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Burton Blatt Institute, Eastern Washington University partner to promote entrepreneurship for people with disabilities in Ghana

Tuesday, February 21, 2012, By News Staff

Gary Shaheen G’86, Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University senior vice president, and Romel Mackelprang, Eastern Washington University professor and noted researcher on accessibility for people with disabilities, worked on site during the week of Feb. 7 with partners…

Campus & Community

Call for participation for Imagining America 2012 National Conference

Monday, February 20, 2012, By Jamie Haft

‘Linked Fates and Futures: Communities and Campuses as Equitable Partners?’ is the conference theme, Oct. 5-7 in New York.

Foster discusses practical engaged scholarship within the academy in ‘Seamless Pursuits’ lecture

Monday, February 20, 2012, By Jennifer Russo

The School of Education and its Cultural Foundations of Education Department will present Kevin Michael Foster, professor from the University of Texas at Austin, and his lecture “Seamless Pursuits: Leadership and Community to Improve Student Lives and Academic Outcomes” on Monday,…

VPA’s Warren to travel to Cuba as part of ACDA International Conductor Exchange Program

Monday, February 20, 2012, By Erica Blust

John Warren, associate professor and director of choral activities in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), has been accepted into the American Choral Directors Association International…

Supporting military families: IVMF issues response on report by departments of Treasury and Defense

Monday, February 20, 2012, By News Staff

Report concerns best practices for streamlining occupational licensing across state lines for military spouses The Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University issues the following statement in response to a recent report issued jointly by the departments of…

Arts & Culture

‘The Lower Depths’: Provocative portrait of outcasts from master of Russian realism

Monday, February 20, 2012, By News Staff

A masterpiece of Russian realism, “The Lower Depths,” was Maxim Gorky’s first great play, and its premiere production in 1902 helped establish the reputation of the famed Moscow Art Theatre and its influential director, Constantine Stanislavsky. Presented by the Department…

STEM

Mueller’s Internet governance paper a ‘Top Ten Download’ on SSRN

Monday, February 20, 2012, By J.D. Ross

A paper written by a School of Information Studies (iSchool) faculty member about the potential impact of deep packet inspection technology on Internet governance and the Net’s future state recently was named to the Top Ten Download list among articles posted on the Social Science Research Network website.

Arts & Culture

Independent filmmaker awarded Burton Blatt Institute Prize for Arts Leadership

Friday, February 17, 2012, By News Staff

The 2012 Burton Blatt Institute Prize for Arts Leadership has been awarded to Sharon Greytak, an independent filmmaker and film professor at the College of Visual and Performing Arts, for her entire body of work and its importance to the…

Latin America and community is focus for La Casita event

Friday, February 17, 2012, By News Staff

La Casita Cultural Center will present “Latin American Understandings of Community,” a roundtable discussion with Paulina Ochoa, a political theorist from Yale University, at 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 6, at the center, 109 Otisco St., Syracuse. The event is free…

Ron Meyer, head of Universal Studios, will visit Newhouse March 1

Friday, February 17, 2012, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Universal Studios president and COO Ron Meyer will visit the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Thursday, March 1. A Q-and-A with Meyer and Newhouse Professor of Practice Richard Dubin will take place at 3 p.m. in the Joyce…