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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…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Friday, June 15

Friday, June 15, 2012, By News Staff

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE The Near Westside Initiative is mentioned in the U.K.’s Daily Mail. The article reports on The American Institute of Architects’ 2012 Housing Awards to projects at the pinnacle of design, creativity and sustainability. Among the…

SU researchers use nanotechnology to harness power of fireflies

Friday, June 15, 2012, By News Staff

Research published in Nano Letters

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Wednesday, June 13

Wednesday, June 13, 2012, By News Staff

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE Huffington Post reported on SU being among the most LGBT-friendly college campuses nationwide, according to a Campus Pride report. The official White House blog cites the Institute for Veterans and Military Families’ recently released Guide…

SU, IBM host second annual Green Data Center summit

Tuesday, June 12, 2012, By News Staff

Syracuse University and IBM on Tuesday, June 5, jointly hosted a strategic gathering of select chief information officers and facilities managers from industry and academe to learn how to dramatically reduce the energy consumed in the operation of their data centers, while…

WISE Women’s Business Center hosts ‘pitch party’ for area women entrepreneurs as part of national business growth initiative

Tuesday, June 12, 2012, By Lindsay Wickham

The WISE Women’s Business Center has teamed up with Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence (CMI), the leading national not-for-profit provider of resources, business education and community support for women entrepreneurs, to identify promising local women-owned businesses to participate…

Project Advance 2012 Teachers of the Year ignite passion in the classroom

Monday, June 11, 2012, By Sari Signorelli

What qualities should a Teacher of the Year have? Should he or she be memorable, or well-liked, or have students who regularly achieve outstanding test scores? Certainly, all these are necessary to be an effective teacher, says Maria Zeitlin Trinkle….

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SU in the News: Wednesday, June 6

Wednesday, June 6, 2012, By News Staff

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE The Chronicle of Higher Education, Associated Press Reuters, Bloomberg, Bloomberg Radio, WSYR-TV, the Post-Standard and the Central New York Business Journal reported on Chancellor Cantor’s participation in the White House announcement that SU and nine…

CNY Humanities Corridor announces winners of visiting scholars grants

Tuesday, June 5, 2012, By News Staff

Syracuse University, along with its partner institutions in the Central New York Humanities Corridor, has awarded research grants to four scholars whose research draws upon the region’s rare book and manuscript collections. Administered jointly by the Syracuse University Library’s Special…

Nine international relations undergraduate students receive major awards

Tuesday, June 5, 2012, By News Staff

The Maxwell School‘s undergraduate international relations program has announced that eight 2012 graduates and one 2011 graduate have received major awards, including six Fulbrights to teach English abroad. Leah Kelsch Moushey, a 2012 graduate, has received the prestigious Boren Graduate…