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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

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…

Health & Society

Burton Blatt Institute International Conference to focus on impact of Japanese earthquake on disabled

Wednesday, June 22, 2011, By News Staff

The Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University and the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Economics will hold a joint conference on SU’s campus June 29 and 30 on issues related to disability and economics. The University of Tokyo’s…

Campus & Community

GET Curriculum Workshop explored best practices for experiential learning

Wednesday, June 22, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

In 2008, Syracuse University and JPMorgan Chase & Co., through a unique university-industry collaboration, piloted the Global Enterprise Technology (GET) program. As information technology curricula must adapt to rapid changes in the workplace and in an ever-expanding global marketplace, this…

Arts & Culture

Mark Linder named inaugural Chancellor’s Fellow in the Humanities

Monday, June 20, 2011, By News Staff

Mark Linder, Syracuse Architecture associate professor, has been named the inaugural Chancellor’s Fellow in the Humanities beginning in August. This position marks the critical place of architecture within the humanities. It will offer new avenues for programming with the Humanities…

Junko Therese Takeda writes ‘Between Crown and Commerce’ on early Mediterranean economy

Wednesday, June 15, 2011, By News Staff

Junko Therese Takeda, assistant professor of history in the Maxwell School, wrote “Between Crown and Commerce: Marseille and the Early Modern Mediterranean” (Johns Hopkins University Press).

Arts & Culture

Corcoran High School student awarded SU dance scholarship in memory of Jenni-Lyn Watson

Monday, June 13, 2011, By Eileen Jevis

Margaret Moreno, a senior at Corcoran High School, has attended SU’s Summer Dance Intensive Program for three years. She is so dedicated to her art that at age 15, she cashed in her $1,000 life savings to pay the tuition…

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…

Campus & Community

Summer Telephone and Network Installations: Order Now!

Monday, June 6, 2011, By News Staff

For the next four months, the offices of Telecommunications and Network and Wiring Services, divisions of Information Technology and Services (ITS), will be very busy working on a large number of summer projects.

Campus & Community

SU named to 2010 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction

Thursday, June 2, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

SU has been named for the fifth consecutive year.