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SU Trustee Deryck Palmer ’78 challenges SU seniors to give by establishing $25,000 Palmer Senior Class Gift Challenge

Friday, March 4, 2011, By Veronica Hotaling

For Deryck Palmer ’78, the lessons he learned in Syracuse University classrooms, labs and libraries set him on the path to both personal and professional success. That is why the University alumnus, trustee and current SU parent has established the…

2011 Relay for Life slated for April 9-10 at Carrier Dome

Wednesday, March 2, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University and the American Cancer Society are teaming up once again to fight cancer with the 2011 SU/ESF Relay for Life, Saturday, April 9, into Sunday, April 10, at the Carrier Dome. The Relay for Life committee has been…

Near Westside Initiative Business Association experiencing tremendous growth

Thursday, February 24, 2011, By News Staff

Encourages more business owners and entrepreneurs to join Twenty-eight neighborhood business owners and entrepreneurs attended this month’s Near Westside Initiative (NWSI) Business Association meeting at the Delavan Center in Syracuse. The meeting marked the third straight month that the group has experienced record turnout. “The…

Campus & Community

HIV Testing Event: Know Your Status

Wednesday, February 16, 2011, By News Staff

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Whitman students offer free tax assistance Feb. 25, March 4, March 25, April 1

Thursday, February 10, 2011, By News Staff

Accounting students in the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University will offer free income tax preparation assistance to all SU students, faculty and staff on Feb. 25, March 4, March 25 and April 1. This service will cover non-complicated…

Green Project Exchange to help NYS communities share ‘green’ best practices

Monday, February 7, 2011, By News Staff

For communities who want to “go green,” it can be nearly impossible to know where to start: what is the best solution for environmental problems? How do you know it will work? Where can you find funding for the project?…

STEM

Five iSchool students earn spot at 2011 SXSW

Thursday, February 3, 2011, By News Staff

This year, the Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) will be sending five students on a non-traditional spring break to the 2011 South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, held March 10-15.

New Republic’s Peter Beinart discusses Israel and American Jewish Community Feb. 15

Monday, January 24, 2011, By Rob Enslin

Peter Beinart, an important public intellectual and expert in American politics, American Jewish life and Israel, is delivering Syracuse University’s second B.G. Rudolph Lecture of the academic year. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take…

SRC provides $5 million community matching gift to Say Yes to Education Syracuse—largest single external gift the program has ever received

Saturday, January 22, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse becomes first ‘Say Yes to Education City’ in the nation At a Jan. 22 reception at the Central New York Philanthropy Center, officials from SRC, Inc.—formerly Syracuse Research Corporation—announced that the company is making a $5 million community matching…

iSchool’s Scott Nicholson wins ALISE Pratt-Severn Faculty Innovation Award

Thursday, January 20, 2011, By News Staff

The Pratt-Severn Faculty Innovation Award Committee has selected Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) Associate Professor Scott Nicholson as this year’s recipient of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Pratt-Severn Faculty Innovation award for his creative use of gaming and social media to attract more users to public libraries.