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C-NS high school students visit Syracuse business to learn about entrepreneurship
Farah Jadran Pike 11/18/09
An added perk to enrolling in the Cicero-North Syracuse High School’s entrepreneurship class is the hands-on experience the students will acquire, according to Linda Dwyer, C-NS business teacher of 16 years.
One of the more recent field trips for the business students was a visit to the Dinosaur Bar-B-Q, located at 246 W. Willow St., Syracuse. There is also a Dinosaur location in Rochester and New York City.
The Syracuse location, owned by John Stage, has been in business since 1988 at the very same Willow Street location. Stage met with the 80 students in the entrepreneurship class Wednesday morning Nov. 18 at his restaurant to host a question and answer session. The students also enjoyed lunch at the barbecue joint.
This high school class is like no other for a few reasons. Teamed up with Syracuse University, students that complete the course will earn four equivalent college credits that they will receive in an SU transcript at the end of the year. The credits can be transferred to any higher education institution.
C-NS is also the only school in the state to be a part of the Syracuse University Project Advance program that involves college credit earning opportunities, according to Dwyer.
The high school curriculum has recently been reorganized to better reflect that of the university’s. During this past summer, Dwyer said the high school and the university worked together to make sure that the books and materials being used for both classes were the same.
SU professors also visit the high school classes to give added instruction throughout the year.
“The partnership with SU is really great,” Dwyer said.
The only difference is that the high school students have an entire school year to cover the material, while the SU students complete the same entrepreneurship class in one semester.
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Friday, November 6, 2009
By Margaret Spillett • (315) 443-1069
More than one million K-12 students and nearly four million college students enroll in online courses each year, and those numbers are expected to rise, according to reports by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) and Sloan-C.
In celebration of National Distance Learning Week 2009, the Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) is unveiling new Web resources for the University community, its peers, and the general public to promote and support online teaching and learning.
The iSchool has created a website, http://ischool.syr.edu/ndl, which features:
* Syracuse Sampler (http://blogs.iis.syr.edu/sampler/),a blog that provides free online access to select multimedia lectures, presentations and technology tutorials from iSchool experts on topics ranging from administration and management, to gaming and innovation;
* OrangeLearner (http://orangelearners.wordpress.com), a blog administered by iSchool online students that discusses distance student life and issues of interest to online students;
* iSchool Online Publications, for quick access to academic and scholarly publications related to online education created by iSchool faculty and staff; and
* online learning tips and online student resources.
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SU NEWS
October 06, 2009
by: Judy Holmes
(315) 443-8085
The Forensic Science Program in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences has received a $912,000 grant from the National Institute of Justice, part of the U.S. Department of Justice for a project that will include hosting a series of national workshops at SU to explore scientific advances in the biology and anthropology of human remains and to identify new areas of forensics research.
“The workshops will enable us to bring together some of the most prominent forensic science researchers in the field,” says College of Arts and Sciences Associate Dean James T. Spencer, a Laura J. and Douglas Meredith Professor and founder of the Forensic Science Program, who is the primary investigator for the grant. “The result will be the publication of white papers designed to help set the national research agenda to further develop work in the identification of human remains in forensic science.”
Michael Sponsler, professor of chemistry and director of forensic science in The College of Arts and Sciences; Shannon Novak, assistant professor of anthropology in the Maxwell School; and Ann Bunch, assistant professor of criminal justice at the SUNY College at Brockport, are co-investigators on the grant.
The workshops will be held over the course of two years and will focus on the following areas:
- advances in human vs. animal bone identification;
- advances in the determination of the post-mortem interval;
- best strategies for DNA use;
- new techniques for individual identification;
- Trauma I and Trauma II;
- new directions in forensic anthropology; and
- quantification in forensic science.
Sally Mitchell, a chemistry teacher at East Syracuse-Minoa High School and SUPA instructor, recently won the prestigious Conant Award for high school chemistry teachers in the United States. Download her acceptance speech as it appeared in the Journal of Chemical Education.
Citation: Mitchell, Sally B. J. Chem. Educ. 2009, 86, 1013.
Congratulations to William Bogatz, who teaches SU's Economics 203 at Wantagh High School, received the "Friends of Education" award from Phi Delta Kappa International at Stony Brook University. Bogatz was honored at dinner on the Stony Brook campus. Dr. Carl Bonuso, Superintendent of Wantagh School District was the keynote speaker.
