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Veterans

EBV receives endorsement from Code of Support Foundation

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, By News Staff

The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV), a cutting-edge business training program that provides veterans with disabilities with the tools to achieve the American dream of business ownership, has been endorsed by the nonprofit Code of Support Foundation as…

STEM

Patent awarded for ‘method and system of controlling airfoil actuators’

Wednesday, September 7, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University has been awarded a patent for the development of a “Method and System of Controlling Airfoil Actuators.” This research will lead to greater maneuverability options for wing design on airplanes and is being considered for applications to wind…

Eatman receives international honors for promoting democracy, civic engagement in university life

Friday, August 12, 2011, By News Staff

Timothy K. Eatman, assistant professor in Syracuse University’s School of Education and research director of Imagining America, has been invited to serve as a scholar-in-residence at the University of the Free State (UFS) in South Africa from Aug. 10-23.

Campus & Community

Educators from across New York take part in disability workshops on SU’s campus

Monday, July 11, 2011, By News Staff

Program helps ensure students with disabilities access and benefit from information age While their students are on summer vacation, 105 public school librarians, general educators and special educators from across New York state are spending time in a “summer school”…

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…

Campus & Community

Nicholson, Comprix and Harter named 2011 Whitman Professors of the Year

Friday, May 27, 2011, By News Staff

Amanda Nicholson, assistant professor of retail management in the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, has been chosen as 2011 Undergraduate Professor of the Year. Joseph Comprix, assistant professor of accounting, and Don Harter, associate dean for masters programs and assistant professor of management information systems, were selected as 2011 Graduate Professors of the Year.

STEM

Syracuse University scientists discover new hitch to link nerve cell motors to their cargo

Wednesday, May 25, 2011, By News Staff

With every bodily movement—from the blink of an eye to running a marathon—nerve cells transmit signals to muscle cells. To do that, nerve cells rely on tiny molecular motors to transport chemical messengers (neurotransmitters) that excite muscles cells into action….

Campus & Community

Onondaga Citizens League honors 40 Below at annual meeting

Thursday, May 19, 2011, By Eileen Jevis

Onondaga Citizens League (OCL) will award the 2011 Levi L. Smith Civic Education Award to 40 Below at the OCL annual meeting, to be held at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo on Wednesday, June 8, at noon. 40 Below is an…

Arts & Culture

Acclaimed poet, disability rights advocate named director of SU’s Renée Crown University Honors Program

Wednesday, May 11, 2011, By Rob Enslin

The Renée Crown University Honors Program, an all-University program administered by Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, announces the appointment of Stephen Kuusisto as its new director. Kuusisto is an accomplished poet, scholar and disability rights advocate who comes…

Arts & Culture

Stone Canoe broadens scope, establishes new prize, assembles stellar group of editors for 2012 edition

Tuesday, May 10, 2011, By News Staff

Stone Canoe, A Journal of Art, Literature and Social Commentary, published by Syracuse University, has announced the new group of editors for its 2012 edition. “This is an incredible group of accomplished people,“ says Robert Colley, Stone Canoe executive editor,…