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Posted: 10/22/08, 4:54 AM EST Section: News
LGBT leadership conference to be held at SU
An LGBT leadership conference called OUTspoken is happening at Syracuse University Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The event, in its inaugural year, is a regional conference run by SU students. The mission is to educate students from northeast colleges and universities on creating LGBT resources on their campus. OUTspoken will host two keynote speakers: Mariana Lebron and Donna Rose. Lebron has spoken nationally on leadership development and diversity advocacy, and Rose is an advocate for transgender and transsexual issues. The registration fee is $50. The opening event is at 8 p.m. Friday.
Burton Blatt Institute receives $4.7 million award
The Burton Blatt Institute of Syracuse University was awarded $4.7 million from the Rehabilitation Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Education. The five-year grant was given to manage eight southeastern states involved in the Region IV Technical Assistance and Continuing Education Learning Consortium. The consortium is a nationally recognized organization that helps workers learn hands-on skills. The institute represents citizens with disabilities in a global context. It is named after a former dean of SU's School of Education.
Zimbabwean musician to play concert
Thomas Mapfumo will play a concert at 8 p.m. tonight in the Setnor Auditorium in Crouse College. The concert is free and open to the Syracuse community. Mapfumo, from Zimbabwe, is known for using his music to campaign against the social issues facing his native country, including corruption, HIV/AIDS and political violence.
SU alumnus to lecture on communication law
SU alumnus and federal communication expert Joseph Di Scipio will speak at Hendricks Chapel at 11:45 a.m. Oct. 23. His lecture, The Federal Communications Commission: Indecency and Government Extortion, will focus on how the classroom affects communication law and policy. Di Scipio's specializes in the mass media and Internet guidelines.
JPMorgan Chase & Co brings speaker to campus
Tony Hai will present "Operational and Analytic Business Flow and Use of Customer Data" in the Katzer Collaboratory in Hinds Hall at 3:30 p.m. today. Hai, the chief technology officer at JPMorgan and one of more than 180,000 employees, manages the company's core enterprise applications like the business' customer information system and its demand deposit application. Hai headed the development of National City Corp. before he joined JPMorgan. Under his watch, JPMorgan leads global financial services with assets of $1.8 trillion, and operates in more than 60 countries.
-Compiled by Rachel Eldridge, asst. news editor
An LGBT leadership conference called OUTspoken is happening at Syracuse University Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The event, in its inaugural year, is a regional conference run by SU students. The mission is to educate students from northeast colleges and universities on creating LGBT resources on their campus. OUTspoken will host two keynote speakers: Mariana Lebron and Donna Rose. Lebron has spoken nationally on leadership development and diversity advocacy, and Rose is an advocate for transgender and transsexual issues. The registration fee is $50. The opening event is at 8 p.m. Friday.
Burton Blatt Institute receives $4.7 million award
The Burton Blatt Institute of Syracuse University was awarded $4.7 million from the Rehabilitation Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Education. The five-year grant was given to manage eight southeastern states involved in the Region IV Technical Assistance and Continuing Education Learning Consortium. The consortium is a nationally recognized organization that helps workers learn hands-on skills. The institute represents citizens with disabilities in a global context. It is named after a former dean of SU's School of Education.
Zimbabwean musician to play concert
Thomas Mapfumo will play a concert at 8 p.m. tonight in the Setnor Auditorium in Crouse College. The concert is free and open to the Syracuse community. Mapfumo, from Zimbabwe, is known for using his music to campaign against the social issues facing his native country, including corruption, HIV/AIDS and political violence.
SU alumnus to lecture on communication law
SU alumnus and federal communication expert Joseph Di Scipio will speak at Hendricks Chapel at 11:45 a.m. Oct. 23. His lecture, The Federal Communications Commission: Indecency and Government Extortion, will focus on how the classroom affects communication law and policy. Di Scipio's specializes in the mass media and Internet guidelines.
JPMorgan Chase & Co brings speaker to campus
Tony Hai will present "Operational and Analytic Business Flow and Use of Customer Data" in the Katzer Collaboratory in Hinds Hall at 3:30 p.m. today. Hai, the chief technology officer at JPMorgan and one of more than 180,000 employees, manages the company's core enterprise applications like the business' customer information system and its demand deposit application. Hai headed the development of National City Corp. before he joined JPMorgan. Under his watch, JPMorgan leads global financial services with assets of $1.8 trillion, and operates in more than 60 countries.
-Compiled by Rachel Eldridge, asst. news editor
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