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State announces Mohawk Valley workforce initiative and SUNY Poly semiconductor center funding
New York State has launched Mohawk Valley Empowers, a new three-year, $10 million initiative designed to strengthen the region’s workforce ecosystem and improve workforce participation by expanding wraparound services and redefining career readiness. The state also announced new funding for SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s semiconductor processing lab, according to a Tuesday news release from Gov. Kathy […]
Google awards SU’s IVMF a $3.5 million grant to train veterans on cybersecurity, AI
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Google has awarded Syracuse University’s (SU) D’Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) a $3.5 million grant. SU’s IVMF will use
FuzeHub awards manufacturing grants to TDO, Binghamton University, Cornell University
ALBANY, N.Y. — TDO of Salina, the Research Foundation for SUNY at Binghamton University, and Cornell University are among the regional organizations announced as recipients in this year’s first round of FuzeHub grant funding. The nonprofit FuzeHub is an Albany–based organization that works to connect New York’s small to medium-sized manufacturing companies to the resources,
Wells College in Aurora to close at the end of the current semester
AURORA, N.Y. — Citing financial difficulties, Wells College on Monday announced plans to close at the end of this academic semester. Wells College is located in the village of Aurora in Cayuga County on the eastern side of Cayuga Lake. “As trustees, we have a fiduciary responsibility to the institution; we have determined after a
SUNY Poly professor awarded $175K in NSF research funding
MARCY — SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Tarannum Shaila Zaman, an assistant professor of computer science, has recently received a $175,000 National Science Foundation Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research Initiation Initiative (NSF CRII) grant to support her project, called, “An Automated and User-centered Framework for Reproducing System-level Concurrency Bugs by Analyzing Bug Reports.” The research
Real Life Rosies pre-apprenticeship program celebrates graduates
UTICA, N.Y. — On Tuesday, April 23, Mohawk Valley Community College (MVCC) and the Manufacturers Association of Central New York (MACNY) celebrated the third and
New Energy New York selects finalists for battery-startup accelerator
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Four finalists will compete in the inaugural ChargeUp Battery Startup Accelerator at the Koffman Southern Tier Incubator in Binghamton. Binghamton University, the
A total of 11 watershed research and education projects across New York state, including several in the Great Lakes watershed and Mohawk River basin, will share in $325,994 in grant awards, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the New York State Water Resources Institute (WRI) at Cornell University recently announced. Cornell
SU to use more than $2M donation for ECS student center
SYRACUSE — Syracuse University (SU) says it will use a more than $2 million donation for a student center in its College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS). The funding comes from the Campos Foundation and its founders, Marcos Campos and his sister, Deanna Compos-Miller. Marcos Campos’ son is a third-year student in SU’s College
Ithaca College professor named to lead George W. Bush Presidential Library
ITHACA — Ithaca College Professor of History Pearl Ponce has been named director of the George W. Bush Presidential Library in Dallas, Texas. In that
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