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Student-run businesses win $50,000 at 2012 Panasci Business Plan Competition

Thursday, April 19, 2012, By Lindsay Wickham

The Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University has announced the winners of its $50,000 Panasci Business Plan Competition, hosted annually by the Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship and the Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises (EEE). The competition…

Palitz Gallery hosts Wynn Newhouse Awards Exhibition through June 15

Wednesday, April 18, 2012, By Scott McDowell

Awards draw attention to achievements of artists who have disabilities

Kauffman Entrepreneurship Engagement Fellows will stay and start it up in Syracuse

Wednesday, April 18, 2012, By News Staff

Sixteen Syracuse University seniors and alumni have been selected as 2012 Kauffman Entrepreneurship Engagement Fellows (KEEF), a yearlong program fueled by Enitiative that provides tuition for courses at SU, professional and faculty mentors, and space in the Syracuse Student Sandbox…

Recipients of Imagining America grants announced

Wednesday, April 18, 2012, By Jamie Haft

Seven faculty members have received grants from Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life  to develop courses and projects that encourage significant community-campus collaboration around a relevant issue and further disciplinary and public knowledge. The chosen courses and projects…

SU English professor wins prestigious Shattuck Prize in criticism

Tuesday, April 17, 2012, By Rob Enslin

David Yaffe, a nationally renowned arts critic and assistant professor of English in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the prestigious Roger Shattuck Prize in criticism. Named for the late American critic and scholar who authored…

SU Showcase 2012 fellows selected

Tuesday, April 17, 2012, By News Staff

Eight fellows will be recognized and have their sustainability videos screened during SU Showcase on Wednesday, April 18, starting at 3:30 p.m. in Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center.  Representing both individual and team efforts, the videos were selected from the…

Conference to explore community-based activism

Monday, April 16, 2012, By News Staff

Syracuse University will present: “Reading, Writing, and Speaking for Change: Conference on Activism, Rhetoric and Research (CARR),” from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday, May 5, in the Hall of Languages. Keynote speakers are Seth Kahn of West Chester University of…

La Casita to screen ‘Papers: Stories of Undocumented Youth’

Monday, April 16, 2012, By News Staff

From April 9-17, a group of 15 undocumented youth and their supporters are walking 150 miles from New York City to Albany to raise awareness of, and gain support for, the New York Dream Act, which would remove barriers to…

mcgarrybowen New York CEO Bill Borrelle to visit Newhouse April 17

Wednesday, April 11, 2012, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Bill Borrelle, CEO of mcgarrybowen New York, will visit the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Tuesday, April 17, as a guest of the Eric Mower Advertising Forum. He will speak on “Time to ‘Unlearn’: How to Get Unshackled…

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Two anthropology Ph.D. students receive major NSF fellowships

Tuesday, April 10, 2012, By News Staff

Melinda Gurr and Lauren Hosek, both second-year doctoral students in anthropology, have received highly prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. The awards support advanced graduate study for three years, at $30,000 per year. In selecting Gurr and Hosek, the…