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Research Study Seeks Participants Who Know Someone with Intellectual Disability

Tuesday, October 15, 2013, By News Staff

A new Syracuse University research study conducted through the Falk College’s Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition is currently seeking participants who have a family member or friend with an intellectual disability. The study is funded by the…

Media, Law & Policy

Azerbaijani Journalist to Receive 2013 Tully Award for Free Speech

Tuesday, October 15, 2013, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Idrak Abbasov, an independent journalist from Azerbaijan, is the recipient of the 2013 Tully Award for Free Speech. The award, presented annually by the Newhouse School‘s Tully Center for Free Speech, is given to a journalist who has faced a…

Arts & Culture

Southeast ADA Center Announces First Broadcast of WADA “ADA Live!”

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, By Celestia Ohrazda

On Oct. 2, the Southeast ADA Center, a project of the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University, will launch “ADA Live!” on WADA, the center’s Internet-based radio station. For the past 22 years, the Southeast ADA Center, a member of…

Syracuse University, Onondaga Historical Association, Skä-noñh Center Team up for Lacrosse Expo

Thursday, September 5, 2013, By Rob Enslin

Expo to include games, demos, clinics and Native American arts and crafts Thousands of people of all ages are expected to converge at Onondaga Lake Park in Liverpool, for the first annual Haudenosaunee Wooden Stick Lacrosse Expo, Sept. 28-29. The…

Campus & Community

CHAT Camp Wraps Up Successful Summer Program

Wednesday, September 4, 2013, By Keith Kobland

The Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University is helping to provide a voice to nonverbal children. This video explains the concept of CHAT (Communication Hope through Assistive Technology) and explains how one SU alumnus is lending a voice and his…

Hendricks Chapel Welcomes Five New Staff Members

Monday, August 26, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Hendricks Chapel is welcoming five new staff members for the start of the 2013-14 academic year. “Hendricks Chapel is delighted to welcome this diverse group of talented chaplains to Syracuse University,” says Hendricks Chapel Dean Tiffany Steinwert. “They not only…

CHAT Program of Burton Blatt Institute Launches Camp for Children

Thursday, August 8, 2013, By Celestia Ohrazda

CHAT Camp is a unique five-day experience for children locally who use assistive/augmentative communication (AAC) devices to communicate. This event will bring together agencies, speakers and professionals from the world of special needs to focus on communication in a whole…

World-Class Guest Artists to Teach at Summer Dance Intensive

Wednesday, July 10, 2013, By Eileen Jevis

Troy Powell, artistic director of Ailey II American Dance Theater, and Diana White, artistic director at the Scarsdale Ballet Studio, will be teaching dance classes at the Summer Dance Intensive Program at Syracuse University. The dance intensive is offered through…

Sperm Wars Ruled by Females?

Monday, June 10, 2013, By Rob Enslin

SU study finds that females play active, pivotal role in postcopulatory processes Females play a larger role in determining paternity than previously thought, say biologists in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Their findings are the subject of a…

STEM

Gina Lee-Glauser Named Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Thursday, June 6, 2013, By Kathleen Haley

Gina Lee-Glauser, vice president for research at Syracuse University and research professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in SU’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, was named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The…