Health & Society
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…
Falk Professor publishes first novel
Combining historically accurate military and espionage details, David B. Falk Professor of Sport Management Rick Burton ’79 published his first novel this spring: a thriller that spans two generations of complicated intrigue and dark double-crosses.
Taishoff Center to host first leadership conference for college students with disabilities
The Taishoff Center for Inclusive Higher Education at Syracuse University continues to promote leadership opportunities for students with disabilities with its first national conference, “DisAbled & Proud: A Call to Lead,” to be held Aug. 5-7 on the SU campus….
Educators from across New York take part in disability workshops on SU’s campus
Program helps ensure students with disabilities access and benefit from information age While their students are on summer vacation, 105 public school librarians, general educators and special educators from across New York state are spending time in a “summer school”…
Dye publishes in American Journal of Public Health
Professor Timothy Dye is a medical anthropologist and social epidemiologist who specializes in applied public health, particularly within marginalized, isolated, and global populations, and with a content focus on social and cultural determinants of health.
Burton Blatt Institute International Conference to focus on impact of Japanese earthquake on disabled
The Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University and the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Economics will hold a joint conference on SU’s campus June 29 and 30 on issues related to disability and economics. The University of Tokyo’s…
Brianna Carrier named 2011 Udall Scholar
Brianna Carrier ’12, a dual major in geography and policy studies in The College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected as a 2011 Udall Scholar.
Second Syracuse University transnationalizing LGBT conference to be held in Madrid
On July 3-5, an international conference, “LGBT/Queer Studies: Toward Trans/national Scholarly and Activist Kinships, ” will be held in Madrid as a follow-up to the September 2010 “Transnationalizing LGBT Studies” conference on campus organized by Syracuse University’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual…
More than 300 college students begin training to work in Say Yes summer camps
More than 300 college students, representing 46 colleges and universities, will be on the Syracuse University campus on Monday, June 13, to train at the Say Yes Summer Institute to become summer enrichment specialists for the 2011 Say Yes to Education…
Burton Blatt Institute Chairman Peter Blanck to co-chair Israeli disability rights panel on community living
University Professor Peter Blanck, chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, has been appointed by the government of Israel’s Ministry of Welfare and Social Services to co-chair a disability rights expert panel on community living for persons…