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Media, Law & Policy

PR exec Bill Doescher G’61 to visit Newhouse Sept. 20

Wednesday, September 7, 2011, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Bill Doescher G’61, president and CEO of The Doescher Group, will visit the Newhouse School on Sept. 20 as a guest of the public relations department. He will present “Embracing Change: 50 Years in Public Relations” at 7 p.m. in…

Health & Society

Alumni couple donates $100,000 to Burton Blatt Institute

Tuesday, September 6, 2011, By News Staff

Gift from Robert ’66 and Carol ’70 Tannenhauser will directly impact people with disabilities In support of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, Robert ’66 and Carol ’70 Tannenhauser have announced a commitment to BBI of $100,000, one…

Arts & Culture

Menkin film nominated for best documentary at Israeli Academy Awards

Friday, September 2, 2011, By News Staff

“Dolphin Boy,” the most recent film by Israeli writer/director/producer Dani Menkin, has been nominated for Best Documentary at the Ophir Awards, Israel’s equivalent of the American Academy Awards. Menkin wrote and directed the film together with Yonatan Nir. It tells…

Veterans

Volunteers needed to help collect donations to complete veterans’ homes on Near West Side

Wednesday, August 31, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University is helping to ‘raise the roof’ for Habitat for Humanity by asking students, faculty and staff to collect donations needed to complete two veterans’ homes under construction on Syracuse’s Near West Side. Once completed, the homes—located at 113…

Campus & Community

OrangeReport announces summer contest winners

Wednesday, August 31, 2011, By News Staff

The Division of Student Affairs has announced the four winners of the OrangeReport summer contest: Most Viewed Blog: “Scholarship in Asia,” by Katherine Smith, sophomore advertising major in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Video: “My Summer as a…

Arts & Culture

Industrial and interaction design students explore board games in ‘Game On!’ at Design Gallery

Monday, August 29, 2011, By Erica Blust

Most of us remember playing board games as young children. We not only mastered strategy and spatial recognition—if we were lucky, we learned diplomacy, teamwork and how to be a gracious winner and a good loser. Early games date back…

Arts & Culture

Andrew Mellon Foundation commits $1 million for Phase II of CNY Humanities Corridor

Monday, August 29, 2011, By News Staff

The Central New York Humanities Corridor—an interdisciplinary partnership among Syracuse University, Cornell University and the University of Rochester focused on enhancing scholarship in the humanities—has received a second award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in the amount of $1…

Health & Society

BBI provides emergency preparedness guidance for people with disabilities in advance of Hurricane Irene

Friday, August 26, 2011, By News Staff

Applying lessons from emergency planning and response after Hurricane Katrina, in which the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University was involved, BBI is providing resources for the protection and safety of people with disabilities who live in the path…

University will mark 9/11 anniversary through series of activities

Friday, August 26, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Service, exhibition, service project, panel discussions

Campus & Community

R.A.P.E. Center changes its name to The Advocacy Center

Friday, August 26, 2011, By News Staff

Beginning this fall, the scope of services provided by the R.A.P.E. Center has officially expanded to include relationship violence. As a result of this broadening of services, as well as feedback from students, staff and faculty about the R.A.P.E. Center…