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New endowed chair in Newhouse School will support journalism innovation
Digital journalist Dan Pacheco was named Horvitz Chair last month The Peter A. Horvitz Endowed Chair in Journalism Innovation, newly established in Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, will help lead the school’s continued efforts toward expanding teaching…
Maxwell School MPA convocation to feature U.S. Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry
The director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, John Berry, will present the Maxwell School’s MPA convocation address on June 29 at 10 a.m. in Hendricks Chapel to more than 100 graduates and their friends and families. Berry, a…
Jan Cohen-Cruz to be honored by ATHE for leadership in community-based theater
Jan Cohen-Cruz, University Professor and director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA) from 2007-2012, will receive the prestigious Award for Leadership in Community-Based Theatre and Civic Engagement from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)….
USA Funds presents Excellence in Debt Management award to SU
Syracuse University is among three winners of the 2012 Excellence in Debt Management Awards from USA Funds. USA Funds recognized three postsecondary institutions for their efforts to promote financial literacy and help their students minimize and manage student loan debt….
SU in the News: Monday, June 25
SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE Syracuse University alumnus Aaron Sorkin ’83 is profiled in a Sunday Post-Standard Stars magazine cover feature on his new HBO series “The Newsroom.” In the Sunday Post-Standard, excerpts of a conversation between School of Architecture…
SU in the News: Friday, June 22
SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE The Commencement speech delivered by Aaron Sorkin ’83 on May 13 was highlighted in NBC’s “Rock Center with Brian Williams” in a segment on Sorkin’s life. The Tallahassee Democrat, Denver Post and Epoch Times mention…
Maxwell Professor Ralph Ketcham receives Onondaga Citizens League Civic Education Award
Onondaga Citizens League announced the recipient of the 2012 Levi L. Smith Civic Education Award at its annual meeting on June 6. Ralph Ketcham, professor emeritus of history, public affairs and political science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and…
Summer camp for physics teachers: Building particle detectors at SU
Ten high school physics teachers from Upstate New York will spend three weeks this summer at Syracuse University building cosmic ray counters, testing components of a neutrino detector and learning about the latest results of experiments being conducted on CERN’s…
SU students take second place in robotic lawnmower competition
A team of four Syracuse University students took second place in the static competition at the ninth annual ION Robotic Lawnmower Competition in Beavercreek, Ohio. The SU team spent $37,000 less on its design than the winning team. Andrew Cash,…
‘Smart Kids Visual Stories’ student-produced films about urban education to premiere at SU June 15
The “Smart Kids: Visual Stories” project will hold a red carpet premiere of student documentaries on Friday, June 15, at 7 p.m. in the Joyce N. Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3. The event, sponsored by the Syracuse University School of…