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Syracuse University’s Youlonda Copeland-Morgan, associate vice president of enrollment management, is one of the four-year institution leaders interviewed for this report. Her remarks focus on recent policy changes SU’s Enrollment Management has made in financial aid that contribute to improving access and retention for transfer students at SU.

Syracuse University’s Chilled Water Plant has been recognized for its performance in protecting local waterways from pollutants discharged into the county sewer system. The plant, which is part of SU’s Steam Station, received a 2010 Onondaga County Industrial Achievement Award…

Alejandro Amezcua, a post-doctoral scholar in the Whitman School of Management, has been chosen as this year’s National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Dissertation Award winner. Titled “Boon Or Boondoggle? Business Incubation as Entrepreneurship Policy,” Amezcua’s dissertation investigates whether incubated…

Christian Science Monitor quotes Newhouse School’s Robert Thompson on News of the World scandal in U.K.

Two faculty members in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Art have been named recipients of the 2011 New York State Council on the Arts’ (NYSCA) Artist Fellowship Program by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA).

Robert Rubinstein, professor of anthropology and international relations in the Maxwell School, has been appointed to the five-member steering committee of the Peacebuilding Systems Project, a program of the Alliance for Peacebuilding.

Professor Deborah J. Monahan will lead the research efforts of the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics effective July 1. In the role as interim associate dean of research, Monahan will direct faculty research, scholarship and entrepreneurship…

Kevin J. Bailey of Syracuse has been named director of information technology for the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University.

Mehrzad Boroujerdi, associate professor of political science in the Maxwell School, is president-elect of the International Society for Iranian Studies.

Brian Taylor, associate professor of political science in the Maxwell School, wrote “State Building in Putin’s Russia” (Cambridge University Press).