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Campus & Community

Himes appointed to Board of Scientific Counselors

Friday, September 16, 2011, By News Staff

Christine Himes, professor of sociology int he Maxwell School and director of the Center for Policy Research, has been appointed to the Board of Scientific Counselors of the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. The appointment to the four-year term is…

STEM

SU garners $3 million NSF grant for education, research in soft and biological materials

Thursday, September 15, 2011, By News Staff

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Syracuse University $3 million over the next five years to develop an Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training Program (IGERT) in Soft Interfaces. IGERT is the NSF’s flagship interdisciplinary program to educate Ph.D.-level…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse School’s Tully Center launches Free Speech Zone

Thursday, September 15, 2011, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications’ Tully Center for Free Speech has launched Free Speech Zone, an open venue for interactive commentary, news and analysis of issues at or near the intersection of free speech, media law and policy,…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Wednesday, September 14

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, By News Staff

Yahoo quotes William J. Ward of the Newhouse School on the role social media might have played in 9/11

STEM

Nicholson delivers opening colloquium at MIT

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, By J.D. Ross

School of Information Studies (iSchool) Associate Professor Scott Nicolson delivered the opening colloquium for the Comparative Media Studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is currently a visiting professor.

Arts & Culture

Verbal Blend, Imagining America, Voices Merging will host Ayo Technology Skype open mic

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, By News Staff

Verbal Blend, a spoken word poetry program out of Syracuse University’s Office of Multicultural Affairs, will host its annual Ayo Technology Skype Open Mic, in collaboration with Voices Merging at the University of Minnesota and Imagining America: Artists and Scholars…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Tuesday, September 13

Tuesday, September 13, 2011, By News Staff

Money Magazine notes SU programs that help make community college transfers more seamless

Campus & Community

Syracuse University recognizes Constitution Day

Tuesday, September 13, 2011, By News Staff

To recognize national Constitution Day (Sept. 17, 2011, celebrated on Sept. 20 because it falls on a weekend this year) Syracuse University will provide free, pocket U.S. Constitutions and voter registration forms at E.S. Bird Library (ground floor), and the…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Symposium continues Sept. 19 with David Eng

Tuesday, September 13, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

David L. Eng, professor of comparative literature and Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, will explore the “Reparations of the Human” in the East Asian context in a Syracuse Symposium™ presentation on Monday, Sept. 19. Eng’s lecture will…

Maxwell students win Distinguished Delegation at Model United Nations competition

Monday, September 12, 2011, By News Staff

A team of 16 international relations majors from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, led by adviser Francine D’Amico, captured the Distinguished Delegation honor at a five-day Model United Nations (MUN) event in New York City this past…