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Stories from Syracuse’s sister community in El Salvador to be shared

Saturday, May 5, 2012, By News Staff

The La Casita Cultural Center, 109 Otisco St., Syracuse, will host members of the Caribbean/Latin American Coalition of Central New York (CLAC) to share stories and information about their recent trips to San Salvador and to La Estancia, Syracuse’s sister…

Campus & Community

Schine Box Office summer hours

Monday, April 30, 2012, By News Staff

Schine Box Office summer hours begin Friday, May 11. The Schine Box Office will be open for summer hours on Thursday and Friday from noon-3 p.m. Normal Box Office hours—Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, noon-9 p.m.—will be in…

Scott Samson to receive 2012 Wasserstrom Prize

Monday, April 30, 2012, By News Staff

Scott Samson, professor of earth sciences in The College of Arts and Sciences, will receive the 2012 William Wasserstrom Prize for the Teaching of Graduate Students. The award will be presented during the 2012 Graduate School Doctoral Hooding Ceremony and…

Annual Faculty Recognition Awards program honors teaching excellence

Monday, April 30, 2012, By News Staff

Kazaz, Massey named Meredith Professors At the annual Faculty Awards Recognition event held recently at Goldstein Alumni & Faculty Center, Chancellor Nancy Cantor and Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina congratulated the winners of the 2011-12 University teaching awards, including…

SU and SUNY-ESF student entrepreneurs shine in NYS Business Plan Competition

Friday, April 27, 2012, By News Staff

On April 26, 15 teams from Syracuse University and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry competed in the 2012 New York State Business Plan Competition (NYSBPC). Student startups from around the state competed for more than $150,000 in…

2012-13 Remembrance Scholars chosen

Friday, April 27, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University’s Remembrance Scholar Committee has chosen the 35 students who will be the 2012-13 Remembrance Scholars. The scholarships were founded as a tribute to—and means of remembering—the 35 students who were killed in the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing of…

Campus & Community

SU Ph.D. student Jessica Kuskey wins Mary Hatch Marshall Essay Award

Thursday, April 26, 2012, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Jessica Kuskey, a Ph.D. student in the English Department in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, received the Mary Hatch Marshall Essay Award at the Syracuse University Library Associates annual spring luncheon on April 26. Her essay is titled…

SU Sustainability Division, Bird Library collaborate on new e-waste program

Wednesday, April 25, 2012, By News Staff

As a part of the Syracuse University Sustainability Division’s recycling campaign, a new e-waste recycling program was launched for students on campus. Through this Sustainability Division and Bird Library joint venture, collection bins are located in the library’s first floor…

Switching subject categories could improve test scores

Tuesday, April 24, 2012, By News Staff

New research on ‘output interference’ published in Psychological Science Students of all ages could improve their test scores if the category of information changed abruptly midway through the test, according to a new study on memory by researchers from Syracuse…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse students take first at regional advertising competition

Monday, April 23, 2012, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Advertising students from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications were winners at the 2012 American Advertising Federation (AAF) regional competition (District 2), held earlier this month in New York City. Newhouse students have won at regional competitions three times…