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Campus & Community

Seven SU faculty members to be honored April 6 for teaching excellence; Doerr and Himley named Meredith Professors

Friday, April 2, 2010, By News Staff

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.

2010 Chancellor’s Awards for Public Engagement and Scholarship honor students, faculty, staff and community partners for their civic contributions

Friday, April 2, 2010, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

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.

Arts & Culture

Columbia University scholar Dabashi to keynote ‘Religion in Scholarship’ symposium April 9

Thursday, April 1, 2010, By News Staff

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.

Arts & Culture

SU Library, Humanities Center to host sampling symposium in New York City

Wednesday, March 24, 2010, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

REPLAY, the Syracuse University Symposium on Sound Sampling, takes place on Friday, April 9, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the University’s Lubin House facility in New York City.

Arts & Culture

SU alumnus Sugarman to read from noted book on civil rights struggle in lecture at Bird Library

Tuesday, March 23, 2010, By News Staff

Tracy Sugarman ’43, author of “We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns: The Kids Who Fought for Civil Rights in Mississippi” (Syracuse University Press, 2009), will speak and read excerpts from his book on Wednesday, March 24 at 6 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons in E.S. Bird Library.

Campus & Community

Pulse Performing Arts Series to present ‘Tish Oney–The Peggy Lee Project’ at Syracuse University April 18

Monday, March 22, 2010, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Celebrated vocalist and arranger Tish Oney, a 2001 and 2004 Syracuse Area Music Awards (SAMMY) nominee, will bring her nationally touring production, “Tish Oney–The Peggy Lee Project” to Syracuse University on Sunday, April 18.

Health & Society

University to hold first body image symposium

Monday, March 22, 2010, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s first-ever symposium on body image, “Help Yourself,” will be held Saturday, March 27, at Newhouse.

Media, Law & Policy

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Cynthia Tucker to visit SU March 29

Monday, March 22, 2010, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Cynthia Tucker will visit Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Monday, March 29.

Campus & Community

SU Showcase to feature University’s first rain garden

Monday, March 22, 2010, By News Staff

Syracuse University will soon install its first rain garden to enhance campus sustainability by reducing stormwater runoff from Waverly parking lot.

Arts & Culture

SU Florence School of Architecture hosts international student workshop in Medieval city in Tuscany

Monday, March 22, 2010, By News Staff

The focus of the third edition of the Florence Architecture Workshop was the historical center of San Miniato, a Medieval city set on hills in the Tuscan countryside west of Florence.