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Remember this SU psychologist Amy Criss
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Making his mark Trevor Cooney is an unlikely recruit, but
hopes to advance memory studies after receiving an award. Page 3
Top pay at SU on par with peers
the need for a campus environmental group. Page 5
anyone on campus using Pulp’s holiday gift guide. Pages 12-13
his international experience for a high schooler is second to none. Page 24
HIGHS AND LOWS SU Athletic Director Daryl Gross made more than his counterparts at Boston College and the University of Southern California. But Chancellor Nancy Cantor made less than the presidents at New York University, Boston University and USC.
$490,155
By Kristin Ross
$469,248
By Jon Harris
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ASST. COPY EDITOR
PAY IN 2008
$327,797
Daryl Gross
Athletic Director Syracuse University
Michael Garrett
Gene DeFilippo
Athletic Director University of Southern California
Athletic Director Boston College
$1,238,724
Prachi Mishra, an economist in the research department of the International Monetary Fund, lectured Monday in Eggers Hall, explaining her newest research project, which examined the effects a country’s imports and exports face after a debt or banking crisis. In October 2010, Mishra, along with two colleagues, put together the report “How Does Trade Evolve in the Aftermath of Financial Crises?” The research takes samples of data from 170 documents in 153 countries and is spread out over the past 40 years.
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$827,597
$691,716 $598,758
PAY IN 2008
The way William Zumeta sees it, the high salaries of top college officials around the country are just the cost of business. “In general, you have got to meet the market,” said Zumeta, senior fellow of The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. On Nov. 14, The Chronicle of Higher Education released an analysis looking at 448 private college presidents nationwide and listed Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor as the 14th-highest paid with a total compensation of nearly $1.4 million. Despite earning six and sometimes seven figures, the salaries of top SU executive and athletic officials are within range of their counterparts at peer institutions. SU spokesman Kevin Quinn said New York University, Boston University, Boston College and the University of Southern California are among SU’s peers. Although SU is within range of all four private universities in terms of academics, Quinn said BC and USC have Division I athletic programs comparable to SU. Yet during a time when universities are facing significant budget cuts and tuition increases, the increasing
Trade expert talks effects of recessions
John Sexton
President New York University
Steven Sample
Former president University of Southern California
Robert Brown Nancy Cantor President Boston University
Chancellor Syracuse University
Source: IRS tax form 990
WHAT IS THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND? Made up of a total of 187 countries, the International Monetary Fund, or IMF, is an organization that seeks to create financial stability, lower worldwide poverty, enhance monetary cooperation across the globe, promote international trade and work toward high employment. Source: imf.org
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Researchers to test prototype of efficient vertical wind turbines on campus next year By Heather Wentz STAFF WRITER
After four years of planning and developing their idea, engineers and designers from Syracuse University and Impact Technologies are ready to capture the wind and turn it into a sustainable energy source. The School of Architecture, the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science and Impact Technologies, a company that has
already found alternative ways to use wind energy, have created the Clean Energy Collaborative. They expect to have prototypes for their wind turbine around campus next year, said Michael Pelken, a professor in the School of Architecture and research fellow for the Syracuse Center of Excellence. “When I fi rst started working here, I had some ideas about harnessing wind technologies,” Pelken said.
He got in touch with Thong Dang, a professor in the mechanical and aerospace engineering department, in 2007, and the two have been working together ever since. The prototype Pelken and his team designed is a way to catch wind through a vertical turbine with blades that store the energy. The turbine is shorter than traditional windmill-style turbines and rotates on a vertical axis to capture the most amount of wind.
Their prototype, the Self-Sustaining Street Light, is an alternative form of energy in which wind is captured and stored during the day and then used during the night to provide illumination for a light post. Pelken said he hopes to start getting realworld data from this prototype by next year. After Pelken and Dang developed the principle and started the engineering work, a group of students from the
engineering and architecture departments developed various components of the light post and helped to build a functioning model, Pelken said. Laura Graham, a graduate student studying mechanical engineering and aerospace, worked on the Self-Sustaining Street Light project during her senior year at SU last spring. She said she had heard of the background and the plan behind the SEE WIND TURBINES PAGE 6