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Native American Heritage Month: Indigenous Perspective
Posted on Nov. 7, 2022, noon
In 2005, Syracuse University created the Haudenosaunee Promise Scholarship to acknowledge the university is founded on the Onondaga Nations' ancestral land and honor cultural legacies.
Collection Spotlight: Mintel Reports
Posted on Nov. 4, 2022, 2 p.m.
A market research database featuring consumer research in multiple categories and across demographics, Mintel Reports offers broad coverage of many topics.
Sandra Appiah Babu-Boateng ’10, Techstars Boston, partners with the LaunchPad to beta test her mentor matching platform
Posted on Nov. 1, 2022, 1:54 p.m.
Hours of studying, networking, writing cover letters, and practicing interviews is something college students work tirelessly at to get their first job.
Nick Barba ’20 and Sam Hollander ’21 featured at the Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization global conference
Posted on Nov. 1, 2022, 12:21 p.m.
Former LaunchPad Program Managers Nick Barba and Sam Hollander spoke as part of the annual Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization (CEOORG) Global Conference.
Native Heritage Month Display
Posted on Nov. 1, 2022, 9 a.m.
Featuring books and films selected by native students on the themes of oral histories, literature by native authors, decolonization, and Indian residential schools and Hawaiian Sovereignty.
Collection Spotlight: Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Posted on Oct. 27, 2022, 2 p.m.
LISTA, an EBSCO-provided database covering topics across the library science, information science and technology landscape.
New Libraries' Collections: July through September 2022
Posted on Oct. 20, 2022, noon
New resources added to the collections.
Kai Patricio G’23 takes on a graduate degree and creating Design Led No Code
Posted on Oct. 17, 2022, 2:17 p.m.
Kai Patricio is an extraordinary thinker who has taken a small idea and turned it into an idea that may be untouchable.
Collection Spotlight: SBRnet - featuring Sports Market Analytics
Posted on Oct. 13, 2022, 5 p.m.
Your one stop shop for sports business industry data, news and analysis.
Samadhi Aviv ’14 on democratizing energy for underrepresented communities
Posted on Oct. 11, 2022, 12:12 p.m.
“We are democratizing energy,” says Sama Aviv, an alum of Syracuse University’s Falk College.
Collection Spotlight: Dimensions
Posted on Oct. 7, 2022, 5 a.m.
Dimensions will be an important tool for understanding and reporting on the research and scholarship produced at Syracuse University.
Music History Students Receive Hands-On Lessons
Posted on Oct. 6, 2022, 9 a.m.
Students in the Department of Art and Music Histories’ European Music Before 1800 class visited Special Collections Research Center
Open Access 101, SU Libraries and You
Posted on Oct. 3, 2022, noon
An open access primer and an overview of campus author, publishing and research services.
“We have that here?!”: Students Meet Special Collections at the Libraries’ Welcome Fest
Posted on Sept. 30, 2022, noon
SCRC tabled at Welcome Fest, highlighting the full range of resources, services and spaces available to students.
SU Libraries’ Instruction Support for Faculty, Instructors and Teaching Assistants (TA’s)
Posted on Sept. 27, 2022, 4 p.m.
Tips for putting items on course reserve, exploring digital resources, showing videos and more.
Vanessa Lora G ’23 on embracing her Hispanic heritage, identity and creative artistry
Posted on Sept. 26, 2022, 12:35 p.m.
When musician, videographer, recorder, and producer Vannessa Lora is asked who she is, she answers simply: “I’m just an artist.”
Meeting Your Printing Needs
Posted on Sept. 26, 2022, 11 a.m.
Whether you are printing a paper or a large poster, the Libraries offers printing equipment as well as in-person assistance with the process.
The future of protein supplementation: Tyrin Fernandes ‘20 and Fauna
Posted on Sept. 26, 2022, 10:35 a.m.
Tyrin graduated from Syracuse University in 2020 with his B.S. in computer science and has been working in the LaunchPad for the past three months, brainstorming different ideas.
Collection Spotlight: On the Cover of the Rolling Stone…
Posted on Sept. 23, 2022, 3 p.m.
Do you know who’s on the cover of the Rolling Stone this month?
Teaching Representation: K-12 Educator Perspectives on Banned Books
Posted on Sept. 21, 2022, 8 a.m.
K-12 educators (both teachers and librarians) in the eastern United States were surveyed about perceptions around banned books.