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People news: Syracuse University hires Mulbah as recruiting director for football team
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — New Syracuse Orange head football coach Dino Babers on Monday afternoon named Asil Mulbah to his support staff as director of recruiting

Cazenovia College names Chesbrough as its next president
CAZENOVIA, N.Y. — Cazenovia College has named a SUNY Potsdam graduate as the school’s 29th president. Ronald Chesbrough, who currently serves as president of St.
People news: Tompkins Trust promotes Dryden branch manager
DRYDEN, N.Y. — Tompkins Trust Company announced it has promoted Linda Georgia, branch manager of its Dryden office, to assistant VP. She has been with
SUNY Poly, Sitrin Health Care announce jointly funded neuropsychology teaching position
SUNY Polytechnic Institute has announced a new partnership with Sitrin Health Care that will create a full-time research and teaching position in neuropsychology. Both organizations
NEW HARTFORD — Cathy Mary Newell, president and CEO of Mohawk Ltd., says there is a solution for everything. In 1959, Newell’s father, Gordon J. Newell, Jr., founded Mohawk Communications, Inc., a repair, calibration, and supply company that primarily served two U.S. Air Force bases: one in Rome and the other in Dayton, Ohio. This

Upstate Medical to use $2.35M state grant for Alzheimer’s efforts
SYRACUSE — Upstate Medical University will use a state grant of up to $2.35 million over five years to expand its work on diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease. The award from the New York State Department of Health also includes Upstate Medical’s designation as a “center of excellence” for Alzheimer’s disease, the medical school said in a

SU launches competition to select design firm for National Veterans Resource Complex
SYRACUSE — Syracuse University (SU) is working to select a firm to “conceptualize, design, and construct” the new National Veterans Resource Complex (NVRC). SU in December announced the launch of an international design competition to select the firm. The university has formed a selection committee that includes faculty, staff, students, and design professionals to make
Laboratory Alliance: lab careers available for science-minded students
SALINA — Laboratory Alliance of Central New York, LLC is concerned about what it calls an “alarming national shortage” in the medical technology or laboratory workforce. “I call it a silent crisis because nobody really knows what medical technology is,” says Barbara Guiffrida, VP of human resources at Laboratory Alliance. A medical technologist or a

OVIA adds employee, accounts in Banach Insurance Agency acquisition
OSWEGO — Oswego Valley Insurance Agencies, LLC (OVIA) started 2016 with a new employee and hundreds of new accounts. OVIA acquired the Banach Insurance Agency of Pulaski in a transaction that took effect Jan. 1. The agency didn’t release any financial terms of the acquisition. OVIA handled a “little bit of brokering” with the Banach
Mohawk Valley Health System to consolidate urgent-care services at Faxton Urgent Care
UTICA, N.Y. — Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS) plans to consolidate all urgent-care services at Faxton Urgent Care at 1676 Sunset Ave. in Utica. MVHS
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