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Alston named senior vice president for human capital development

Friday, October 14, 2011, By News Staff

Kal Alston has been named senior vice president for human capital development at Syracuse University. Alston’s appointment to this newly created position addresses the need for the strategic leadership of major initiatives and projects related to the inclusion and development…

Campus & Community

iSchool and MLB.com to offer second annual ‘MLB.com College Challenge’

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By J.D. Ross

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.

Arts & Culture

Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series presents award-winning novelist Terese Svoboda

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By News Staff

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…

Arts & Culture

VPA announces associate dean appointments

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By Erica Blust

The College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) has announced two associate dean appointments. The appointments will allow Arthur Jensen, VPA’s senior associate dean of academic affairs and a professor of communication and rhetorical studies in the Department of Communication…

Media, Law & Policy

University to host two-day conference on urban revitalization

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By News Staff

Speakers, workshops will focus on urban transformations through art and design A conference on “Urban Revitalization: Transformations through Art and Design” will be held Friday and Saturday, Oct. 28 and 29, at the Warehouse Auditorium, 360 W. Fayette St. The…

Arts & Culture

SU’s Ray Smith Symposium explores homosexuality, male culture in Renaissance Italy Oct. 20-21

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By Rob Enslin

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…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell’s Wilmoth, London to study intersection of veterans benefits, disability insurance

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By News Staff

Sociology professors Janet Wilmoth and Andrew London of the Maxwell School plan to study how veterans’ collection of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) disability compensation is related to use of Social Security Disability Insurance (DI). The two received an $85,817…

Campus & Community

Intellectual property is subject of GET Speaker Series talk

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By News Staff

Katherine Card Beckles, Assistant General Counsel of Intellectual Property and Technology Law at JPMorgan Chase will speak on intellectual property.

SU professor uncovers potential issues with apps built for Android systems

Wednesday, October 12, 2011, By News Staff

Wenliang Du, professor of computer science in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (LCS), has had his paper accepted to be presented at the 27th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, on potential issues with mobile applications (commonly…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Wednesday, October 12

Wednesday, October 12, 2011, By News Staff

Associated Press and other media quote Charles Driscoll of LCS in reports on mercury in Great Lakes