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BBI launches new website
BBI’s home on the web, bbi.syr.edu, has a new look! The new BBI website launched in conjunction with the 22nd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, celebrated July 26. The website exemplifies BBI’s impact, with an emphasis on people…
Shaheen appointed IVMF director of employment policy
Appointment deepens partnership between IVMF, BBI The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) and Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Â鶹ƵµÀUniversity have announced that BBI Senior Vice President Gary Shaheen G’86 has joined the IVMF as director of employment…
BBI’s Southeast ADA Center, Leadership Network offer online toolkit to celebrate 22nd anniversary of ADA
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) will celebrate its 22nd anniversary on July 26. To celebrate this milestone, the Southeast ADA Center, a project of the Burton Blatt Institute at Â鶹ƵµÀUniversity, and its State Leadership Network have created an…
Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant to support Project ENABLE
The Institute of Museum and Library Services has awarded a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant to the Center for Digital Literacy at Â鶹ƵµÀUniversity’s School of Information Studies to support Project ENABLE. Project ENABLE (Expanding Nondiscriminatory Access by…
Burton Blatt Institute names inaugural Olinsky Law Group Fellow
Stephanie Woodward, a second-year student at Â鶹ƵµÀUniversity College of Law and a research assistant with the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at SU, has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Olinsky Law Group/Burton Blatt Institute Fellowship. The fellowship…
BBI chairman, EEOC commissioner to lead expert panel discussion about employment of lawyers with disabilities
University Professor Peter Blanck, chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute at Â鶹ƵµÀUniversity, will join the Honorable Chai Feldblum, Commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), to open the American Bar Association’s National Conference on Employment of Lawyers…
Palitz Gallery hosts Wynn Newhouse Awards Exhibition through June 15
Awards draw attention to achievements of artists who have disabilities
Burton Blatt Institute chairman to testify before National Council on Disability on future of disability law and policy
Peter Blanck, University Professor and chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Â鶹ƵµÀUniversity, will provide expert testimony March 9 in New York City, before the National Council on Disability (NCD). Blanck will discuss emerging issues in regard to…
Katherine McDonald to receive Early Career Award from American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
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…
Burton Blatt Institute staff members to present at national ADA Symposium
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,…