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BBI provides emergency preparedness guidance for people with disabilities in advance of Hurricane Irene
Applying lessons from emergency planning and response after Hurricane Katrina, in which the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University was involved, BBI is providing resources for the protection and safety of people with disabilities who live in the path…
BBI’s Marcia Scherer ’70 to receive mentor award from Rehabilitation Engineering Society of North America
Marcia Scherer ’70, of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, will receive the Sam McFarland Memorial Mentor Award from the Rehabilitation Engineering Society of North America (RESNA). The award recognizes Scherer for having influenced, counseled and nurtured others…
BBI research associate elected to Society for Disability Studies board
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…
Entrepreneur, makeup artist Bobbi Brown to deliver keynote at 2011 WISE Symposium
The Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship in the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University will welcome makeup artist Bobbi Brown, founder of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, as the keynote speaker for the ninth annual Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (WISE)…
Campus screenings of ‘Wretches & Jabberers’ planned April 16, 28
The Syracuse University School of Education will host three screenings of the documentary film “Wretches & Jabberers,” on Saturday, April 16, at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m., and on Thursday, April 28, at 7 p.m. at the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium…
BBI meets with top White House staff on entrepreneurship for people with disabilities
On March 28, Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University Executive Director Michael Morris, Senior Vice President Gary Shaheen G’86, and BBI Board of Advisors member John Robinson ’90 met at the White House with Special Assistant to the President…
Sherburne Abbott appointed Syracuse University’s vice president for sustainability initiatives and University Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy
Syracuse University Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric F. Spina today announced the appointment of Sherburne “Shere” Abbott as vice president for sustainability initiatives and University Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy. Abbott, a leading expert in the field of sustainability…
BBI Chair Peter Blanck noted as authority in new ADA rules
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) extensively cited the research of University Professor Peter Blanck, chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, in its final rules and regulations for the employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities…
Division of Student Affairs joins in White Ribbon Campaign, March 25-April 1
The Vera House White Ribbon Campaign kicked off March 25 with the goal of distributing 40,000 white ribbons to people in Onondaga County to raise awareness about domestic and sexual violence. The 17th annual campaign will run until April 3….
BBI Chairman Peter Blanck and board member Matthew Dietz to argue disability case before U.S. Court of Appeals
Peter Blanck, chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University and University Professor, and Matthew Dietz, a civil rights attorney and BBI Advisory Board member, will argue before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in…