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STEM

NSF grant funds study on barriers to smart grid technology adoption

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By Diane Stirling

If existing, readily available smart grid technologies are beneficial to utility companies, their customers and the environment as a whole, why aren’t utilities adopting them? That’s the question three School of Information Studies (iSchool) faculty members will probe with a…

Arts & Culture

SU Humanities Center, Society for New Music present program of music, film and video Oct. 28

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By Rob Enslin

The world premiere of “Cantos,” an ambitious multimedia work by New York State composer Rob Deemer, is part of the next installment of Syracuse Symposium, whose theme this year is “Memory-Media-Archive.” The premiere is part of a program titled “Aural…

Arts & Culture

One Million Bones workshop to demonstrate cost of genocide

Monday, October 15, 2012, By News Staff

Community Folk Art Center (CFAC) is collaborating with Students Rebuild, Syracuse University Arts Engage and the Congolese community of Syracuse to host a One Million Bones workshop, a social arts initiative that brings awareness to genocide by educating and engaging communities.

Campus & Community

Statement by SU Board Chairman Richard L. Thompson

Friday, October 12, 2012, By News Staff

As all of you know, we have been blessed to have a dynamic and engaged leader guiding our University for the past eight years. Clearly, Nancy brought to SU everything that we wanted and needed in a Chancellor. Her vision…

Campus & Community

Message from Chancellor Cantor

Friday, October 12, 2012, By News Staff

Dear SU Community: It was just a month ago that we all celebrated the terrific news that the Campaign for Syracuse University was successful, reaching our goal of raising a billion dollars for programs, professorships, scholarships, facilities and more, three…

Campus & Community

SyracuseCoE partners win $1.9 million in five federal awards

Friday, October 12, 2012, By Carol Boll

SyracuseCoE announced Oct. 9 an initiative to accelerate growth of the Central New York industry cluster that manufactures systems to control temperature and environmental quality in a wide range of applications. The Advanced Manufacturing for Thermal and Environmental Control Systems (AM-TECS) initiative…

Campus & Community

Mechanical and aerospace engineering seminar

Tuesday, October 9, 2012, By News Staff

Energy Sustainability: A Combustion Perspective Date and Time: Friday, October 12, 2012, 2:15-3:10, Watson Theatre, Watson Hall Prof. Suk Ho Chung Clean Combustion Research Center King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal, Saudi Arabia Abstract: Combustion is one…

Campus & Community

More than 2,700 people attend ‘Common Ground for Peace’ symposium

Tuesday, October 9, 2012, By News Staff

One World Concert will now be broadcast live on AXS TV More than 2,700 people attended two sessions of the “Common Ground for Peace” forum with the Dalai Lama and international thought leaders on the SU campus Monday. The webcast…

Campus & Community

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…

Environmentalist Bill McKibben kicks off 2012-13 University Lectures series Oct. 10

Monday, October 8, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Bill McKibben, one of America’s best known environmentalists, will kick off the 2012-13 http://lectures.syr.edu”>University Lectures season on Wednesday, Oct. 10. McKibben will speak on “350: The Most Important Number in the World” at 7:30 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The lecture,…