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Alexander Alpert as Aeneas, Jing Liu as Dido, and Catherine Bauman as Belinda.

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Setnor’s Opera Theater to Present ‘Dido and Aeneas’ Jan. 23-25

“Dido and Aeneas” is a masterwork of early Baroque opera. The cast features outstanding young artists from the Setnor School.

Classes help veterans prepare to run their own businesses.

Friday, January 16, 2015

IVMF Receives Prudential Grant to Support Veteran Entrepreneurship Training

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families recently received a $350,000 grant from Prudential Financial, Inc., that will help the institute continue to build the Technical Assistance Program for its renowned Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities.

Several lighting projects have been completed along the Connective Corridor, with several more to come, creating a Corridor of Light. (Photo by Dongmin Shin)

Friday, January 16, 2015

Illumination Initiative Lights Up Iconic Downtown Buildings

Syracuse is renowned for winter, but this season the city is shining a little brighter, thanks to an illumination initiative by the Connective Corridor focused on lighting iconic buildings and public spaces along the recently completed streetscape.

Arland Whitfield ’16 prepares a drone for flight.

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Drone Project Takes Flight, Leads to Entrepreneurial Venture

A couple of summers ago, Arland Whitfield ’16 stumbled across a YouTube video about drones. It wasn’t long before he knew he had to get airborne.

Protein corona of firefly luciferase around a CdSe quantum dot

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Shining a Light on Quantum Dots Measurement

Professor Shikha Nangia, in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, and Professor Ari Chakraborty, in the Department of Chemistry collaborated to understand how protein corona forms and what is different about the quantum dot before and after the formation of the corona.