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Anish Bhimani, managing director and chief information risk officer with JPMorgan Chase & Co., will kick off The HUB 2010 Fall Speaker Series on Wednesday, Sept. 15.

SU has established a presence in Foursquare, a popular location-based social media environment.

The Technology Alliance of Central New York (TACNY) will host a presentation on social media as part of its 2010-11 Sweet Lecture Series.

Susan Winter, the acting deputy director of the National Science Foundation’s Office of Cyberinfrastructure, will present as part of the School of Information Studies Brown Bag Series on Thursday, Sept. 16.

All matriculated Syracuse University undergraduate and graduate students are invited to apply to be part of a two-week EuroTech travel abroad experience Aug. 7-21, 2011.

After completing his Ph.D. in 2009, Heng Yin went straight to work preparing his grant proposal, “Mining Operating System Semantics: Techniques and Applications.” For this proposal, Yin has received a $427,000 grant from the NSF to fight against malicious code.

Syracuse University School of Information Studies Professor Milton Mueller’s $304,000 grant proposal “Deep Packet Inspection and the Governance of the Internet” has received funding by the National Science Foundation.

The Syracuse University School of Information Studies and MLB Advanced Media are sponsoring the MLB.com University Challenge.

Joey F. George, renowned scholar and current president of the Association for Information Systems, will kick off the 2010-11 Brown Bag Lecture Series at the School of Information Studies at noon on Tuesday, Sept. 7.

Wenliang Du, professor of computer science in the L.C Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, has received a $471,970 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to explore ways to make web browsers a safer environment for information gathering and dissemination.