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Renowned art historian and photographer Deborah Willis will talk about how photographs capture history on Nov. 6

Monday, November 3, 2008, By News Staff

Kelly Homan Rodoski(315) 443-3784 Deborah Willis, one of the nation’s leading historians of African American photography and curator of African American culture, will visit Syracuse University Nov. 6 to talk about the importance of preserving the history of African American…

Newhouse School, Hillel to host ABC News’ Charles Lustig Nov. 10

Monday, November 3, 2008, By News Staff

Wendy S. Loughlin(315) 443-2785 Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and Hillel will host Charles Lustig, director of foreign news for ABC News, on Monday, Nov. 10. He will speak on “Reporting from the World: International Reporting in…

Polls open at 6 a.m. on Election Day

Monday, November 3, 2008, By News Staff

Kevin Morrow(315) 443-3784 Polls on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 4, are open from 6 a.m.-9 p.m. Students and faculty/staff residents who registered to vote locally in Onondaga County should have received postcards from the Board of Elections indicating their polling…

University Lectures series to engage educational policy scholars in discussion on race, desegregation, American public schooling on Nov. 11

Monday, November 3, 2008, By News Staff

Kelly Homan Rodoski(315) 443-3784 The challenging landscape in K-12 American education and in higher education in terms of access, equity and future effects of current federal and local policy and the law will be the focus of the next University…

Blanck, Myhill to co-present Practising Law Institute’s ‘Website Accessibility: Avoid Potential Liability Under Disability Laws’

Monday, November 3, 2008, By News Staff

Blanck, Myhill to co-present Practising Law Institute’s ‘Website Accessibility: Avoid Potential Liability Under Disability Laws’November 03, 2008Me’Shae Brooks-Rollingmrolling@law.syr.edu Peter Blanck, chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University and University Professor; William N. Myhill, BBI senior research associate,…

Self-made civil rights activist to speak at College of Law Nov. 5

Friday, October 31, 2008, By News Staff

Jaclyn D. Grosso(315) 443-9534 Civil rights activist Alvin Sykes Jr. will speak at the Syracuse University College of Law on Wednesday, Nov. 5, at 6:30 p.m. in Room 100. Sykes was instrumental in getting the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights…

CASE Center company receives grant from NIH to develop biological probes

Friday, October 31, 2008, By News Staff

Judy Holmes(315) 443-2201 OrthoSystems Inc., a biotechnology start-up company founded by Syracuse University researchers, has been awarded a $977,000 Phase II grant from the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program of the National Institutes of Health to further develop and…

9/11 family relief executive to speak at College of Law Nov. 3

Friday, October 31, 2008, By News Staff

Jaclyn D. Grosso(315) 443-9534 On Sept. 11, 2001, Cantor Fitzgerald lost more employees than any other company as a result of the New York City terrorist attacks, including the brother of Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick. Lutnick vowed to take…

SU fans encouraged to curb carbon footprint to beat Notre Dame

Thursday, October 30, 2008, By News Staff

Sara Miller(315) 443-9038 As part of NBC Universal’s Green Week, Syracuse University and the University of Notre Dame will battle it out to see which university can achieve the greatest carbon footprint reduction. The Fighting Irish and Orange will meet…

SUNY Upstate Medical University, SU to offer joint master of public health degree in fall 2009

Thursday, October 30, 2008, By News Staff

Darryl Geddes(315) 464-4828 SUNY Upstate Medical University and Syracuse University are joining forces to offer a master of public health degree program beginning in fall 2009 that is the first of its kind in Central New York and the first…