Reductions in credit card limits impacts ability to borrow
There's nothing new about lenders reducing credit lines and closing accounts for risky customers. But as credit card losses have risen to record levels in recent months, banks have been slashing available credit for even those in good standing -- and that could hurt those customers' FICO scores.
A recent study by the Fair Issac Corp., which created the best-known and most widely used credit score model that lenders use to make decisions, shows credit card issuers cut limits for an estimated 33 million cardholders between October 2008 and April 2009.
Although it's hard to make a general conclusion that FICO scores are hurt in every scenario in which credit limits have been cut, in most cases if someone's credit limit is reduced or an account is closed, it will raise that individual's debt ratio and effectively cause the score to drop.
Sustainable Living by Shawn Dell Joyce
Recycling in School
In our culture, it often seems that our children are much more progressive than many of us stodgy old-schoolers. Most kids can text, download MP3 files, and tell you what their carbon footprint is without missing a beat. The rest of us probably have a hard time doing even one of those things. Michele Daly, a senior at Washingtonville High School, in Washingtonville, N.Y., has been trying to get a recycling program going in her school for years. She and her friends are incensed that recyclables are tossed into the trash cans in the cafeteria. Daly and her friends are working with a Syracuse University Project Advance public affairs class to set up a recycling program in her high school. Read the entire articleNinety high school teachers from over 50 schools in MI, NJ and NY trained for certification to teach SU courses in their local high schools at the SUPA Summer Institute 2009. Twenty-two workshops were offered during the month of July by SU faculty from the School of Education, School of Information Studies, The Martin J. Whitman School of Management, The College of Arts and Sciences and the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science.
Successful completion of the summer workshops qualifies instructors to teach sections of the SU courses in their high schools during the regularly scheduled high school day. Over 6000 students register annually for SU courses offered in 170 high schools through Project Advance.
“I’m so excited to be training to teach the SU course. The kids take these classes seriously because they are the real thing and it’s going to be great to teach,” said Kevin Shapiro, from Wantagh High School. See the pictures here: Opening reception and orientation, workshops, mid-week BBQThousand Island Central School class leaders
TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 2009
CLAYTON — The academic leaders of Thousand Islands Central School's class of 2009 are valedictorian Kristine Faulknham and salutatorian Emily L. Kellogg.
The daughter of R. Dennis and Joanne E. Faulknham of Cape Vincent, Miss Faulknham had a grade-point average of 97.87. She was the vice president of National Honor Society and captain of varsity volleyball. Miss Faulknham was a member of the American Field Service, choir, select vocal ensemble, Area All-State, 4-H, and varsity swimming. She has taken several courses for college credit, including Syracuse University's Project Advance Biology and Rochester Institute of Technology's Project Lead the Way courses.
Miss Faulknham was named the overall New York State winner of the Wendy's Heisman Scholar Athlete program, she is a Lions Scholar, a 7-News Academic All-Star, a Frontier League Champion and All-Star, and a Section III Champion. She has also received a Trustees Scholarship from Hobart and William Smith Colleges, a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Math and Science Medal, and a New York State Education Department Scholarship for Academic Excellence.
Miss Faulknham plans to attend Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva to study biology.
SUPA Forensic Science Students Place 1st and 2nd in C.S.I. Challenge
Syracuse University Forensics student teams from Long Beach and Ward Melville High Schools placed first and second in the C.S.I. Challenge held on the SUNY Stonybrook campus this past May. Over 500 students from 35 schools in Nassau, Suffolk and Queens competed in the 2009 challenge.
Long Beach High School’s teammates Danny Butler, Richard Chan, Max Gropper, Ali Baltrusaitis, Samantha Larsen, Diana Sablich, Melissa Rosenberg, Ryan Murdy, Robert Levokove, Josh Gross and Tim Cabasino, led by SUPA teacher Gary Ribis, placed 1st among the 51 teams that participated.
Ward-Melville High School SUPA teachers Jennifer Visconti and Todd Kettler led teammates Kathryn O'Dwyer, Brandon Gerardi, Brandon Vaeth, Katie Reilly, Jenny Granger, Nick Scotto, Amanda Rand, Jenna Bruno, Jane O'Keefe, Rebecca Downs, Colleen Murphy and Jackie O'Sullivan in their 2nd place finish.
