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April 15 Is Application Deadline for 2013 Summer Institute for Technology-Enhanced Teaching & Learning

Wednesday, March 27, 2013, By Christopher C. Finkle

Information Technology and Services (ITS) at Syracuse University announces the 2013 Summer Institute for Technology-Enhanced Teaching & Learning. Scheduled twice in separate, week-long sessions, the Summer Institute will be held May 20-24 and again June 3-7. The Summer Institute is an…

iSchool Joins Program to Bring More Women into Technology, Computing

Tuesday, February 26, 2013, By J.D. Ross

The School of Information Studies (iSchool) joined the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Pacesetters program Feb. 26 at a kick-off ceremony in Santa Cruz, Calif. NCWIT’s Pacesetters is a fast-track program that seeks to radically increase the…

Campus & Community

GET Speaker Series: Technology Trends and Leadership

Tuesday, February 19, 2013, By News Staff

The Global Enterprise Technology program would like to invite you to join us for our first speaker of the semester: “Technology Trends and Leadership” featuring Lisa Schreiber, vice president for Support Account Management at Oracle Corporation, USA, and Fred Vona,…

Media, Law & Policy

Singleton to Receive Archaeology Award

Thursday, January 31, 2013, By News Staff

Theresa Singleton, associate professor of anthropology in the Maxwell School, has been selected to receive the 2014 J.C. Harrington Award from the Society for Historical Archaeology.  The award, established in 1981, is the highest honor that the organization bestows and…

STEM

iSchool’s It Girls Retreat shows high school girls possibility of careers in technology

Monday, November 19, 2012, By News Staff

It’s Monday afternoon, Nov. 12, and the main hallway of the iSchool is filled with unusual activity—approximately 92 high school girls from across the country, along with several of their parents, are getting ready to showcase their final projects as…

STEM

Biology’s circle of life

Monday, November 12, 2012, By News Staff

Nature is all about cycles—the circle of life. Likewise, the history of the Department of Biology in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences could be summed up in terms of life cycles. That cycle, which began 140 years ago,…

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…

STEM

NSF grant funds study on barriers to smart grid technology adoption

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By Diane Stirling

If existing, readily available smart grid technologies are beneficial to utility companies, their customers and the environment as a whole, why aren’t utilities adopting them? That’s the question three School of Information Studies (iSchool) faculty members will probe with a…

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.

SU researchers use nanotechnology to harness power of fireflies

Friday, June 15, 2012, By News Staff

Research published in Nano Letters