F E A T U R E S T O R I E S
Celebration of The Feast of The Epiphany
The College Community celebrated the Feast of the Epiphany
on Sunday,
January 6, 2008, in Holy Family Chapel. m o r e
Taking the Polar Plunge
On December 8,
2007, 40 CNR students, faculty and staff participated in the National
Polar Bear Plunge at Hudson Park in New Rochelle. This event helped
raise awareness for the Focus the Nation's educational conference on
January 31, 2008, when CNR will join the more than
1,000 universities and colleges from all 50 states participating in
this unprecedented educational initiative on
global warming solutions for America. Click
here to read the Journal News
article. Click
here
to view the Journal
News video, then scroll down on page and select video entitled
"Keep winter cold!".
As the largest teach-in in
U.S.
history, Focus The Nation is preparing hundreds of thousands of
students to become leaders in the largest civilizational challenge any
generation has faced. For more about Focus The Nation, click
here.
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CNR Faculty & Staff Collect Toys for
Tots at Christmas Party
At the annual “Christmas in The Castle” holiday event in
the parlors of Leland Castle on the Main Campus on December 14, 2007, President Stephen J. Sweeny and two
representatives from the United States Marine
Corps
“check out” the toys collected for the
U.S. Marines “Toys for Tots” program by the faculty and staff of CNR
Laura James Exhibit Opens
On December 9, 2007, an opening
reception was held for the Castle Gallery's winter exhibition Fifteen Years: The Art of Laura James,
which runs
from December 2, 2007 through February 24, 2008. The exhibition, curated by Jennifer Zazo,
focuses on a 15-year retrospective of the work of Laura James. m o r e
Wellness Center Nears Completion
The Wellness Center is entering
the final stage of construction—finishing of all remaining construction
activities and preparing the building for occupancy. m o r
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School of Nursing hosts HIV/AIDS Talk
On Thursday, November 29, 2007, Robert Makunu of Kenya
spoke to School
of Nursing students in Romita Auditorium on the main campus of CNR. Mr.
Makunu, who is the Deputy HIV/AIDS Unit Manager from CRS Kenya, spoke
on the importance of development and implementation of HIV and AIDS
control within the Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) program. The
title of his talk was “Restoring Hope in Africa: Community Based Care
for HIV.” Mr. Makunu is pictured here with (l.-r.) Professor Elizabeth
Rolston of the School of Nursing; Dr. Mary Alice Donius, Dean of the
School of Nursing; Sr. Arlene Flaherty of Catholic Relief Services;
and Deborah Hunt, Clinical Instructor in the School of Nursing.
Annual Faculty Art
Exhibition
In November 2007, the annual Faculty Art Exhibition was held at SNR’s
Brooklyn Campus. Enjoying the artistic expression were (l. to r.) SNR
alumna and staff member Renee St. Clair, and alumna RoseClare Coombs.
C N R S T U D E N T N E W S
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CNR Student Profile
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"One of the many
things I love about CNR is that
it offers very close
relationships between the students and professors. This is because it
is a small college with a lovely campus where everything is open and
available to students."
Jelena Krstic
Class of 2010
Political Science and History
Honors Program
School of Arts & Sciences
The College of New Rochelle
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SAS senior Ruchelle
Austin named Player of the Week
Leading the nation in rebounding with 16.8 rebounds per game, CNR’s
outstanding basketball senior center Ruchelle Austin was named
the PrestoSports/Metropolitan Basketball Writers’ Association (MBWA)
Player of the Week during the week of December 14. The Metropolitan
Basketball Writers’ Association is made up of the New York City area
college basketball writers.
In winning the award, Ruchelle Austin becomes not only the first CNR
Basketball
player to ever be honored by the MBWA, but she is also the first Hudson
Valley Women’s Athletic Conference (HVWAC) Basketball player to ever
earn Player of the Week honors. Austin won the award over a field of
more than 70 candidates across all three divisions. The Blue Angels
return to action on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 when they host
USMMA-Kings Point at Sarah Lawrence for a 7:00 p.m. game.
