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Whitman School Using Gamification to Promote Learning

Wednesday, September 10, 2014, By Keith Kobland

What do Harry Potter and a smartphone app have to do with training tomorrow’s business leaders? At Syracuse University, plenty. This semester, the Whitman School of Management is launching the Goodman IMPRESS program. IMPRESS creates competition among students to gain…

University Launches Commemoration of 25th Anniversary of Fall of Berlin Wall

Wednesday, September 10, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. Nearly 25 years later, approximately 4,000 miles away, Syracuse University is commemorating this historic occasion with a three-month-long series of events.

Campus & Community

SU Investment Club First Meeting

Tuesday, September 9, 2014, By News Staff

The Syracuse University Investment Club will be having its first meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 10, in Whitman room 003 at 7 p.m. All majors and years are welcome! URL: http://www.suinvestmentclub.com/ Contact: William Valle Syracuse University Investment Club wjvalle@syr.edu

Campus & Community

Apple Festival Planned Sept. 19

Monday, September 8, 2014, By News Staff

The Department of Recreation Services within the Division of Student Affairs is hosting the annual Apple Festival, in partnership with SU Food Services, on Friday, Sept. 19, from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on the Quad. The festival provides the University community…

Campus & Community

Global Security Challenges for U.S. at Sept. 11 Thursday Morning Roundtable

Monday, September 8, 2014, By Eileen Jevis

The Sept. 11 session of TMR will feature Vice Admiral Robert Murrett (ret.), deputy director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT) at Syracuse University. Murrett, currently a professor of practice at SU’s Maxwell School and a member…

Soprano Eileen Strempel to Present New Collaborative Work Sept. 22

Monday, September 8, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University soprano Eileen Strempel and Eastman School of Music pianist Sylvie Beaudette will present a concert and celebrate the release of their latest compact disc, “unto thee I burn: song settings of e.e. cummings poetry by north american women…

Lineup Announced for Fall 2014 Carver Reading Series

Friday, September 5, 2014, By Renée K. Gadoua

The Creative Writing Program will once again present six writers in its Fall 2014 Raymond Carver Reading Series. Named for the great short story writer and poet who taught at Syracuse in the 1980s and died in 1988, the Raymond…

Campus & Community

Dr. Chen Appointed to United Way Board

Friday, September 5, 2014, By News Staff

Dr. Ruth Chen, professor of practice at the College of Engineering and Computer Science, has joined the board of directors of the United Way of Central New York. United Way’s board of directors governs the organization and makes vital policy…

Physicists Explore Biomimetic Clocks

Friday, September 5, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Working with a team of scientists from the Technical University of Munich (TU Munich), Brandeis University, and Leiden University in the Netherlands, M. Cristina Marchetti and Mark Bowick, professors in the Soft Matter Program in the College of Arts and…

STEM

Biologist Awarded National Institutes of Health Grant

Friday, September 5, 2014, By Sarah Scalese

James Hewett, an associate professor of biology and neuroscientist, was recently awarded a $440,000 Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Hewett will use this…