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Newhouse School to hold Media Literacy Day for local sixth-graders April 16
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.
Seven SU faculty members to be honored April 6 for teaching excellence; Doerr and Himley named Meredith Professors
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.
Columbia University scholar Dabashi to keynote ‘Religion in Scholarship’ symposium April 9
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.
Students can pitch to John on the Quad–and get a $5 check
Syracuse University’s first Entrepreneur in Residence, John Liddy, will be on the SU Quad on April 6 from noon-2:30 p.m. handing out $5 checks for great ideas.
‘Red Orchestra’ author to speak about Berlin’s underground Hitler resistance movement on April 5
Anne Nelson, author of “Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends who Resisted Hitler,” will speak on April 5 at 4 p.m. at Watson Theater,
Wasylenko to serve as interim dean of the Maxwell School
Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric F. Spina today named Senior Associate Dean Michael J. Wasylenko the interim dean-designate of the Maxwell School.
Program to explain local, spiritual origins of lacrosse
Featuring Onondaga faithkeeper and All-American lacrosse goalie Oren Lyons and former SU player and coach Roy Simmons, Jr., the program is part of the “Onondaga Land Rights & Our Common Future” series.
SU named to 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction
Syracuse University has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for the fourth consecutive year.
State Department’s William May to discuss social media, public diplomacy at SU March 25
William May, director of the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Innovative Engagement (part of the Bureau of International Information Programs), will visit Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Thursday, March 25.
Bassist Gerald Veasley headlines Coltrane Memorial Contemporary Jazz Series April 9 at CFAC
The John Coltrane Memorial Contemporary Jazz Series continues with a free concert by renowned bassist Gerald Veasley.