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Campus & Community

Remembrance Scholars announce schedule for Remembrance Week 2012

Thursday, October 18, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University’s Remembrance Week 2012 will be held on the SU campus Oct. 21-27. The weeklong series of events honors the 270 people—including 35 students studying abroad through Syracuse University—who lost their lives in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988.

Arts & Culture

Getting to Know: Tere Paniagua, executive director of cultural engagement for the Hispanic community

Thursday, October 18, 2012, By Cyndi Moritz

For several years, Tere Paniagua has been the managing director of Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, a nonprofit organization supported by Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, and by the New York State Council on the Arts. The Point…

Syracuse University’s Dawn Long awarded for providing ‘key’ to the future

Thursday, October 18, 2012, By Keith Kobland

Dawn Long says she “was absolutely shocked.” That was her reaction after being told she was the winner of the the Golden Key International Honour Society’s Regional Advisor of the Year award.  She’s one of 11 people in North America…

Campus & Community

Multi Grammy Award-winning artist CeCe Winans performs in Syracuse

Thursday, October 18, 2012, By News Staff

Legendary recording artist CeCe Winans will perform at the Lovie Lee Emory Awards Show at SRC Arena and Events Center at OCC on Saturday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m. in celebration of the Urban School Partnership with Inter-faith leaders for…

Business & Economy

Whitman School to hold 63rd Salzberg Memorial Program

Thursday, October 18, 2012, By News Staff

On Thursday, Oct. 18, the Whitman School of Management will host the 63rd Harry E. Salzberg Memorial Program, a celebration of achievements in supply chain management. This year’s recipients of the prestigious Salzberg Medallion are Mike Haverty, executive chairman of…

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…

Arts & Culture

Agency Group VP Peter Schwartz ’90 to speak Oct. 18

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By Erica Blust

Peter Schwartz ’90, a vice president and head of urban music at the Agency Group in New York, as well as an agent representing his own roster of musical talent, will give a talk on Thursday, Oct. 18, at 6:45…

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…

LGBT activist speaks at Villa Rossa Lecture Series

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, By Jennifer DeMarchi

On Oct. 10, the Villa Rossa Lecture Series at Syracuse University in Florence hosted Vladimir “Vladi” Luxuria, an Italian actress, writer, politician and television host. The lecture, entitled “Across Ocean and Gender, Discovering the Unknown,” explored her time spent traveling…