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Life Sciences Complex to receive High Performance Building designation

Tuesday, November 16, 2010, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s Life Sciences Complex will receive special recognition for its energy-saving measures that make it one-third more efficient than a comparable standard building. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) will present a High Performance Building…

Acclaimed mezzo-soprano D’Anna Fortunato to give concert, master class at SU

Tuesday, November 16, 2010, By Erica Blust

Acclaimed mezzo-soprano D’Anna Fortunato will visit Syracuse University Dec. 3-4 to perform a concert and give a master class. Both events are free and open to the public. On Friday, Dec. 3, at 8 p.m., Fortunato and pianist Mary Jane…

Bowne Hall is new ‘green’ home of Syracuse Biomaterials Institute

Monday, November 15, 2010, By News Staff

SU will be seeking green building recognition for the project.

Near Westside Initiative elects seven new members to board of directors

Monday, November 15, 2010, By News Staff

The Near Westside Initiative (NWSI) recently elected Tanya Eastman, Karla Green, Elizabeth Nolan, Maria Revelles, Isaac Rothwell, Benjamin Sio and Peter Thompson to its board of directors. “From its inception, the NWSI has had a board of directors comprised of…

Carnegie Mellon’s Jamie Callan to present on search engine support

Thursday, November 11, 2010, By News Staff

Jamie Callan, professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University’s Language Technologies Institute and School of Information Systems and Management, will present “Search Engine Support for Software Applications.” His presentation is part of the Brown Bag Lecture Series at the…

Using the Visual History Archive, world’s largest collection of eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust

Wednesday, November 10, 2010, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Douglas Ballman of the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education will present an open training session on the Visual History Archive (VHA) on Friday, Nov. 12.

Project Feed Me hosts third annual charity basketball tournament Nov. 13 to fight hunger

Tuesday, November 9, 2010, By News Staff

On Saturday, Nov. 13, SU students, faculty and staff will compete for the title of champion in the 2010 “Defend Your Honor” basketball tournament. The event is organized by Project Feed Me, a nonprofit organization dedicated to addressing the problem…

Campus & Community

iSchool Prof. Kevin Crowston to present Brown Bag lecture on socially intelligent computing to support citizen science

Monday, November 8, 2010, By News Staff

Professor Kevin Crowston will present “SoCS: Socially intelligent computing to support citizen science,” a program sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Arts & Culture

SU Drama presents ‘Jungalbook’

Monday, November 1, 2010, By News Staff

The play is adapted from Rudyard Kipling’s books and poems.

iSchool receives NSF grant to sponsor Global Enterprise Technology Curriculum Workshop

Monday, November 1, 2010, By News Staff

Syracuse University School of Information Studies Senior Associate Dean Robert Heckman has received a $19,936 grant from the National Science Foundation to host a workshop that brings together industry and academic leaders. This group will explore the knowledge and skills needed…