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Rwandan Students in Residency for Teacher-Librarianship Training

Wednesday, July 31, 2013, By Diane Stirling

The School of Information Studies (iSchool) recently welcomed four new distance students, teachers from Rwanda’s Kigali Institute of Education whose two-week summer residency is the initial step in their professional development in teacher-librarianship. It is also part of a larger…

Taking the Lead

Wednesday, July 24, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

The Setnor School of Music welcomed a group of young women this month for a unique new program. The Girls Leadership Academy for Music is helping to build up their potential and counteract the negative statistics of women in leadership roles.

STEM

SU Scientists Assist in Landmark Discovery of Rare Particle Decay

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Physicists in The College of Arts and Sciences are part of a global team of scientists that has discovered a rare particle decay, giving them an indirect way to test models of new physics.

Hillel’s Brian Small Selected for Hillel’s Executive Training Program

Thursday, July 11, 2013, By News Staff

Brian Small, interim executive director at Hillel at Syracuse University, is among nine professionals chosen to participate in the newest cohort of Weinberg ACCELERATE: Hillel’s Executive Training Program with Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. Chosen from a large…

Thinklab Receives International Core77 Design Award

Tuesday, July 9, 2013, By Elaine Wackerow

Thinklab, a transdisciplinary design laboratory at Syracuse University, was awarded an International Core77 Design Award in Educational Initiatives: Notable Honoree, Professional.  Thinklab was conceived and designed by Assistant Professor Kathleen Brandt (Industrial and Interaction Design Program in the College of…

Janklow Arts Leadership Program Increasing in Size, Diversity

Monday, July 8, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Welcoming its second student cohort this summer, the Janklow Arts Leadership Program has acquired a reputation for academic rigor and selectivity and has established an international presence.

Arts & Culture

Industrial and Interaction Design Program Celebrates Two National Awards

Friday, June 21, 2013, By Erica Blust

The industrial and interaction design (IID) program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) is celebrating two national awards achieved by a faculty member and a recent alumna. Assistant Professor Kathleen Brandt is co-director of Syracuse University’s Thinklab,…

Syracuse University Chancellor and President Nancy Cantor Named Chancellor of Rutgers University-Newark

Thursday, June 20, 2013, By Kevin C. Quinn

At a meeting today of the Rutgers University Board of Governors, Rutgers President Robert L. Barchi named Chancellor Nancy Cantor as the new chancellor of Rutgers University-Newark. Cantor, who last fall announced upcoming plans to conclude her tenure at SU,…

STEM

Success in Engineering

Tuesday, June 11, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

L.C. Smith Associate Dean Julie Hasenwinkel and her colleagues are putting strategies in place to help keep students engaged and strengthen retention rates beginning this fall. Their efforts got a recent boost.

Veterans

IVMF Receives $1 Million Grant from Walmart Foundation for Veteran Vocational Education

Thursday, May 23, 2013, By News Staff

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) has received a $1 million grant from the Walmart Foundation to launch a competitive grant program for veteran vocational education at community and technical colleges in California, New York, Texas and North Carolina.