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Campus & Community

Seven SU faculty members to be honored April 6 for teaching excellence; Doerr and Himley named Meredith Professors

Friday, April 2, 2010, By News Staff

On Tuesday, April 6, Syracuse University will name Helen M. Doerr, dual professor of teaching and leadership programs and mathematics in The College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Education, and Margaret Himley, professor of writing and rhetoric, and co-director of the LGBT Studies Program and minor in Arts and Sciences, as this year’s Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professors. Additionally, SU will recognize the 2010 recipients of the Teaching Recognition Awards, and Theodore L. Brown, associate professor in the School of Architecture, will receive the 2010 University Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award.

SU alumna, best-selling author Gabrielle Bernstein to share story of her career journey April 7

Wednesday, March 31, 2010, By News Staff

The SU Alumni Speaker Series continues with motivational speaker, life coach and author Gabrielle Bernstein ’00 VPA.

Health & Society

Taishoff Center Lecture Series inaugural speaker Prince to discuss her experiences with autism spectrum

Tuesday, March 30, 2010, By News Staff

The Taishoff Center for Inclusive Higher Education and the School of Education will welcome Dawn Prince to give the inaugural lecture of the Taishoff Center Lecture Series on April 20.

Health & Society

Harvard medical sociologist Christakis to speak on health and social networks for Center for Health and Behavior annual lecture April 12

Friday, March 26, 2010, By News Staff

Nicholas A. Christakis, an internist and social scientist who conducts research on social factors that affect health, health care and longevity, will deliver the Center for Health and Behavior’s eighth annual lecture, “Social Networks and Health,” on Monday, April 12 at 4 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3

Arts & Culture

Hip-hop artist/actor/author Common, founder of Common Ground Foundation, to speak at SU

Wednesday, March 24, 2010, By Kevin Morrow

Grammy Award-winning recording artist, actor and author Common (Lonnie Rashid Lynn) will speak March 30 at Hendricks Chapel.

Campus & Community

Rutgers’ Sarolta Anna Takács to deliver Moses Finley Memorial Lecture April 8

Tuesday, March 23, 2010, By News Staff

Sarolta Anna Takács, professor of history at Rutgers University, will deliver this year’s Moses Finley Memorial Lecture at Syracuse University.

Arts & Culture

SU Florence School of Architecture hosts international student workshop in Medieval city in Tuscany

Monday, March 22, 2010, By News Staff

The focus of the third edition of the Florence Architecture Workshop was the historical center of San Miniato, a Medieval city set on hills in the Tuscan countryside west of Florence.

STEM

Syracuse University students’ company, Brand-Yourself.com, named one of top 10 finalists in $200,000 Emerging Business Competition

Thursday, March 18, 2010, By News Staff

Brand-Yourself.com, a Web 2.0 company created by a team of Syracuse University students, is among 10 semi-finalists vying for $200,000 in New York’s Creative Core® Emerging Business Competition.

Media, Law & Policy

State Department’s William May to discuss social media, public diplomacy at SU March 25

Thursday, March 18, 2010, By Wendy S. Loughlin

William May, director of the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Innovative Engagement (part of the Bureau of International Information Programs), will visit Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Thursday, March 25.

SU biologists’ work with ‘glow-in-the-dark’ sperm sheds light on sexual selection

Thursday, March 18, 2010, By Rob Enslin

The findings are said to have huge implications for reproductive biology.