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Arts & Culture

Taishoff Center hosts PHOTOVOICE exhibit to spread voices of disabled community

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, By Jennifer Russo

The Lawrence B. Taishoff Center for Inclusive Higher Education is hosting the photography exhibit “PHOTOVOICE Changing the Image of Disabilities: Reflections and Resolutions,” a national project that gives community groups a voice through photography and poetry. PHOTOVOICE is free and…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University recognizes Constitution Day

Tuesday, September 13, 2011, By News Staff

To recognize national Constitution Day (Sept. 17, 2011, celebrated on Sept. 20 because it falls on a weekend this year) Syracuse University will provide free, pocket U.S. Constitutions and voter registration forms at E.S. Bird Library (ground floor), and the…

Health & Society

BBI chairman to deliver keynote at disability conference

Tuesday, September 13, 2011, By News Staff

University Professor Peter Blanck, chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, will deliver the keynote address at the Coleman Institute Conference on Oct. 13. Blanck’s talk, “Toward the Right to Equal Technology Access for People with Cognitive…

Campus & Community

‘Community Voice and Power Politics’ colloquium to be held Tuesday

Monday, September 12, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The South Side Initiative Office will host “Community Voice and Power Politics,” a Syracuse University and University of Fort Hare Collaborative Colloquium on Tuesday, Sept. 13, from 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at the Genesee Grande Hotel. The colloquium is part of…

Arts & Culture

Point of Contact Gallery presents ‘EDIFICE’

Monday, September 12, 2011, By Teresita Paniagua

Mexican-born, New York City-based artists Gabriela Alva C. and Natalia Porter present their collaborative project, EDIFICE, at the Point of Contact Gallery. Curated by Pedro Cuperman, the show features Alva and Porter in response to the work of Boston artist…

Campus & Community

Dollar Day at the Dome is Oct.1

Monday, September 12, 2011, By Jennifer DeMarchi

Donations to benefit United Way of CNY

Maxwell students win Distinguished Delegation at Model United Nations competition

Monday, September 12, 2011, By News Staff

A team of 16 international relations majors from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, led by adviser Francine D’Amico, captured the Distinguished Delegation honor at a five-day Model United Nations (MUN) event in New York City this past…

Media, Law & Policy

Maxwell School’s Transnational NGO Initiative to host leadership institute

Monday, September 12, 2011, By News Staff

Leaders from a range of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) will converge at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University Sept. 14-20 to attend the inaugural Transnational NGO Leadership Institute 2011, which will prepare participants to take the…

Veterans

Football fans support Habitat’s Veterans’ Build

Monday, September 12, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University football fans helped “raise the roof” for Syracuse Habitat for Humanity’s first Veterans’ Build in New York state. Volunteers sought donations at various locations on campus and at entrances to the Carrier Dome prior to the game. More…

Campus & Community

Open source communities are topic of brown bag lunch talk

Monday, September 12, 2011, By News Staff

Nicolas Jullien, visiting professor from the French institution Telecom Bretagne, Institute Telecom, will present the first talk in the School of Information Studies (iSchool) brown bag lunch series this academic year.