Listen to this article The Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA!) will open a flagship location at the Golisano Institute for Business & Entrepreneurship to offer middle and high school students a weekly entrepreneurship education course beginning in November. The collaboration provides YEA! with a state-of-the-art location, Golisano Institute faculty support, guest speakers, events and scholarships for its students. Supporters say the program will enhance students’ business education and provide a unique, challenging and rewarding experience for all participants. “We are excited to launch this expansion of the Golisano Institute given Tom Golisano’s tremendous success as an entrepreneur, business and community leader,…
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Theo Canter will enrich his Greek identity while strengthening his language skills through a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship based in Athens, Greece. In addition to his desire to teach and live abroad, Canter was attracted to this Fulbright program because of his personal ties to Athens. His grandfather was born and raised in Athens and graduated in 1956 as valedictorian of his class from Athens College, the same high school where Canter would teach English. “Such a full-circle moment is incredibly meaningful,” says Canter, who graduated from Oberlin in May 2023 with a concentration in cinema studies And comparative literature and…
In the 1930s, when large swaths of the city were reorganized into numerous mini-urban planning projects, its urban fabric received a contemporary makeover. No more sloping roofs, wooden balconies, dukaan-makaan combos: The new look that emerged featured bold, colorful and imposing facades, walls made entirely of RCC and colored concrete, flat roofs and flying balconies.Entire streets had a harmonious facade, all following the same building lines, with the same height of floors and roofs.However, as punctuation, buildings on street corners would be treated differently. Often designed for public use, they made bold statements with high visibility (literally rising into the…
Listen to this article Rochester business leaders are supporting the Golisano Institute for Business & Entrepreneurship with the creation of a Founders 5 Scholarship program for incoming students. The Founders 5 Scholarship provides a $5,000 grant per year to eligible 2022, 2023 and 2024 graduates of Section V high schools. Applicants must be nominated by a high school administrator, teacher or guidance counselor, present the characteristics best suited to succeed at the Institute and desire to develop their business ideas or careers in the Rochester area. Founding companies supporting the scholarship program include Domino’s Pizza, the Greater Rochester Chamber of…
Although Professor Dan-el Padilla Peralta’s recent Clarke Forum, “Bodega Poetics: Classics and Caribbean Diaspora” raised some interesting points about the study of classics and its resonance with modern diasporic communities, the presentation was largely inaccessible and did not seem to take into account certain work that is already underway within the discipline. He compared the struggles of modern diaspora communities to themes of ancient literature and poetry, including the experience of displaced migrants in Central America to the Aeneid (in which the titular Aeneas leads his surviving people from Troy razed across the world to finally found Rome). These comparisons…
This story is published in partnership with MindSite Newsa nonprofit news site reporting on mental health.Jacquesta Michel’s baby shower was supposed to be themed after her favorite Disney movie, “The Lion King.” Then his blood pressure spiked. Instead of dancing and eating Simba cake, the Florida mom and licensed clinical social worker found herself in the hospital in July, nearly three months before her due date. At night, she slept fitfully, fearing that she and her baby would not survive. During these stressful weeks, her lifeline was Sabine Renois, a birth doula. Renois showed up at the hospital in Fort…
In a compelling initiative focused on cultural preservation and strengthening linguistic ties, carried out under the esteemed leadership of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, the Greek Education Department of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, in partnership with the Pontian Academy of Sciences and Letters, has unveiled the introduction of free online Greek courses suitable for adults. This innovative program presents an unprecedented opportunity for those inclined to learn the Greek language. Language is a powerful carrier of culture and heritage, preserving the stories, traditions and identity of a community. The partnership between the Department of Greek Education and the Pontian Academy of…
Christian Ang, right, of Lowell High School, shows details of a painting at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Lowell while Pharrell Peau, a recent LHS graduate, listens. The two men were two of eight LHS students working on a Greek mural outside Sophia’s Greek pantry. Ang and Peau worked on the details of the church during the last day of painting, July 27, 2023. (Cameron Morsberger/Lowell Sun) LOWELL — Tales of Greece — ancient and contemporary, real and mythological — were brought to Lowell with a wave of Greek immigrants in the early 1900s, and although their population in…
Dr. Eric Liguori of Rowan University, founding director of the School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Rohrer College of Commerce (RCB), is one of eight faculty members from across the United States selected to support the development of Amazon.com’s new Amazon Small Business Academy (ASBA), the retail giant announced online March 21. Faculty members, including instructors from Indiana University, Sam Houston University in Texas, and California State University, are faculty leaders in the Collegial organization of entrepreneurs (CEO), Amazon’s ASBA partner. ASBA offers a suite of free, interactive resources and tools for small business owners and entrepreneurs to help…
Covering an area of 150,000 square miles, the Great Lakes Region of North America consists of the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, new York, Ohio, PennsylvaniaAnd Wisconsinas well as the Canadian province of Ontario. As the name suggests, this vast area is centered around the five Great Lakes themselves – Superior, Michigan, Huron, ErieAnd Ontario – and has long played an important role in the growth of UNITED STATES And Canada. From the region’s beginnings as a place of discovery and trade to later warfare and ultimately the sharing of resources and values, one can learn much about…