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Ray von Dran Awards provide $70,000 to SU student startups at Emerging Talk

Monday, April 11, 2011, By News Staff

Twelve Syracuse University student startups won a combined $70,000 in seed funding at the second annual Emerging Talk conference on April 1 at the AXA Towers, Syracuse.  Student companies pitched to panels of judges composed of alumni, entrepreneurs and faculty…

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Sheraton Syracuse University to host open house

Monday, April 11, 2011, By News Staff

The Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel & Conference Center announces its open house, to be held on April 27 from 3-6 p.m.

Award-winning filmmaker Tze Chun to screen ‘Children of Invention’ April 13

Monday, April 11, 2011, By Erica Blust

Award-winning filmmaker Tze Chun will present his feature debut, “Children of Invention,” on Wednesday, April 13, at 6 p.m. in 121 Dorothea Ilgen Shaffer Art Building. The screening is sponsored by the film program in the College of Visual and…

Student Start-up Accelerator has new name

Monday, April 11, 2011, By News Staff

The Syracuse Student Start-up Accelerator, an initiative that helps Central New York college students start private enterprise and nonprofit/social ventures, has been renamed. The new name for the initiative is the Raymond von Dran Innovative and Disruptive Entrepreneurship Accelerator, or IDEA. …

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Deadline extended for SU Showcase sustainability video submissions

Monday, April 11, 2011, By News Staff

SU Showcase’s organizers know that the creative process usually can’t be rushed.

Standard & Poor’s boosts SU’s credit rating outlook

Monday, April 11, 2011, By Kevin C. Quinn

Standard & Poor’s credit ratings services has boosted Syracuse University’s outlook to “positive” from “stable” based on the overall financial position of the University.   According to Standard & Poor’s, SU’s ‘A+’ rating continues to reflect its view of Syracuse’s “comprehensive…

Local minority business owner Juanita Bass is WISE Women’s Business Center success story

Friday, April 8, 2011, By News Staff

Juanita Bass of Juanita’s Soul Classics Inc., located in Frankfort, N.Y., is a minority-owned, local business success story that has emerged through the ongoing efforts of  WISE (Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship) Women’s Business Center. WISE is an entrepreneurship…

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SU in the News: Thursday, April 7

Thursday, April 7, 2011, By News Staff

Fox News quotes Arts and Sciences’ Sheldon Stone on physics discovery from Tevatron atom smasher

Entrepreneur, makeup artist Bobbi Brown to deliver keynote at 2011 WISE Symposium

Thursday, April 7, 2011, By News Staff

The Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship in the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University will welcome makeup artist Bobbi Brown, founder of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, as the keynote speaker for the ninth annual Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (WISE)…

Indian foresters visit Syracuse for classes at Maxwell, SUNY-ESF

Thursday, April 7, 2011, By News Staff

Thirty two high-level administrators from the Indian Forest Service (IFS) are visiting Syracuse in April as part of a four-week educational program that combines forestry and public policy skills. The visitors are executive leaders within the Indian Forestry Service (IFS)…