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SU Project Advance publishes decades of research on high school/college partnerships

Thursday, April 1, 2010, By News Staff

Syracuse University Project Advance® (SUPA) has announced the publication of “Our Courses Your Classroom®: Research on Syracuse University Courses Taught in High School,” edited by Gerald S. Edmonds, director of SUPA and Sari Z. Signorelli, associate director of SUPA. Collected here, for the first time in one volume, is a retrospective of SUPA’s research since its inception in 1972.

Arts & Culture

Columbia University scholar Dabashi to keynote ‘Religion in Scholarship’ symposium April 9

Thursday, April 1, 2010, By News Staff

On Friday, April 9, the Syracuse University Humanities Center will present Religion in Scholarship, an interdisciplinary symposium exploring the changing relationship between religion and scholarly study. The all-day symposium will take place in the Tolley Humanities Building, room 304 and will be keynoted by Hamid Dabashi, professor of Iranian studies and comparative literature at Columbia University.

Campus & Community

Pollster John Zogby to speak at Library Associates Luncheon April 30

Wednesday, March 31, 2010, By News Staff

Syracuse University Library Associates will present noted political pollster John Zogby at its annual Spring Luncheon, April 30 at the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel and Conference Center.

STEM

Syracuse iSchool students report back on 2010 SXSW

Tuesday, March 30, 2010, By News Staff

When attending the internationally known and highly regarded South by Southwest (SXSW) festivals in Austin, Texas, ask questions and say yes.

Campus & Community

‘Achieving the Dream: Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital’ is topic at April 1 IRP

Tuesday, March 30, 2010, By Eileen Jevis

Thomas Welch, professor and chair of pediatrics at Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital, will speak at the April 1 session of Institute for Retired Professionals from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Monday, March 29

Monday, March 29, 2010, By News Staff

College of Arts and Sciences’ Kevin Masters quoted on NPR about French TV quiz show experiment

SU in the News: Monday, March 29, 2010

Monday, March 29, 2010, By News Staff

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE Research by Douglas Wolf, Gerald B. Cramer Professor of Aging Studies and professor of public administration in the Maxwell School, is mentioned in a New York Times article on parents, nonparents and net taxes incurred…

Health & Society

Peter Balakian, expert on Armenian genocide, leads Genocide Awareness Week schedule

Monday, March 29, 2010, By Jennifer Russo

He will present “The Armenian Genocide and Modernity,” on Monday, April 12, at 4 p.m. in the Winnick Hillel Center.

Arts & Culture

Harvard humanist chaplain to speak at SU March 29

Friday, March 26, 2010, By Rob Enslin

Greg Epstein, Harvard University’s humanist chaplain and author of The New York Times best-seller, “Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe” (HarperCollins, 2009), is speaking at Syracuse University on Monday, March 29.

Health & Society

Harvard medical sociologist Christakis to speak on health and social networks for Center for Health and Behavior annual lecture April 12

Friday, March 26, 2010, By News Staff

Nicholas A. Christakis, an internist and social scientist who conducts research on social factors that affect health, health care and longevity, will deliver the Center for Health and Behavior’s eighth annual lecture, “Social Networks and Health,” on Monday, April 12 at 4 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3