Syracuse University Libraries’ Blackstone LaunchPad is now accepting online applications for 2021-22 school year competitions. The universal application for the competitions, with nearly $100,000 in prizes, are for innovative or creative solutions to address problems or opportunities. Competitions are open to all undergraduate and graduate students from any academic program at Syracuse University, as well as SUNY-ESF students taking innovation and entrepreneurship courses at the University. In addition to the online application, registrants must provide a one-page business statement. All applications close ten days prior to the competition date.
This year’s LaunchPad competitions are:
Over the past five years, Syracuse University students have won $3.65 million in campus, state and national competitions and raised more than $54 million in equity funding for their ventures. Out of nearly 1,000 ideas, students have incorporated more than 140 businesses and have used their experience to build skills and their resumes and find their dream jobs at top innovation companies around the world.
The College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) has announced the appointment of Shikha Nangia as the Milton and Ann Stevenson Endowed Professor of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering. Made possible by a gift from the late Milton and Ann Stevenson,…
Ten years ago, a faint ripple in the fabric of space-time forever changed our understanding of the Universe. On Sept. 14, 2015, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) made the first direct detection of gravitational waves—disturbances caused by the…
While summer may bring a quiet calm to the Quad, the drive to discover at Syracuse University never rests. The usual buzz of students rushing between classes may fade, but inside the labs of the College of Arts and Sciences…
A new study looks at the physical forces that help shape developing organs. Scientists in the past believed that the fast-acting biochemistry of genes and proteins is responsible for directing this choreography. But new research from the College of Arts…
Baobao Zhang, associate professor of political science and Maxwell Dean Associate Professor of the Politics of AI, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for $567,491 to support her project, “Future of Generative Artificial Intelligence…
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