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Media, Law & Policy

SU College of Law redesignated as New York State Science and Technology Law Center

Thursday, October 18, 2012, By Jaclyn D. Grosso

The New York State Department of Economic Development, Division of Science, Technology and Innovation, and Syracuse University College of Law have announced that the Syracuse University College of Law has been redesignated for a third three-year term to serve as the…

Arts & Culture

Getting to Know: Tere Paniagua, executive director of cultural engagement for the Hispanic community

Thursday, October 18, 2012, By Cyndi Moritz

For several years, Tere Paniagua has been the managing director of Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, a nonprofit organization supported by Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, and by the New York State Council on the Arts. The Point…

Media, Law & Policy

Dialing in on the debate

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By Keith Kobland

As political pundits decide which of the presidential candidates won Tuesday night’s town hall style debate, Frank Biocca already knows. “We can see immediately in the dials,” Biocca says, “when a candidate is doing badly.” He’s not referring to television…

Campus & Community

Options Program moves into Counseling Center

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By News Staff

The Counseling Center’s Options Program, within the Division of Student Affairs, which provides substance abuse services to students, will relocate its office to the Counseling Center at 200 Walnut Place, effective Monday, Oct. 22. The Counseling Center and Options Program…

Campus & Community

Professor Anna Vasilevna Gorbatsevich remembered

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By News Staff

Anna Vasilevna Gorbatsevich, professor emerita of Russian, passed away at her home on Sept. 6 at the age of 88. She was a resident of Syracuse for more than 60 years. Gorbatsevich was born near Warsaw, Poland, where she studied to become…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse alums produce documentary on impact of 9/11 on small town

Tuesday, October 16, 2012, By News Staff

As she grew up in small-town Somerset County, Pa., S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications alumna Laura Beachy ‘12 wanted to create a story that would honor the unsung heroes of United Flight 93.

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…

STEM

Research at the interface of physics and biology

Thursday, October 11, 2012, By News Staff

On the surface, it would seem that zebrafish and humans are about as different as, say, developmental biologists and theoretical physicists. Fish swim; humans walk. Biologists revere Charles Darwin; physicists have an abiding admiration for Albert Einstein.

Campus & Community

Building Digital Library Collections in Monteverde, Costa Rica

Thursday, October 11, 2012, By News Staff

You are invited to an informal discussion on Wednesday, Oct. 24, with Laurie Kutner, a University of Vermont librarian and SU alum (Maxwell G’85 and iSchool G’98) who directs the SU iSchool Costa Rica summer internship project. This discussion will…

Campus & Community

Recorded webcasts now available of ‘Common Ground for Peace’ panels

Wednesday, October 10, 2012, By Kevin Morrow

Full video recordings of the Oct. 8 “Common Ground for Peace” morning and afternoon panel discussions at Syracuse University featuring His Holiness the Dalai Lama are now available for viewing online at oneworld.syr.edu/webcast/index.html. The Dalai Lama was joined at the…