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The State University of New York College of Optometry yesterday officially dedicated the Barbara Saltzman Center for Pediatric Eye Care, a new facility that opened in April 2020 to enhance the care available to children in New York.

This is the eleventh Progress Update on the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Health Initiative, published as part of SNF’s commitment to ensuring full transparency and regularly updating the public with timely and accurate information on the development of all projects included in the initiative.

“Art is one type of effective medicine,” says author Vassilis Vassilikos. Visual artist Konstantinos Katagas agrees, “It gives you the ability to continue to live, even if you are imprisoned.”

“Emperor Theodosius decorated here in commemoration of his victory over a tyrant,” says the wall. “He built here a golden gate as a witness of the golden age.” An award-winning project from Koç University’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies makes Istanbul’s city walls talk through a digital map rich with interactive resources.

The SNF Ithaca Initiative at the University of Delaware has named Timothy J. Shaffer, Ph.D., as the inaugural Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Chair of Civil Discourse.

Yannis Makriyannis was a merchant, a soldier, and a politician, sentenced to death, pardoned, and known two hundred years later for his Memoirs.

The Apaches of Athens (1930), the first Greek talking picture, is traveling to France to be presented on Friday, April 1 in the “Toute la mémoire du monde” festival of the French Film Archive, where an original copy – considered lost for decades – was found a few years ago.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Paideia Program at the University of Pennsylvania and its offerings for students are the focus of a recent article on campus discourse in the Washington Post. The article also mentions SNF’s support for programs with similar aims at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Delaware.