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Imagining America launches web series, ‘The New Activists: Students in the Community’

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By News Staff

“The New Activists: Students in the Community” is Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life’s (IA’s) new web series of short videos profiling high school, undergraduate and graduate students who are tapping their creativity and knowledge to address pressing…

STEM

NSF grant funds study on barriers to smart grid technology adoption

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By Diane Stirling

If existing, readily available smart grid technologies are beneficial to utility companies, their customers and the environment as a whole, why aren’t utilities adopting them? That’s the question three School of Information Studies (iSchool) faculty members will probe with a…

Arts & Culture

SU Humanities Center, Society for New Music present program of music, film and video Oct. 28

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By Rob Enslin

The world premiere of “Cantos,” an ambitious multimedia work by New York State composer Rob Deemer, is part of the next installment of Syracuse Symposium, whose theme this year is “Memory-Media-Archive.” The premiere is part of a program titled “Aural…

Four alumni to be honored with George Arents Award at Orange Central celebration

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Four distinguished Syracuse University alumni—leaders in the fields of social media, design, athletics, philanthropy and community service—will be honored with the George Arents Award at a celebration dinner in the Goldstein Auditorium on Thursday, Nov. 8, during the University’s 2012 Orange Central celebration.

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse alums produce documentary on impact of 9/11 on small town

Tuesday, October 16, 2012, By News Staff

As she grew up in small-town Somerset County, Pa., S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications alumna Laura Beachy ‘12 wanted to create a story that would honor the unsung heroes of United Flight 93.

Media, Law & Policy

Noted author and intellectual Michael Sandel to spark reflection on ‘Markets, Morals and Civic Life” in Tanner Lecture

Tuesday, October 16, 2012, By News Staff

Michael Sandel, the nation’s leading public intellectual on issues of social justice and fairness, will take a thought-provoking look at some of the most hotly debated ethical and social dilemmas of our time at the Campbell Institute of Public Affairs’…

Veterans

IVMF partners with GE to launch employer toolkit

Monday, October 15, 2012, By News Staff

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University (IVMF) and GE today announced a partnership to empower the nation’s employers to adopt a collaborative and strategic approach to veteran employment. GE is both lead corporate sponsor of the…

Media, Law & Policy

Arnold Worldwide managing partner Barb Reilly will speak at Newhouse Oct. 23

Friday, October 12, 2012, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Barb Reilly, managing partner and executive director for Arnold Worldwide, will visit the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Tuesday, Oct. 23, as a guest of the Eric Mower Advertising Forum. She will speak at 6:30 p.m. in the…

STEM

Research at the interface of physics and biology

Thursday, October 11, 2012, By News Staff

On the surface, it would seem that zebrafish and humans are about as different as, say, developmental biologists and theoretical physicists. Fish swim; humans walk. Biologists revere Charles Darwin; physicists have an abiding admiration for Albert Einstein.

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U.S. Undersecretary of State launches fifth annual Public Diplomacy Symposium

Thursday, October 11, 2012, By News Staff

On Thursday, Oct. 18, U.S. Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Tara Sonenshine will kick off  Syracuse University’s Association of Public Diplomacy Scholars (APDS) annual symposium. The theme of this year’s symposium is “The Politics of Change.”…