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Syracuse researchers link higher test scores with certified librarians in schoolsFebruary 05, 2008Margaret Costello Spillettmcostell@syr.edu New York state schools with certified librarians have higher scores on average on the fourth-grade English Language Arts (ELA) test than those who don’t, according…

Award-winning alumni of Syracuse Architecture to lecture at The WarehouseJanuary 31, 2008Mary Kate O’Brienmcobrien@syr.edu Architects Margaret Griffin and John Enright of the Los Angeles firm Griffin Enright Architects will speak at the Syracuse University School of Architecture on Wednesday, Feb….

Donald J. Western joins Syracuse University’s Office of Community Engagement and Economic DevelopmentJanuary 31, 2008Kevin C. Quinnkcquinn@syr.edu Donald J. Western, director of economic development for Onondaga County, has been appointed executive director of community engagement and economic development at Syracuse…

Newhouse School to remember David Ifshin, student activists of 1960s and ’70s, in First Amendment Year eventJanuary 31, 2008Wendy S. Loughlinwsloughl@syr.edu Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, as part of its yearlong celebration of the First Amendment, will…

Global disability and poverty efforts get key boost from agreement between SU’s Burton Blatt Institute and World BankJanuary 29, 2008Jaime Winne Alvarezjlwinne@syr.edu A promising new collaboration between the World Bank and Syracuse University could spur global efforts to reduce poverty…

Lore appointed director of Syracuse University Department of Recreation ServicesJanuary 29, 2008Carol K. Masiclatclkim@syr.edu Joseph D. Lore has been named director of the Department of Recreation Services at Syracuse University, a principal unit of the Division of Student Affairs that…

iSchool club launches program to assist women in IT trainingJanuary 29, 2008Kristen Blake For years, women have supported themselves and their families by working from home. But it was only after working closely with a student who prepared medical transcriptions…

Moroccan journalist to receive Newhouse’s Tully AwardJanuary 29, 2008Wendy S. Loughlinwsloughl@syr.edu Aboubakr Jamai, a Moroccan investigative journalist whose reporting led to a jail sentence, near financial ruin and forced exile from his country, will receive the first annual Tully Center…

IJPM names research fellows for 2008-09January 25, 2008Jaime Winne Alvarezjlwinne@syr.edu The Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics and the Media at Syracuse University (IJPM) has announced its second class of research fellows, for the 2008-09 academic year. Composed…

SU Library Associates to present talk on radical children’s literatureJanuary 24, 2008Pamela McLaughlinpwmclaug@syr.edu Syracuse University Library Associates will present a talk, “Radical Children’s Literature,” Feb. 7 at 4 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, on the first floor of…