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Prediction app created by SU team available for download
Syracuse University student entrepreneurs are making their mark, and the latest to do that is PsyQic. PsyQic, which allows users to share predictions on sports, politics, TV shows, movies, business, science, environment, technologies and more, is now available for iOS…
WISE Women’s Business Center relocates to Syracuse’s Tech Garden
Ribbon-cutting to be held Nov. 8 The WISE Women’s Business Center has announced the relocation of its main office to the Tech Garden in downtown Syracuse. A ribbon-cutting, to celebrate a heightened awareness for women’s entrepreneurship in Central New York,…
Grab a bean bag at the IDEA Spot
Students spend a lot of time working toward their majors—they spend many hours in class, working with students from their discipline on class projects and meeting in the building that houses their academic major. So what happens if you’re a student…
St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center, Welch Allyn provide $35,000 to students with Healthy IDEAs
The rising cost of health care has been a near-constant news topic for the past several years. The recent recession, in which more people are unemployed and without health coverage, and aging Baby Boomers are just two pieces of the growing…
Meet the IDEA Connectors
Entrepreneurship is not bound by one discipline. In fact, entrepreneurial success often requires collaboration across disciplines and skill sets. In February 2012, Tory Gentes (SU ’10, Engagement Fellow 2010-11) was hired by Syracuse University as the Student Entrepreneurial Consultant. Gentes’…
Interns working to bring solar energy to rural Mexican village
Some students take on internships to learn what work in the “real world” will be like after graduation. Others get involved in projects in order to learn how to make their post-graduation world more like they want it to be….
EBV grad business ranked #106 by Inc. Magazine as one of 500 fastest growing private companies
Former Marine John Raftery credits EBV with helping him launch, grow Patriot Contractors Patriot Contractors, a specialty construction company owned and operated by 2007 Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) program graduate John Raftery (U.S. Marine Corps, retired), was…
IVMF hosts fourth V-WISE entrepreneurship training conference for female veterans Aug. 23-25 in San Diego
Major General Martha T. Rainville (U.S. Air Force, Retired), Brigadier General Belinda H. Pinckney (U.S. Army, Retired) and Master Chief Petty Officer Ginger L. Simpson (U.S. Navy, Retired) to be honored as pioneering women in the military Veteran Women Igniting…
EBV at SU welcomes sixth class beginning July 28
‘60 Minutes’ correspondent Steve Kroft ’67 to deliver opening keynote address This weekend, Syracuse University will welcome a new class of post-9/11 veterans to the sixth annual Barnes Family Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) program, which provides cutting-edge…
IVMF transitions team members to new roles
In an effort to further support its mission, operation and significant growth over the past 12 months, the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) has announced the transition of three team members to new roles. Raymond Toenniessen, founding director…