The C.S.I. competition requires students to conduct a comprehensive hands-on criminal investigation of a fictional murder mystery. Each team is presented with a simulated crime scene that students have to evaluate, analyze and interpret during the 8-hour event. Teams are rated on crime scene processing and documentation; physical evidence recognition, collection and preservation; physical evidence examination and interpretation; interview and interrogation skills and on their final presentation.
Syracuse University’s Forensic Science course is offered though Project Advance in over 65 high schools throughout New York, New Jersey and Maine. This course gives students first-hand experience in crime detection and analysis and emphasizes techniques for blood analysis, organic and inorganic evidence analysis, microscopic investigations, hair analysis, DNA, drug chemistry and toxicology, fiber comparisons, paints, glass compositions and fragmentation, fingerprints, soil comparisons, and arson investigations.
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NewsChannel 34's Colleen McCoy shows us how these students are getting a head start on their careers.
40 seniors from the 15 different school districts in the Broome Tioga BOCES are part of the New Visions Academy.
For the past year, they've interned with professionals in their respective fields of interest, living and learning their future career.
Brendan says "I got to see a lot of what I'm going to get myself into in my career of law and I got connections as well, I got to meet a lot of people that could be of use to me in the future."
Many of the students, who have to be nominated for, then apply to the program, chose the New Visions route because they've already completed nearly all their graduation requirements and wanted the hands-on, real life experiences.
Now they're taking what they learned and applying it.
Penelope says "They had to develop a real life public policy based on something they saw while they were out on their work experiences."
Amber says" My public policy is on drug abuse"
"Its addressing the spread of HIV and Hepatitis C from intrevenous drug use in our county."
These policies were then critiqued by Professor XX Copeland from Syracuse University, who oversees SUPA - the Syracuse University Project Advance, also a part of the New Vision Academy, which the students get three college credits for completing.
But he also explained to these highly motivated students that education is not all about grades.
Amber says "Copeland really stresses the importance of being well rounded and having great experiences all around."
But to get the most of these experiences Copeland says you must be an active participant and work to achieve excellence.
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East Syracuse-Minoa teacher Angela DeSantis to receive Liberty Bell Award from Onondaga County Bar Association
Bar association honors ES-M teacher for her contributions to liberty, justice
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Angela DeSantis urges her students to get involved in politics and government to have a say in their futures.
She practices what she preaches.
Last year, she served as the Barack Obama presidential campaign's student outreach coordinator to motivate students on local college campuses to register and vote.
"I feel strongly that young people need to be involved in the political process and in government," DeSantis said.
The East Syracuse-Minoa Central High School teacher is being honored today with the Liberty Bell Award at Law Day 2009 ceremonies sponsored by the Onondaga County Bar Association. The Liberty Bell Award is given annually to a non-lawyer whose community service has contributed to the American system of justice and liberty.
DeSantis also is being recognized for volunteering with the local Alzheimer's Association. She had cared for her mother who had the disease.
DeSantis would not have been eligible for the award in the not-so-distant past because she was a practicing lawyer for 16 years.
"In a prior life, I was an attorney but I gave it up to become a teacher eight years ago," she said. She teaches social studies and economics and serves as the faculty adviser to the mock trial team.
With the nation's current economic situation, DeSantis said economics is a vital class. She also encourages her social studies students to take an active role in government.
"I find it inspiring to see a new generation coming up through the ranks," she said in explaining her motivation to get involved in the Obama campaign. She worked primarily on the campuses of Syracuse University and Le Moyne College - and some at Colgate University - to get students motivated to vote.
"He came from a new generation," she said of Obama, adding it was exciting to see "how far we've come" as a nation with the first African-American nominated for president by a major party.
DeSantis said she has no regrets about changing careers even though she noted, "I work a lot harder now than I ever did as a lawyer."
By Jim O'Hara
Staff writer
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James T. Spencer appointed associate dean in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences
Monday, April 13, 2009
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Judy Holmes
(315) 443-2201
James T. Spencer, professor of chemistry in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences, was recently appointed to the position of associate dean for mathematics, sciences, research and facilities.
