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Veterans

IVMF Helps Launch National Coalition of Veteran-Owned Businesses

Thursday, May 7, 2015, By News Staff

The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) and First Data Corp. joined leading companies, government agencies, nonprofits and others in Washington, D.C., earlier this week to announce the launch of the Coalition for Veteran Owned Business. This first-of-its-kind national…

STEM

Schools, Colleges Announce Speakers for 2015 Convocations

Monday, May 4, 2015, By Cyndi Moritz

From men and women who have achieved outstanding careers in their fields to prominent faculty members to some of the most accomplished students, all of Syracuse University’s schools and colleges have named speakers for their Convocation ceremonies. The Convocations will…

Veterans

Taking Care of Business

Monday, May 4, 2015, By Rob Enslin

To date, nearly a thousand “wounded warriors” have completed the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans program. Sixty-five percent of them have launched businesses, of which 93 percent are still in operation.

Campus & Community

Five to Receive Honorary Degrees at 161st Commencement

Thursday, April 30, 2015, By Kathleen Haley

A renowned sportscaster, a civic leader, a New York Times best-selling writer, a pre-eminent scholar of education, and a distinguished attorney and Chairman of the Syracuse University Board of Trustees will be awarded honorary degrees by Syracuse University for their impact in their fields and in the world.

Arts & Culture

WGS Faculty Recognized for ‘Timely, Relevant’ Scholarship

Wednesday, April 29, 2015, By Rob Enslin

The Department of Women’s & Gender Studies (WGS) in the College of Arts and Sciences is having another banner year. Several of its professors—Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Dana Olwan, Pedro DiPietro, Himika Bhattacharya and Minnie Bruce Pratt—have been recognized for their…

Health & Society

Falk Graduate Students Lay Groundwork for Bringing Adaptive Sport Competition to CNY

Tuesday, April 28, 2015, By Michele Barrett

Seventeen sport management graduate students in Gina Pauline’s advanced sport event management course have spent the spring semester, in collaboration with the Syracuse Sports Corp., laying the foundation to not only produce the Second Annual Syracuse Sport Summit taking place…

Campus & Community

Send Silence Packing Offers Hope, Brings Awareness to Mental Health

Wednesday, April 22, 2015, By Kathleen Haley

The 1,100 backpacks distributed around the Quad were part of an exhibition to represent the number of college students nationwide who commit suicide every year.

Campus & Community

Let There Be Lightboard!

Wednesday, April 22, 2015, By Christopher C. Finkle

Imagine a glass chalkboard pumped full of light. You face your online students and write on the board at the same time, in the same window, and what you write glows in front of you. Imagine no more! Lightboard is…

Survivor Love Letter Event in Honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Monday, April 20, 2015, By Shannon Andre

On-campus peer education groups Sex-Esteem, Mentors in Violence Prevention, e5m, Pride Union, SASSE, AMI and Sex SYMBALS, with support from the Office of Health Promotion, Sexual and Relationship Violence Response Team and the LGBT Resource Center, hope to spread messages…

Arts & Culture

Music Industry Executives Bandier, Sykes, Poleman to Speak April 14

Thursday, April 9, 2015, By Erica Blust

The College of Visual and Performing Arts‘ Bandier Program will present a lecture on Tuesday, April 14, by program founder and SU Trustee Martin Bandier ’62, chairman and CEO of Sony/ATV; John Sykes ’77, president of iHeartMedia Entertainment Enterprises; and…