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National Wildlife Federation President and CEO to Speak at Maxwell
Collin O’Mara, president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation and a 2006 M.P.A. graduate of the Maxwell School, will deliver the next Tanner Lecture on Ethics, Citizenship and Public Responsibility on Monday, Feb. 23, at 5 p.m. in Maxwell…
Habitat for Humanity Offers Spring Break Project Trips
The Syracuse University and SUNY-ESF chapter of Habitat for Humanity is accepting applications to attend one of three spring break trips to work on housing projects. Students can attend home building projects in Sebring, Fla.; Lafayette County, La.; or Raleigh,…
Nangia Awarded CAREER Grant to Break Barriers in Treating Alzheimer’s
The 2014 report from the Alzheimer’s Association shows that there are more than 5 million people living with Alzheimer’s in America, which is expected to cost hundreds of billions of dollars in caregiving this year. But treatment of diseases like…
Women’s Studies Pioneer Rosi Braidotti to Speak Feb. 12-13
One of Europe’s leading contemporary philosophers and feminist theoreticians is giving two lectures at Syracuse University. Rosi Braidotti, Distinguished University Professor and founding director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University (Netherlands), will discuss “The Political: What Does…
Shoemaker to Receive Prestigious Paul J. Deutschmann Award
Pamela Shoemaker, the John Ben Snow Professor at the Newhouse School, has been honored with the prestigious Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). The award recognizes a…
Simulated UN Negotiations Teach Role of Science in Policy-Making
Since 2011, Professor Svetoslava Todorova of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering has served as a science observer for the UN-Mandated Intergovernmental Negotiations Committee (INC) on Mercury. The group has been instrumental in the development of a global mercury…
‘Quaking Aspen’ to Open at Light Work
Unlike previous photographers who glorified nature, Metz and his contemporaries wrenched photography out of the national parks and replaced the scenic with the vernacular of the everyday American landscape.
Business Manager Phil Sarna to Speak Jan. 27
Phil Sarna, managing director of PS Business Management LLC, will present a lecture on Tuesday, Jan. 27, at 6:30 p.m. in the Lender Auditorium (Room 007), located on the concourse level of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. The…
Nicholson to Speak at Game Design Conference
School of Information Studies (iSchool) Associate Professor Scott Nicholson, an expert in meaningful gamification, transformative games, facilitating learning through games and play in non-classroom settings, and a game designer himself, has been invited to address the IndieCade East conference in…
23/7 Global Founder Mark Weiss ’91 to Speak Jan. 20
Mark Weiss ’91, founder of 23/7 Global, will speak on Tuesday, Jan. 20, at 6:30 p.m. in the Lender Auditorium (Room 007), located on the concourse level of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. The talk is part of…