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Fitzgibbons, Hurst-Wahl nominated for WISE Instructor of the Year

Friday, December 16, 2011, By J.D. Ross

Two School of Information Studies (iSchool) faculty members have been nominated for Instructor of the Year awards by the web-based Information Science Education (WISE) Consortium.

It’s a queer world: Chancellor’s Leadership Project unites LGBT scholars, activists, artists from around the world

Thursday, December 15, 2011, By Rob Enslin

When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently announced at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Switzerland, that the United States would consider gay rights when making future aid and asylum decisions, she acknowledged what scholars and activists have…

Chancellor Cantor to receive honorary degree from University of Michigan

Thursday, December 15, 2011, By News Staff

On Sunday, Dec. 18, Syracuse University Chancellor and President Nancy Cantor will receive an honorary degree from the University of Michigan (U-M). The honorary doctor of laws degree will be presented at U-M’s winter commencement exercises at the Crisler Arena…

Huey Hsiao appointed the new associate director for Office of Multicultural Affairs

Wednesday, December 14, 2011, By News Staff

The Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) within the Division of Student Affairs has appointed Huey Hsiao as its new associate director. Hsiao will begin the position on Jan. 1, 2012. Currently, he is serving as assistant director of student services…

STEM

First Cyber Engineering Semester completed by inaugural cohort

Tuesday, December 13, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

On Dec. 14, Syracuse University celebrated the completion of its Cyber Engineering Semester program by the first cohort. The program—the first of its kind in the nation—prepares students to design, build and verify highly assured systems and to meet the…

Whitman honors Indiana University professor as 2011 Distinguished Entrepreneurship Scholar

Tuesday, December 13, 2011, By Lindsay Wickham

Patricia P. McDougall, director of international business and William L. Haeberle Professor of Entrepreneurship at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, has been named the 2011 Falcone Distinguished Entrepreneurship Scholar by the Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises at the…

Campus & Community

SU students serve as Balancing the Books tutors

Tuesday, December 13, 2011, By News Staff

Balancing the Books, a collaboration between Syracuse University’s Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service, the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, and the Syracuse City School District, is a service learning program geared toward tutoring local middle…

Whitman MBA students present research on impact of Onondaga County Public Libraries on community

Tuesday, December 13, 2011, By News Staff

Second-year MBA students in the Whitman School of Management will present their research, “The Impact of Onondaga Public Libraries on the Lives of Patrons and the Community,” on Wednesday, Dec. 14, as part of the seminar in marketing research course….

Pan Am 103 victims to be remembered at Dec. 21 service

Tuesday, December 13, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The chaplains of Syracuse University’s Hendricks Chapel will conduct a remembrance service on Wednesday, Dec. 21, at 2:03 p.m. in the chapel’s Noble Room to honor the 270 people who died aboard Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on…

Syracuse University Library acquires papers of architect Morris Lapidus

Tuesday, December 13, 2011, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Syracuse University Library has acquired the personal papers of the flamboyant and trend-setting architect Morris Lapidus. Lapidus, who died in 2001, is perhaps best known for hotels like the Fontainebleau, Americana and Eden Roc in Miami Beach, Fla., buildings which embodied…