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Business & Economy

Register for first Syracuse Startup Weekend

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, By News Staff

Participate in the first Syracuse Startup Weekend, Nov. 4-7.  Individuals can launch a business in 54 hours or participate as a mentor.  CenterState CEO will launch Startup Weekend in Syracuse to help turn innovative ideas into growth-ready businesses. Startup Weekends…

Campus & Community

Connective Corridor funds help Syracuse Stage get a facelift

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, By News Staff

Region’s premier theater house spruces up its look, inside and out

Arts & Culture

Verbal Blend, Imagining America, Voices Merging will host Ayo Technology Skype open mic

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, By News Staff

Verbal Blend, a spoken word poetry program out of Syracuse University’s Office of Multicultural Affairs, will host its annual Ayo Technology Skype Open Mic, in collaboration with Voices Merging at the University of Minnesota and Imagining America: Artists and Scholars…

Live Nation VP Kevin Chernett ’91 to speak Sept. 15

Tuesday, September 13, 2011, By Erica Blust

Kevin Chernett, executive vice president of strategic alliances at Live Nation Entertainment and a 1991 alumnus of the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), will present a lecture on Thursday, Sept. 15, at 6:45 p.m. in the Lender Auditorium,…

Veterans

Football fans support Habitat’s Veterans’ Build

Monday, September 12, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University football fans helped “raise the roof” for Syracuse Habitat for Humanity’s first Veterans’ Build in New York state. Volunteers sought donations at various locations on campus and at entrances to the Carrier Dome prior to the game. More…

Arts & Culture

Design Gallery to present exhibition remembering Syracuse’s 15th Ward

Monday, September 12, 2011, By Erica Blust

The Design Gallery at The Warehouse, an exhibition space of the Department of Design in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), will present the exhibition “15th Ward: Memories of a Syracuse Neighborhood Transformed” from Sept. 13-Oct. 6….

Campus & Community

SU students explore graduate school possibilities at Graduate & Professional School Day

Thursday, September 8, 2011, By News Staff

More than 110 graduate school representatives will descend upon Syracuse University’s Kenneth A. Shaw Quad on Wednesday, Sept. 21, as students line up to learn about their programs and explore graduate school possibilities. Graduate & Professional School Day will take place…

STEM

Developmental biologist garners highly competitive National Institutes of Health grant

Thursday, September 8, 2011, By News Staff

Katharine Lewis, associate professor of biology in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, aims to systematically identify genes that instruct spinal cord nerve cells (neurons) to develop into specialized cells that are critical to walking, running and countless movements…

Campus & Community

New student-alumni networking community, ‘CuseConnect, launched Aug. 29

Monday, August 29, 2011, By News Staff

On Monday, Aug. 29, Syracuse University Career Services unveiled ‘CuseConnect, the new community for connecting SU students and grads with established alumni for career guidance and exploration. This community will reside on LinkedIn.com, the popular professional networking site on which…

Arts & Culture

Andrew Mellon Foundation commits $1 million for Phase II of CNY Humanities Corridor

Monday, August 29, 2011, By News Staff

The Central New York Humanities Corridor—an interdisciplinary partnership among Syracuse University, Cornell University and the University of Rochester focused on enhancing scholarship in the humanities—has received a second award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in the amount of $1…