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Our February gift of love — free tools for startups

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Posted on Feb. 12, 2020, 1:24 p.m.

We’re declaring it “Free February” at the LaunchPad, and our gift to you is compiling a list of free tools for startups, starting with the Techstars Entrepreneur’s Toolkit.

New Collections Resources, Winter 2020

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Posted on Feb. 11, 2020, 3:56 p.m.

Check out the newly acquired resources:

Meet Ze Zeng, WeMedia Lab

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Posted on Feb. 11, 2020, 1:28 p.m.

22,483 is the entire size of the Syracuse University student body. This includes everyone from undergraduates to law students.

Nicole D’Souza ’20 is building a platform to showcase independent films

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Posted on Feb. 11, 2020, 1:27 p.m.

Remember “Get Out” by Jordan Peele? The movie arguably changed the landscape of the horror genre.

Jalen Nash returns to the LaunchPad as a Global Media Fellow

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Posted on Feb. 10, 2020, 1:34 p.m.

Jalen Nash ‘ 20 (Political Science) is rejoining the LaunchPad as a Global Media Fellow for Spring 2020, reprising the role he held last spring as digital storyteller, profiling entrepreneurs and their journeys.

Film produced by Erin Miller ’16 to have its world premiere at SXSW

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Posted on Feb. 10, 2020, 1:32 p.m.

A film produced by Erin Miller ’16, will have its world premiere at the South by Southwest (SXSW) 2020 Film Festival next month in Austin, Texas.

Claire Howard joins the LaunchPad as a Global Media Fellow

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Posted on Feb. 9, 2020, 1:43 p.m.

Claire Howard ‘23, a freshman majoring in economics and international relations in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, couldn’t be more thrilled to join LaunchPad this spring as a Global Media Fellow.

Amos Cohen to hold “Lean Startup for Tech Ventures”

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Posted on Feb. 6, 2020, 1:52 p.m.

Amos Cohen ’20, a Whitman finance major and iSchool information technology minor, will be holding free office hours each Thursday this spring from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the LaunchPad in Bird Library.

If you’re working hard on an idea, you deserve a badge

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Posted on Feb. 4, 2020, 1:55 p.m.

Entrepreneurs, are you looking for a new way to compete outside of business plan competitions?

December January 2020 News Wrap Up

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Posted on Feb. 4, 2020, 1:48 p.m.

Review, upcoming events and newly processed collections

Information Literacy and The High School to College Transition

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Posted on Feb. 3, 2020, 5 p.m.

What should students learn in high school in order to be prepared for college-level research?

SU alumni entrepreneurs featured at Adweek CMO Moves Summit

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Posted on Feb. 3, 2020, 2:06 p.m.

Julia Haber (left) and Kelsey Davis (right) are featured panelists this week at Adweek’s CMO Moves Summit, February 5 at Google Headquarters in NYC.

Geena Matuson G ’19 spotlighted by NextGen

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Posted on Feb. 1, 2020, 2:09 p.m.

Geena Matuson ‘G 19, (Newhouse Goldring Arts Journalism) was featured recently in spotlights by NextGen, a network that empowers entrepreneurs to design the lives they want to live and achieve their purpose.

Patrick Prioletti is creating a Thinc-hub

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Posted on Jan. 29, 2020, 2:11 p.m.

Have you ever had a brilliant, game-changing idea? An idea that could become the next ‘Google’ or the next ‘Amazon’?

SU Libraries’ Discovery Team

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Posted on Jan. 28, 2020, 2:07 p.m.

Providing easily accessible information to our communities.

An Act of Moral Courage

A 1943 Syracuse Herald-Journal article about Japanese-American students.

Posted on Jan. 28, 2020, 1:55 p.m.

Tsuneishi, a 1943 graduate of Syracuse University praised Tolley for accepting Tsuneishi and “some of 100 of my Japanese American colleagues"

Nikita Chatterjee and Brianna Howard, “Be Orange” innovators

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Posted on Jan. 26, 2020, 2:25 p.m.

Nikita Chatterjee ’20 (College of Arts and Sciences and Maxwell) and Brianna Howard ’20 (Falk) are working on a simple, yet elegant solution to reduce waterborne illnesses in low-income communities in India.

Writing over Medieval Texts in Renaissance Europe

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Posted on Jan. 21, 2020, 2:27 p.m.

Breviary on vellum, or a book that contains daily services recited by members of the Roman Catholic Church

Decade of Architecture Books

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Posted on Jan. 16, 2020, 9:27 a.m.

A list of the most influential architecture books of the past decade.

Happy New Year from SCRC!

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Posted on Jan. 15, 2020, 2:38 p.m.

Invitation from our William Wallace Denslow Collection

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