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Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship to be given March 30

Tuesday, March 29, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University will honor students, faculty, staff and community partners who exemplify SU’s commitment to engagement with the community and Scholarship in Action with the 2011 Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship at a celebration dinner on Wednesday, March…

Arts & Culture

SU Drama presents ‘Curse of the Starving Class’

Tuesday, March 29, 2011, By News Staff

The Syracuse University Department of Drama will present Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard’s deeply unsettling, darkly funny family melodrama “Curse of the Starving Class” April 1-10 in the Storch Theatre at Syracuse Stage. Centering on a family in a dire…

Thirty-fifth annual Quality Infant/Toddler Caregiving (QIC) Workshop to be held May 16-20

Tuesday, March 29, 2011, By Michele Barrett

The College of Human Ecology announced the 35th annual Quality Infant/Toddler Caregiving (QIC) Workshop will be offered May 16-20 at Syracuse University. Training caregivers of children younger than three, the world-renowned QIC workshop is based on research and theory in…

SU Sport Management Club raises nearly $125,000 for local charities, makes $24,000 gift to CNY SPCA

Tuesday, March 29, 2011, By Michele Barrett

Since its founding in 2005, the Syracuse University Sport Management (SPM) Club, a student-run organization in the College of Human Ecology’s Department of Sport Management, has donated nearly $125,000 to Central New York charities. As a result of its most…

‘Best of the Fest’ comes to JCC on April 29

Tuesday, March 29, 2011, By News Staff

Jefferson Community College (JCC), Syracuse International Film Festival (SYRFILM) and the North Country Arts Council bring the “Best of the Fest” from the 2010 Syracuse International Film Festival to the Sturtz Theater on Friday, April 29, at 7 p.m. The…

Campus & Community

Awards Notification – Call for Nominations

Thursday, March 24, 2011, By News Staff

The awards committee of the Alumni Association Board of Directors is now seeking nominations for the 2011 Orange Circle Award. Nominations for the awards can be submitted via the Alumni Relations website at http://www.syr.edu/alumni/awards/nominationform.html. Introduced in 2009, the Orange Circle…

TRAC: South Florida leads nation in mortgage fraud prosecutions

Thursday, March 24, 2011, By News Staff

The government’s criminal enforcement efforts to combat mortgage fraud during the last few years have been focused sharply on swindlers operating in a handful of the nation’s federal judicial districts, according to timely Justice Department records obtained by the Transactional…

Cara A. Howe named assistant archivist for Pan Am 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives

Thursday, March 24, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Cara A. Howe has been named Syracuse University’s assistant archivist for the Pan Am 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives. Howe started her new position on March 16 and reports to Edward L. Galvin, director of archives and records management in the…

SU Showcase Fellows application deadline extended

Wednesday, March 23, 2011, By News Staff

Students scrambling to apply for one of the limited number of SU Showcase Fellow spots can stress less now because they’ve been given a little extra time.  Syracuse University and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry students and student…

Health & Society

Listening devices help preserve confidentiality in hospitals for hearing-impaired patients

Tuesday, March 22, 2011, By News Staff

It’s against the law to share a person’s medical information with others without written consent. However, it’s almost impossible to prevent outsiders from overhearing private conversations in hospital rooms between doctors and hearing-impaired patients. It’s an all-too-common situation that a…