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SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE Syracuse.com reported briefly on “The Campbell Conversations” public affairs radio show, a joint venture between the Campbell Public Affairs Institute at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and WRVO. Grant Reeher, associate professor…

In conjunction with its yearlong theme “Journeys of Interdisciplinary Observation,” the Interdisciplinary Research Group based in the College of Visual and Performing Arts will present a poster session on Monday, April 19.

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.

Michelle Singletary, nationally syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, will visit Syracuse University on Thursday, April 22, as a guest of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. She will speak at 6:30 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3, followed by a reception and book signing.

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.

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.

Syracuse University Library Associates will present noted political pollster John Zogby at its annual Spring Luncheon, April 30 at the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel and Conference Center.

Seamus Heaney, Nobel laureate in literature, poet, translator and essayist, will be a guest of the University Lectures series at Syracuse University on Tuesday, April 13.