In his new position, Spencer will provide ongoing leadership for the college's mathematics and natural sciences departments; support the recruitment and retention of world-class faculty members; act as a primary liaison between the college and the Office of Research and the Office of Sponsored Programs; and manage, coordinate and implement all facilities and space planning activities in the college.
Appointed to the Department of Chemistry as an assistant professor in 1986, Spencer is the founder and director of the college's interdisciplinary Forensic Science Program, director of the Soling Program, founder and chair of the University's MayFest celebration (now known as SU Showcase), founder and director of the SU Brass Ensemble, and a core faculty member with the Renée Crown University Honors Program.
Spencer has also served on a number of departmental, college and University-wide committees. He served as chair of the University Senate Research Committee and of the Senate Task Force on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression. He has also served on the college's Faculty Council and the college's promotion and tenure, instruction, Coronat Scholars and technology transfer committees.
A 2000 recipient of the BUSA Distinguished Achievements in Boron Science award, Spencer is author of more than 75 publications in leading chemical journals, has given numerous presentations and invited lectures, and served as preceptor for 12 doctoral and three master's degree students. During his tenure, Spencer has taught more than 20 different courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, established new courses, and redesigned existing courses in chemistry, honors and forensic science.
Under Spencer's leadership, the Soling Program was completely revised and new goals, courses, events and projects were created. In addition, Spencer has undertaken responsibility for coordinating student nominations for scholarships from the prestigious Goldwater Foundation and the Astronaut Foundation Scholarship Program.
Spencer serves as the primary faculty liaison for SU's Project Advance (SUPA) chemistry and forensic science programs and meets annually with high school teachers and administrators to discuss curricular issues. He organizes four professional development seminars each semester for participating high school teachers and directs the SUPA chemistry and forensic science summer workshops for teachers who are new to the program. Over the years, Spencer has presented lectures on chemistry and forensic science to more than 10,000 high school students.
Spencer has served as director of the SU Brass Ensemble since its founding in 1991. The group is composed of SU and SUNY Upstate Medical University faculty, staff and students, who are accomplished brass and percussion musicians, as well as musicians from the Central New York community.
Spencer holds a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from Iowa State University of Science and Technology and a bachelor's degree from the SUNY College at Potsdam. Prior to coming to SU, Spencer was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Virginia from 1984-86.
James T. Spencer -- Meredith Professor
If there were a modern manifestation of a Renaissance man on the SU campus, it would be personified by Spencer. In addition to his international reputation as a boron and materials chemist, Spencer has pursued an eclectic range of activities during his tenure in the sciences, arts and humanities, which have engaged the campus community as well as communities of scientists, artists, educators and students from Central New York and across the nation.
Spencer is founder and first director of The College of Arts and Sciences' interdisciplinary Forensic Science Program; recent director of the Soling Program; founder and chair of the University's MayFest Celebration (renamed this spring as SU Showcase); and a core faculty member in the Renée Crown University Honors Program. He was also founder and first director of SU's Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program in chemistry, funded by the National Science Foundation.
Spencer is co-founder and director of the SU Brass Ensemble, composed of SU and SUNY Upstate Medical University faculty, staff and students who are accomplished brass and percussion musicians, as well as musicians from the Central New York community. In addition, he coordinates student nominations for scholarships from the prestigious Goldwater Foundation and the Astronaut Foundation Scholarship Program.
As the primary faculty liaison for SU's Project Advance (SUPA) chemistry and forensic science programs, Spencer organizes professional development seminars for participating high school teachers and directs the SUPA chemistry and forensic science summer workshops for teachers who are new to the program. Over the years, he has presented lectures on chemistry and forensic science to more than 10,000 SUPA high school students across the Northeast.
Spencer is deeply committed to science education at both the science major and non- scientists levels. He believes that: "We are all born natural scientists. Newborns learn about the world around them through an intuitive form of the scientific method: observe, seek patterns, experiment and observe again," he says. "However, during the process of formal education, the excitement of discovery and the relevance of science can easily become lost and needs to be rekindled."
Spencer's goal as a teacher is to "help all learners understand scientific thinking and to appreciate, through the study of science, the mysteries of the world around them and the opportunities science provides." He believes that "by framing questions properly with an eye to student interests, such as forensic science, we can channel those interests into unique opportunities to teach fundamental scientific principles."
