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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.

Drawings by artist Dana Brabant are now installed in the Biblio Gallery, located on the fourth floor of Bird Library. Brabant is a master in art education student at Syracuse University.

Four Syracuse iSchool students in the M.S. in telecommunications and network management program will share highlights from their recent trip to the Interop 2010 conference during a presentation at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, May 5.

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.

Work by longtime VPA faculty members John Orentlicher, Michael Sickler and Barbara Ellen Walter will be presented in the exhibition “Contemporary Practices in the Arts” May 6-June 30 at the Louise and Bernard Palitz Gallery at Joseph I. Lubin House.

On Saturday, May 1, at 10:30 am, the Environmental Finance Center at Syracuse University will host a walking tour of Downtown Syracuse.

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE The New York Times reviewed the Dahesh Museum of Art exhibition “Becoming an Artist: The Academy in 19th-Century France” at Syracuse University’s Palitz Gallery in the Lubin House. Continuing coverage of the College of Law’s…