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Welch Allyn, Syracuse University announce new plans for Blue Highway, LLC

Tuesday, June 28, 2011, By News Staff

Created in 2008 as a technology incubator of Syracuse University and Welch Allyn, Blue Highway, LLC, has flourished in its mission to research and incubate innovative health care technologies and concepts. Today, June 28, Welch Allyn announced that Blue Highway—a…

STEM

Syracuse University biologist discovers key regulators for biofilm development

Friday, June 24, 2011, By News Staff

They can be found everywhere—organized communities of bacteria sticking to surfaces both inside and outside the body. These biofilms are responsible for some of the most virulent, antibiotic-resistant infections in humans; however, scientific understanding of how these communities develop is…

STEM

Discovery by SU physicist alters conventional understanding of sight

Friday, June 24, 2011, By News Staff

A discovery by a team of researchers led by a Syracuse University physicist sheds new light on how the vision process is initiated. For almost 50 years, scientists have believed that light signals could not be initiated unless special light-receptor…

Campus & Community

Graduate student shares passion for science with middle school students during Science Horizons Summer Program

Wednesday, June 22, 2011, By Eileen Jevis

When Nadia Essi was selected as the only eighth-grade student from Levy Middle School to attend a science camp at Syracuse University, she was excited to learn more about a subject she had come to love. “My fifth-grade teacher, Mrs….

Campus & Community

SU Alumni Club of Central New York presents scholarship golf tournament July 11

Friday, June 17, 2011, By News Staff

The 16th annual Scholarship Golf Tournament will be held at Drumlins Country Club on Monday, July 11. This tournament is the primary fundraiser for the Syracuse University Alumni Club of Central New York Scholarship Fund.

Veterans

EBV-Families expands to College of Business at Florida State

Friday, June 17, 2011, By News Staff

Walmart Foundation grant supports military family job training The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans’ Families (EBV-F), an education and training program founded in 2010 and based at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, has announced its expansion to Florida…

Campus & Community

Virtual Community Museum unveiled

Thursday, June 16, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Prject aims to preserve local black history

Veterans

VA awards Burton Blatt Institute partner contract to examine employment of veterans

Monday, June 13, 2011, By News Staff

Thanks to a $483,000 grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, in partnership with veteran-owned business Corporate Gray, will conduct substantial research to improve the hiring and retention of veterans by…

Arts & Culture

VPA announces establishment of Philip H. Stevens Award in industrial and interaction design

Friday, June 10, 2011, By Erica Blust

Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) has announced the establishment of the Philip H. Stevens Award in the college’s industrial and interaction design (IID) program in its Department of Design. The award is named in honor of…

Veterans

Haynie appointed Barnes Professor of Entrepreneurship in Whitman School

Friday, June 10, 2011, By News Staff

Melvin T. Stith, dean of the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, announces that J. Michael “Mike” Haynie has been named the Barnes Professor of Entrepreneurship, in recognition of his outstanding accomplishments in teaching, research and service. Haynie was…