For his Meredith Project, Spencer plans to continue to use forensic science as a vehicle for enhancing overall science literacy at both the secondary school and college levels. He calls it "science by stealth." "Forensic science is inherently a reverse-format learning experience," he says. "A mystery needs to be solved, and solving that mystery leads directly to opportunities to apply scientific concepts, careful observation and critical thinking to arrive at a reasonable solution."
Spencer plans to develop new classroom materials that will arm students with scientific concepts to guide them through the learning process; develop a new textbook, casebook, creative mock-trial crime scene modules and laboratory materials that emphasize important concepts and deductive learning experiences; and make the materials available to high school and middle school teachers and provide training opportunities for those who use them.
"The project will enhance instruction in our very large introductory science courses on campus by providing refocused materials, assessment tools and interactivity," Spencer says. "It will also have an important impact beyond campus by providing sorely needed materials to colleagues at other universities and to secondary school teachers."
"...Determined to out-empathize their political opponents, political leaders may have trapped themselves in a rhetorical cycle of Depressiongrade doom. That worries Mr. Kiewe: too much panic in the ranks could aggravate things, as businesses hesitate to invest and consumers get too scared to spend. Today's political leaders may find that, unlike Roosevelt's comforting words, the more they prophesize the economic end-of-days, the more likely they are to come true." Read the whole article here...
Her Heart Is in Teaching
Friday, September 26, 2008By Elizabeth Doran
Staff writer East Syracuse-Minoa High School chemistry teacher Sally Mitchell sleeps four hours every night, and at 1 a.m. can often be found working on a lesson for a class she'll teach a month later."I sleep from 2 to 6 a.m. every night," said Mitchell, who's taught at ES-M for 10 years. "My mom has a lot of energy, and my dad has a lot of energy, so I got a double dose. I'm never tired, and the middle of the night is when I work on my lessons."It's that energy along with her talent, creativity and ability to engage students that's helped Mitchell receive a prestigious national award. The 47-year-old Manlius resident is the 2009 winner of the James Bryant Conant Award in High School Chemistry Teaching, given by the American Chemical Society. The prize is $5,000, and she'll receive her award in March at Salt Lake City. Read more...'Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth' opens Aug. 12 at SUArt Galleries; exhibition runs through Oct. 19 and includes works never before seen in the United States. It moves to the Palitz Gallery at SU's Lubin House in NYC, where it will be on display November 4, 2008-January 4, 2009. SUArt Galleries will be providing a variety of educational materials related to the Exhibition. For more information visit http://michelangelo.syr.edu/. To arrange a class visit, please see information under groups/tours on the Exhibition website. If you require assistance, contact Marisa Johnson at Project Advance.
In the fictional CSI: Crime Scene Investigation television franchise, suspects ultimately confess when faced with some extraordinary piece of microscopic evidence uncovered by a crack team of investigators who both collect and analyze the evidence. And, it all happens in a day. In the real world, complex crimes are not solved in a day, and forensic scientists rarely go to crime scenes.
Moreover, the field of forensic science incorporates a wide range of disciplines from medicine and the sciences to the social sciences, humanities, and law. That broad-base approach to the field underpins Syracuse University’s new master’s degree program in forensic science in The College of Arts and Sciences, the only program of its kind in Upstate New York and among a small number of forensic science master’s programs nationwide.
The new program is one of the largest, graduate-level collaborative efforts at the University, involving four schools and colleges (the College of Arts and Sciences, the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, the College of Law, and the College of Human Ecology) joining with SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, SUNY Upstate Medical University, and the Wallie Howard, Jr. Center for Forensic Sciences in Syracuse, which will provide fieldwork opportunities for students. Read more...
Two Central New York teachers are spending their summer discovering how the fundamental scientific ideas and knowledge they teach are generated in a university research laboratory. Gina Duggleby, a biology teacher at Paul V. Moore High School in Central Square, and Lisa Hemler, a chemistry teacher at Liverpool High School, are participating in Syracuse University's Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), sponsored by the Department of Chemistry in SU's College of Arts and Sciences. Read more...
Bill Coplin earns his living in an industry that makes him angry. A full-time professor at Syracuse since 1969, he has degrees from Johns Hopkins University and American University. When he's not teaching in the classroom, he advises 150 undergraduates pursuing a unique Syracuse major and mentors thirty of them.
