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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.

Syracuse University is one of the country’s most environmentally-responsible colleges according to The Princeton Review. The nationally known education services company selected SU for inclusion in a unique new resource it has created for college applicants, “The Princeton Review’s Guide to 286 Green Colleges.”

A unique three-year longitudinal and vertical study of Central New York’s Three Rivers system—involving the Oswego, Oneida and Seneca rivers—has revealed that oxygen resources have become degraded by several stressors, including the impact of wastewater treatment plants, nonpoint runoff, an increase in invasive zebra mussels and channelization of the flow.

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.

The Newhouse School will continue a pioneering effort in global communications this spring when nine of its students will travel to Mumbai, India, as part of a unique course not offered by anyone else in the world.

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

August Wilson’s “Fences” will open May 5 at Syracuse Stage.

Syracuse Stage will hold local Equity auditions for the 2010/2011 season on Tuesday, May 11, from noon-8 p.m., and on Friday, May 14, from 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Syracuse University will award honorary degrees to six individuals of exceptional achievement at its 156th Commencement exercises on Sunday, May 16, at the Carrier Dome.

A group of television-radio-film (TRF) students from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications won an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation College Television Award for Outstanding Narrative Series for their television series “Limelight.”