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The Newhouse School of Public Communications will host 65 sixth grade students from the Syracuse City School District’s Edward Smith Elementary School on Friday, April 16, for Newhouse’s annual Media Literacy Day.

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.”

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.

Will Kussell, former president and chief brand officer of Dunkin’ Donuts Worldwide, will visit Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Thursday, April 15, as part of the Advertising Leadership Speaker Series.

Pete Blackshaw, executive vice president of digital strategic services for Nielsen, will visit Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Monday, April 5, as part of the school’s Eric Mower Advertising Forum. He will speak at 6:30 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3.

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…