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Spring 2013 Academic and Administrative Buildings Evacuation Drills
The Environmental Health and Safety Services Office (EHSS) will conduct the spring 2013 evacuation drills in academic and administrative buildings from April 22 through April 26. The building drills will be conducted in the morning between 9:30-11:30 a.m. or in…
BBI Receives $100,000 Gift to Technology Program for Children with Disabilities
Barb and Greg G’91 Tresness have announced a commitment of $100,000 to the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University. The donation will fund the creation of Communication Hope through Assistive Technology (CHAT), a program to assist youth with disabilities…
New Course Will Help Students Build Concrete Skills in Community Organizing
A new course in the fall 2013 semester will teach students key skills of organizing by leading a community engagement project on campus. “Community Organizing: People, Power and Change” (SWK 400/CFE 400) will meet on Wednesdays from 2:15-5 p.m., and…
‘Women Do Peace and Men Negotiate It–Bosnian Experience in Peacebuilding’
Interdisciplinary Lecture Series. Guest Speaker is Zilka Spahic-Siljak who is visiting lecturer on Women’s Studies and Islamic Studies and WSRP Research Associate at Harvard Divinity School, and she is Deputy Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies at the…
Kirk VanGilder Visits SU March 20-21 for Conversations on Creating Spaces for Inclusion
Rev. Kirk VanGilder, professor of religion at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., will visit Syracuse University March 20-21 for a series of conversations on creating spaces for inclusion. “Without Walls: What Temporary Deaf Spaces Can Tell Us About Managing Identity…
Conor Grennan to Share Experience of Helping Nepalese Children in Next University Lecture
When Conor Grennan embarked on a trip around the world in 2004, little did he know the result would be a long-term commitment to help the children of Nepal. Grennan will speak on “Little Princes: Changing the World through Volunteering…
Brooks Gump Awarded NIH Grant to Study Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Children
Brooks B. Gump, professor in the Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition in the Falk College, was awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The research project, “Environmental Toxicants, Race…
Resolving Conflict and Rebuilding Lives in Darfur
A region scarred by civil violence and a resulting humanitarian crisis over the past decade, Darfur in western Sudan still struggles to reach peace between the government and rebel factions. Its citizens, however, are not waiting to start rebuilding their lives and communities.
Encouraging Children to ‘Go Green’
The younger children are when they first become interested in conserving energy and the earth’s resources, the more likely they will be to support public projects for ecological well-being when they grow up.
SU-Connected Team Brings New Children’s Book Character Lisa Fashionista to Life
It may be a frigid winter in Syracuse, but one turn of the cover of a new book by Syracuse University’s JoAnn Rhoads places you on a summertime beach in Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., enjoying the magical adventures of Lisa Fashionista….