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BBI chairman authors working paper on web access for people with cognitive disabilities
University Professor Peter Blanck, chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, has authored a working paper on web access for people with cognitive disabilities. The paper, commissioned by the Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities, discusses a right…
SU in the News: Tuesday, March 27
Maxwell School’s Thomas Keck writes in The Guardian on Supreme Court review of national health care law
Point of Contact puts on first poetry book fair
On April 12, the Point of Contact Gallery inaugurates its first poetry book fair to showcase books by poets from the Syracuse area. All poets are invited to engage in an informal dialogue that evening to discuss “the book as…
Africa Initiative presents,’African Awakening:The Emerging Revolutions’
Special Guest Speaker: Firoze Manji, from Pambazuka in Oxford, an editor of African Awakening.
Five to be honored April 9 with Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence awards
Five Syracuse University faculty and staff members will receive the Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence at a campus ceremony and reception in their honor on Monday, April 9. The 2011-12 Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence honorees are: Don Carr, professor of industrial…
SU in the News: Monday, March 26
New York Times quotes Leonard Burman of Maxwell School on Rep. Paul Ryan and the Republican budget proposal
VPA fiber arts students create textile responses to environmentally concerned prints in new ArtRage exhibition
Fiber arts students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Design will show textiles created in response to environmentally concerned prints by the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative in the exhibition “RESOURCED/response,” which will be on view March 31-May…
‘Citizen writer’ Terry Tempest Williams will close out 2011-12 University Lectures season
Conservationist, free speech advocate and author Terry Tempest Williams will be the final guest of the University Lectures 2011-12 season on Thursday, March 29. Williams will speak on “The Writer as Witness” during a conversation with Don Mitchell, Distinguished Professor…
Symphony Syracuse, SU Oratorio Society to present Verdi’s monumental ‘Requiem’ March 30
Symphony Syracuse and guest conductor Daniel Hege will be joined by the Syracuse University Oratorio Society with John Warren, director, for a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s monumental “Requiem” on Friday, March 30, at 7:30 p.m. in SU’s Goldstein Auditorium in…
‘Dead Man Poems’ author to speak at Syracuse University
“Live as if you were already dead.”—Zen admonition Celebrated poet Marvin Bell will read from his latest work, “Vertigo: The Living Dead Man Poems” (Copper Canyon Press, 2011) at 7 p.m. Monday, April 2, in Syracuse University’s Hall of Languages,…