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Media, Law & Policy

TRAC: Federal prosecutors along U.S. Southwest border overwhelmed by soaring drug cases

Tuesday, April 20, 2010, By News Staff

According to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), federal prosecutors along the United States’ southwest border with Mexico—many already strained by the rise in their immigration caseloads—are facing a new challenge: how to handle a sharp jump in drug cases.

Media, Law & Policy

Finalists named for Mirror Awards

Monday, April 19, 2010, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Twenty-six finalists in seven categories have been named in the fourth annual Mirror Awards competition for excellence in media industry reporting.

Media, Law & Policy

SU’s Meinig elected member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Monday, April 19, 2010, By News Staff

Donald W. Meinig, Maxwell Research Professor of Geography Emeritus at Syracuse University, is among the 229 leaders in the sciences, humanities and arts, business, public affairs and the nonprofit sector who have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse students help promote education for girls worldwide

Friday, April 16, 2010, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Three students in the Newhouse School are hoping to help close the education gap through their work with She’s the First, a nonprofit media campaign and network established to promote education for girls and young women in developing countries.

Campus & Community

SU students attending Clinton Global Initiative University, SU ‘Books and Cooks!’ program to be featured

Thursday, April 15, 2010, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

A team of students from Syracuse University’s Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service is representing SU at the annual Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) Conference, held this year from April 16-18.

Campus & Community

SU Showcase Fellows’ presentations and other events set for April 19

Thursday, April 15, 2010, By News Staff

A total of 40 Syracuse University and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry students have been selected SU Showcase fellows and will present their sustainability-related academic projects on Monday, April 19.

Campus & Community

Hendricks Chapel hosts ‘Celebrating Unity Without Uniformity: An Open Conversation with Rabbi Brad Hirschfield’ on April 21

Thursday, April 15, 2010, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University’s Hendricks Chapel will host “Celebrating Unity Without Uniformity: An Open Conversation with Rabbi Brad Hirschfield,” on Wednesday, April 21, at 7 p.m. in the chapel’s Noble Room. The event is sponsored by Hendricks Chapel, Hillel at Syracuse University…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell School to host April 28 screening of ‘An Inconvenient Tax,’ featuring Moynihan Professor Len Burman

Wednesday, April 14, 2010, By News Staff

A new documentary film, “An Inconvenient Tax,” will be screened for the first time in upstate New York at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University on Wednesday, April 28, at 4 pm in Maxwell Auditorium.

Health & Society

Campaign for Deaf Access project to host April 29-30 symposium on health care access for deaf patients

Wednesday, April 14, 2010, By News Staff

The Campaign for Deaf Access will host a symposium on April 29-30 featuring renowned scholar Lennard J. Davis, professor of disability and human development in the School of Applied Health Sciences of the University of Illinois at Chicago and professor of medical education in the College of Medicine.

Campus & Community

Six to be honored with Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence April 15

Monday, April 12, 2010, By News Staff

Six Syracuse University faculty and staff members will receive The Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence on April 15.