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Arts & Culture

‘The Clean House’ premieres at Syracuse Stage

Friday, April 29, 2011, By News Staff

Matilde (pronounced Ma-chil-gee) has a problem: she’s a cleaning lady who doesn’t like to clean. She’d rather think up the perfect joke. Now that her parents (once the funniest people in Brazil) are dead—her mother died laughing—she is the funniest…

Arts & Culture

Students to debut original puppetry performance at SU Showcase

Thursday, April 28, 2011, By News Staff

A group of fifth-grade students at Van Duyn Elementary School in Syracuse recently got a crash course in sustainability while creating their original “Voices in the Wind” theater/puppetry performance, which they’ll premiere at SU Showcase on May 2. Eighteen SU…

Barkun evaluates terrorism threat in ‘Chasing Phantoms’

Wednesday, April 27, 2011, By News Staff

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.

Scholarship in Action En Route

Tuesday, April 26, 2011, By News Staff

Dear Members of the SU Community: As we approach the conclusion of another successful academic year, we’re not only reaching the end of 2010-11, but marking a decade of work at Syracuse University to build on the 2001 Academic Plan…

Health & Society

New executive education program launched in Europe focused on effective drug policy

Friday, April 22, 2011, By Michele Barrett

The College of Human Ecology’s addiction studies program and SU Europe have partnered with the Council of Europe’s Pompidou Group to create a new trans-Atlantic executive education program focused on implementing effective drug policy and governance. The five-day summit will…

Arts & Culture

Say Yes to Education, National Grid Foundation honor Delaware Academy, Seymour Dual Language Academy, John T. Roberts School

Thursday, April 21, 2011, By News Staff

Student authors to be recognized at book-signing event Author! Author! Thirty-three of Syracuse’s newly published young authors will be treated like celebrities at Barnes & Noble Booksellers in DeWitt, N.Y., on Wednesday, April 27, at 4:30 pm. The student authors…

School of Education Urban Education lecture series continues with ‘Waiting for Superman’ and panel discussion April 26

Monday, April 18, 2011, By News Staff

The Syracuse University School of Education‘s next installment in its Landscape of Urban Education lecture series will be a screening and discussion of “Waiting for Superman,” the powerful 2010 documentary about urban education reform. “Who Are We Waiting For?: Profiling…

Veterans

EBV represented at White House launch of national military families initiative Joining Forces; receives $1 million from Walmart and Sam’s Club’s Military Family Promise

Tuesday, April 12, 2011, By News Staff

In recognition of its longstanding support of our nation’s veterans, the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV), a program founded in 2007 at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, was represented at the White House during today’s…

STEM

LCS engineering students place first in IEEE Micromouse Competition

Tuesday, April 12, 2011, By News Staff

Four engineering students in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University took first prize at the annual IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Micromouse Competition in Boston on March 26. Sponsored by the local…

Eight SU faculty members to be honored April 13 for teaching excellence; Kutcher, Lane named Meredith Professors

Monday, April 11, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University has named Norman A. Kutcher, associate professor of history in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and The College of Arts and Sciences, and Sandra D. Lane, professor of public health and anthropology in the College of…