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Campus & Community

Burton Blatt Institute co-hosts seminar on ‘International Disability Research and Knowledge Exchange’

Friday, September 16, 2011, By News Staff

The Global Research Network on Disability (GRND), a project of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, will host a seminar on “International Disability Research and Knowledge Exchange: Collaborative Research Between Governments and Academia to Promote Disability in Development.”…

STEM

SU garners $3 million NSF grant for education, research in soft and biological materials

Thursday, September 15, 2011, By News Staff

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Syracuse University $3 million over the next five years to develop an Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training Program (IGERT) in Soft Interfaces. IGERT is the NSF’s flagship interdisciplinary program to educate Ph.D.-level…

STEM

Syracuse University Industrial Assessment Center awarded $1.5 million to support Department of Energy initiative

Thursday, September 15, 2011, By News Staff

The Syracuse University-Industrial Assessment Center (SU-IAC) has been awarded $1.5 million over five years to support the Department of Energy’s (DoE) Industrial Assessment Center (IAC) program to train undergraduate- and graduate-level engineering students in manufacturing efficiency and to help them…

Arts & Culture

‘Wretches & Jabberers’ to screen as part of disability-themed Shared First Year Experience, Sept. 19

Thursday, September 15, 2011, By Jennifer Russo

As part of Syracuse University’s disability-themed Shared First Year Experience, the documentary film “Wretches & Jabberers: And Stories from the Road” will be shown on Monday, Sept. 19, at 7 p.m. in the Goldstein Auditorium of Schine Student Center. The…

Arts & Culture

University commemorates Latino heritage in September, October

Thursday, September 15, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s Office of Multicultural Affairs hosts Latino Heritage Month from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. From lectures to performances, luncheons, semi-formals and art exhibitions, Latino Heritage Month offers a wide range of festivities for all to enjoy. “To enhance…

Campus & Community

“Wretches and Jabberers” screening for students Sept. 19

Thursday, September 15, 2011, By News Staff

On Monday, Sept. 19, at 7 p.m. in the Schine Student Center’s Goldstein Auditorium, students are invited to join Syracuse University’s School of Education and the University Arts Presenter for a special screening and Q&A with the stars of “Wretches and Jabberers,” a film by Gerardine Wurzburg.

Arts & Culture

All tickets for David Sedaris University Lecture are distributed

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

All tickets for the upcoming University Lectures presentation of “An Evening with David Sedaris” at Syracuse University have now been distributed. Sedaris will speak on Tuesday, Oct. 11, at 6 p.m. in the Schine Student Center’s Goldstein Auditorium. All ticketholders…

Media, Law & Policy

TRAC: Immigration Court backlog climbs, criminal cases fall

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, By News Staff

The number of cases awaiting a resolution before the Immigration Courts reached a total of 285,526 at the end of July 2011. According to the very latest data obtained and analyzed by Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), that…

Veterans

EBV receives endorsement from Code of Support Foundation

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, By News Staff

The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV), a cutting-edge business training program that provides veterans with disabilities with the tools to achieve the American dream of business ownership, has been endorsed by the nonprofit Code of Support Foundation as…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Wednesday, September 14

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, By News Staff

Yahoo quotes William J. Ward of the Newhouse School on the role social media might have played in 9/11