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Health & Society

Center for Health and Behavior announces spring 2011 seminar series

Friday, February 4, 2011, By News Staff

The Center for Health and Behavior (CHB) at Syracuse University announces its spring 2011 seminar series. The series is part of the CHB’s effort to promote health and behavior research, and to strengthen collaborations on campus and within the local…

iSchool’s Dolezal publishes white paper on experiences with intervention to reduce domestic violence

Thursday, February 3, 2011, By News Staff

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has published Syracuse University School of Information Studies Professional Doctorate student Jake Dolezal’s work “New Paradigms in Native American Social and Behavioral Intervention Research” on its online repository “SBE 2020: Future Research in Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences.”

STEM

Syracuse iSchool LIS student Katie O’Connell awarded 2011 ACRL scholarship

Thursday, February 3, 2011, By News Staff

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has awarded Syracuse University School of Information Studies graduate student Katie O’Connell G’11 a travel scholarship to attend the ACRL conference in Philadelphia, March 30 through April 2, 2011.

Syracuse University chemist part of team that wins inaugural Gordon Battelle Prize

Thursday, February 3, 2011, By News Staff

Mathew Maye, assistant professor of chemistry in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, was a member of a team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory that won the inaugural Gordon Battelle Prize for…

NWSI launches innovative microloan program for businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs

Thursday, February 3, 2011, By News Staff

The Near Westside Initiative (NWSI), with a $25,000 grant from the Central New York Community Foundation, has launched a microloan program for existing businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs on the Near Westside of Syracuse. Developed by NWSI deputy director Michael Short…

Syracuse University Library receives grant from Dana Foundation to process William Safire papers

Wednesday, February 2, 2011, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Syracuse University Library has received a grant of $86,000 from the Dana Foundation to process recently acquired personal papers of the late William Safire. Safire, the Pulitzer prize-winning political columnist for The New York Times and former Nixon speechwriter, passed…

Dahesh Museum of Art and SU continue collaboration with ‘The Essential Line’

Wednesday, February 2, 2011, By Scott McDowell

First in-depth exhibition of Dahesh Museum’s excellent drawing collection Drawing, an integral part of 19th-century academic training and art-making process, is the focus of the third collaboration in three years between the Dahesh Museum of Art and Syracuse University. “The…

LCS’s Heng Yin receives NSF Career Award to fight against malicious code

Wednesday, February 2, 2011, By News Staff

Heng Yin, assistant professor of computer science in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University, has been awarded the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his proposal…

‘Our Entrepreneurial History’ at Feb. 3 Institute for Retired Professionals

Wednesday, February 2, 2011, By Eileen Jevis

The Thursday, Feb. 3, program of the Institute for Retired Professionals will feature Gregg Tripoli, executive director of the Onondaga County Historical Society (OHA). Tripoli will discuss how the Historical Society is contributing to economic development in the community, which…

Payne to present SOE’s annual Harry S. and Elva K. Ganders lecture Feb. 3

Tuesday, February 1, 2011, By Jennifer Russo

The Syracuse University School of Education will present its annual Harry S. and Elva K. Ganders Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 3, featuring Charles M. Payne. The lecture, “Syracuse City, Forty Years of Urban Education Landscape: From Croton-on-Campus to the Promised…