Daeya Malboeuf has been named director of communications & creative services for Syracuse University's Division of Enrollment Management. In this capacity, she will provide expert creative direction in all matters related to marketing strategy, communications and public relations for Undergraduate Admissions, SU Abroad, Office of the Registrar, Office of Financial Aid and Graduate Enrollment. She will also serve as a key member of the University's senior communications team.

Malboeuf most recently served as associate director of marketing and communications for Syracuse University Abroad, where her responsibilities included marketing and public relations strategy, brand management and print and electronic advertising. Prior to joining Syracuse University, she served as creative services manager and advertising account executive at Cowley Associates, a Syracuse-based advertising agency. Malboeuf is pursuing her M.A. in communications and rhetorical studies at SU, and holds dual bachelor degrees in English and art studio from SUNY Geneseo.

Syracuse University Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Jeanne S. Steffes will serve as co-chair for the American College Personnel Association Institute on Sustainability, to be held at Harvard University June 11-14. The goal of the institute is to invite individuals and teams from institutions to create an understanding, framework and actionable goals that can be taken back to campuses and integrated into the cores of the institutions. Leading sustainability scholars and practitioners will discuss current trends, and benchmark and promising practices.

Amardo Rodriguez, associate professor of communication and rhetorical studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, has published a new book, "Diversity: Mestizos, Latinos and the Promise of Possibilities" (Floricanto Press, 2007). Defining "brown" ideologically rather than racially, the book is about the hope that resides in that "color of creation" and about peoples who are of borderlands -- relational, theoretical and cultural spaces devoted to possibility. Rodriguez's research and teaching interests focus on communication theory and the potential of an emergent understanding of communication to expand concepts of democracy and community.

Elane Granger, associate director in the Lillian and Emanuel Slutzker Center for International Services at Syracuse University, attended the Washington Leadership Meeting of NAFSA: Association of International Educators in Washington, D.C., January 24-27. Granger represented Syracuse University at the meeting as the education and training coordinator for education abroad. Elected by the NAFSA membership, Granger will work closely with other NAFSA staff members to set up curricula nationwide for advisors of international students and scholars and for professionals in the field of education abroad. Fluent in Spanish, Granger lived for many years in Madrid. She holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic studies from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Pamela Peter, assistant director in the Office of Residence Life at Syracuse University, will serve as a trainer for the 2008 Association of College and University Housing Officers-International (ACUHO-I) South Africa Training Delegation. Forty professionals applied; eight applicants were chosen to serve as trainers. The delegation will be in South Africa from May 10-26, presenting programs at workshops and housing seminars as well as sharing professional experiences. Peter received a bachelor's degree and master's degree from The Pennsylvania State University.

William Longcore, associate director of residence life at Syracuse University, submitted and had accepted a program proposal for the Association of College and University Housing Officers-International (ACUHO-I) annual conference. At the ACUHO-I Annual Conference and Exposition to be held in Orlando, Fla., in June, Longcore and John Rossiter of Marcellus, N.Y., manager of the Safety Department , a division of Business, Finance and Administrative Services at SU, will co-present "New Approaches to Fire Safety Training: Burn It and They Will Come." The program describes the collaborative effort to provide innovative fire safety training to SU's residence life staff members during August 2007 training. Longcore received a bachelor's degree and an M.B.A. from SU's Martin J. Whitman School of Management. Rossiter, an active member of the Marcellus Fire Department, is also a New York State certified Codes Enforcement Officer.

Syracuse University researcher Bruce H. Wilkinson and his research partner Stephen E. Kesler from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, have developed a way to estimate the total amount of copper ore deposits in the earth's crust by looking at the age of the rock formations in which the copper ore is contained. Their work was published in the March 2008 issue of Geology.

The model enabled these scientists to determine that most of the copper deposits now exposed at the earth's surface are about 7 million years old, and that the vast majority of all such deposits (62 percent) have been destroyed through the normal geological processes of uplift and erosion. Of deposits remaining in the crust, only about 1.2 percent are close enough to the surface to be accessible by current or future mining operations. However, that still leaves enough accessible copper to supply the world for approximately 5,500 years, the scientists say.

Jeanne S. Steffes, associate vice president for student affairs at SU, was the keynote speaker at the Student Affairs Conference at New York University (NYU), a one-day conference and professional development event held in New York City February 1. This year's conference theme was "Reconsidering Learning: Making Meaning of the University Experience." Steffes received a bachelor's degree from Marquette University, a master's degree from The Ohio State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.

Eric Nestor, coordinator for assessment, operations and technology in the Office of Residence Life at Syracuse University, will be listed as a consultant with the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) to assist other institutions interested in using CAS or its self-assessment guides.

Michael Mattson was recently appointed executive director of gift planning in the Division of Institutional Advancement at Syracuse University. For the past three years, Mattson served as assistant dean for advancement with the University's L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Sciences. Mattson brings to the new position more than 13 years of gift planning experience at different universities before joining SU and an additional 12 years in executive management in banking in Nebraska.

Corey Driscoll has been named community relations associate in the Office of Government and Community Relations at Syracuse University. Previously, Driscoll held a post in Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli's campaign.

