Campus & Community

Fillmmaker Mark Achbar will visit SU later this month and will participate in an April 22 dinner discussion and screening of his film “Blue Gold: World Water Wars.”

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.

Newhouse School’s Robert Thompson quoted in Louisville Courier-Journal on mass media audiences and social media networks

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.

College of Human Ecology’s Rick Burton quoted in Newsweek on March Madness winners and losers

The Office of Multicultural Affairs is planning to kick off Asian-Pacific American (APA) Heritage Month with a bang on April 1, with its reception in the Schine Student Center in Suite 105.

Fruit fly insemination and fertilization research by College of Arts and Sciences’ Scott Pitnick featured on SmartPlanet

Common chats and raps about his philosophy and personal life at a crowded Hendrick’s Chapel.

Swedish electronic pop group moves SU students to dancing despite dreary March drizzle.

Members of the Syracuse Orange will showcase talents other than their athletic abilities on Tuesday, April 6, at the Student-Athlete Talent Show in the Schine Underground.