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Campus & Community

Ernie Davis Hall to celebrate LEED Gold certification Oct. 10

Wednesday, October 5, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s newest and first “green” residence hall has been awarded LEED® Gold certification, established by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and verified by the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI). Ernie Davis Hall will celebrate this achievement with a…

Campus & Community

Burton Blatt Institute receives $6.2 million grant from U.S. Dept. of Education to continue leadership of ADA Center in southeastern United States

Tuesday, October 4, 2011, By News Staff

The U.S. Department of Education’s National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research has awarded the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University a $6.2 million, five-year grant to continue its leadership of the Atlanta-based Southeast ADA Center. Established in 1991…

Arts & Culture

Imagining America’s Dream Freedom Revival to begin Sunday, Oct. 9

Monday, October 3, 2011, By Jamie Haft

Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA) will inaugurate an ongoing campus-community art, humanities and democracy project on Sunday, Oct. 9, at 2 p.m. at La Casita Cultural Center at 109 Otisco St., with a performance, meal and conversation….

Veterans

IVMF leadership to speak on SU’s longstanding commitment to vets and military families in D.C.

Friday, September 30, 2011, By News Staff

Mike Haynie, executive director of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University; SU alumnus Ken Quaglio G’91, principal at Ernst and Young; and graduates of the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) program will speak…

Business & Economy

Entrepreneur magazine/Princeton Review rank Whitman’s undergrad entrepreneurship program fourth in nation

Thursday, September 29, 2011, By News Staff

The undergraduate Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises (EEE) program in the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University has been ranked fourth in the nation by Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review. The rankings are published in the October issue of…

Campus & Community

Vanden Heuvel will speak on role of grassroots social movements, independent journalism

Thursday, September 29, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation magazine, will speak “On the Nation and Our Political Movement” in the next presentation of the University Lectures series at Syracuse University on Tuesday, Oct. 4, at 7:30 p.m. in Hendricks…

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”

Arts & Culture

SU Drama to present pro-union classic ‘The Cradle Will Rock’

Friday, September 23, 2011, By News Staff

Here’s how Marc Blitzstein described his 1937 musical: “a labor opera composed in a style that falls somewhere between realism, romance, vaudeville, comic strip, Gilbert & Sullivan, Brecht and agitprop [agitation and propaganda].” In other words, it has great laughs,…

Business & Economy

Whitman School welcomes new faculty members

Thursday, September 22, 2011, By News Staff

The Whitman School of Management welcomes four new faculty members this fall: Jeffrey Harris (finance), D. Craig Nichols (accounting), Alexandra Kostakis ’91 (entrepreneurial practice) and Peter Scott (entrepreneurial practice). “We are delighted to welcome Jeff, Craig, Alex and Peter to the…

Media, Law & Policy

Former Saatchi & Saatchi ad executive Bob Isherwood to visit Newhouse Oct. 3

Wednesday, September 21, 2011, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Bob Isherwood, former worldwide creative director with the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, 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…