Melissa Luke, assistant professor of counseling and human services, was awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Student award from Chi Sigma Iota, the international academic and professional honor society for school counselors, serving students, alumni and counselor educators. Luke will receive this award officially at the Chi Sigma Iota Awards Ceremony at the American Counseling Association's Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, in March. Luke successfully defended her dissertation last semester. Luke received the award in recognition of her exemplary activities as a scholar and instructor, as well as her service to the profession (including her many roles in the Sigma Upsilon Chapter) while she was a doctoral student. In the fall semester, Luke received the Syracuse University chapter's Outstanding Doctoral Student and Service to the Chapter awards, which made her eligible for these international awards.

Delynn Orton, faculty undergraduate physical education coordinator in the School of Education's Department of Exercise Science, received the United States Tennis Association (USTA) Special Population Award for 2007 at the Eastern Tennis Leadership Conference, held on Jan. 26 in White Plains, N.Y. The Special Population Award recognizes Orton's commitment, program development work and advocacy to make tennis accessible to all. Orton was cited for her work with adapted tennis clinics in New York City for adapted physical educators and for developing program materials for community parks and recreation departments. She currently is developing tennis materials for other special populations, in particular programs for people with autism. While at the conference, Orton also taught a clinic on how to teach tennis skills to the visually impaired.

Alick Macdonnel McLean, faculty associate in fine arts at Syracuse University in Florence, recently received a Millard Meiss Publication Grant from the College Art Association for his forthcoming book "The Urban Everyman: The Birth, Life, and Death of The Medieval Commune of Prato in Tuscany." The book will be published by Yale University Press in fall 2008. The Meiss grant is given to support the publication of projects of the highest scholarly and intellectual merit in the history of art, visual studies, and related subjects. The jury selected amongst book-length scholarly manuscripts that have been accepted by a publisher on their merits, but cannot be published with extended, high-quality illustrations without a subsidy.

Andy Robinson, general manager of the Orange Television Network and adjunct professor in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, was selected to attend the 2007 Faculty Seminar sponsored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation, this past November. Administered by the Television Academy Foundation's Education Programs department, the Faculty Seminar offers college professors opportunities to see how television entertainment works behind the scenes. Twenty faculty members from around the country, chosen by a selection committee, were invited to Los Angeles and had unique access to the Hollywood television production community throughout the seminar.

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.

Kalena Cortes, assistant professor of higher education, recently has been awarded grants for research involving the economics of education. Cortes received grants, totaling $39,000, from the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and the American Educational Research Association (AERA). The Upjohn research will focus on the effects of college quality on student performance and labor market outcomes; the AERA project will examine the effect of changes in federal student aid packaging on the educational choices of low-income and minority students. Cortes received her Ph.D. from the Economics Department at U.C. Berkeley. Her research interests lie in the intersection of the economics of education, labor economics, and economic demography, with an emphasis on the economic wellbeing of immigrants in the U.S. She also is examining returns to education and school peer effects.

Steve Parks, associate professor of writing and rhetoric in the Writing Program in The College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University, and John Burdick, professor of anthropology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, have received $5,000 in funding from the "Bringing Theory to Practice Project" of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U).

The Bringing Theory to Practice Project, sponsored by the Charles Engelhard Foundation of New York City and developed in partnership with the AAC&U, seeks to advance engaged student learning and determine how it might improve the quality of students' education, development, health and commitment to civic engagement

Parks and Burdick are using the grant funds to anchor a series of undergraduate community research fellowships for six SU students for the spring semester. Each fellow will receive a $400 stipend and a $400 research budget to work in a team on a project that has been developed collaboratively with community leaders.

Ran Liu G'08, a student in the M.S. in information management program, was named the D'Aniello Top Intern of the Semester for fall 2008 by the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. Liu, one of eight students selected for the prestigious D'Aniello Entrepreneurial Internship Program, interned at AquaTox Research Inc., a Syracuse-based independent, for-profit divestiture of the Aquatic Toxicology Center from its former parent company, Syracuse Research Corp. She worked directly with AquaTox's chief executive officer, Frank Dougherty, on developing a plan targeting the China market.

LawBeat, a blog by Syracuse University professor Mark Obbie, has been selected as a top blog by the American Bar Association (ABA) Journal for the publication's inaugural "Blawg 100." The list encompasses the 100 best websites by lawyers, for lawyers, as chosen by ABA Journal editors. LawBeat was ranked seventh under the "Generally Speaking" category.

Currently, there are between 2,000 and 3,000 legal blogs -- "blawgs" as the ABA Journal calls them. "Blawg 100" bloggers post advice, tips, opinions and cautionary tales, in addition to office chatter, gossip, frustration, love, rage and outright pleas for justice.

On LawBeat, Obbie finds endless examples of shortcomings in the mainstream media's coverage of high-profile court cases and other legal topics. The blog watches the journalists who watch the law and is intended to start a conversation about the quality of journalism focused on the justice system, lawyers and the law. It can be found online at http://newhouse-web.syr.edu/legal/blog.cfm.