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On Tuesday, April 6, Syracuse University will name Helen M. Doerr, dual professor of teaching and leadership programs and mathematics in The College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Education, and Margaret Himley, professor of writing and rhetoric, and co-director of the LGBT Studies Program and minor in Arts and Sciences, as this year’s Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professors. Additionally, SU will recognize the 2010 recipients of the Teaching Recognition Awards, and Theodore L. Brown, associate professor in the School of Architecture, will receive the 2010 University Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award.

Syracuse University will honor students, faculty, staff and community partners who exemplify SU’s commitment to engagement with the community and Scholarship in Action with the 2010 Chancellor’s Awards for Public Engagement and Scholarship at a celebration dinner on Monday, April 5.

This year’s SU Showcase is restructured and focused around the theme of sustainability.

On Friday, April 9, the Syracuse University Humanities Center will present Religion in Scholarship, an interdisciplinary symposium exploring the changing relationship between religion and scholarly study. The all-day symposium will take place in the Tolley Humanities Building, room 304 and will be keynoted by Hamid Dabashi, professor of Iranian studies and comparative literature at Columbia University.

In honor of Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM), Syracuse University public radio station WAER-FM throughout April will air special programming celebrating jazz as an American art form.

The Taishoff Center for Inclusive Higher Education and the School of Education will welcome Dawn Prince to give the inaugural lecture of the Taishoff Center Lecture Series on April 20.

Greg Epstein, Harvard University’s humanist chaplain and author of The New York Times best-seller, “Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe” (HarperCollins, 2009), is speaking at Syracuse University on Monday, March 29.

Syracuse University’s Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) will host Virginia Valian, one of the leading experts on gender equality in the academy, on the SU campus on Friday, April 16.

REPLAY, the Syracuse University Symposium on Sound Sampling, takes place on Friday, April 9, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the University’s Lubin House facility in New York City.

Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, will speak on the Syracuse University campus on Tuesday, April 6.