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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.

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

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.

The interface between syntax and phonology in linguistics is the subject of a two-day workshop at Syracuse University.

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

Librarian Lydia Wasylenko and Professor Sam Gruber will introduce the Visual History Archive as an instructional and research tool to interested faculty and students at a special meeting on Friday, April 23, at 10 a.m. in 204 Tolley.

Two longtime members of the Syracuse University community will receive the Diversity Achievers Award from the YWCA of Syracuse and Onondaga County.

Syracuse University’s Hendricks Chapel will host “Celebrating Unity Without Uniformity: An Open Conversation with Rabbi Brad Hirschfield,” on Wednesday, April 21, at 7 p.m. in the chapel’s Noble Room. The event is sponsored by Hendricks Chapel, Hillel at Syracuse University…

New York attorney Paul Kerson will lead a discussion at Syracuse University about Nazi property seizure and the story of a long legal battle leading to recompense for elderly holocaust survivors.