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Syracuse students now have a chance to prove they bleed orange in an ultimate blood donor showdown against the University of Connecticut.

The S.I. Newhouse School has announced that Bloomberg will receive the Fred Dressler Achievement Award and Twitter will receive the i-3 award for impact, innovation and influence at the fourth annual Mirror Awards luncheon ceremony June 10.

Fillmmaker Mark Achbar will visit SU later this month and will participate in an April 22 dinner discussion and screening of his film “Blue Gold: World Water Wars.”

When School of Information Studies (iSchool) senior Gerald Decelian ’10 decided to enroll in the interdisciplinary course, “What’s the Big Idea,” last fall, he had no idea that it would end up being one of the most useful courses he took at SU.

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 Alumnus Brandon Steiner ‘81, the founder and chairman of Steiner Sports Marketing, will speak at SU on April 6. The free event will begin at 7 p.m. in Crouse Hinds Hall, Room 010, and will include a book signing of Steiner’s “The Business Playbook–Leadership Lessons from the World of Sports” (Entrepreneur Press, 2003).

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.

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE SmartPlanet.com reported on the fruit fly insemination and fertilization research by Scott Pitnick, professor of biology in The College of Arts and Sciences. Tom Huddleston Jr., a graduate student in the Newhouse School of Public…