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Media, Law & Policy

Mindset, Happiness and Law School

Wednesday, August 22, 2012, By Kathleen Haley

Law professor Peter H. Huang found out about the pressures of academic life at a young age. He was 14 when he enrolled at Princeton, and began Ph.D. studies in mathematics just three years later. His mother, who he affectionately…

Arts & Culture

Inaugural Syracuse-area Bomba and Plena Festival planned

Wednesday, August 22, 2012, By News Staff

Music, dance and images in the Puerto Rican tradition will be celebrated during the inaugural Bomba and Plena Festival, Sept. 4 to Oct. 5, hosted by La Casita Cultural Center, 109 Otisco St., and La Liga, the Spanish Action League…

STEM

Earth sciences major spends summer in Costa Rican cloud forest

Wednesday, August 22, 2012, By News Staff

Waking up to howler monkeys greeting the morning, hiking past colorfully plumed toucans flying through the trees and looking out for poisonous vipers winding through the forest, Natalie Teale, a senior Earth sciences and geography major in Syracuse University’s College…

Veterans

IVMF announces expanded effort to disseminate veteran-focused academic research

Tuesday, August 21, 2012, By News Staff

Building upon its highly successful weekly Research Brief program, an initiative designed to catalogue, summarize and disseminate peer-reviewed, academic research focused on issues and topics impacting veterans and military families, the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University…

Media, Law & Policy

New Maxwell School Advisory Board chair named

Tuesday, August 21, 2012, By News Staff

One of America’s most outstanding public servants has been named chair of the Maxwell School’s Advisory Board. Sean O’Keefe, who served as secretary of the navy, administrator of NASA, comptroller and chief financial officer of the Department of Defense and…

Campus & Community

Discounted tickets available to SU students, employees for NYS Fair

Tuesday, August 21, 2012, By News Staff

Advance sale tickets to the Great New York State Fair will be available starting Thursday, Aug. 23, at the Schine Box Office for a discounted rate of $5 for students and $6 for employees with their SU or SUNY-ESF ID….

Campus & Community

SU Showcase unveils new format for 2012-13, invites courses from all disciplines to participate

Monday, August 20, 2012, By News Staff

SU Showcase, which celebrates student research and academic achievement across the disciplines, will have a new look in the coming year. Instead of taking place on a single day, SU Showcase will hold multiple events in conjunction with the University…

Veterans

IVMF hosts fourth V-WISE entrepreneurship training conference for female veterans Aug. 23-25 in San Diego

Monday, August 20, 2012, By News Staff

Major General Martha T. Rainville (U.S. Air Force, Retired), Brigadier General Belinda H. Pinckney (U.S. Army, Retired) and Master Chief Petty Officer Ginger L. Simpson (U.S. Navy, Retired) to be honored as pioneering women in the military Veteran Women Igniting…

Campus & Community

Syracuse Welcome 2012 to receive new students beginning Aug. 22

Monday, August 20, 2012, By News Staff

On Wednesday, Aug. 22, approximately 3,800 first-year and transfer students will arrive at Syracuse University to kick off the 2012-13 academic year. When they do, Syracuse Welcome, SU’s orientation program, will help them get acclimated and ready to start the…

Media, Law & Policy

College of Law welcomes Class of 2015 and inaugural LL.M. students

Monday, August 20, 2012, By Jaclyn D. Grosso

The Syracuse University College of Law welcomes its 116th first-year law class on Aug. 20 with 250 students arriving for a weeklong orientation program, including an expanded community service project to help local food pantries. New to campus this year…