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School of Education Responds to Controversial NCTQ Report
In response to a growing national debate over teacher quality, the School of Education posted an explanation on its website this week about its approach to training teachers who will perform at the highest level. In announcing this new web…
A&S Professor Wins National Nuclear Physicist Award
Paul Souder, professor of physics in The College of Arts and Sciences, is the co-recipient of the 2013 Outstanding Nuclear Physicist Award from Jefferson Science Associates (JSA). He shares the award with Douglas Beck, professor of physics at the University…
iSchool and IBM Host zEnterprise Summer Seminar
Syracuse University and IBM’s System z Academic Initiative co-hosted the zEnterprise Summer Seminar at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) earlier this month. This three-day seminar, held June 3-5, brought together IBM employees and college educators from across North America…
Q&A with Professor Roy Gutterman: Balancing Privacy and National Security
Recent revelations about the U.S. government’s surveillance programs in counterterrorism have jarred the American public into a debate about privacy rights versus national security. A former National Security Agency contractor employee, Edward Snowden, leaked information that the N.S.A. collects the…
Registration Open for New Librarianship MOOC
The School of Information Studies (iSchool) has opened registration for its second massive open online course (MOOC), the “New Librarianship Master Class.” “The vision for a new librarianship must go beyond finding library-related uses for information technology and the Internet,”…
University Community Harvest Farmers’ Market to Be Held Friday at Strawberry Festival
Parking will be limited by construction Are you craving fresh fruits and vegetables, looking for flowers to brighten up your home or searching for a unique handmade item? Look no farther than the University Community Harvest Farmers’ Markets. The seventh…
Desire, Resources for Self-Employment Grow with Age, Says Whitman Study
Starting a business is no longer a “young person’s game,” according to new research by Maria Minniti, a professor at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. Minniti and her co-authors, professors Teemu Kautonen and Simon Down of Anglia Ruskin…
Sperm Wars Ruled by Females?
SU study finds that females play active, pivotal role in postcopulatory processes Females play a larger role in determining paternity than previously thought, say biologists in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Their findings are the subject of a…
Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz Named Interim Senior Vice President and Dean of Student Affairs
Chancellor Nancy Cantor today named Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz interim Senior Vice President and Dean of Student Affairs at Syracuse University. Kantrowitz, currently Associate Vice President for Inclusion, Community and Citizenship within SU’s Division of Student Affairs, will succeed Thomas V….
Gina Lee-Glauser Named Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Gina Lee-Glauser, vice president for research at Syracuse University and research professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in SU’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, was named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The…