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Syracuse Student Start-up Accelerator to be honored with Leavey Award for Excellence

Friday, January 7, 2011, By News Staff

The Syracuse Student Start-up Accelerator at Syracuse University will be honored with the 34th annual Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education from the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, Pa. The Leavey Awards program—endowed by the Thomas and Dorothy…

Campus & Community

Girls’ education student organization finalist in contest

Wednesday, January 5, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s newly formed student branch of She’s The First, an organization that promotes girls’ education worldwide, is one of five finalists in the Vivanista “Parties for a Purpose” video contest.

Campus & Community

Newhouse-based Project BodyTalk featured on national radio program

Wednesday, January 5, 2011, By News Staff

A nationally-syndicated public radio program will feature a segment on Newhouse magazine professor Harriet Brown’s Project BodyTalk on Thursday, Jan. 6, at 8 p.m. EST.

STEM

Mather receives grant to collaborate on ‘smart’ materials research with General Motors

Tuesday, January 4, 2011, By News Staff

Patrick T. Mather, director of Syracuse Biomaterials Institute (SBI) and Milton and Ann Stevenson professor of biomedical and chemical engineering in Syracuse University’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (LCS), has been awarded a three-year grant of $319,980…

Siren testing this Thursday, Dec. 30 at Syracuse University

Tuesday, December 28, 2010, By News Staff

On Thursday, Dec. 30, Syracuse University will test its North and South Campus outdoor sirens. Installed as part of the Orange Alert emergency notification system, the sirens will be tested between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Thursday, during which time a seven-second alarm will sound at different intervals as the testing is performed.

In evolutionary mating game, brawn and stealth rule

Thursday, December 23, 2010, By News Staff

When prowling for a hookup, it’s not always the good-looker who gets the girl. In fact, in a certain species of South American fish, brawn and stealth beat out colorful and refined almost every time. In a series of published…

Belfer Archive awarded $505,000 grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Tuesday, December 21, 2010, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $505,000 to Syracuse University to support the positions of director and sound archivist for the Library’s Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive.

SU biologist partners with National Park Service to study bison grazing in Yellowstone

Friday, December 17, 2010, By News Staff

While Yellowstone’s celebrated bison may be among the most popular tourist attractions in the park, their grazing habits and increasing numbers have raised questions about the long-term stability of the park’s grasslands. To find answers, the National Park Service has…

Veterans

EBV program receives grant from New York Bar Foundation

Thursday, December 16, 2010, By News Staff

Part of investment in technology sector and entrepreneurship among disabled military veterans The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) program, based at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, is the beneficiary of a grant—to be shared with…

Alumni clubs donate winning basketball tickets to Syracuse youth

Wednesday, December 15, 2010, By News Staff

The SU Alumni Club of Central New York, which won the SU Alumni Club’s Football Ticket Challenge this fall, donated its winnings—20 men’s basketball tickets—to Southside Charter Academy in Syracuse.  The SU Alumni Club of CNY was credited with more…