F A C U L T Y / S T A F F F O C U S
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"Our graduate
program is special for several
reasons. There is the
intense, individual contact that students receive. Each student is led
through an educational experience that is tailor made for their
particular needs. We are able to do this because of the small class
sizes and individual attention by the faculty members."
Robert
Wolf
Professor of Art Therapy
Graduate School
The College of New Rochelle
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Dr. Nick Smart,
Associate Professor of English in the School of Arts
& Sciences, contributed the essay "On Not Knowing Virginia Woolf"
to the Modern Language Association's Teaching Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway to
be issued in its series Approaches
to Teaching World Literature. The
series provides pedagogical support to high school and college
literature instructors. Dr. Smart's essay describes an assignment he
devised that employs psychoanalytic pedagogy as a means of defusing
student resistance to the difficulties of modern literature.
Dr. Alice Siegel,
Assistant Professor of Literacy in the Graduate
School, gave a series of presentations at the Gloria Omolulu School on
the island of Anguilla over the intersession. On December 13, 2007, an
article appeared in The Journal News
on Dr. Siegel’s work on Anguilla.
Dr. Siegel also was instrumental in obtaining a teaching position for
CNR graduate, Caryn Aiken, at
the Gloria Omolulu School. Caryn was
recently featured in the Journal News.
To view the article click
here.
Dr. Amy Bass,
Associate Professor of History and Director of the Honors
Program in the School of Arts & Sciences, chaired a panel "Out of
Bounds: Sport, Empire, and Globalization in the Twentieth
Century" at
the 122nd Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in
Washington, January 3-6, 2008.
Professor Jennifer Scuro,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the
School of Arts & Sciences, gave a paper in Chicago on November,
2007, at The Society for Phenomenology and Existentialist Philosophy
(SPEP) entitled, "Murder and Incest: Violence in Levinas' Ethical
Metaphysics." In December 2007, she delivered a paper entitled,
"Thinking of Bhopal: Womens' Bodies as Waste-Sites” at the Society for
Social and Political Philosophy Conference hosted by American
Philosophical Association (APA) and held in Baltimore, Maryland.
Dr. Dorothy Larkin
and Dr. Marjory Peterson,
Associate Professors in
the School of Nursing, made presentations on October 17, 2007, at the
Health and Hospital conference: "Nurturing Yourself, Your Patients and
The Nursing Profession." This conference was held at The Passionists
Spiritual Center, Riverdale, New York. Dr. Peterson presented two
topics: "Preception: A Professional Nursing Responsibility" and " Legal
and Ethical Issues Related to Professional Nurse Licensure." Dr Larkin
presented the workshop "Self Healing Modalities."
Professor Deborah Hunt,
an Instructor in the School of Nursing,
recently was appointed the first National League for Nursing Ambassador
for The College of New Rochelle.
Dr. Constance Iervolino,
Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership
in the Graduate School, has been invited to participate and make a
presentation this coming summer at the Oxford Round Table at The
University of Oxford, United Kingdom. This is the 20th anniversary of
this educational group. There are 35 interdisciplinary and
international invitees who have been asked to participate. The title of
the conference is "Balancing National and State Curriculula: Trends and
Choices."
Dr. Elizabeth Stanton,
Assistant Professor of Economics in the School
of Arts & Sciences, co-authored a study for the Global Development
And Environment Institute at Tufts University entitled “Florida and
Climate Change: The Costs of Inaction. Over the week of December
10-14, 2007, Dr. Stanton gave testimonies on this report to Florida
state house and senate committees. The report is the first detailed
analysis on the potential consequences of continued climate change for
the state’s economy.
A L U M N A E / I S P O T L I G H
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“I wanted a
graduate program
that had a great reputation; yet,
I needed
affordability and convenience.
CNR was the only school that measured
up."
Janet E. Heed
Professional Diploma in Educational Administration
Graduate School
Assistant Superintendent
Archdiocese of New York
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