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Pre-Seed Workshop to connect area innovators with business community expertiseAugust 18, 2006SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu The Syracuse Technology Garden, the CASE Center at Syracuse University and MedTech are sponsoring a Pre-Seed Workshop, a two-day intensive investigation and evaluation of early-stage technology…

Thorin to discuss the changing role of the academic librarian in the ‘unbound’ libraryAugust 18, 2006Mary Beth Hintonmbhinton@syr.edu University Librarian and Dean of Libraries Suzanne Thorin will speak Thursday, Sept. 14, at 4 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons…

Presale tickets to Gore lecture available to SU, SUNY ESF studentsAugust 16, 2006SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu Presale tickets to Al Gore’s lecture, “An Inconvenient Truth,” Thursday, Sept. 14, at the Landmark Theatre, will be available online to SU and SUNY ESF…

Peace activist Cindy Sheehan, jazz violinist Billy Bang among 2006 Syracuse Symposium guestsAugust 16, 2006Kelly Homan Rodoskikahoman@syr.edu A diverse mix of lectures, performances, exhibits and courses will be the catalyst for the Syracuse University and greater Syracuse communities to this…

SU seeks faculty, staff, neighbors and community to welcome off-campus studentsAugust 15, 2006Laura Madelonelmmadelo@syr.edu On Aug. 27, community volunteers will visit the neighborhoods near Syracuse University to welcome back students living off campus. Residents of the East Neighborhood, Syracuse University…

Pilot program in academic writing to be taught to freshmen in connection with humanities postdoctoral program at SUAugust 15, 2006Carol K. Masiclatclkim@syr.edu What is the meaning of life? Twenty first-year SU students will find out this fall when they take…

Catastrophic drainage of subglacial lakes created Labyrinth canyons of Antarctica 12-14 million years ago; SU professor asks: Could this happen again?August 14, 2006Carol K. Masiclatclkim@syr.edu Suzanne Baldwin, Syracuse University earth sciences professor and director of the Syracuse University Noble Gas…

Maxwell receives grant for program on international relations, religionAugust 11, 2006SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu The Maxwell School has received a major new grant to create an interdisciplinary initiative on “Religion, the Media and International Relations.” The $370,000, three-year support from the…

Homeland Security raises aviation threat levelAugust 10, 2006SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Aug. 10 announced a targeted elevation in the threat level for the aviation sector in response to the arrest of individuals in the United…

CNY health experts promote new autism legislationAugust 09, 2006Patrick Farrellpmfarrel@syr.edu Syracuse University School of Education Dean Douglas Biklen, a number of Central New York health and neurodevelopmental experts and Jamie Burke, a first-year Syracuse University student who has autism, joined…