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Sarkar named IEEE Distinguished Lecturer

Friday, May 20, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Tapan K. Sarkar, professor of electrical engineering and computer science in Syracuse University’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (LCS), has been named a distinguished lecturer of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Antennas and Propagation…

Business & Economy

Whitman to host 31st annual Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference June 8-11

Wednesday, May 18, 2011, By News Staff

The 31st annual Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC), co-sponsored by the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, will be held June 8-11 at Whitman. The BCERC, widely considered the premier conference for entrepreneurship research, was established in 1981…

Campus & Community

Call for Syracuse Welcome 2011 Volunteers

Wednesday, May 18, 2011, By News Staff

The time has come again to start recruiting for Syracuse Welcome 2011.

Arts & Culture

Disability Cultural Center to open on SU campus in fall 2011

Tuesday, May 17, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University continues to be a national leader in higher education as it will open the doors to a Disability Cultural Center in the fall of 2011. This groundbreaking center will be the only one of its kind across the…

Campus & Community

SU faculty collaborate with Willow Field Elementary May 19 to host public research lesson

Monday, May 16, 2011, By Jennifer Russo

Faculty from the Syracuse University Department of Science Teaching have partnered with the teachers and administration of Willow Field Elementary in Liverpool to explore a process called “lesson study.” Their efforts will culminate this Thursday, May 19, at 6 p.m….

Campus & Community

Case worker steers student up the hill to SU degree

Monday, May 16, 2011, By Eileen Jevis

At the age of 17, Oubon Phommanyrath was living on her own in the Salvation Army Transitional Apartments on Salina Street in Syracuse. Phommanyrath had fled from a physically and emotionally abusive home life at age 14, ending up on…

Campus & Community

Remarks by J. Craig Venter at Syracuse University’s 157th Commencement and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s 114th Commencement

Sunday, May 15, 2011, By News Staff

Thank you, Chancellor Cantor, for a very warm introduction.  I wish you’d told me that I was going to be following the mascot. Chancellor Cantor, trustees, faculty, students: thank you for allowing me to come here to address you for your…

Campus & Community

2011 Syracuse University Beckman Scholar selected

Thursday, May 12, 2011, By News Staff

Vivian Yaci Yu, a junior biochemistry major in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected as the University’s 2011 Beckman Scholar. The highly competitive program, funded by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, supports select students interested…

Arts & Culture

Acclaimed poet, disability rights advocate named director of SU’s Renée Crown University Honors Program

Wednesday, May 11, 2011, By Rob Enslin

The Renée Crown University Honors Program, an all-University program administered by Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, announces the appointment of Stephen Kuusisto as its new director. Kuusisto is an accomplished poet, scholar and disability rights advocate who comes…

Campus & Community

SU headed to the ballpark for SU Day at Yankee Stadium June 26

Tuesday, May 10, 2011, By Scott McDowell

Syracuse University alumni, staff, faculty and fans have an opportunity once again to fill Yankee Stadium with orange during Syracuse University Day at Yankee Stadium on June 26. Tickets must be purchased by May 26. For a bus package, including…