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For the first time in more than 100 years, an external candidate was given the position of dean of Syracuse University's L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science.

Laura Steinberg will start in the position Aug. 1, after a 10-month dean search, said Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina. Steinberg is currently a professor and chair of the Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Steinberg's first visit to campus was for a private interview during the winter.

"I have to say that I had a hunch that this might all work out and after my initial private interview I went over to the bookstore and bought a Syracuse T-shirt," she said.

She will replace the current interim dean Shiu-Kai Chin. Chin took over for Spina when he left to take his new position as Vice Chancellor and Provost in June 2006.

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my daughter looked at attending Syracuse University. the town is a getto and they average 10 feet of snow a year due to the wind off the great lakes. they called it lake effect snow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracuse,_New_York

Sounds like a lovely place. Yuck.

When I saw the title of the thread, it got my hopes up for just a second that our favorite Spanish lecturer might be headed to the post he thinks he deserves. Then the morning cobwebs cleared and I realized that schmuck would never have a shot at making Dean anywhere.

Syracuse is a great school and can be really pretty in the spring/summer. However, the winters there are horrendous. Not to mention the four months of gray from November through February.