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Twelve graduating seniors have been designated as Syracuse University Scholars. This designation is the highest undergraduate academic honor bestowed at the University.

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.

Donny Deutsch, television host and chairman of the ad agency Deutsch Inc., will speak at the convocation ceremony for Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Saturday, May 15.

Senior class marshals Kate Pettitt Callahan and Timeka N. Williams will carry the Class of 2010 banner to open the 156th Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 16, and continue a longstanding tradition by representing their class on this special occasion.

The College of Arts and Sciences has announced programs in forensic science, ethics and neuroscience.

Syracuse University has been named one of the 2010 Green 15 by GDC’s InfoWorld for the University’s innovative Green Data Center (GDC).

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.

University Union Cinemas, the Residence Hall Association (RHA), the SU Rugby Football Club Hammerheads, the Office of Multicultural Affairs and Starbucks will host an outdoor festival featuring Oscar nominated film “Invictus,” starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman, this Sunday, April 25.

College of Arts and Sciences’ Jeff Karson quoted in Ars Technica on Iceland’s volcanoes