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BBI research associate elected to Society for Disability Studies board

Friday, May 20, 2011, By News Staff

Omolara Funmilola Akinpelu, research associate with the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, has been elected to serve on the board of directors of the Society for Disability Studies (SDS). Akinpelu’s three-year term begins at the conclusion of June’s…

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SU in the News: Friday, May 20

Friday, May 20, 2011, By Roxanna Carpenter

Expansion of SU educational presence in Persian Gulf covered by regional media

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Syracuse University to expand in the Middle East

Wednesday, May 18, 2011, By News Staff

SU to open headquarters in Dubai and create new opportunities for students Syracuse University has announced the expansion of its educational presence in the Arab Gulf. In June, an information center will open in Dubai, providing resources and background on…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse International Film Festival announces visiting artist

Tuesday, May 17, 2011, By News Staff

Israeli film director Dani Menkin has been selected to receive a visiting artist grant that will bring him to Syracuse for four months to live and work in the community. Menkin recently was awarded a Schusterman Visiting Artist Grant from…

Business & Economy

SyracuseCoE announces $200,000 in TAD awards to four Upstate companies

Tuesday, May 17, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The Syracuse Center of Excellence (SyracuseCoE) today announced that four Upstate New York companies have received a total of $200,000 in the fourth round of Technology Application and Demonstration (TAD 2011) awards. These demonstration projects are designed to improve air…

Arts & Culture

Disability Cultural Center to open on SU campus in fall 2011

Tuesday, May 17, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University continues to be a national leader in higher education as it will open the doors to a Disability Cultural Center in the fall of 2011. This groundbreaking center will be the only one of its kind across the…

Arts & Culture

SU unveils professional graduate certificate in language teaching

Monday, May 16, 2011, By Rob Enslin

In response to the shrinking global economy and the growing influx of immigrants to the United States, Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences is offering the certificate of advanced studies (CAS) in language teaching. The certificate is a 12-credit…

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Case worker steers student up the hill to SU degree

Monday, May 16, 2011, By Eileen Jevis

At the age of 17, Oubon Phommanyrath was living on her own in the Salvation Army Transitional Apartments on Salina Street in Syracuse. Phommanyrath had fled from a physically and emotionally abusive home life at age 14, ending up on…

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SU Commencement 2011: Remarks by student speaker Teresa M. Soldner

Monday, May 16, 2011, By News Staff

Otto was an inspiration.

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Remarks by J. Craig Venter at Syracuse University’s 157th Commencement and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s 114th Commencement

Sunday, May 15, 2011, By News Staff

Thank you, Chancellor Cantor, for a very warm introduction.  I wish you’d told me that I was going to be following the mascot. Chancellor Cantor, trustees, faculty, students: thank you for allowing me to come here to address you for your…