Business & Economy
NSF Funds OrangeGrid Improvements
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Syracuse University $498,000 to enhance SU’s OrangeGrid by upgrading the campus’s data network infrastructure to facilitate high throughput research computing. OrangeGrid (formerly known as the HTC campus grid) uses idle desktop computers in…
Career Services Hosts ’Cuse Career Week Beginning Sept. 30
Career Services, within the Division of Student Affairs, kicks off its annual ’Cuse Career Week on Monday, Sept. 30, with Resumania and continues throughout the week with Diversity in the Workplace, Career Fair @ the Dome, Graduate School Information Fair…
Connective Corridor Announces Second Round of Facade Grants
Partners with Central New York Community Foundation on new Syracuse Beautification Fund Syracuse University today announced the recipients of $250,000 in the second round of Connective Corridor Façade Improvement grants to 16 businesses who will make significant investments to improve…
Whitman’s Entrepreneurship Program Ranked among Best by Princeton Review
Program also featured in Entrepreneur magazine The Martin J. Whitman School of Management‘s Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises is one of the best in the nation, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company has named the school…
Plastics Pioneers Reading Room to Open in Bird Library
On Friday, Sept. 27, from 2:30–4 p.m., the Plastics Pioneers Reading Room, a gift of donors Glenn and Patsy Beall, will officially be dedicated and opened on the sixth floor of Syracuse University’s Bird Library. The public is invited to…
Critical Connections Lecture on Plastics by Robert Friedel
Robert Friedel, professor of technology and science at the University of Maryland, will present “Is it Real? Imitation and Style in the First Plastics” on Thursday, Sept. 26, at 5 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons on the first…
Career Services Presents Annual Local Internship Fair
Career Services, within the Division of Student Affairs, will host its annual Local Internship Fair in the Panasci Lounge in Schine Student Center on Wednesday, Sept. 18, from 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Representatives from more than 90 organizations from the Central…
Student Entrepreneurs Launch App That Connects Users On Single Social Platform
ConnectNow, an application enabling users to grow their personal networks, is co-founded and operated by Serge Efap ’14 and co-founders Justin Oh ’13 and Benjamin Honig ’15, all from Syracuse University. A fourth co-founder, Joseph Sorrentino, is a recent…
Three Whitman Faculty Join Academy of Management Journal Editorial Board
Three faculty members from the Martin J. Whitman School of Management have accepted invitations to serve on the editorial review board for the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ). The peer-reviewed AMJ is considered one of the top academic journals in…
Desire, Resources for Self-Employment Grow with Age, Says Whitman Study
Starting a business is no longer a “young person’s game,” according to new research by Maria Minniti, a professor at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. Minniti and her co-authors, professors Teemu Kautonen and Simon Down of Anglia Ruskin…