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Gwen Ifill selected as the keynote speaker for 2010 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration

Wednesday, November 11, 2009, By News Staff

SU News Services(315) 443-3784 Gwen Ifill, moderator and managing editor of PBS’ “Washington Week” and senior correspondent for “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” will be the keynote speaker for Syracuse University’s 25th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, “Continuing the…

Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities expands reach to assist more veterans

Wednesday, November 11, 2009, By News Staff

Amy Schmitz(315) 443-3834 The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) has undertaken three major initiatives that will significantly expand the reach and impact of the EBV to assist in rebuilding the lives and economic potentials of U.S. veterans with disabilities….

SU in the News: Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Tuesday, November 10, 2009, By News Staff

Rick Burton, David B. Falk Professor of Sport Management in the College of Human Ecology, authored an article in Street & Smith’s Sports Business Journal (subscription required) on the effects of the United States facing a generation without hosting the…

Masingila makes Kenya connection

Tuesday, November 10, 2009, By News Staff

Jennifer Russo(315) 443-4751 When Joanna Masingila, professor of mathematics and mathematics education in The College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Education, respectively, was a Fulbright Scholar at Kenyatta University near Nairobi, Kenya, in 1998 she did not know…

Tennis, everyone! Inclusion Tennis Program teaches skills to those with disabilities

Tuesday, November 10, 2009, By News Staff

Jennifer Russo(315) 443-4751 Visiting instructor Delynn Orton’s goals at the Syracuse University School of Education are similar to many educators who embrace the school’s legacy of inclusion and community engagement. Unlike other faculty members, though, Orton’s inclusion tools include tennis racquets….

iSchool professor creates new course to help nonprofits use digital media, with assistance from Imagining America grant

Tuesday, November 10, 2009, By News Staff

Margaret Spillett(315) 443-1069 When School of Information Studies professor Marilyn Arnone first learned about a grant to fund new courses at SU that exemplify the University’s mission of Scholarship in Action, she jumped at the chance to apply. The Imagining…

SU Abroad announces new SU Europe venture, new appointments

Tuesday, November 10, 2009, By News Staff

Daeya Malbouef(315) 443-2007 Syracuse University Abroad has launched a brand new addition to its existing study abroad centers, SU Europe. Housed in separate offices within the SU London facility, the mission of SU Europe is two-fold: 1) to further intensify…

Arts & Culture

World-renowned linguist, psychologist looks at how brain comprehends language Nov. 13-14

Tuesday, November 10, 2009, By Rob Enslin

One of the world’s leading experts on how the brain comprehends, produces and acquires language—Yosef Grodzinsky—is visiting Syracuse University.

STEM

iSchool professor creates new course to help nonprofits use digital media, with assistance from Imagining America grant

Monday, November 9, 2009, By News Staff

iSchool Professor Marilyn Arnone used an IA grant to create “Digital iCreation in the Context of the Community.”

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Monday, November 9

Monday, November 9, 2009, By News Staff

Maxwell School’s Deborah Freund quoted in American Medical News on FAIR Health database