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SU NASCAR Kinetics team focused on first-place finish in national marketing competition

Thursday, October 18, 2012, By Michele Barrett

NASCAR was looking for high-achieving, innovative students who thrive on creativity, problem solving and teamwork to participate in a national marketing competition it launched in 2009 to foster brand awareness throughout campus communities.

Media, Law & Policy

Dialing in on the debate

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By Keith Kobland

As political pundits decide which of the presidential candidates won Tuesday night’s town hall style debate, Frank Biocca already knows. “We can see immediately in the dials,” Biocca says, “when a candidate is doing badly.” He’s not referring to television…

Campus & Community

The ‘family tree’ of air distribution systems

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By News Staff

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Seminar Friday, Oct. 19,  2:15-3:10, Watson Theatre, Watson Hall by  Peter Vilhelm Hielsen Aalborg University, Department of Civil Engineering, Sohngaardsholmsvej, Denmark The interconnection between all air distributions principles are addressed in this presentation. It…

Media, Law & Policy

Imagining America launches web series, ‘The New Activists: Students in the Community’

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By News Staff

“The New Activists: Students in the Community” is Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life’s (IA’s) new web series of short videos profiling high school, undergraduate and graduate students who are tapping their creativity and knowledge to address pressing…

STEM

NSF grant funds study on barriers to smart grid technology adoption

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By Diane Stirling

If existing, readily available smart grid technologies are beneficial to utility companies, their customers and the environment as a whole, why aren’t utilities adopting them? That’s the question three School of Information Studies (iSchool) faculty members will probe with a…

Campus & Community

‘Ensuring Successful Students and Schools’ is focus of next IRP

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By Eileen Jevis

The Oct. 18 session of the Institute for Retired People (IRP) will feature Sharon Contreras, superintendent of the Syracuse City School District. She will discuss the district’s five-year plan for ensuring the success of the city’s students. The IRP program…

Arts & Culture

SU Humanities Center, Society for New Music present program of music, film and video Oct. 28

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By Rob Enslin

The world premiere of “Cantos,” an ambitious multimedia work by New York State composer Rob Deemer, is part of the next installment of Syracuse Symposium, whose theme this year is “Memory-Media-Archive.” The premiere is part of a program titled “Aural…

Media, Law & Policy

Ron Brownstein will explore state of political parties in next University Lecture

Tuesday, October 16, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Noted political analyst and Pulitzer Prize finalist Ron Brownstein will explore the current state of American’s major political parties in the next University Lecture at Syracuse University on Tuesday, Oct. 23. He will speak on “American Politics, Today and Tomorrow”…

Arts & Culture

Folk arts curator to discuss quilts as visual discourse of conflict, reconciliation and memory Oct. 22

Monday, October 15, 2012, By Rob Enslin

Syracuse Symposium, whose theme this fall is “Memory-Media-Archive,” continues with a presentation on the social significance of traditional material culture.

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Friday, October 12

Friday, October 12, 2012, By News Staff

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE The New York Times reviewed the New York City presentation of “Cry for Peace: Voices from the Congo,” a documentary theater piece in the Ping Chong & Company’s Undesirable Elements series. The Syracuse Stage’s Kyle…