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iSchool’s Dedrick to study wind energy jobs

Thursday, September 29, 2011, By J.D. Ross

School of Information Studies (iSchool) Associate Professor Jason Dedrick has been awarded a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to analyze jobs associated with the wind energy industry in the United States and around the globe. Dedrick will address this issue…

Campus & Community

Staff 2 Staff Fall 2011 Sessions – registration now available

Wednesday, September 28, 2011, By News Staff

Registration for the fall Staff 2 Staff sessions is now available online.

Campus & Community

Copeland-Morgan to leave Syracuse University

Wednesday, September 28, 2011, By Daeya Malboeuf

Youlonda Copeland-Morgan has accepted a position at UCLA as associate vice chancellor for enrollment management. She has served as Syracuse University’s associate vice president for enrollment management and director of scholarships and student aid since April 2008.  “I am honored…

Media, Law & Policy

Google engineer Bill Halpin ’88, G’95, G’05 to visit SU’s Newhouse School Oct. 3

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Bill Halpin ’88, G’95, G’05, MTS/software engineer at Google, will visit Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Monday, Oct. 3, as a guest of the advertising department’s Eric Mower Advertising Forum. He will speak at 2:15 p.m….

STEM

Distinguished cell biologist to present inaugural Ghaleb ’79 and Rima Daouk Visiting Scientist lecture

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, By News Staff

The Department of Biology in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences presents two lectures by Thoru Pederson ’63, G ’68, the inaugural Ghaleb ’79 and Rima Daouk Visiting Scientist. Both are free and open to the public. Parking is…

SU student-athlete Jenna Caira to represent Canada in 2011 Pan American Games

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, By News Staff

Jenna Caira, a physical education major in SU’s School of Education and softball pitcher at SU, will represent Canada in the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. The entire Canadian team will travel to Mexico on Oct. 12 and…

STEM

Endowed gift expands neuroscience program in The College of Arts and Sciences

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, By News Staff

Sandra J. Hewett appointed inaugural Bishop Professor Beverly Petterson Bishop ’44 and Charles Bishop ’42, G’44 graduated from Syracuse University in 1944, she with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, he a master’s degree in chemistry. They went on to earn…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Monday, September 26

Monday, September 26, 2011, By News Staff

NPR’s Fresh Air interviews Arts and Sciences’ Dana Spiotta on her new novel, “Stone Arabia”

Veterans

V-WISE hosts women veteran entrepreneurship training program Sept. 25-27 in Baltimore

Friday, September 23, 2011, By News Staff

For Waldorf, Maryland resident Helen M. Hall, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard, the upcoming Veteran Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (V-WISE) program—one of the first federally funded training programs focused on entrepreneurial opportunity for…

Business & Economy

Syracuse University receives designation as Economic Development Administration University Center

Friday, September 23, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University has received a $500,000 award from the U.S. Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) and the designation as an EDA University Center. The award is aimed at igniting innovation and accelerating entrepreneurship, and launching student ventures throughout upstate…