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The initiative aims to promote student financial literacy.

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE Syracuse University’s recognition of Genocide Awareness Week and the lecture by Peter Balakian were previewed in the Armenian Weekly. Media Bistro’s WebNewser blog reported that Bloomberg and Twitter will be honored at the fourth annual…

College of Human Ecology’s Rick Burton and Norm O’Reilly write in Sports Business Journal on IOC and the United Nations

In response to social media’s growing influence on society, the School of Information Studies and College of Visual and Performing Arts are setting students to work on the problem of developing new ways for businesses to communicate internally as well as connect with their clientele through interactive, user-driven information technologies.

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.

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.

Vamik Djemal Volkan, emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia and a three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, will be the keynote speaker for “Translating Peace: Multicultural Responses to Conflict and Disaster,” a panel to be held Thursday, April 1 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Public Events Room, 220 Eggers Hall.

In honor of Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM), Syracuse University public radio station WAER-FM throughout April will air special programming celebrating jazz as an American art form.

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE The February panel discussion by Cold Case Justice Initiative in the College of Law was published as a YouTube video by the Democracywise news web site. A Weekly Standard story on terrorism prosecutions cites research…