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Elman receives $600,000 National Science Foundation grant to establish Qualitative Data Repository

Thursday, December 1, 2011, By News Staff

The Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School will be the home of the new Qualitative Data Repository, which is to be established with a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of $600,000. Associate Professor of Political Science Colin…

LGBT Resource Center names new associate director

Wednesday, November 30, 2011, By News Staff

The LGBT Resource Center within the Division of Student Affairs has appointed Tiffany Gray as its new associate director. Gray will begin the position on Jan. 1, 2012. “I am beyond excited to work in collaboration with Tiffany,” says D….

Play Your Own Hand: $45,000 in cash prizes at Spring Panasci Business Plan Competition

Wednesday, November 30, 2011, By Lindsay Wickham

Turn your business dreams into reality. Entrepreneurship is thriving on the Syracuse University campus and students from any major or school have the chance to embrace the entrepreneur within and follow their business ideas. Whether it’s just an idea, a…

SU-SIFE, Whitman students to lead major clean-up of Rescue Mission warehouse

Wednesday, November 30, 2011, By News Staff

A group of more than 50 students from Syracuse University, led by members of the SU chapter of Students in Free Enterprise (SU-SIFE) based in the Whitman School of Management, will volunteer their time to undertake a major clean-up of…

Campus & Community

Refugee artists participate in annual Peace Council event

Wednesday, November 30, 2011, By News Staff

Miniature ceramic cows, beaded jewelry and hand-sewn items made by Syracuse refugees from South Sudan, DR Congo, Kazakhstan and Burma (Myanmar) will be some of the new immigrant arts featured for the first time at the Peace Council 41st Annual Plowshares Craftfair & Peace Festival at Nottingham High School on Saturday, Dec. 3 (10 a.m-5 p.m.), and Sun. Dec. 4 (11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Samba Laranja wins Syracuse Area Music Award for ‘Native Orange’

Wednesday, November 30, 2011, By Erica Blust

On Nov. 11, Samba Laranja: the Syracuse University Brazilian Ensemble won a 2011 Syracuse Area Music Award (SAMMY) in the category Best Recording, Other Styles, for its second and most recent album “Native Orange.” The SAMMYs celebrate the Syracuse music…

Business & Economy

Whitman’s Lumpkin named co-editor of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Tuesday, November 29, 2011, By News Staff

Whitman School of Management faculty member G. Thomas Lumpkin has been named co-editor of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (SEJ) by the Strategic Management Society (SMS). The announcement was made at the SMS annual meeting in Miami Beach, Fla. Lumpkin, the…

Business & Economy

Whitman students travel to Philadelphia for supply chain conference

Tuesday, November 29, 2011, By News Staff

Four students in the Whitman School of Management recently attended the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) annual Global Conference in Philadelphia. The students joined more than 3,000 participants from more than 42 countries for facility tours, academic sessions,…

Burton Blatt Institute experts to provide legal analysis as part of $2.35 million grant

Tuesday, November 29, 2011, By News Staff

In New York state, unemployment for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities has reached 66 percent, and those who are employed often have difficulty obtaining competitive employment that earns them at least a minimum wage. The Burton Blatt Institute (BBI)…

Arts & Culture

Children’s touring production ‘New Kid’ to have additional public performances Dec. 3 and 10 at Syracuse Stage

Tuesday, November 29, 2011, By News Staff

Public performances of this year’s Bank of America Children’s Tour “New Kid,” produced by Syracuse Stage and the Department of Drama in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), will be held at noon on Dec. 3 and…