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U.S. EPA’s Tom Kelly highlights role of science, communication in indoor air quality policy

Friday, September 18, 2009, By News Staff

Liz Miller(347) 432-2709 The opening plenary speaker on the fourth day of the Ninth International Healthy Buildings Conference, hosted by the Syracuse Center of Excellence, was Tom Kelly, director of the Indoor Environments Division (IED), a non-regulatory body of the…

Imagining America receives $12,000 Enitiative grant to train Say Yes to Education arts after-school workshop facilitators

Friday, September 18, 2009, By News Staff

Jemeli Tanui(315) 443-5172 Imagining America has been awarded a $12,000 Enitiative grant for 2009-11 to fund its new “Educating After-School Arts Educators” project that aims to train student and community artists to teach their skills to elementary school students. The…

Campus & Community

SU, Syracuse International Film Festival team up for ‘Forum on Music and Sound in Film’ Oct. 13-17

Friday, September 18, 2009, By Rob Enslin

An international array of film scholars, composers and sound designers is converging on Syracuse for the “Forum on Music and Sound in Film.”

Campus & Community

Emeritus professor of philosophy William Payne Alston dies

Friday, September 18, 2009, By News Staff

Professor emeritus of philosophy William Payne Alston, 87, died Sept. 13.

Five distinguished alumni to be honored with Arents Awards

Thursday, September 17, 2009, By News Staff

Jaime Winne Alvarez(315) 443-3784 Five distinguished Syracuse University alumni representing excellence in the areas of civil liberties and women’s rights, international business and law, the performing arts, social activism and literature will be honored with George Arents Awards during the…

Arts & Culture

Unsolved Civil Rights era murders to be topic of town hall meeting at SU Oct. 6

Thursday, September 17, 2009, By Erica Blust

FBI officials from and the U.S. Department of Justice and an Emmy-nominated filmmaker will conduct a town hall meeting about solving cases from the Civil Rights era.

Campus & Community

Five distinguished alumni to be honored with Arents Awards

Thursday, September 17, 2009, By News Staff

Arents Awards are the University’s highest alumni honor.

Federal Gear Up, Syracuse City School District host Class of 2013 ceremony and orientation

Wednesday, September 16, 2009, By News Staff

Eileen Jevis(315) 443-3527 GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) and the Institute of Technology in the Syracuse City School District hosted an opening ceremony and orientation for the district’s ninth-graders—the Class of 2013—on Sept. 3. Students,…

New antimicrobial webs developed by Syracuse University researchers sterilize medical implants for up to 14 days, reduce chance of infection

Wednesday, September 16, 2009, By News Staff

SU News Services(315) 443-3784 Treatment of hospital-related infections in the United States costs up to $11 billion a year, and about half of those infections are related to medical devices implanted in patients. Until now, efforts to control drug-resistant biofilms…

Maxwell, Newhouse schools to co-host international journalists as part of U.S. Department of State program

Wednesday, September 16, 2009, By News Staff

Jaime Winne Alvarez(315) 443-3784 Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will jointly host a delegation of nine North Africa journalists from Oct. 1-7 as part of the U.S. Department of…