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Meet the IDEA Connectors

Monday, October 8, 2012, By News Staff

Entrepreneurship is not bound by one discipline.  In fact, entrepreneurial success often requires collaboration across disciplines and skill sets. In February 2012, Tory Gentes (SU ’10, Engagement Fellow 2010-11) was hired by Syracuse University as the Student Entrepreneurial Consultant.  Gentes’…

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Transcript of “The Rise of Democracy in the Middle East” Panel (PDF)

Monday, October 8, 2012, By News Staff

ROUGH DRAFT NOT VERBATIM >> Please welcome to the stage, the voices of Afghanistan. [ Applause ] [ Applause ] >> Thank you, everyone. On behalf of voices of Afghanistan I would like to thank Sam Nappi and also university…

Vincent Vater, former director of endowments and special programs, dies

Monday, October 8, 2012, By News Staff

Vincent J.Vater, 80, of Pittsford, N.Y., formerly of Horseheads and Syracuse, passed away on Wednesday, Oct. 3, at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester. He retired from Syracuse University as director of endowments and special programs. Vater was born Sept. 1,…

Frequently Asked Questions

Friday, October 5, 2012, By News Staff

MONDAY, OCTOBER 8th PANEL DISCUSSIONS WITH HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA Where are the Monday panel discussions? Both panel discussions will take place in Goldstein Auditorium in the Schine Student Center on the Syracuse University campus. Each session will require…

Opportunities abound to participate online in ‘Common Ground for Peace’

Friday, October 5, 2012, By Kevin Morrow

Community members have many opportunities to see—and participate in—the “Common Ground for Peace” events Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 8 and 9, at Syracuse University involving His Holiness the Dalai Lama. While seating is at capacity for Monday’s symposium panels in…

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M.S. in Sport Venue & Event Management information session to be held Oct. 19

Thursday, October 4, 2012, By News Staff

Syracuse University faculty and staff will welcome potential graduate students interested in the Falk College’s newest graduate program—the M.S. in sport venue and event management—during a special Fall Information Session on Friday, Oct. 19. Parking is available in the Irving…

Remembering Bassel

Thursday, October 4, 2012, By Kathleen Haley

Shortly before his death in his homeland of Syria last May, graduate film student Bassel Shahade was thinking of his friends back at SU. “The last e-mail I have from him was on May 21st,” says College of Visual and Performing Arts film professor Owen Shapiro. “He wrote ‘Say hi to everyone there. I will try to stay alive. Hoping to see you soon.’”

Media, Law & Policy

Prof. Grant Reeher on the presidential debate: Game on!

Thursday, October 4, 2012, By News Staff

Grant Reeher, professor of political science and director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute in the Maxwell School, shared his reaction to the first presidential debate held Wednesday, Oct. 3, in Denver: The bottom line from the debate is Game…

Study on self-healing curved crystals published in ‘Nature Materials’

Wednesday, October 3, 2012, By News Staff

In a paper just published in Nature Materials, a team of researchers including Syracuse University physicist Mark Bowick has succeeded in creating a defect in the structure of a single-layer crystal by inserting an extra particle, and then watching as the crystal “heals” itself.

Campus & Community

‘Safe Haven Story’ at the next session of IRP

Wednesday, October 3, 2012, By Eileen Jevis

In 1944, under the direction of President Franklin Roosevelt, nearly 1,000 war refugees from countries across Europe were brought to Fort Ontario in Oswego. The Oct. 4 session of the Institute for Retired People (IRP) will feature Elizabeth Ann Kahl,…