Week in News: SU to assess future of kiss cam, School of Education receives $3 million grant and more
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The School of Education received the largest grant in its history and the funds will be used to help InclusiveU.
Here’s everything you need to know from this week in news.
Syracuse to assess future of kiss cam
Syracuse University has taken the usual kiss cam segment on the Carrier Dome scoreboard out of its ingame activities program. A letter to the editor sent to Syracuse.com on Sept. 18 brought up concerns about the kiss cam and Syracuse Athletics confirmed that the university is “taking time” to assess them and offered no timetable for the kiss cam’s return.
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School of Education gets largest grant in its history
The School of Education received a $3 million gift — the largest in its history — and will use the money to support people with disabilities. The donation was made by the Taishoff Family Foundation and given to the Lawrence B. Taishoff Center for Inclusive Higher Education to promote InclusiveU, a program aimed at supporting students with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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SU explores idea of opening a tuition-free, veteran-focused medical school
Syracuse University is exploring the possibility of opening a first-of-its-kind, veteran-focused medical school that would allow 40-to-60 undergraduates to go to the school tuition-free on a commitment that they will care for veterans in VA hospitals across the nation upon graduation.
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Search committee hopes to find vice chancellor and provost by early 2016
Syracuse University hopes to have a permanent vice chancellor and provost in place by early 2016. The search committee held an open forum for community members to provide input on what qualifications the new vice chancellor and provost at the university should have on Monday.
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We don’t want to be held to the timeline. We want to do a good job.Charles Driscoll, search committee chair
Several campus buildings lose power Wednesday afternoon
Several residence halls and academic buildings lost power for much of the afternoon on Wednesday due to an equipment malfunction in Machinery Hall. The first outage occurred around 1:25 p.m. Power was restored to all buildings by 6:20 p.m.
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SU, SUNY Upstate partner in research collaboration
Researchers from Syracuse University and SUNY Upstate Medical University are teaming up in a new pilot program for research collaboration between faculties at the two schools. Sam Nappi, a member of the SU Board of Trustees, donated $1.5 million to SU for biomedical and chemical engineering. He designated $500,000 of that money for the pilot program.
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Syracuse University has things that we don’t have and (Upstate) has things that Syracuse University doesn’t have so we can become that bigger university through collaboration.David Amberg, vice president of research at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University
Published on September 27, 2015 at 8:23 pm
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