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2006 News, Events & Programs

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Disability Policy Leadership Program 2006 an unqualified success!
Disability Discrimination Summer Program 2006 [.doc] | Press Release [.doc]

News & Events 2006

December 2006

12.22.06 Special Issue of Assistive Technology Journal edited by Blanck and others due out Spring 2007
12.18.06 Summer Policy Leadership Program appears in winter issue of Syracuse University News

November 2006

11.30.06 Master’s Series on Field Research now available.
11.28.06 Rights for People with Disabilities Grows Worldwide
- November 22, 2006, USINFO
11.22.06 Burton Blatt Institute: Centers for Innovation on Disability
in the Fall 2006 Syracuse Law
11.16-17.06 Blanck to give opening keynote at 2006 Indiana Conference for People with Disabilities
11.14.06 Mayor’s Academy on Asset Development for Persons with Disabilities and Their Families
November 13th and 14th, in New York City
Press Release
11.13.06 Blanck to speak in webcast - Disability and Ability: The Rights of Persons with Disabilities
· Ejournal USA article
11.10.06 Syracuse University Archives presents the Burton Blatt Papers
· SU News press release

October 2006

10.30.06 Applications for the Disability Policy Leadership Program 2007 now being accepted
10.24.06 Third Annual PCSE Workshop
November 10-11
10.23.06 Blanck to speak in Oslo on social regulation of accessibility to ICT for people with disabilities, November 8, 2006
Conference overview
10.23.06 Blanck to speak at European Workshop on Achieving eAccessibility, November 7, 2006, Brussels
Workshop overview | Programme
10.24.06 TaxFACTS+ Campaign Event held at the National Press Club
10.10.06 BBI hosts Celebration Breakfast and public forum: Where will we be in 2020?
10.07.06 Making it their business to help
10.05.06 SU’s Burton Blatt Institute receives $5.5 million from U.S. Dept. of Education to lead Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center servicing southeastern United States

September 2006

9.29.06 University Professor Peter Blanck to deliver message for start of Yom Kippur
9.28.06 Burton Blatt Institute to work with Center for International Rehabilitation to expand scope of International Disability Rights Monitor
9.25.06 University Professor Peter Blanck to Deliver 3rd Annual Faculty D’var Torah
Press Release (.doc)
9.22.06 SU’s Burton Blatt Institute received a grant of $500,000 to lead a national research consortium
9.22.06 Labor Department Awards Nearly $5 Million in Grants to Advance Self Employment Opportunities for Individuals with Disabilities
9.21.06 Burton Blatt Institute to honor legacy of disability rights advocates
9.20.06 DOL Awards $500,000 Grant to Syracuse University to Lead Research Into Effect of Employer Practices on Workers with Disabilities
9.01.06 Law Students participate in BBI Summer Leadership program

August 2006

8.29.06 Blanck and Malloy join with Cambridge University Press to offer a groundbreaking book series on Disability Law and Policy.
8.28.06 Blanck featured on “Disability Matters with Joyce Bender”, to be broadcast Tuesday, August 29, from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM Eastern time, on Voice of America. Press Release (.doc).
8.10.06 PCSE joins with BBI to advance the exploration of property law and policy directed at inclusion of persons with disabilities. More about PCSE at BBI (.pdf)

July 2006

7.09.06 Employer Demand Grant to BBI mentioned in Syracuse Post-Standard Editorial
7.04.06 Blanck to lecture in opening keynote speech at Beit Issie Shapiro’s 4th International Conference on Developmental Disabilities in Tel Aviv on July 4th with former President Bill Clinton and Professor Arie Rimmerman.

June 2006

6.08.06 SU to go to work to help disabled (Syracuse Post-Standard)
6.07.06 Enabling Workers - New grant keeps Syracuse University on the disability vanguard
Editorial in PDF | Editorial in Word
6.05.06 Blanck teaches at 2006 Disability Discrimination Law Summer School, Galway, Ireland.

May 2006

5.02.06 Reception for Dr. Arie Rimmerman at The Lubin House on May 2^nd.

April 2006

4.21.06 NY gubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer remarks on new and innovative work of BBI [.doc].

March 2006

3.30.06 Burton Blatt Institute creates ‘fresh thinking’ on disability law, policy.
Syracuse News, March 30, 2006
3.22.06 Law Live @ Lubin - Blanck led a discussion of BBI and BBI-driven ideas and movements that help empower the disabled and educate society.

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