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Health & Society

Education professor to facilitate anti-bullying workshop for teachers, administrators Sept. 30

Wednesday, September 29, 2010, By Jennifer Russo

Mara Sapon-Shevin, professor of inclusive education and director of the Safe and Peaceful Schools Project at the School of Education, will address these challenges and present strategies for bullying prevention at “Bully-Proofing Our Students: Creating Safe and Peaceful Schools.”

STEM

iSchool’s Renee Franklin Hill part of $800,000 multi-institutional grant to recruit diverse students into LIS programs

Wednesday, September 29, 2010, By News Staff

The Institute of Museum and Library Services is providing $799,493 to researchers at Syracuse University, the University of Maryland and Towson University for the project “Diverse Populations, Information and Library Education.”

Campus & Community

‘Lights Out’ message continues to spread across campus

Tuesday, September 28, 2010, By News Staff

SU’s “Lights Out” campaign is targeting wasteful electricity use throughout campus academic and administrative buildings.

Arts & Culture

First Year Players selects ‘The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’

Tuesday, September 28, 2010, By News Staff

First Year Players, a student-run musical theater organziation, has selected “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” as this year’s musical, scheduled for April 14-16.

Arts & Culture

SU Humanities Center continues ‘conflict’ theme with lecture, symposium devoted to modern African literature, Oct. 14-15

Tuesday, September 28, 2010, By Rob Enslin

The Syracuse University Humanities Center continues its exploration of “conflict” with a daylong symposium devoted to modern African literature.

Arts & Culture

Connective Corridor offers portable production equipment to local artists, organizations

Monday, September 27, 2010, By News Staff

The Connective Corridor is now offering an inventory of portable production equipment for local artists and organizations to use to produce and present public programs and performances along the Corridor.

Strait to receive Eggers Senior Alumni Award Oct. 14

Monday, September 27, 2010, By News Staff

This year’s Melvin A. Eggers Senior Award will be presented to Brad Strait ’58, G’60, Ph.D. ’65,

Campus & Community

Stanford’s Adrienne Mayor to speak on Mithradates at Moses Finley Memorial Lecture Oct. 18

Monday, September 27, 2010, By News Staff

Adrienne Mayor, research scholar in classics and history of science at Stanford University, will deliver the Moses Finley Lecture Monday, Oct. 18.

STEM

Center for Digital Literacy releases free eBook for K-12 educators

Friday, September 24, 2010, By News Staff

Organized around four broad educational standards, the new free eBook “From The Creative Minds,” produced by Syracuse University’s Center for Digital Literacy (CDL), showcases a collection of engaging lesson plans grouped by content suitable for elementary, middle and high school levels.

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell School receives major gift from Chicago businessman Andrew Berlin

Thursday, September 23, 2010, By News Staff

The Maxwell School has announced that it has received a $500,000 endowment gift to fund faculty research relating to issues of national security.