Here are some newsworthy events to check out this weekend:

Earth Week celebrations at SUNY-ESF

Events in celebration of Earth Week began on Monday, but will run through Sunday with multiple events on each day at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, according to the ESF website. Earthfest, one of the week’s most well-known events, will cap off the festivities on Sunday.

On Thursday at noon, Lorrie Schumacher, a master falconer, will bring live birds of prey, including a hawk and an owl, to Nifkin Lounge, which is located in State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s Marshall Hall. The annual Quadstock festival will take place Thursday at 7 p.m. with live music and free food.

The Onondaga Lake Conservation Corps (OLCC) will put on a photo exhibit about bird migration to Onondaga Lake on Friday in Gateway Event Space C at 6 p.m. in the Gateway Center and Saturday offers a tour through renewable energy hotspots in Onondaga County.

 

Campus Framework calls for student input

Syracuse University has invited students to give their feedback on potential changes to campus at four different sessions. Representatives from Sasaki Associates and Populous, a global design firm, will be in attendance to listen to input.

Students will be able to ask questions and take a survey about two particular changes: the University Place Promenade and renovations to Archbold Gymnasium, according to SU News.

The sessions will take place on Thursday and Friday at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Specific locations can be found in the release.

 

Exhibition featuring work by Salvador Dalí to open

The Special Collections Research Center in Bird Library will hold its opening reception for “AVIDA DOLLARS: Salvador Dalí, Joseph Forêt, and the Three Most Expensive Books in the World.” The reception will take place on the sixth floor of Bird Library at 4 p.m.

Before the reception, a symposium featuring four visiting professors and one from SU will take place in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The exhibition features work from Salvador Dalí’s collaboration with Parisian publisher Joseph Forêt, which resulted in three illustrated books, according to the event’s webpage.

 

Moynihan Challenge Conference

The Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs will hold a conference on climate change adaptation on Friday. It will engage professors across disciplines to discuss a variety of ways to approach studying human adaptation to climate change, according to the event’s webpage.

The conference will include a public plenary session and discussion workshop. The plenary session, which is open to the public, will start at 9:30 a.m. in Maxwell Hall and will feature four visiting professors.

The workshop requires an RSVP and will take place from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

 

“Mining, Conflict and Dialogue in Peru”

Iván Ormachea Choque, the president of ProDiálogo Prevención y Resolución de Conflictos in Peru, will present a “Conversations in Conflict Studies” lecture on Friday.

He will discuss how an increased interest in mining in Peru has forced locals and companies to coexist. ProDiálogo, a nongovernmental organization, has worked to promote “effective consensus building” between the two stakeholders, according to the event’s webpage.

The lecture will start at 12:30 p.m. in Eggers Hall.

Published on April 21, 2016 at 12:22 am

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