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iSchool and MLB.com to offer second annual ‘MLB.com College Challenge’
For the second year the School of Information Studies (iSchool) and MLB.com are co-sponsoring the MLB.com College Challenge, a contest that invites iSchool students to develop new ideas that could end up on MLB.com, Major League Baseball’s official website.
Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series presents award-winning novelist Terese Svoboda
The Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series will continue on Oct. 26 with novelist Terese Svoboda, author of the recently published “Bohemian Girl” (Bison Books, 2011), which critics describe as a cross between “True Grit” and “Huckleberry Finn.” The reading…
SU in the News: Thursday, October 13
Rehab Management magazine reports U.S. Department of Education support for BBI leadership of Southeast ADA Center
Maxwell School names two Robertson Fellows
The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs enters its second year of collaboration with the Robertson Foundation for Government by naming the two newest Robertson Fellows. Laura Alexander of Tamarac, Fla., and Nathan Strand of Gaithersburg, Md., began their…
SU’s Ray Smith Symposium explores homosexuality, male culture in Renaissance Italy Oct. 20-21
The Ray Smith Symposium in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences continues its yearlong examination of “Sex and Power from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment” with a mini residency by Italian Renaissance scholar Michael Rocke. Rocke—the Nicky Mariano…
SU symposium explores legacy of Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa Oct. 21
Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian writer who won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, is the subject of a daylong symposium, organized and presented by the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics (LLL) in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and…
SU in the News: Wednesday, October 12
Associated Press and other media quote Charles Driscoll of LCS in reports on mercury in Great Lakes
Mercury pollution in Great Lakes Region is nearly forgotten, but not gone
The scope and intensity of mercury pollution in the Great Lakes region is much greater than previously reported, but additional mercury controls should bring needed improvement, according to a new summary of scientific research on the subject. Despite general declines…
SU in the News: Tuesday, October 11
CBS News interviews Newhouse School’s Harriet Brown on “Brave Girl Eating”
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