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SUA awarded at National Collegiate EMS Conference

Tuesday, February 28, 2012, By News Staff

Syracuse University Ambulance recently was represented at the 19th annual National Collegiate EMS Foundation Conference, held in Baltimore, Md. While at the conference, SUA received two awards recognizing accomplishments made over the past year.  SUA received an award for EMS Website of…

Whitman team needs your vote for WaterPort in Dell Social Innovation Challenge

Monday, February 27, 2012, By Lindsay Wickham

WaterPort, a team created by Whitman School of Management seniors Christopher Grant, Victoria Di Napoli, William Crane and Hunt Lau, is competing in the 2012 Dell Social Innovation Challenge. The company’s goal is to create a portable and self-sustained rainwater harvesting and…

Student Affairs announces 2013 Senior Class Marshals

Monday, February 27, 2012, By News Staff

The Division of Student Affairs has announced the 2013 Senior Class Marshals. Current juniors Stephanie Kranz and Kishauna Soljour will carry the class of 2013 banner to open Syracuse University’s 159th Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 12, 2013, continuing a…

Dean Biklen honored in Kuwait with UNESCO/Emir Jaber al-Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah Prize

Monday, February 27, 2012, By Jennifer Russo

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will present Syracuse University’s School of Education Dean Douglas Biklen with the 2011 UNESCO/Emir Jaber al-Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah Prize, honoring him for his work promoting quality education and equal opportunity for…

Maxwell School announces new lecture series on ethics, citizenship and public responsibility

Monday, February 27, 2012, By News Staff

Senator Bill Bradley to be inaugural speaker on April 10 What does it mean to be an ethical citizen? What does the need for public responsibility demand from us, whether we work in the private or the public sectors, and…

SU professors edit landmark book on Afro-Latin American rights

Monday, February 27, 2012, By Rob Enslin

The rise of Afro-Latin American social movements is the basis of a new book, edited by Syracuse University professors Kwame Dixon and John Burdick. “Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America” (University Press of Florida, 2012) is a collection of original essays…

Burton Blatt Institute staff members to present at national ADA Symposium

Monday, February 27, 2012, By News Staff

William Myhill, director of legal research and writing; Kelly Bunch L’09, law and policy research associate; and L. Elaine Sutton Mbionwu, assistant director of BBI’s Southeast ADA Center, will present four workshops at the 2012 Orlando ADA Symposium.  The symposium,…

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SU in the News: Friday, February 24

Friday, February 24, 2012, By News Staff

Maxwell School’s Leonard Burman writes on taxes in national and regional media

Entertainment attorney John P. Kellogg ’73, G’75 to speak Feb. 28

Friday, February 24, 2012, By Erica Blust

Entertainment attorney John P. Kellogg ’73, G ’75, assistant chair of the Music Business/Management Department at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, will give a talk on Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 6:45 p.m. in the Lender Auditorium, located on…

Burton Blatt Institute chairman to speak in European Parliament

Thursday, February 23, 2012, By News Staff

Peter Blanck, University Professor and chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, will be a featured speaker March 6 in the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, at a seminar on genetic discrimination. The Centre for Disability Law…