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Women in Information Technology (WIT), a student-led organization at the School of Information Studies, recently partnered with the Syracuse Chapter of Nanhi Kali to help raise money to educate young girls in India.

The Ten Tons of Love Program semi-annual drive has begun and will continue through May 21 to assist those in need in the Syracuse community with clothing, household items, cell phones, furniture, nonperishable food, books and school supplies.

Jaklin Kornfilt, professor of languages, literatures and linguistics (LLL) in SU’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been elected recipient of the 2010 Humboldt Research Award.

Outside Gerlinde Ulm Sanford’s office in H.B. Crouse Hall is a small altar adorned with reminders of one of Syracuse University’s most beloved professors: a copy of Goethe’s “Faust,” photos and postcards, several origami balls, flowers and dried fruit and leaves. Tucked inside one of the artifacts—a magazine about Weimar, Sanford’s second home—is a faded clipping about the 2004 fire that tore through the city’s Herzogin Anna Amalia Library, destroying more than 50,000 books. Friend and colleague Karl Solibakke suspects that the conflagration was not far from Sanford’s mind, even up until her death on Tuesday, April 27, at age 70.

Donald I. Siegel, a Meredith Professor in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed chair of the Water Sciences & Technology Board. The nationally renowned scientist, whose research encompasses contaminant hydrology, paleohydrogeology and wetland hyrdology, will serve a three-year term beginning in July.

“Tesoros del Pueblo” (Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico), an exhibition featuring the collection of Alejandro Garcia, opened at the Community Folk Art Center (CFAC) on Jan. 23. The show will close on Wednesday, May 5 from 7-9 p.m. with a Cinco de Mayo program sponsored by La Casita Cultural Center Project.

The team of Syracuse University students who make up Brand-Yourself led off the five finalists’ presentations in NY’s Creative Core’s $200,000 Emerging Business Competition on April 27 at Onondaga Community College’s Storer Auditorium.

Against the backdrop of Earth Day 2010, Carrier Corp. demonstrated its continued leadership in environmental stewardship and ongoing support of the Sustainable Enterprise Partnership with a donation of $35,000.

Twenty-six finalists in seven categories have been named in the fourth annual Mirror Awards competition for excellence in media industry reporting.

Donald W. Meinig, Maxwell Research Professor of Geography Emeritus at Syracuse University, is among the 229 leaders in the sciences, humanities and arts, business, public affairs and the nonprofit sector who have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.