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‘An Inside Look at Your Onondaga County Library’ at this week’s IRP

Tuesday, November 29, 2011, By Eileen Jevis

At the Dec. 1 session of the Institute for Retired People (IRP), Elizabeth Dailey, executive director of the Onondaga County Public Library (OCPL) system, will discuss the operation of the OCPL, the trends in library services and usage, and current…

Burton Blatt Institute experts to provide legal analysis as part of $2.35 million grant

Tuesday, November 29, 2011, By News Staff

In New York state, unemployment for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities has reached 66 percent, and those who are employed often have difficulty obtaining competitive employment that earns them at least a minimum wage. The Burton Blatt Institute (BBI)…

BBI hosts virtual celebration of International Day of Persons with Disabilities

Monday, November 28, 2011, By News Staff

In celebration of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University and the Institute on Disability and Public Policy (IDPP) at American University will host a virtual lunch event from noon-1 p.m. EST on…

Campus & Community

Reid joins Whitman as communications specialist

Wednesday, November 23, 2011, By News Staff

Karla Scoon Reid of Baldwinsville joined the Whitman School of Management earlier this fall as a communications specialist. In her role, Reid supports Whitman’s marketing and communications function through research, writing and editing. She helps produce content for all print…

Continuum establishes award recognizing innovation in interdisciplinary design education at SU

Monday, November 21, 2011, By Erica Blust

VPA industrial and interaction design professor Don Carr named inaugural recipient Continuum, a global innovation design consultancy co-founded by Gianfranco Zaccai ’70 H’09, its president and chief design officer, has established a new award to recognize innovation in interdisciplinary design…

STEM

SU forensics graduate student invited to teach seminar in Guatemala law school

Friday, November 18, 2011, By News Staff

Anita Zannin, a student in the Forensic Science Professional Master’s Program in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, was recently invited to teach a seminar on “Crime Scene/Homicide Investigation” to law students at the University of Francisco Marroquin in…

Syracuse University and The King Center announce The King Center Audio and Visual Digitization Project

Wednesday, November 16, 2011, By Scott McDowell

The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (The King Center) and Syracuse University announce The King Center Audio and Visual Digitization Project, a collaboration that will ensure that the slain civil rights leader’s legacy will be preserved for…

‘Seymourofus Cross-generational Conversation’ at La Casita Cultural Center Nov. 17

Tuesday, November 15, 2011, By News Staff

On Thursday, Nov. 17, from 1:30-2:30 p.m., La Casita will host “Seymourofus Cross-generational Conversation,” a community discussion led by Seymour School third-graders on issues of cultural memory, spaces of belonging and active participation in Syracuse. And from 2:30-4 p.m., community…

Whitman School accepts invitation to join inaugural Aspen Undergraduate Business Consortium

Tuesday, November 15, 2011, By News Staff

In March 2012, the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program will launch a new consortium of undergraduate institutions, the Aspen Undergraduate Business Consortium, designed to further the aim of better integrating liberal learning into undergraduate business education. The Whitman School…

Campus & Community

Songs for Somalia

Monday, November 14, 2011, By News Staff

Help support famine relief efforts in Somalia by coming to our benefit concert in Schine Underground on Wednesday, Nov. 16, starting at 8 p.m.