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�鶹Ƶ��University Libraries is seeking feedback from campus users on new electronic resources for possible inclusion in its collections during the month of November as part of the Libraries’ assessment-based and proactive approach to building collections. On-campus users are asked…

National First-Generation College Celebration Week is Nov. 4-8, and provides an opportunity to celebrate first-generation students whose parents have not attended a higher education institution. Around 20% of �鶹Ƶ��University students identify as first-generation. The campus community is invited to…

The Blackstone LaunchPad at �鶹Ƶ��University Libraries has awarded six $2,500 Student Start-Up Fund grants, formerly the Innovation Fund, so far this Fall 2024 semester. Grants are awarded on a rolling basis to undergraduate and graduate students who need help…

The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has honored �鶹Ƶ��University Libraries for the best website in the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) for 2024. This is the second library to ever receive the award, which was created last year to…

�鶹Ƶ��University Libraries’ Blackstone LaunchPad (LaunchPad) hosted its annual ’Cuse Tank entrepreneurial competition on Friday, Sept. 27, during Family Weekend in Bird Library. More than 35 student entrepreneur teams from various schools and colleges across campus participated in a “Shark-Tank”…

The Blackstone LaunchPad hosted Ideas Fest, the annual LaunchPad student innovator competition, in Bird Library on Sept. 13. More than 120 student teams registered for the first competition of the semester, with team winners from across campus. Student teams delivered…

�鶹Ƶ��University Libraries is pleased to announce that Adam ’96 (Martin J. Whitman School of Management) and Amy Fazackerley are co-chairing the Libraries Advisory Board effective fall 2024. The Fazackerleys, of Alexandria, Virginia, are co-founders of Lay-n-Go, LLC (which was…

Aditee S. Malviya G’25 (College of Engineering and Computer Science) was recently appointed the �鶹Ƶ��University campus director for the 2024-2025 Hult Prize competition, coordinated by �鶹Ƶ��University Libraries’ Blackstone LaunchPad (LaunchPad). The Hult Prize is a prestigious annual global…

Traci Geisler, director of �鶹Ƶ��University Libraries’ Blackstone LaunchPad (LaunchPad), presented a keynote address and served as an entrepreneurship competition judge at the first-ever Kenya-USA Global Launchpad Initiative (KUGLi) Innovation Summit, held at Kibabii University in Bungoma, Kenya, Aug. 15-16….

Trey Augliano ’27 has been selected as �鶹Ƶ��University Libraries’ inaugural Intelligence ++ Innovation Scholar for the 2024-25 academic year. Augliano is studying entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, and this prestigious recognition highlights…