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President Sweeny hosts Education Matters on WVOX Radio

Education Matters, a half-hour monthly interview program hosted by Dr. Stephen J. Sweeny on WVOX Radio (1460 AM), examines the ways in which education influences society. On March 14, Dr. Sweeny will be joined by Harold Crocker, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics, and Dr. Dora Ierides, Associate Professor of Physical Education, School of Arts & Sciences, to discuss “Wellness and Athletics.” In January, Dr. Donna Demarest, Dean, School of Nursing, joined Dr. Sweeny to discuss “Nursing and CNR,” and in February, Helen Wolf, CNR’s Director of Campus Ministry, spoke about “Spiritual Wellness.”     m o r e

School of Arts & Sciences Alumna
Wins Third Emmy Nomination

Angela Cascarano SAS’01, associate producer for WNYW FOX 5 News, has won her third Emmy nomination for “Scam School Series,” a program which reenacted street crimes in New York City. Angela, who served as a producer for this series, was awarded an Emmy in 2003 for her work on Fox 5’s investigative report “Fake Rabbi.”

Noted Author Colman McCarthy
to Speak at CNR on “Peacemaking in a Time of War”

On April 12, author Colman McCarthy, former columnist for The Washington Post and founder and director of the Center for Teaching Peace, will speak at the Westchester Consortium for International Studies “Presidential Lecture 2005.” Hosted by President Stephen J. Sweeny, the lecture will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Student Campus Center on the Main Campus in New Rochelle.

Ursuline Institute Lecture Addresses
HIV/AIDS Crisis “Up Close and Personal”

On February 24 the College hosted the Ursuline Institute’s Lecture, “HIV/AIDS Up Close and Personal -- Expanding the Horizons.” The lecture was delivered by Sisters Pascal Conforti ’56 and Maureen McCarthy ’61, who spoke about their 2003 trip to Botswana in Southern Africa to work with HIV/AIDS victims. Addressing a crowded Romita Auditorium, Srs. Pascal and Maureen shared slides from their trip and offered insights into what it means to be a midwife in the age of HIV/AIDS, how the medical experience changes for patients and health care workers in the face of the disease, and how we can better minister to HIV/AIDS patients.

After Welcoming Record Number of Visitors,
“The Black Madonna” Exhibit Closes

By the time “The Black Madonna” closed on February 27, more than 1,400 visitors had come through the doors of Castle Gallery to view the extraordinary exhibit, some from as far away as Virginia, Colorado, Ireland, and Scotland. On February 15, Elaine Soto, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and one of the exhibit’s featured artists, addressed an enthusiastic audience in Romita Auditorium, speaking about the history of the Black Madonna and exploring the relationship between Black Madonnas and psychological therapy.

At a closing reception held on February 24, another featured artist, Aisha Tandiwe Bell, performed with her spoken word group Second2Last. The event, held in honor of Black History Month, was planned in collaboration with Phoenix, the CNR student literary magazine and arts club.


C N R  S P O R T S  &  F I T N E S S

School of Nursing Freshman
makes “All Conference”

School of Nursing freshman and Blue Angel athlete Ruth Collura has made the All Conference Swim Team for the Hudson Valley Women’s Athletic Conference. “Ruth was the top swimmer in our program this year,” says Harold Crocker, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics. “She was a wonderful team leader, and everyone is looking forward to next season.” During intersession in January, Ruth took a break from athletics to perform community service in Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Mexico, as part of the College’s 2005 International Plunge.

CNR’s own Mo Chuisle Golden Gloves Champ Teaches Boxing at CNR

This semester, CNR is making an exception to the “no hitting in school” rule with the addition of an exciting new boxing course. Angel Bovee, U.S. Olympic-style boxer and National Golden Gloves title holder is teaching a boxing course at the New Rochelle Campus as part of the School of Arts and Sciences’ physical education program. According to Dr. Theodora Ierides, Associate Professor of Physical Education, School of Arts & Sciences, “Not only does boxing provide a great all-body workout, increasing participants’ stamina, speed, and agility, but it also has excellent cardiovascular benefits as well.”

The new course, introduced before the release of the academy-award winning movie Million Dollar Baby, has drawn overwhelming interest from undergraduate students. For safety reasons, the class is kept small – 16 students. “But, we could have had twice that number,” says Dr. Ierides. “We are very fortunate to have a wonderful professional like Angel teach this class.”

F A C U L T Y  F O C U S 

Herb Boyd, adjunct faculty, School of New Resources, is the author of We Shall Overcome: The History of the Civil Rights Movement as It Happened. Published by Source Books, Inc., the multi-media living history of the Civil Rights Movement includes two audio CDs narrated by actors Ruby Dee and the late Ossie Davis. 

Cristina de Gennaro, Associate Professor of Art, School of Arts and Sciences, presented her paper, "Spaces of Disjunction: Subjectivity, Aging and the Collage Aesthetic," at the 93rd Annual College Art Association Conference in Atlanta, GA in February, 2005. 

Also attending the conference was Dr. Susan M. Canning, Professor, Art Department, School of Arts and Sciences, who presented a paper entitled "Snow White, Sleeping  Beauty and SuperGrrrl: Feminist Fracture Fairy Tales" in the session "Autobiographical Strategies: Politics and Poetics of Women's Self-Representations in the Visual Arts."

In February, Dr. Amy Bass, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Honors Program, School of Arts and Sciences, gave the Black History Month Keynote Lecture at the University of Maryland. The lecture was based on her book, Not the Triumph but the Struggle: the 1968 Olympic Games and the Making of the Black Athlete, and dealt with the cultural politics of race and citizenship as articulated at the Mexico City Games. The following day, as part of the University’s annual “Sport Commerce and Culture Symposium,” Dr. Bass presented her paper, “Getting Up Close and Personal:  Knowing Bob Costas and Manufacturing Discourses of Sport.”

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