SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE
The Commencement speech delivered by Aaron Sorkin ’83 on May 13 was highlighted in NBC’s “Rock Center with Brian Williams” in a segment on Sorkin’s life.
The Tallahassee Democrat, Denver Post and Epoch Times mention the founding of the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) program in 2007 at the Whitman School, and EBV founder Mike Haynie, executive director/founder of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families and Barnes Professor of Entrepreneurship at Whitman. The news outlets report on the fifth anniversary of the EBV at national consortium school Florida State University.
Rosalinda V. Maury, director of research for the Institute for Veterans and Military Families, was quoted in The Seattle Medium/NNPA News Service on the jobs battle facing unemployed African American post-9/11 veterans.
Syracuse.com posted a video of the original Water Lecture that was re-enacted Thursday at SU’s Stolkin Auditorium, honoring the late Benjamin P. Burtt Sr., longtime professor of chemistry in The College of Arts & Sciences.
FACULTY QUOTES
University Professor Peter Blanck, chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute, was quoted in the Boston Globe about a federal case involving Netflix and the captioning of movies and TV shows streamed online.
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