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Racing on a Broken Road Exhibition Opens

On Sunday, December 17, 2006, an opening reception was held for the Castle Gallery's winter exhibit Racing On A Broken Road, which runs from December 17, 2006 through March 4, 2007. The exhibit, curated by historian, artist, and photographer Betsy Braun Lane, focuses on the contributions and struggles of some of America’s earliest patriots and pioneers, whose heritage weds together the traditions of African-European and Native-American descendants.  m o r e

C N R  S T U D E N T  N E W S

 Twelve Students Take the “PLUNGE” over Semester Break

Students from the School of Arts & Sciences (SAS) and School of Nursing (SN) participated in an annual CNR tradition – performing community service during semester break.  This year, their work included building a home for a family of six in Matamoros, Mexico. The Plunge was coordinated by Campus Ministry to benefit impoverished communities located on the U.S.-Mexico border.  m o r e

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Giovanna Dolan ’08, business major and psychology minor in the School of Arts & Sciences, has won a $1,000 scholarship for her study abroad in Italy in Spring 2007 from The American Institute for Foreign Study. She is the fifth CNR student to win an AIFS scholarship.

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Sarah Worthington ’08, honors student and art history/women’s studies major in the School of Arts & Sciences, received a internship at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Sarah will intern in the drawings department of MoMa which collects, manages, and exhibits modern and contemporary drawings. “An internship at MoMa is very prestigious and very difficult to obtain,” according to Dr. Bass, Director of the Honors Program.

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Ruchelle Austin ’08 was the HVWAC Basketball Player of the Week for November 28—December 3, 2006. Ruchelle was also named to the All Tournament Team in the annual Dr. Betty Shabazz Tournament at Medgar Evers College.

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Three CNR students have received recognition for completing service to the community by Ursuline Educational Services. This national service award, which recognizes the spirit of service done by students attending an Ursuline school, was given to Juanita Wallace, Graduate School; Edna Johnson Sneed, School of New Resources, Co-op City Campus; and Nikia Burt, School of Arts & Sciences. The students were recognized at the annual Angela Fest held on January 25, 2007, on the main campus.  m o r e

A L U M N A E / I  S P O T L I G H T

Jasperdean Kobes School of Arts & Sciences, ’61 The College of New Rochelle

“As an undergradute at CNR, I was inspired by the college’s motto of ‘serviam’ (I will serve).  After graduating, I joined the Peace Corps and served as a Volunteer in Ethiopia.  My Peace Corps experience ignited my life-long passion for Africa and significantly influenced my career choices. Since leaving campus, I have worked in various positions to promote social and economic development in the developing countries of Africa.”

After graduating from CNR with a bachelor’s in mathematics, Jasperdean Kobes ‘62 was one of the first CNR graduates to join the Peace Corps, serving as a volunteer in Ethiopia, where she developed the life-long passion for Africa which would influence her life.     After earning her  M.I.A. and Ed.D. from Columbia University, she went on to work for the Peace Corps in Kenya and later with World Education, Inc., a non-governmental organization which implements adult education programs around the world, managed programs in Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Sudan.     Making the transition in the 1980’s to entrepreneur, in 1989 she purchased Bamboula Ltd., which imports and wholesales home accessories and gifts handcrafted in four African countries (Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania).  For the past 17 years, the company’s mission has been to create work and income for African artisans by selling their handcrafted products to retailers in the United States. This Christmas, Bamboula plans to sell 200,000 African ornaments to national retailers. Twenty artisan groups in Kenya and Ghana will each make 10,000 ornaments.     Jasperdean currently lives in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, where the company is based, with her husband, George Muugi, a professor of psychology at Kutztown University. She travels several times a year to Africa to work with the artisan groups that supply her business.

F A C U L T Y / S T A F F  F O C U S

Dr. Amy Bass, Associate Professor of History and Honors Program Director in the School of Arts & Sciences, will be featured on the February 15th episode of ESPN Classic “Top Five Reasons You Can’t Blame…”  This episode of the show focuses on the Mexico City Olympics and the Smith/Carlos black power salute. Dr. Bass is an expert historian on this incident and is the author of Not the Triumph but the Struggle: The 1968 and the Making of the Black Athlete (2002). For details of the program, click here.

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Routledge Education has just published Death, Dying and Bereavement: Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare edited by Dr. Kenneth J. Doka, Professor of Gerontology in the Graduate School. The four volumes are a collection of both classic and cutting edge research and theoretical articles that have had a major role in influencing thanatological thought.

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In November 2006, Dr. Roblyn Rawlins, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of the Women's Studies Program in the School of Arts & Sciences, presented a research paper entitled "American Woman: Gender and Nation in the Experience of U.S. Female College Students Abroad" at the 2006 Annual Conference of the Council for International Educational Exchange in Seville, Spain. She was also interviewed and quoted in regards to this research in an article in the Des Moines Register published December 7, 2006.

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Dr. Jennifer Scuro, Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the School of Arts & Sciences, delivered a paper "A Defense of Levinasian Ethics in a Globalizing Economy" at the Phenomenology, Organisation, and Technology 5th International Workshop held at the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands in September 2006.

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Margie Neuhaus, Associate Professor of Art in the School of Arts & Sciences, has an exhibition entitled Sensory Jetty at the Safe-T-Gallery in Dumbo Brooklyn through February 24, 2007.

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In January 2007, Dr. Ann Raia, Professor of Modern Foreign Languages in the School of Arts & Sciences gave a presentation, "Exploring the Worlds of Roman Women Through Text and Images,"  at the 138th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association in San Diego, California.

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David Goewey, Adjunct Instructor and ACCESS tutor at the Co-op City Campus of the School of New Resources, will be featured at the Annual Book Talk in March when he will discuss his book, Crash Out: The True Tale of a Hell’s Kitchen Kid and the Bloodiest Escape in Sing Sing History.

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Dr. Kristine Southard, Director of the Co-op City Campus, and State Senator Ruth Hassell Thompson, co-hosted an information session to disseminate information about the School of New Resources to the Senator's constituents on January 18, 2007.

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Heather Herrera, Instructional Staff at the Co-op City Campus of the School of New Resources, presented a paper entitled, “Crime and Punishment” about women’s identity in the classroom this month at the College Composition and Communications Conference in New York City.

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Dr. Nilda E. Hernandez, Associate Professor of Social Work in the School of Arts and Sciences, received a Certificate of Completion in the Mandated Reporter Training of Trainers Program on Identifying and Reporting Child Abuse and Maltreatment, Center for Development of Human Services-NYC Regional Office, NY, New York, in December 2006. Dr. Hernandez also participated in New York University Faculty Resource Winter Network Seminar on "The Puerto Rican Dilemma: National Identity Within the Borders of the American Nation" at Sacred Heart University, Puerto Rico, in early 2007.