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Early Education and Child Care Center, VPA students collaborate on play-centric learning tools
The tools were designed and built by students in the Environmental Practicum class.
Sutherland speaks at Alexia Photojournalism Seminar in Greece
Newhouse School’s Alexia Chair for Documentary Photography was one of five speakers.
SU mourns loss of beloved German scholar, teacher
Outside Gerlinde Ulm Sanford’s office in H.B. Crouse Hall is a small altar adorned with reminders of one of Syracuse University’s most beloved professors: a copy of Goethe’s “Faust,” photos and postcards, several origami balls, flowers and dried fruit and leaves. Tucked inside one of the artifacts—a magazine about Weimar, Sanford’s second home—is a faded clipping about the 2004 fire that tore through the city’s Herzogin Anna Amalia Library, destroying more than 50,000 books. Friend and colleague Karl Solibakke suspects that the conflagration was not far from Sanford’s mind, even up until her death on Tuesday, April 27, at age 70.
SU in the News: Friday, April 30, 2010
SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE The Post-Standard reported on yesterday evening’s University Lecture by acclaimed photographer Annie Leibovitz. The Post-Standard features a video presentation of the 23rd annual Fashion Show, presented by seniors in VPA’s School of Art and Design….
SU professor to chair national Water Sciences & Technology Board
Donald I. Siegel, a Meredith Professor in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed chair of the Water Sciences & Technology Board. The nationally renowned scientist, whose research encompasses contaminant hydrology, paleohydrogeology and wetland hyrdology, will serve a three-year term beginning in July.
SU in the News: Friday, April 30
Newhouse School’s Robert Thompson quoted in New York Times on the appeal of New Jersey-based television programs
Mexican folk art collection closes at the Community Folk Art Center with Cinco de Mayo celebration sponsored by La Casita
“Tesoros del Pueblo” (Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico), an exhibition featuring the collection of Alejandro Garcia, opened at the Community Folk Art Center (CFAC) on Jan. 23. The show will close on Wednesday, May 5 from 7-9 p.m. with a Cinco de Mayo program sponsored by La Casita Cultural Center Project.
Syracuse University featured in green colleges guidebook
Syracuse University is one of the country’s most environmentally-responsible colleges according to The Princeton Review. The nationally known education services company selected SU for inclusion in a unique new resource it has created for college applicants, “The Princeton Review’s Guide to 286 Green Colleges.”
SU tops Big East in green power purchases
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recognized Syracuse University as the 2009-2010 Individual Conference Champion for using more green power than any other school in the Big East. This is the fourth consecutive year SU has been the Big East Individual Conference Champion.
La Casita film series Cine Ciclo concludes May 4 at Blodgett School with screening of ‘Machuca’
La Casita Cultural Center Project will close the spring 2010 Cine Ciclo series with the screening of “Machuca” (Chile, 2004) on Tuesday, May 4 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Blodgett School cafeteria, located at 312 Oswego St. in the Near West Side area of Syracuse. Cine Ciclo is a Hispanic film series conceptualized and coordinated by students of Spanish at The College of Arts and Science’s Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.