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Campus & Community

Neighborhood children will help design new playground at Skiddy Park

Monday, September 19, 2011, By News Staff

Neighborhood children from the Near Westside will share ideas about what they’d like to see in a new playground to be built in Skiddy Park next month. The children, ages 7-12, are members of after-school programs in Peace Incorporated and…

Business & Economy

Whitman hosts second annual Retail Summit Sept. 22-23

Monday, September 19, 2011, By News Staff

The Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University will host the second annual Retail Summit on Sept. 22-23, to educate students about the field and provide opportunities for them to hear from high-profile members of the Retail Advisory Board, all…

Campus & Community

Himes appointed to Board of Scientific Counselors

Friday, September 16, 2011, By News Staff

Christine Himes, professor of sociology int he Maxwell School and director of the Center for Policy Research, has been appointed to the Board of Scientific Counselors of the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. The appointment to the four-year term is…

STEM

SU garners $3 million NSF grant for education, research in soft and biological materials

Thursday, September 15, 2011, By News Staff

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Syracuse University $3 million over the next five years to develop an Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training Program (IGERT) in Soft Interfaces. IGERT is the NSF’s flagship interdisciplinary program to educate Ph.D.-level…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse School’s Tully Center launches Free Speech Zone

Thursday, September 15, 2011, By Wendy S. Loughlin

The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications’ Tully Center for Free Speech has launched Free Speech Zone, an open venue for interactive commentary, news and analysis of issues at or near the intersection of free speech, media law and policy,…

Arts & Culture

All tickets for David Sedaris University Lecture are distributed

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

All tickets for the upcoming University Lectures presentation of “An Evening with David Sedaris” at Syracuse University have now been distributed. Sedaris will speak on Tuesday, Oct. 11, at 6 p.m. in the Schine Student Center’s Goldstein Auditorium. All ticketholders…

Campus & Community

Three open houses at Near West Side businesses are free to the public Sept 17

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, By News Staff

Three businesses on the Near West Side will hold open houses on Saturday, Sept. 17, from 1-5 p.m. The businesses—the Spa at 500, StudioDOG Productions and Szozda Gallery—are members of the Near West Side Initiative Business Association. The open houses…

Media, Law & Policy

TRAC: Immigration Court backlog climbs, criminal cases fall

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, By News Staff

The number of cases awaiting a resolution before the Immigration Courts reached a total of 285,526 at the end of July 2011. According to the very latest data obtained and analyzed by Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), that…

Veterans

EBV receives endorsement from Code of Support Foundation

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, By News Staff

The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV), a cutting-edge business training program that provides veterans with disabilities with the tools to achieve the American dream of business ownership, has been endorsed by the nonprofit Code of Support Foundation as…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Wednesday, September 14

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, By News Staff

Yahoo quotes William J. Ward of the Newhouse School on the role social media might have played in 9/11