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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…
SU mourns Maxwell Emeritus Professor John Cleverdon Honey II
John Cleverdon Honey II, professor emeritus of public policy at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, died on May 17 at the age of 94.
Disability Cultural Center to open on SU campus in fall 2011
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…
Thompson becomes chairman of the Syracuse University Board of Trustees
At Syracuse University’s Board of Trustees annual meeting held this past Saturday, May 14, Chairman-elect Richard L. Thompson G’67 officially assumed the role of chairman of the University’s Board of Trustees. Outgoing chairman John H. Chapple ’75 completed his term as…
Case worker steers student up the hill to SU degree
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…
College of Law tradition continues with Res Ipsa Loquitur faculty honor
The Class of 2011 awarded College of Law Professor Nina A. Kohn the Res Ipsa Loquitur Award at the May 13 Commencement ceremony. This award recognizes an outstanding member of the faculty for his or her service, scholarship and stewardship…
2011 Syracuse University Beckman Scholar selected
Vivian Yaci Yu, a junior biochemistry major in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected as the University’s 2011 Beckman Scholar. The highly competitive program, funded by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, supports select students interested…
Acclaimed poet, disability rights advocate named director of SU’s Renée Crown University Honors Program
The Renée Crown University Honors Program, an all-University program administered by Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, announces the appointment of Stephen Kuusisto as its new director. Kuusisto is an accomplished poet, scholar and disability rights advocate who comes…
SU’s Class of 2011 senior class marshals
Senior class marshals Justin Michael Cole and Katherine L. Lewinski will carry the Class of 2011 banner to open Syracuse University’s 157th Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 15, and continue a longstanding tradition by representing their class on this special occasion. Cole,…
Cole, Lewinski represent SU’s Class of 2011 as senior class marshals
Senior class marshals Justin Michael Cole and Katherine L. Lewinski will carry the Class of 2011 banner to open Syracuse University’s 157th Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 15, and continue a longstanding tradition by representing their class on this special occasion. Cole,…