You say you're driven by an anger. What is it?
As are many college students I was victim of bait and switch. I went to college to become prepared for life, and when I got there, they made me read Chaucer. more
Saving for that rainy day!
Despite what many economists and politicians define as a "recession" and firmly state that we are not yet in one, many business owners and consumers would argue that we are indeed quickly slipping closer to it. Surviving a recession is not easy but can be made more bearable by keeping some basic principles in mind during the good times before the recession hits.
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OVER 40,000 SERVED
Saturday, May 24, 2008By Nancy Cole
Staff writer Amanda Swank was a junior when she took introductory biology from Syracuse University's Marvin Druger, a professor who she says changed her life. Swank, who had been a psychology major, was so inspired by Druger's passion for biology that she changed her major, completed a post-baccalaureate pre-medical program and will begin medical school in the fall. And she said it's all because of Druger. "He made science fun. He made it interesting. You could relate it to your everyday life," Swank said. "If I had taken this intro class and the professor had been miserable and dull, then I probably wouldn't have enjoyed the subject matter as much, and I might not have been inspired to go on and do science." more...Gail Bulman, associate professor of Spanish language and literature, is the recipient of the
first Master's Teaching and Advising Prize from The College of Arts and Sciences. The award
will be presented to Bulman at the college's convocation for master's degree candidates on
Saturday, May 10. The award honors faculty members who teach in programs that are primarily
or exclusively master's programs. Bulman teaches several Spanish courses, including two
new graduate courses, "Performance and Postmodernism in Latin America" and "Writing the
Nation in Latin America."
Rick Wilson, SU English and writing instructor at The Wheatley School, has a busy spring and summer ahead of him. He is premiering Hockey: The Musical! at the Toronto Fringe Festival this coming July.
One last lecture
After 45 years teaching introductory biology, professor Marvin Druger finishes off his time at SU
Melissa Daniels
Marvin Druger took off his jacket and green corduroy hat and put them in the corner of the Gifford Auditorium stage Monday. He plugged in the cords to the overhead projector and slipped the clip-on microphone onto his green and red checkered shirt. He tossed his umbrella into the corner and opened up his folder filled with papers and slides for the day's lecture. Gifford was about half full, with students in Druger's BIO 123 lecture chattering. The professor paced in front, looking relaxed. "Today I'll be teaching my last lecture of Biology 123," he said. "I was going to have an inspirational message - but first we're going to go over the circulatory system then do that at the end." The 74-year-old is relaxed, of course. He's been doing this for 54 years. Read the whole article, complete with comments, in the Daily OrangeSyracuse University Project Advance is pleased to host Teddy Lindsey for the spring professional development seminar for Computer Engineering teachers.
Lindsey is an FBI computer scientist and software entrepreneur. He has worked with the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as other law enforcement and intelligence agencies. In 1998, Lindsey was Director of Research for Wireless Knowledge, the Microsoft/Qualcomm venture. Joining Qualcomm right after graduating from San Diego State University, he served in several leadership positions at the company, including a position as Senior Manager.
In 2004, Lindsey earned the FBI Director’s Award for Excellence for his work developing new technologies for law enforcement and intelligence. Most recently, Lindsey received approval in 2006 to begin his own company, Lindsey Systems Research. He has used this as an opportunity to pursue research into developing new software and cyber security.
Lindsey specializes in software development, wireless technology, and computer security and forensics, among other things.
The seminar will take place May 5 on campus. If you would like to attend, please contact Chris Haskins at Project advance at 443-2404, or via email at cmhaskin@syr.edu
Hyune-Ju Kim, associate professor in The Colleges of Arts and Sciences, commented in an Associated Press story on the statistical likelihood of a reported tie between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in the Syracuse primary vote earlier this week.
