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Health & Society

BBI provides emergency preparedness guidance for people with disabilities in advance of Hurricane Irene

Friday, August 26, 2011, By News Staff

Applying lessons from emergency planning and response after Hurricane Katrina, in which the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University was involved, BBI is providing resources for the protection and safety of people with disabilities who live in the path…

Arts & Culture

Composer Phillip Rothman to perform original score for D.W. Griffith’s silent film ‘Way Down East’

Thursday, August 25, 2011, By KC Duggan

The Syracuse International Film Festival has commissioned composer Phillip Rothman to write a score for the 1920 D.W. Griffith silent film “Way Down East.” Rothman will debut the original composition, scored for eight musicians, with the film screening Oct. 14…

Campus & Community

Near Westside community celebrates progress with Multicultural Block Party at Skiddy Park

Tuesday, August 16, 2011, By News Staff

The Near Westside Initiative (NWI) will hold its second annual Multicultural Block Party at Skiddy Park, Thursday, Aug. 18, from noon-9 p.m.

Gorovitz helps commemorate 9/11 with Anbar Family Lecture at Temple Adath

Friday, August 12, 2011, By Rob Enslin

Samuel Gorovitz, a pioneer in the field of medical ethics and an expert on philosophy and public policy, delivers the fourth annual Anbar Family Lecture at Temple Adath Yeshurun (450 Kimber Rd., Syracuse), in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of…

Arts & Culture

SU’s Ray Smith Symposium explores history of queer sexuality

Tuesday, August 9, 2011, By Rob Enslin

The symposium runs from September to April.

Health & Society

Taishoff Center to host first leadership conference for college students with disabilities

Tuesday, August 2, 2011, By News Staff

The Taishoff Center for Inclusive Higher Education at Syracuse University continues to promote leadership opportunities for students with disabilities with its first national conference, “DisAbled & Proud: A Call to Lead,” to be held Aug. 5-7 on the SU campus….

Media, Law & Policy

Partnership with alumni-owned agency leads to establishment of Dubai Internship Program

Wednesday, July 27, 2011, By Wendy S. Loughlin

A student and a recent graduate of Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications spent six weeks in Dubai this summer, interning at TBWA/RAAD, an advertising and public relations agency run by SU alumnus Reda Raad ’95. Emmelie De…

Veterans

Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities celebrates fifth year

Wednesday, July 13, 2011, By News Staff

Features keynotes by U.S. Department of Labor Assistant Secretary Ray Jefferson and legendary high school basketball coach Bob Hurley Sr. On Saturday, July 16, the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University will welcome a new class of 25 veterans…

Campus & Community

Graduate student shares passion for science with middle school students during Science Horizons Summer Program

Wednesday, June 22, 2011, By Eileen Jevis

When Nadia Essi was selected as the only eighth-grade student from Levy Middle School to attend a science camp at Syracuse University, she was excited to learn more about a subject she had come to love. “My fifth-grade teacher, Mrs….

Campus & Community

SU named to 2010 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction

Thursday, June 2, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

SU has been named for the fifth consecutive year.