Maxwell School's Leonard Burman quoted in Bloomberg on Congressional dysfunction and upcoming 2012 deadlines on tax and spending policy

Arts and Sciences' Anita Zannin speaks with CNN on forensic evidence in Texas case of Warren Horinek

Light Work has announced the exhibition “Looking & Looking,” featuring photographs by Jen Davis and Amy Elkins. Both artists create work that focuses on gaze and identity, with Davis looking at herself and Elkins looking at young male athletes. The images in the exhibition explore the perception of how men and women are supposed to [...]

Three faculty members in the Whitman School of Management have recently joined the editorial boards of respected journals in the fields of business and management. Fred Easton, professor of supply chain management and director of the Robert H. Brethen Operations Management Institute, has joined the editorial board of Decision Sciences Journal (DSJ). DSJ is published [...]

The number of military veterans attending Syracuse University has more than tripled since 2006, thanks to the post-9/11 G.I. Bill and the university's efforts to recruit and retain veterans.

Several campus humor groups, including Zamboni Revolution, has helped shape the new culture of the female comedienne.

Two Whitman School of Management students were honored with awards for their academic achievements in supply chain management at the 62nd annual Harry E. Salzberg Memorial Lecture Program this fall. Roz Amirfazli ’12 received the Robert H. Brethen Prize, given to an outstanding junior studying supply chain management. The $10,000 merit-based award is granted based [...]

Syracuse University’s Sustainability Division is making it easier for everyone on campus to recycle more of the most common recyclable items such as paper, plastics and glass. With the help of a team of student volunteers, new recycling signs have recently started going up across campus. The posters are being posted directly above or on [...]

NPR's All Things Considered speaks with Mike Haynie of IVMF and the Whitman School on unemployment and American veterans

Tuesday, Jan. 3, will be the next monthly pickup of empty cold-shipping polystyrene (Styrofoam) boxes for recycling from campus labs in Link Hall, Bowne Hall, Life Sciences, Sci-Tech and the Physics Building.

Susan Smith, professor of marketing practice in the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, has been selected by the National Association of Electrical Distributors (NAED) Education and Research Foundation to conduct its next research study, "Maximizing Marketing Efforts in the Electrical Distribution Industry." Commissioned by the NAED and sponsored by the Channel Advantage Partnership, [...]

Kelley Purcell teaches a yoga class at SU that helps students exercise in a way that is relaxing for both mind and body.

Robert A. Rubinstein, professor of anthropology and international relations at the Maxwell School, was an invited speaker at the conference on “Accounting for Culture in the Military: Implications for Future Humanitarian Cooperation."

Auditions for the Syracuse University Summer Dance Intensive, under the artistic direction of Danita Emma, will be conducted on Sunday, Jan. 8 at Syracuse Stage. Momchil Mladenov, a former principal dancer with the Suzanne Farrell Ballet and the National Ballet of Bulgaria, will act as assistant artistic director. The 2012 program will take place on [...]

Entries now being accepted online; this year’s awards carry a cash prize Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications has established the John M. Higgins Award for Best In-Depth/Enterprise Reporting as part of the annual Mirror Awards for excellence in media industry reporting.  Supported by a gift from Discovery Communications and Time Warner Cable [...]

College of Law's David Cay Johnston discusses American tax policy on MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan Show

Popular study abroad program enters second decade In “Shadow and Act,” a collection of essays about the black experience, Ralph Ellison describes jazz as the “art of assertion within and against the group.” Each jazz moment, he writes, springs from a context in which each musician challenges the rest of the group—every solo representing a [...]

The Master of Laws (LL.M.) for foreign students at Syracuse University College of Law is a new 24-credit-hour graduate program designed to offer students with a foreign (non-U.S.) law degree or its equivalent, advanced study in American law. Applications are being accepted through May 15, 2012, for students entering in fall 2012. “We believe in [...]

Sixty-three student teams representing more than 300 Whitman seniors competed in the semiannual Capstone Business Plan Competition held Dec. 9-10 at the Whitman School of Management. At the conclusion of both the fall and spring semesters, Whitman's Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises hosts the Capstone Business Plan Competition. Every Whitman senior participates in the [...]

Employer Resources, developed by the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University under its Employer Demand Project, are now available online. The Employer Demand briefs and toolkit are designed to provide employers with resources on incorporating people with disabilities into the workplace and improving employment outcomes for all workers. Exploration of these issues strives to [...]

12/19/11 – 1/16/12

12/19/11 – 1/16/12

New iSchool and Microsoft partnership in social networking experiment reported in industry media

Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications is the top journalism school in the country, according to a recent survey conducted by NewsPro, the magazine for news professionals.  Newhouse “easily claimed the top spot,” according to an article published in the December 2011 issue of NewsPro. Rounding out the top five were Northwestern University’s [...]

The School of Information Studies (iSchool) and Microsoft Corporation announce a partnership to better understand how Microsoft’s new social software So.cl can be used with students who have grown up with social software, study information science and design communication tools. So.cl (pronounced “social”) combines search and social networking for the purpose of learning, and is the [...]

More than 70 percent of online media journalists and other content contributors now interact with public relations professionals through popular social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, according to a 2011 survey of North American online media conducted by Cision and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Download a full summary of the [...]

Two School of Information Studies (iSchool) faculty members have been nominated for Instructor of the Year awards by the web-based Information Science Education (WISE) Consortium.