Published: December 12, 2007
The Rankings Game
U.S. News & World Report recently released its first ranking of America’s “Best High Schools,” in apparent competition with the annual ratings published by Newsweek and Washington Post education reporter Jay Mathews. We can be sure the latest Top 100 will compel some communities, parents, students or political leaders to claim bragging rights—and others to begin questioning local leaders about the ranking of their hometown high school.No matter where your school shakes out on the scale, you can be sure of two things. First, U.S. News & World Report has already generated the coveted “buzz” and will sell a lot of magazines to—and gain a lot of visits to their ad-laden website from— parents and leaders who must know who has won the Super Bowl of Education. And second, this newest “rank order” (read that however you like) will begin to affect what goes on in high schools across the country—adding one more hurdle to the marathon we call public schooling.[Read more at TeacherMagazine. You will need to register, but there is not charge.]Amos Kiewe, professor of communication and rhetorical studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, has recently published "FDR's First Fireside Chat: Public Confidence and the Banking Crisis" (Texas A&M University Press, 2007).
Kiewe's research interests are in presidential rhetoric and political communication. In the new book, he shows how FDR's rhetoric laid the foundation for the American public's support of its nation's banks and recovery of the economy. With Davis W. Houck, he previously co-authored "FDR's Body Politics: The Rhetoric of Disability" (Texas A&M University Press, 2003) and "A Shining City on a Hill: Ronald Reagan's Economic Rhetoric, 1951-1989" (Praeger, 1991) and co-edited "Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan" (Greenwood Press, 1992). Kiewe also edited "The Modern Presidency and Crisis Rhetoric (Praeger, 1994). Additionally, he has published in Argumentation and Advocacy, Journal of American Culture, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Southern Communication Journal and other professional journals.
Cicero-North Syracuse High School is one of just two high schools in the state to help pilot a new college accounting course.
About a dozen C-NS students are working their way toward four college credits for the course, administered through the Syracuse University Project Advance program. Fifteen students at Hewlett High School in Nassau County, Long Island, also are enrolled in the course, which duplicates SU's Accounting 151: Introduction to Financial Accounting. Read more
Mr. Noto is not at all afraid to proclaim exactly what he thinks of the AP course structure in one word: “disgusting.”In AP courses, the grades are primarily based on a single exam at the end of a two semester course, which, at least according to Mr. Noto, doesn’t truly reflect the ability of the students. That’s why he and other teachers at BHS have been searching for a better high-level economics class for years. This year they have finally found the solution: SUPA Economics. Read More
Katie Frawley, a former student in Mr. Edward Stacy's SU ECN 203 class at Oswego High School returned to Oswego High School as a guest speaker this fall, Frawley, an economist for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Department of Producer Price Indexes, talked with students in Stacy's SU ECN 101 class about her job, college, internships with the federal government and being a student-athlete (softball) in college. Katie is a 2006 graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University with majors in economics and political science. Frawley internships included one summer in Congressman James Walsh's office, a semester at the Office of Homeland Security and one summer with Cornerstone Government Affairs. Ms. Frawley, who also took SU's English and Writing courses through Project Advance, was Oswego High School's 2002 valedictorian.
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"SUper Sleuthing," Syracuse University Magazine, Fall 2004.
Welcome to Forensic Science, a chemistry course that [James T.] Spencer designed and introduced last semester to appeal to non-science majors…. In part, the course evolved from Spencer’s work with SU Project Advance, a program that trains high school teachers how to teach college-credit courses to their students. Read more
“Canastota Students to Probe Forensics,” Syracuse Post-Standard, February 13, 2004.
The Canastota school board unanimously approved a resolution to add a Syracuse University Project Advance forensics science course to the high school’s science offerings.
“Forensic Science Class Offered,” Syracuse Post-Standard City Neighbors, January 15, 2004.
Right off the bat, a course that deals with hair analysis and mock crime scenes sounds sexier to most high school students than plain old chemistry.
"Sharpening Young Minds," Syracuse University Magazine, Summer 2003.
The ailment known as "senioritis" affects adolescents just as they are about to begin their final year of high school…. Fortunately, there is a cure for senioritis in the form of Syracuse University’s Project Advance, a program that offers credit-bearing college courses to high school senior. Read more
"It's 'CSI,' SU Style: High School Instructors Get Lessons in Forensic Science,"Syracuse Post-Standard, July 10, 2003.
High school science teachers from across the state are spending this week at Syracuse University, studying fingerprints, investigating evidence, and probing a mock murder.
Syracuse University’s Project Advance began in 1972, when six area high school principals approached the university with a request to establish a program for able high school seniors that would combat senioritis and prevent the course work from the students’ senior year of high school from being repeated during their first year of college.
Chat Live with a Project Advance staff member