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Campus & Community

Vanden Heuvel will speak on role of grassroots social movements, independent journalism

Thursday, September 29, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation magazine, will speak “On the Nation and Our Political Movement” in the next presentation of the University Lectures series at Syracuse University on Tuesday, Oct. 4, at 7:30 p.m. in Hendricks…

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

Copeland-Morgan to leave Syracuse University

Wednesday, September 28, 2011, By Daeya Malboeuf

Youlonda Copeland-Morgan has accepted a position at UCLA as associate vice chancellor for enrollment management. She has served as Syracuse University’s associate vice president for enrollment management and director of scholarships and student aid since April 2008.  “I am honored…

Arts & Culture

Art and science historians headline new ‘transdisciplinary humanities’ series at SU

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, By Rob Enslin

Art historian James Elkins and science historian Michael Lynch will headline the first installment of “IMAGES? Precisely!,” a new lecture series presented by The Syracuse University Humanities Center. The multimedia program, which is free and open to the public, is…

STEM

iSchool/Center for Digital Literacy Awarded National Leadership Grant

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, By J.D. Ross

The School of Information Studies (iSchool) and its Center for Digital Literacy (CDL) have been awarded a National Leadership Grant for $190,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).  The two-year grant, titled “Investigating Self-Determination Variables in Summer…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Monday, September 26

Monday, September 26, 2011, By News Staff

NPR’s Fresh Air interviews Arts and Sciences’ Dana Spiotta on her new novel, “Stone Arabia”

Business & Economy

Syracuse University receives designation as Economic Development Administration University Center

Friday, September 23, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University has received a $500,000 award from the U.S. Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) and the designation as an EDA University Center. The award is aimed at igniting innovation and accelerating entrepreneurship, and launching student ventures throughout upstate…

Arts & Culture

‘Koppel-Langella: One on One’ to air Sept. 29 on PBS

Friday, September 23, 2011, By News Staff

“Koppel-Langella: One on One,’’ the conversation between Tony Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor Frank Langella ’59 and former “Nightline” anchor Ted Koppel ’60, H’82, is set to air at 9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, on WCNY channels 24.1 and 24.4…

Arts & Culture

SU Drama to present pro-union classic ‘The Cradle Will Rock’

Friday, September 23, 2011, By News Staff

Here’s how Marc Blitzstein described his 1937 musical: “a labor opera composed in a style that falls somewhere between realism, romance, vaudeville, comic strip, Gilbert & Sullivan, Brecht and agitprop [agitation and propaganda].” In other words, it has great laughs,…

Campus & Community

Syracuse Center of Excellence earns highest LEED certification

Friday, September 23, 2011, By News Staff

The SyracuseCoE was designed to exemplify the highest level of LEED standards.