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Development, democracy, peace are topics of Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai’s University Lecture, Oct. 17October 11, 2006Patrick Farrellpmfarrel@syr.edu The University Lectures and The College of Arts and Sciences’ Geoffrey O. Seltzer Lecture Series will present 2004 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and…

HSHP and partners to sponsor 5k run/walk/rollOctober 11, 2006SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu The College of Human Services and Health Professions (HSHP), together with the SU ROTC program and Recreation Services, will hold a campus-wide 5K walk/run/roll to promote a healthy campus….

Ballentine Institute plans April visit with Warren BuffettOctober 11, 2006Amy Schmitzaemehrin@syr.edu Through the Ballentine Investment Institute in the Whitman School of Management, students in the Applied Portfolio Management program (the portfolio managers of the Orange Value Fund, LLC) will have…

Center on Digital Literacy to study eighth-graders’ information-seeking abilitiesOctober 11, 2006Margaret Costello Spillettmcostell@syr.edu Researchers at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies’ Center on Digital Literacy (CDL) have begun a new study that focuses on what eighth-graders do when given…

Leading the paradeOctober 11, 2006SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu Drummers lead audience members from the symposium “Collaborative Adventures in the Humanities” to the re-dedication of Tolley Administration Building on Oct. 6. Tolley is the site of the new Center for the Public…

New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert to give 2006 Honors Lecture at Syracuse UniversityOctober 11, 2006Kelly Homan Rodoskikahoman@syr.edu Elizabeth Kolbert, award-winning writer for The New Yorker and author of an acclaimed book on global warming, will visit Syracuse University on Oct….

CNY state legislators secure grant for communication devices for children with special needs at SU’s ‘Saturday Clinic’October 11, 2006Patrick Farrellpmfarrel@syr.edu State Sen. John DeFrancisco (R-50th SD) and Assemblyman Jeff Brown (R-121st AD) have secured a special, one-time $8,000 grant to…

The Orange Value Fund first closing raises $1.1 millionOctober 11, 2006Amy Schmitzaemehrin@syr.edu The Orange Value Fund, a student-run fund operated out of the Ballentine Investment Institute in the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, officially announced on Wednesday, Oct….

IJPM symposium to examine independence in the judicial appointments processOctober 10, 2006Sara Millersemortim@syr.edu Can there really be “independent voices” in a judicial appointments process that is shot through with partisan considerations? If so, what is the role of such voices?…

WISE Consortium honored for excellence in online teaching, learningOctober 10, 2006SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C), an association of more than 1,000 institutions and organizations of higher education engaged in online learning, has named the Web-Based Information Science Education…