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Jane’s Walk 2011 promotes walkable communities
The Environmental Finance Center will host Jane’s Walk 2011 on Saturday, May 7, beginning at 10 a.m. Jane’s Walk is a walking tour that takes place in more than 60 cities to promote walkable communities. The route in Syracuse will…
Syracuse University announces 2011-12 Remembrance Scholars
Syracuse University’s Remembrance Scholar Committee has chosen the 35 students who will be the 2011-12 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…
SBA deputy administrator keynotes inaugural V-WISE entrepreneurship training program for women veterans in San Antonio May 5-7
The Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, in partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), will hold its inaugural Veterans as Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (V-WISE) program in San Antonio, May 5-7 at the…
SU in the News: Wednesday, April 27
College of Law’s David Cay Johnston speaks with radio stations around the country on Paul Ryan’s proposed federal budget plan
Barkun evaluates terrorism threat in ‘Chasing Phantoms’
In his 11th book, “Chasing Phantoms: Reality, Imagination, and Homeland Security Since 9/11” (UNC Press, 2011), Professor Michael Barkun examines the huge gap that exists between the realities of the terrorism threat facing the United States and the everyday discourse about that threat among government officials and the general public.
Seniors to present work during annual Honors Program Capstone Presentation Day
When Na’Tasha Webb-Prather was exploring a topic for her Honors Capstone project, she decided to take a critical look at her native city, Cleveland. She found that practices of segregated housing that were institutionalized decades ago have impacted contemporary educational…
Academy Award-winning filmmaker, SU honorary degree candidate to teach MayMester course
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Gerardine Wurzburg, one of six individuals of exceptional achievement to receive Syracuse University honorary degree at its 157th Commencement exercises on Sunday, May 15, will remain in Syracuse to teach a MayMester course, CFE 600, “Documentary Films…
Democracy and the Revolt in the Muslim World
On Friday, April 29, at 4 p.m. in Maxwell Auditorium, the Campbell Public Affairs Institute’s State of Democracy Series will welcome Juan Cole.
INSCT welcomes new deputy director, Vice Adm. Robert B. Murrett
The Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT) has announced that former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and Vice Adm. Robert B. Murrett will join INSCT as deputy director in June 2011. At the same time, he will also…
Franklin works with Project Advance instructors, students
Mitch Franklin, assistant professor of accounting practice in the Whitman School of Management, likes to make connections and show people where numbers can lead them.