Search Results for: ,BbI

Nov. 11 event to celebrate Near Westside ‘From the Ground Up’ homes earning LEED certifications

Thursday, November 10, 2011, By News Staff

Just about two years ago, three vacant infill sites on Syracuse’s Near Westside remarkably represented a new vision for one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods. These once-forgotten residential lots would become the sites for three new sustainable homes as part…

Atlanta elementary school students inspired by adults with disabilities

Tuesday, November 1, 2011, By News Staff

Successful adults with disabilities from throughout the metro-Atlanta area inspired children at Gwinnett County’s Nesbit Elementary School on Oct. 12 to dare to dream for their futures as part of a new disability mentoring day and career expo pilot program….

Arts & Culture

‘Fuddy Meers’ presents hilarious antics in a world where nothing is what it seems

Monday, October 31, 2011, By News Staff

With moments like a wild carnival ride, throwing the characters back and forth between perception and reality, playwright David Lindsay-Abaire masters off-beat humor in “Fuddy Meers” with a colorful cast of characters consisting of a lisping, limping man; a pot-smoking…

Arts & Culture

SU Drama to present reading of ‘It Can’t Happen Here’

Wednesday, October 19, 2011, By Erica Blust

Event is part of nationwide celebration of Federal Theatre Project The Syracuse University Department of Drama in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will present a staged reading of Sinclair Lewis and John C. Moffitt’s “It Can’t Happen…

Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse School’s Shannon Bowen receives prestigious prize

Wednesday, October 19, 2011, By News Staff

Shannon A. Bowen, associate professor of public relations in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, was awarded the Jackson Jackson & Wagner Behavioral Science Prize by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Foundation at the PRSA 2011 International…

Campus & Community

‘The Connective Corridor Initiative’ at this week’s IRP

Tuesday, October 18, 2011, By Eileen Jevis

The Connective Corridor is emerging as a signature strip of cutting-edge cultural development connecting the University Hill with downtown Syracuse. Robbi Farschman, director of community engagement and economic development at Syracuse University, will explain the Connective Corridor at the Oct….

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Thursday, October 13

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By News Staff

Rehab Management magazine reports U.S. Department of Education support for BBI leadership of Southeast ADA Center

Campus & Community

Burton Blatt Institute and Atlanta-area school host disability mentoring day and career expo

Monday, October 10, 2011, By News Staff

‘I Have a Dream: Creating Your Life Portfolio’ pilot program encourages children with and without disabilities to dream and plan for their futures The Southeast ADA Center—operated in Atlanta by the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University—Nesbit Elementary School,…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Friday, October 7

Friday, October 7, 2011, By News Staff

Inc. Magazine features innovative military startups run by EBV graduates

Arts & Culture

Fashion, furnishings of Arts and Crafts era unite in ‘The American Look’

Thursday, October 6, 2011, By Erica Blust

A new exhibition from Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) unites original Arts and Crafts Movement furnishings, with an emphasis on those designed by Gustav Stickley, with clothing worn by American women during 1909-1913—a rarely seen combination….