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Whitman names winners in semiannual student Capstone Competition

Monday, December 19, 2011, By Lindsay Wickham

Sixty-three student teams representing more than 300 Whitman seniors competed in the semiannual Capstone Business Plan Competition held Dec. 9-10 at the Whitman School of Management. At the conclusion of both the fall and spring semesters, Whitman’s Department of Entrepreneurship…

Burton Blatt Institute develops Employer Resources for incorporating people with disabilities into the workplace

Monday, December 19, 2011, By News Staff

Employer Resources, developed by the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University under its Employer Demand Project, are now available online. The Employer Demand briefs and toolkit are designed to provide employers with resources on incorporating people with disabilities into…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Friday, December 16

Friday, December 16, 2011, By News Staff

New iSchool and Microsoft partnership in social networking experiment reported in industry media

iSchool and Microsoft partner on social networking experiment

Friday, December 16, 2011, By J.D. Ross

The School of Information Studies (iSchool) and Microsoft Corporation announce a partnership to better understand how Microsoft’s new social software So.cl can be used with students who have grown up with social software, study information science and design communication tools. So.cl…

STEM

Fitzgibbons, Hurst-Wahl nominated for WISE Instructor of the Year

Friday, December 16, 2011, By J.D. Ross

Two School of Information Studies (iSchool) faculty members have been nominated for Instructor of the Year awards by the web-based Information Science Education (WISE) Consortium.

It’s a queer world: Chancellor’s Leadership Project unites LGBT scholars, activists, artists from around the world

Thursday, December 15, 2011, By Rob Enslin

When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently announced at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Switzerland, that the United States would consider gay rights when making future aid and asylum decisions, she acknowledged what scholars and activists have…

SU’s South Side Innovation Center receives support to train entrepreneurs for clean energy sector

Wednesday, December 14, 2011, By News Staff

New program to put residents of Syracuse’s South Side and others on career pathway to employability and entrepreneurship The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced today that it is providing funding to Syracuse University’s South Side…

STEM

First Cyber Engineering Semester completed by inaugural cohort

Tuesday, December 13, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

On Dec. 14, Syracuse University celebrated the completion of its Cyber Engineering Semester program by the first cohort. The program—the first of its kind in the nation—prepares students to design, build and verify highly assured systems and to meet the…

Campus & Community

SU students serve as Balancing the Books tutors

Tuesday, December 13, 2011, By News Staff

Balancing the Books, a collaboration between Syracuse University’s Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service, the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, and the Syracuse City School District, is a service learning program geared toward tutoring local middle…

STEM

McKnight to present at FCC panel discussion

Tuesday, December 13, 2011, By J.D. Ross

Lee McKnight, Kauffman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the School of Information Studies (iSchool), will participate in a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) panel discussion to examine the transition from the nation’s current public switched telephone network to new technologies….