Wendy S. Loughlin
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Don’t know whom to vote for on Tuesday, Nov. 8? Don’t even know who’s running?
Check out Democracywise, the web voter resource and political news site managed by Charlotte Grimes, Knight Chair in Political Reporting at the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
Democracywise has a Races & Candidates section, which features information on each candidate for the major local offices. It also includes district maps, links to the Onondaga County Board of Elections (where you can look up your polling place) and a calendar of political events.
Democracywise also features stories on the candidates in the five contested open-seat races for the Onondaga County Legislature and the contested open-seat race for the Syracuse Common Council’s District 4—written by student reporters in Grimes’ political reporting class.
Democracywise is a 2010 winner of the Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement & Scholarship.
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August 24, 2012 Natalie Teale, a senior Earth sciences and geography major in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, spent the summer as part of an immersive research experience in the cloud forest of Costa Rica.
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September 13, 2012 Syracuse University today announced that it has surpassed its goal for the most ambitious fundraising effort in the institution’s history.
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September 10, 2012 Civil engineering professor Cliff Davidson had a breathtaking view of the City of Syracuse from a rooftop garden recently. But it’s the possibilities of that prime location that made the experience memorable.
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September 10, 2012 Trauma, psychiatric medications, family therapy, nutrition and systems reform are a sampling of the topics experts from across the country will discuss at the Children’s Mental Health Summit, September 27-29 in Syracuse.
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