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Campus & Community

SU in the News: Friday, August 10

Friday, August 10, 2012, By News Staff

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE Chancellor Cantor co-authored an Atlanta Journal Constitution op-ed with Earl Lewis, provost at Emory University, on the upcoming Supreme Court affirmative action related case of Fisher v. University of Texas. 9WSYR reported on the installation…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Friday, August 3

Friday, August 3, 2012, By News Staff

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE Asian Age and Medical Daily reported on the recent findings by a team of researchers in The College of Arts and Sciences that found in the sperm competition of fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster), slower and/or…

STEM

For sperm, faster isn’t always better

Wednesday, August 1, 2012, By News Staff

New study by Syracuse University scientists uncovers a reproduction conundrum When it comes to sperm meeting eggs in sexual reproduction, conventional wisdom holds that the fastest swimming sperm are most likely to succeed in their quest to fertilize eggs. That…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell School’s Center for Policy Research names new director

Tuesday, July 31, 2012, By News Staff

A leading researcher on child and family policy and co-author of two recent Pew Charitable Trusts studies on economic mobility, Leonard Lopoo, has been named director of the Center for Policy Research (CPR), the oldest interdisciplinary social science research program…

Veterans

EBV at SU welcomes sixth class beginning July 28

Friday, July 27, 2012, By News Staff

‘60 Minutes’ correspondent Steve Kroft ’67 to deliver opening keynote address This weekend, Syracuse University will welcome a new class of post-9/11 veterans to the sixth annual Barnes Family Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) program, which provides cutting-edge…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Wednesday, July 25

Wednesday, July 25, 2012, By News Staff

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE In a Wall Street Journal article on parents of new college students letting go, Colleen O’Connor Bench, director of Syracuse University’s Parents Office, comments on the need for parents to step back in order to…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Tuesday, July 24

Tuesday, July 24, 2012, By News Staff

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE Recent Syracuse University graduate and Commencement speaker Stephen Barton was profiled in several local and national media reports on the mass shooting in Aurora, Colo., including ABC World News, several Associated Press stories, (here and…

Stanton’s open source e-book introduces data science

Thursday, July 5, 2012, By Diane Stirling

In a world increasingly muddled by the proliferation of information, how can anyone hope to filter, organize, curate and make sense of it all? That’s the job of data scientists, an emerging professional specialty in the information field. An introduction…

Nonprofit expert named to Bantle Chair

Thursday, July 5, 2012, By News Staff

Steven Rathgeb Smith, a prominent expert on nonprofit organizations, public management and social policy, has been named to fill the Louis A. Bantle Chair in Business and Government Policy at the Maxwell School. Smith, currently the Evans Professor of Public Affairs…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Monday, July 2

Monday, July 2, 2012, By News Staff

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE Statistics from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) are cited in a Bloomberg article on U.S. Education Department collection efforts with defaulted student loans. Syracuse.com reported on the 10 high school physics teachers from…