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Campus & Community

Candidates for 2012 Homecoming King announced

Tuesday, November 6, 2012, By News Staff

The Homecoming Court Selection Committee has announced the 2012 Syracuse University Homecoming Court. This longstanding tradition is just one of many student events, programs and activities that take place during SU’s annual Homecoming event, Orange Central. Voting for this year’s…

Media, Law & Policy

A house divided: Race for the 24th Congressional District seat

Monday, November 5, 2012, By Carol Boll

Two years ago, Republican challenger Ann Marie Buerkle unseated Democrat Rep. Dan Maffei in an excruciatingly tight contest for New York’s 25th congressional seat that was ultimately decided three weeks later and by a margin of less than three-tenths of 1 percent. This year’s rematch has given every indication of being just as close.

Media, Law & Policy

A vote for citizenship

Monday, November 5, 2012, By Kathleen Haley

One vote doesn’t decide the fate of a nation. Its greater meaning is in the vital act of citizenship, says Robert McClure, Chapple Family Professor of Citizenship and Democracy Emeritus at the Maxwell School.

Business & Economy

WISE Women’s Business Center relocates to Syracuse’s Tech Garden

Monday, November 5, 2012, By Lindsay Wickham

Ribbon-cutting to be held Nov. 8 The WISE Women’s Business Center has announced the relocation of its main office to the Tech Garden in downtown Syracuse. A ribbon-cutting, to celebrate a heightened awareness for women’s entrepreneurship in Central New York,…

Media, Law & Policy

Three to be honored Nov. 9 with Eggers Distinguished Alumni Award

Friday, November 2, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Distinguished alumni William “Bill” F. Allyn G’59, Janet “Penny” Jones Allyn ’60 and Shirley Ann Fenner Reidenbaugh ’54 will be honored with the Melvin A. Eggers Senior Alumni Award during the annual Melvin A. Eggers Senior Alumni Award Dinner, held…

Arts & Culture

Student-faculty projects draw international spotlight

Friday, November 2, 2012, By Carol Boll

When architecture professor Anda French looks at downtown Syracuse, she sees more than a city; she sees a studio for creating spontaneous stories and generating interactive conversations.

Arts & Culture

Setnor School reschedules concert of new music from faculty composers for Nov. 7

Thursday, November 1, 2012, By Erica Blust

The Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts will present a concert of new music from faculty composers on Wednesday, Nov. 7, at 8 p.m. in the Rose and…

STEM

Engineers study how contaminated soil can be drained, utilized

Thursday, November 1, 2012, By News Staff

LCS research published in Geosynthetics International Each year, 400 million cubic yards of soil are dredged from water bodies in the United States alone. Much of this byproduct is contaminated, deemed unusable and put into landfills. Mahmoud M. Khachan, Shobha…

Arts & Culture

SU’s Ray Smith Symposium focuses on Latino/a ‘Homeland’ Nov. 8-9

Thursday, November 1, 2012, By Rob Enslin

The Ray Smith Symposium titled “Moving Borders: The Culture and Politics of Displacement in and from Latin America and the Caribbean,”  continues Nov. 8-9 with events pertaining to issues of “Homeland.” (A cluster of events under the umbrella of “Borders”…

Arts & Culture

National Book Critics Circle Award winner B.H. Fairchild speaks at Syracuse Symposium Nov. 14

Thursday, November 1, 2012, By Rob Enslin

Syracuse Symposium continues its fall theme of “Memory-Media-Archive” with a special reading by poet B. H. Fairchild. Winner of the prestigious National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Award, Fairchild will speak at the Downtown Syracuse YMCA (340 Montgomery St.) on Wednesday,…