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The Thornburgh Family Lecture on Disability Law & Policy
Mary Crossley, Interim Dean, Professor of Law, John E. Murray Faculty Scholar and former Dean of Pitt Law
Mary Crossley
MARCH 20. The Invention Of Miracles: Language, Power, And Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest To End Deafness.
Katie Booth is a writer, ghostwriter, and editor whose work has appeared in The Believer, Harper's Magazine, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and elsewhere, and has been recognized by Longform, Longreads, and Best American Essays.
Katie Booth
Thornburgh Family Lecture on Disability Law & Policy: "Disability Policy: Beyond the Pandemic."
September 13, 2021. Senator Bob Casey. VIDEO LINK AVAILABLE.
The Future of Disability Rights
October 15, 2019. The Thornburgh Family Lecture on Disability law and Policy.
The Future of Disability Rights
Canine Partners for Life: How Service Dogs Unleash Abilities
October 30, 2018. Kathleen Smith Bell, Volunteer for Canine Partner's for Life and the SCI-Somerset Prison Puppy Program.
Canine Partners for Life: How Service Dogs Unleash Abilities
Assistive Technology is a Form of Advocacy
October 18, 2017. Rory Cooper, Founding Director and VA Senior Research Career Scientist of the Human Engineering Research Laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh.
Assistive Technology is a Form of Advocacy
Thornburgh Family Lecture 2007: Ruth Colker
Thornburgh Family Disability
“L'Arche USA: People With and Without Intellectual Disabilities Living and Working Together.”
October 19, 2016. L'Arche USA presents The Thornburgh Family Lecture on Disability Law and Policy.
“L'Arche USA: People With and Without Intellectual Disabilities Living and Working Together.”
Thornburgh Family Lecture 2015: The Honorable Thomas J. Ridge
Thornburgh Family Disability
Thornburgh Family Lecture 2015: The Honorable Thomas J. Ridge
Thomas J. Ridge, Chairman of the National Organization on Disability & former Governor of Pennsylvania
March 25, 2015. The Thornburgh Family Lecture on Disability Law and Policy.
Thomas J. Ridge, Chairman of the National Organization on Disabilty & former Governor of Pennsylvania