Burton Blatt Institute: BBI Spotlight & Archives

BBI Spotlight

4.28.11 Real JOBS NY, collaboration between BBI, WDI, & NYAPRS, featured as Program Model in May 2011 issue of Job Training Placement Report - Real JOBS NY Lives Up to its Name
4.25.11 SU alumni and filmmakers team up with BBI for Taste of Beauty Weekend - Talent Showcase, VIP Reception and documentary screening of Defining Beauty: Ms. Wheelchair - proceeds benefit Georgians with disabilities
News Release | Inside SU | Event Brochure
4.11.11 BBI's Pamela Williamson discusses the work of the Southeast ADA Center and BBI in the “At Your Service” radio program - Listen to Audio
4.11.11 Chairman Peter Blanck, quoted in a Boardroom INSIDER story about meeting the needs of board members with disabilities - Newsletter
4.2.11 BBI meets with top White House staff on Entrepreneurship for People with Disabilities - News Release | Inside SU

3.28.11 Peter Blanck, BBI Chairman, noted as authority in new ADA Rules - News Release | Inside SU | Compliance Week
3.16.11 Start-Up NY Extraordinary Speaker Series & Lunch "Making Passion a Successful Business" with guest speaker, Christiana Kaiser
Event Brochure & RSVP info
3.11.11 Start-Up NY, participant Della Brown featured in “From Dream to Reality: Entrepreneurship for People with Disabilities” - Solutions March/April 2011
3.07.11 Brian McLane, BBI Senior Advisor, discusses winter travel difficulty for wheelchair users in Your New Now

2.26.11 Peter Blanck, BBI Chairman, quoted in article about Zach Anner, a man with cerebral palsy, that was awarded a show in the Oprah Winfrey Network reality TV competition “Your OWN Show”
2.23.11 BBI sponsors seminar: Current Situation of Disability Discrimination Act in Japan: Concept of Disabilities with guest speaker Jun Nakagawa - Professor, Department of Social Policy, School of Social Welfare, Hokusei Gakuen University, Japan
2.22.11 BBI sponsors seminar: Research on equal rights for persons with disabilities in the Israeli parliament with guest speaker Shirley Avrami - Head of Research and Information Center, The Knesset, Israel
2.21.11 James Abbott, professor of audio engineering at the Setnor School of Music,selected as a Burton Blatt Institute Fellow
News Release | Inside SU
2.16.11 Real JOBS NY, a BBI collaboration, assists people with psychiatric disabilities to find sustainable employment
Newswise | News Release | ABILITY Magazine | Medical News Today | Inside SU
2.03.11 BBI Hosts Research Seminars with Disability Rights Scholars from the United States, Israel, and Japan [PDF file]
2.01.11 BBI Hosts Seminar on Rheumatoid Arthritis with guest speakerRebecca Bader, assistant professor of biomedical and chemical engineering in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science
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1.25.11 Michael Morris, BBI CEO, delivered keynote presentation on Promoting Economic Self Sufficiency at NYC Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene Economic Self-Sufficiency Forum - Keynote Presentation

3.14.11 South Side Innovation Center named finalist for NBIA’s Incubator of the Year award
Inside SU
1.17.11 Funmi Akinpelu received Unsung Hero Award at SU’s Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration
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