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Health & Society

Katherine McDonald to receive Early Career Award from American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Wednesday, February 29, 2012, By News Staff

The American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) has selected Katherine McDonald, assistant professor of public health in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics and faculty fellow at the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI), as the…

Call for SU Showcase video competition submissions

Tuesday, February 28, 2012, By News Staff

SU Showcase for Sustainability 2012—the campuswide, spring academic event celebrating the “green economy” this year—is seeking students to share their bold and creative visions for a greener future. Applicants for the SU Showcase video competition will be considered for a…

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Tuesday, February 28

Tuesday, February 28, 2012, By News Staff

Anthony Otero of the University Events Office writes in Huffington Post on students’ use of interactive technology

Vera House White Ribbon Campaign presentation March 8

Tuesday, February 28, 2012, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

In support of the campuswide White Ribbon Campaign, Syracuse University Library will host a presentation by Vera House representatives at 3 p.m. Thursday, March 8, in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, located on the first floor of Bird Library. The event…

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…

SU Sport Management Club makes $30,444 gift to Upstate Cancer Center

Monday, February 27, 2012, By Michele Barrett

Since its founding in 2005, the Syracuse University Sport Management (SPM) Club, a student-run organization in the Falk College’s Department of Sport Management, has donated nearly $155,000 to Central New York charities. As a result of its most successful annual…

SU Library, SU Humanities Center announce Central New York Humanities Corridor Visiting Scholar Program

Monday, February 27, 2012, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Syracuse University Library and the SU Humanities Center, along with their partners in the Central New York Humanities Corridor (Colgate University, Cornell University, Hamilton College, SU and the University of Rochester), will award four visiting scholar grants of $2,500 each…

Arts & Culture

VPA’s John Laverty produces new album ‘Rock Stars,’ featuring two renowned musicians

Monday, February 27, 2012, By Erica Blust

John Laverty, professor of applied music and performance in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music, has produced the new album “Rock Stars” on Mark Records, which features soloists Joseph…

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,…