-day research and advocacy conference on Nov. 11-12 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, coinciding with Syracuse University’s Orange Central weekend. Alumni, friends, advocates and supporters from around the…

STEM

Attacking cancer cells with nanoparticles

Monday, October 24, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University chemists develop novel way to get cancer drugs to tumors About every three days, Colleen Alexander, a chemistry graduate student, feeds cells that cause a deadly type of brain cancer. It’s a ritual that involves assessing the health…

Media, Law & Policy

National security expert Sean O’Keefe G’78 and CBS News journalist Jeff Glor ‘97 to take part in one-on-one conversation as part of Orange Central

Monday, October 24, 2011, By News Staff

In a special one-on-one interview event, national security expert and former NASA administrator Sean O’Keefe G’78 will speak with CBS News journalist Jeff Glor ’97 about O’Keefe’s unique experiences in both the public and private sectors. O’Keefe is CEO of EADS…