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Business & Economy

First Near Westside Initiative microloan to support new business creating eight jobs

Monday, May 23, 2011, By News Staff

The Near Westside Initiative (NWI) has approved its first microloan since launching an innovative micro-lending program in an effort to spur economic development on the Near Westside. The first loan, in the amount of $12,000, has been approved for the…

STEM

Energy-saving transportation project receives NYSERDA funding

Friday, May 20, 2011, By News Staff

Lawrence L. Tavlarides, professor of chemical engineering and materials science in the L. C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (LCS), has received $260,000 in funding from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to explore…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Wednesday, May 18

Thursday, May 19, 2011, By News Staff

AP notes School of Education’s Vincent Tinto will keynote North Dakota University System Retention Summit

Campus & Community

Onondaga Citizens League wins Tender Loving Care Award

Thursday, May 19, 2011, By Eileen Jevis

The Preservation Association of Central New York (PACNY) awarded the Onondaga Citizens League and the Syracuse Downtown Committee its Tender Loving Care Award in recognition of the outstanding work on the Syracuse Downtown Living Tour. The Onondaga Citizens League is…

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

Belfer’s ‘Sound Beat’ radio program awarded NEA grant

Wednesday, May 18, 2011, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

“Sound Beat,” a public radio program originating in the Belfer Audio Archive at the Syracuse University Library, was awarded a $15,000 Arts on Radio and Television grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).  “Sound Beat” is a daily…

Campus & Community

History of the American wilderness movement at this week’s IRP

Wednesday, May 18, 2011, By Eileen Jevis

Thomas Welch, professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at SUNY Upstate Medical University, will present “Exploitation, Exploration and Expeditioning: Three Men, Their Mountains and the Birth of the American Wilderness Movement” at the May 19 session of  the…

SU mourns Maxwell Emeritus Professor John Cleverdon Honey II

Wednesday, May 18, 2011, By News Staff

John Cleverdon Honey II, professor emeritus of public policy at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, died on May 17 at the age of 94.

Arts & Culture

Syracuse International Film Festival announces visiting artist

Tuesday, May 17, 2011, By News Staff

Israeli film director Dani Menkin has been selected to receive a visiting artist grant that will bring him to Syracuse for four months to live and work in the community. Menkin recently was awarded a Schusterman Visiting Artist Grant from…

Business & Economy

South Side Innovation Center announces 2011 Chase Business Plan Challenge

Tuesday, May 17, 2011, By News Staff

The 2011 Chase Business Plan Challenge will take place on Friday, May 20, beginning at 6 p.m. at the South Side Innovation Center (SSIC), 2610 S. Salina St., Syracuse. The competition will occur during graduation ceremonies for SSIC clients who…