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ExxonMobil Foundation provides grant to SU
The ExxonMobil Foundation has provided a grant in the amount of $49,542 to Syracuse University, representing ExxonMobil’s 3-to-l match of donations made to SU by ExxonMobil employees, retirees and surviving spouses under the foundation’s 2010 Educational Matching Gift Program. Harold…
WISE wins 2011 Women’s Business Center of Excellence Award from U.S. Small Business Administration
The Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (WISE) Women’s Business Center was awarded the Women’s Business Center of Excellence Award during the 2011 U.S. Small Business Administration Small Business Week and Small Business Excellence Awards. WISE director Joanne Lenweaver accepted…
SU in the News: Tuesday, May 24
Arts and Sciences’ David Yaffe writes Daily Beast tribute to Bob Dylan marking his 70th birthday
SU director of multicultural affairs honored by city and community
James Duah-Agyeman, director of Syracuse University’s Office of Multicultural Affairs, was recognized on Saturday, April 30, at the City Hall Commons as part of Ms. Mary’s Philanthropy Day.
Syracuse University pilots ‘Transfer Transition Team,’ innovating model for community college transfers
With a grant from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, Syracuse University is piloting a revolutionary new practice for transfer enrollment—combining academic advising with predictive financial aid modeling for community college students. This proposed new model is possible through the work…
First Near Westside Initiative microloan to support new business creating eight jobs
The Near Westside Initiative (NWI) has approved its first microloan since launching an innovative micro-lending program in an effort to spur economic development on the Near Westside. The first loan, in the amount of $12,000, has been approved for the…
SU alum appointed medical director of Health Services
Syracuse University’s Department of Health Services has appointed a new medical director, Spiro Tzetzis ’91. Tzetzis has been working on campus in a part-time capacity since May 2, and will be on staff full time beginning June 1. “We are…
Whitman to host 31st annual Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference June 8-11
The 31st annual Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC), co-sponsored by the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, will be held June 8-11 at Whitman. The BCERC, widely considered the premier conference for entrepreneurship research, was established in 1981…
History of the American wilderness movement at this week’s IRP
Thomas Welch, professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at SUNY Upstate Medical University, will present “Exploitation, Exploration and Expeditioning: Three Men, Their Mountains and the Birth of the American Wilderness Movement” at the May 19 session of the…
SU mourns Maxwell Emeritus Professor John Cleverdon Honey II
John Cleverdon Honey II, professor emeritus of public policy at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, died on May 17 at the age of 94.