The New York State Education Department’s “Race to the Top” grant awarded $1.6 million to Syracuse University’s School of Education to start the teacher-preparation pilot program “Syracuse Urban Inclusive Teacher Residents (SUITR).” The grant is part of a statewide effort to effectively prepare and motivate teachers to educate students in high-needs schools and to increase [...]

When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently announced at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Switzerland, that the United States would consider gay rights when making future aid and asylum decisions, she acknowledged what scholars and activists have known for a long time: that the struggle to recognize rights around sexual orientation must [...]

On Sunday, Dec. 18, Syracuse University Chancellor and President Nancy Cantor will receive an honorary degree from the University of Michigan (U-M). The honorary doctor of laws degree will be presented at U-M's winter commencement exercises at the Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor, Mich. Cantor is one of four honorary degree candidates, including Jill Ellen [...]

The Gallery Shop at the SUArt Galleries is proud to present a sample of greeting cards created by students of the fashion design program at Syracuse University.

New program to put residents of Syracuse’s South Side and others on career pathway to employability and entrepreneurship The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced today that it is providing funding to Syracuse University’s South Side Innovation Center (SSIC) for a pilot program to put aspiring entrepreneurs on the path to [...]

The Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) within the Division of Student Affairs has appointed Huey Hsiao as its new associate director. Hsiao will begin the position on Jan. 1, 2012. Currently, he is serving as assistant director of student services for MBA and M.S. programs at Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management. “Huey provides a [...]

More than 70 students, from across nearly every SU school, gathered at the iSchool for the second annual MLB.com College Challenge.

Barbara Stripling, incoming professor of library science at the iSchool, was recognized in a speech by Caroline Kennedy.

Syracuse University shuttle service will be operating on an abbreviated schedule starting on Monday, 12/19/11.

A free shuttle bus from the Syracuse's Regional Transportation Center (RTC) and Hancock International Airport will be available for students returning to campus on Sunday, Jan. 15, and Monday, Jan. 16.

On Dec. 14, Syracuse University celebrated the completion of its Cyber Engineering Semester program by the first cohort. The program—the first of its kind in the nation—prepares students to design, build and verify highly assured systems and to meet the cybersecurity challenges in today’s world. The Cyber Engineering Semester program is an 18-credit undergraduate course [...]

Patricia P. McDougall, director of international business and William L. Haeberle Professor of Entrepreneurship at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, has been named the 2011 Falcone Distinguished Entrepreneurship Scholar by the Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises at the Whitman School of Management. McDougall shared her knowledge in the field during a lecture, “Untangling [...]

Balancing the Books, a collaboration between Syracuse University’s Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service, the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, and the Syracuse City School District, is a service learning program geared toward tutoring local middle and high school students in the Syracuse area. The tutoring program focuses on teaching students [...]

The Dec. 15 session of Thursday Morning Roundtable (TMR) will feature Joshua Dekaney, interim director of the Center for Live Music in the 21st Century in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, and Mark Nerenhausen, founding director of SU’s new Janklow [...]

Second-year MBA students in the Whitman School of Management will present their research, “The Impact of Onondaga Public Libraries on the Lives of Patrons and the Community,” on Wednesday, Dec. 14, as part of the seminar in marketing research course. The presentation will take place from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Milton Room (fourth floor) [...]

The chaplains of Syracuse University's Hendricks Chapel will conduct a remembrance service on Wednesday, Dec. 21, at 2:03 p.m. in the chapel's Noble Room to honor the 270 people who died aboard Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on the same date 23 years ago. Thirty-five students studying through SU’s Division of International Programs [...]

Syracuse University Library has acquired the personal papers of the flamboyant and trend-setting architect Morris Lapidus. Lapidus, who died in 2001, is perhaps best known for hotels like the Fontainebleau, Americana and Eden Roc in Miami Beach, Fla., buildings which embodied the growth of leisure in American life during the 1950s and 1960s. The Fontainebleau has [...]

Lee McKnight, Kauffman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the School of Information Studies (iSchool), will participate in a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) panel discussion to examine the transition from the nation’s current public switched telephone network to new technologies. The panel, part of a series of workshops looking into the issues around moving from [...]

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has awarded the City of Syracuse a $10 million grant to pay for the next two phases of the Connective Corridor, a project linking downtown Syracuse and the Syracuse University area with a pedestrian-and bike-friendly streetscape to provide positive economic, social and environmental benefits for the region. Syracuse is [...]

A donation of $5 will help support the over 2,000 students of Syracuse University & SUNY-ESF who will participate in Relay this year, and most importantly, will help the American Cancer Society in its effort to find a cure.

MSNBC previews New York City event honoring accomplishments of SU alumnus and Heisman Trophy winner Ernie Davis '62

CNY Regional Economic Council, co-chaired by SU Chancellor Nancy Cantor and CenterState CEO’s Rob Simpson, wins $103.7 million in funding for region On Dec. 8 in Albany, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the winners of the NYS Regional Economic Development Council competition. Of the 10 regions in the state vying for $785 million [...]

Debbie Sydow, president of Onondaga Community College (OCC), will present a seminar exploring education access at community colleges. This three-credit class, offered through SU’s School of Education, will be held on the OCC campus during the spring 2012 semester. Sydow will be assisted by Kristine Duffy, vice president for enrollment management and student development at [...]