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Health & Society

Michael Bird to present ‘Health Disparities Among Native Americans’

Wednesday, October 5, 2011, By Michele Barrett

A nationally recognized public speaker on Native American public health, health disparities and social justice, Michael E. Bird, will present a special lecture, “Health Disparities Among Native Americans,” on Wednesday, Oct. 12 at 6 p.m. The free lecture, which is…

Campus & Community

iSchool to Host Career Fair

Wednesday, October 5, 2011, By News Staff

The School of Information Studies will host a Career Fair on Thursday, October 6, from 9:00 – 11:30 AM in Hinds Hall. Employers at the fair will be looking for students interested in both internship and full-time opportunities. The list…

Campus & Community

Burton Blatt Institute receives $6.2 million grant from U.S. Dept. of Education to continue leadership of ADA Center in southeastern United States

Tuesday, October 4, 2011, By News Staff

The U.S. Department of Education’s National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research has awarded the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University a $6.2 million, five-year grant to continue its leadership of the Atlanta-based Southeast ADA Center. Established in 1991…

Veterans

IVMF leadership to speak on SU’s longstanding commitment to vets and military families in D.C.

Friday, September 30, 2011, By News Staff

Mike Haynie, executive director of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University; SU alumnus Ken Quaglio G’91, principal at Ernst and Young; and graduates of the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) program will speak…

Arts & Culture

Wabash professor explores photography’s impact on Pompeii excavation Oct. 5

Friday, September 30, 2011, By Rob Enslin

The excavation of an ancient street in Pompeii is the subject of an upcoming lecture at Syracuse University. Jeremy Hartnett, assistant professor of classics at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Ind., will present “Excavation Photographs and the Rediscovery of the Via…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Thursday, September 29

Thursday, September 29, 2011, By News Staff

International Business Times quotes Whitman School’s Jeffrey Harris on U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair Gary Gensler

Campus & Community

Mathematics department adds applied mathematics B.A. and B.S.

Thursday, September 29, 2011, By News Staff

New programs of study in Applied Mathematics are available, effective fall 2011, from the Mathematics Department (http://math.syr.edu) in The College of Arts and Sciences.

STEM

iSchool’s Dedrick to study wind energy jobs

Thursday, September 29, 2011, By J.D. Ross

School of Information Studies (iSchool) Associate Professor Jason Dedrick has been awarded a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to analyze jobs associated with the wind energy industry in the United States and around the globe. Dedrick will address this issue…

Campus & Community

SU Humanities Center, physics department team up for Wali Lecture Oct. 6

Wednesday, September 28, 2011, By Rob Enslin

Renowned particle physicist Ian Shipsey will deliver the Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture in the Sciences and Humanities at Syracuse University. The lecture, “Bionic Hearing: The Science and the Experience,” is on Thursday, Oct. 6, at 4 p.m. in Maxwell Auditorium….

Campus & Community

SU honors LGBT history in October

Wednesday, September 28, 2011, By News Staff

What was once National Coming Out Day is now celebrated at Syracuse University as Coming Out Month.