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Monday, April 5, 2021 - 1:19 pm CANTON – St. Lawrence University will receive a $1 million grant from the Eisner Foundation, founded in 1996 by foundation president Jane (Breckenridge) Eisner ’64 and her husband Michael D. Eisner, then-chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company. The money will be applied to the endowed fund that supports the Fox Center for Academic Opportunity, said a press release from SLU. The recently renamed center honors SLU’s president, William L. Fox ’75, and his commitment to every student’s ambition and life preparedness. The Eisner Fo...

CANTON — St. Lawrence University will benefit from a $1 million grant made by the Eisner Foundation to the endowed fund that supports the Fox Center for Academic Opportunity. The recently renamed center honors President William L. Fox and his commitment to students’ ambitions and life preparedness. The Eisner Foundation was founded in 1996 by Foundation President Jane (Breckenridge) Eisner ’64 and her husband Michael D. Eisner, then-chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company, in order to focus their family’s philanthropic activities. “To know Jane Eisner as a wonderf...

click to enlarge Using the Hudson River as a natural lab for learning, Clarkson’s Beacon Institute connects local students to STEM activities. In the US, jobs in the fields of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) have a supply and demand problem. Due to an array of trends, including the creation of new types of jobs that require STEM skills and lower graduation rates for STEM degrees, there are currently too many jobs and not enough qualified candidates to fill them. This issue was the crux of the last two reports on the state of STEM education from th...

SU program helps younger Onondaga County students advance in STEM field Courtesy of Malea Perkins Isabella Perkins, who has participated in the Science and Technology Entry Program since sixth grade, spent two years conducting a research project on the flu vaccine. Facebook Google+ The Daily Orange is a nonprofit newsroom that receives no funding from Syracuse University. Consider donating today to support our mission. Not many Cicero-North Syracuse High School students can say they spent two years conducting a research project on the flu vaccine and attending networking events with promine...

Sunday, January 17, 2021 - 5:53 pm POTSDAM — Despite the pandemic challenges, Clarkson University’s IMPETUS for Career Success program (Integrated Math and Physics for Entry to Undergraduate STEM) continues to thrive and provides students with academic enrichment and research experience in science, mathematics, and technology content areas and consists of summer and academic year components, said a press release from the organization. The program is for eligible 7th through 12th-grade students and is funded through a New York State Department of Education Science and ...