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NWSI launches innovative microloan program for businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs
The Near Westside Initiative (NWSI), with a $25,000 grant from the Central New York Community Foundation, has launched a microloan program for existing businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs on the Near Westside of Syracuse. Developed by NWSI deputy director Michael Short…
Syracuse University Library receives grant from Dana Foundation to process William Safire papers
Syracuse University Library has received a grant of $86,000 from the Dana Foundation to process recently acquired personal papers of the late William Safire. Safire, the Pulitzer prize-winning political columnist for The New York Times and former Nixon speechwriter, passed…
SU in the News: Wednesday, February 2, 2011
SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE Antiques and Arts previewed “The Essential Line: Drawings from the Dahesh Museum of Art,” a new exhibition at the Palitz Gallery at Lubin House. The Associated Press cited a new report from SU’s Transactional Records…
Dahesh Museum of Art and SU continue collaboration with ‘The Essential Line’
First in-depth exhibition of Dahesh Museum’s excellent drawing collection Drawing, an integral part of 19th-century academic training and art-making process, is the focus of the third collaboration in three years between the Dahesh Museum of Art and Syracuse University. “The…
LCS’s Heng Yin receives NSF Career Award to fight against malicious code
Heng Yin, assistant professor of computer science in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University, has been awarded the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his proposal…
TRAC: Non-immigration federal prosecutions fall
According to a new analysis of Justice Department data and other records by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), federal criminal enforcement under President Obama is significantly different than it was during the last two years of the Bush Administration….
Suggestions now being accepted for 2012 Commencement speaker
The University invites all students, faculty, staff, alumni and others to offer suggestions for the 2012 Commencement speaker. Suggestions can be made online at http://suspeaker.syr.edu. The suggestion site will remain open until March 18. The Syracuse University Commencement speaker is…
Honorary Degree Committee seeks nominations for 2012-15 honorary degree recipients
The Syracuse University Senate Committee on Honorary Degrees is currently seeking nominations from faculty, staff, alumni and students for candidates to receive honorary degrees at the 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 Commencement ceremonies. Criteria for recommendations for an honorary degree…
‘Our Entrepreneurial History’ at Feb. 3 Institute for Retired Professionals
The Thursday, Feb. 3, program of the Institute for Retired Professionals will feature Gregg Tripoli, executive director of the Onondaga County Historical Society (OHA). Tripoli will discuss how the Historical Society is contributing to economic development in the community, which…
Class of 2012 senior class marshal applications accepted through Feb. 15
There are about 100 days left until Commencement 2011, which takes place Sunday, May 15. On that day, the Class of 2011 will be led into the Carrier Dome by senior class marshals Justin Cole (College of Arts and Sciences)…