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The College of New Rochelle Announces Faculty Fund Recipients

New Rochelle, NY, June 30, 2005 -- The College of New Rochelle announced that six faculty members in the School of Arts & Sciences (SAS) and the School of Nursing (SN) have been selected to receive a 2004-2005 Faculty Development Award for $1,500.  They include:

  • Cristina deGennaro, Associate Professor of Art, SAS
    To support her artist’s residency and exhibition of her show Memory Drawings at the Oregon College of Art and Craft;

  • Dr. Mary Alice Donius, Associate Professor, SN
    To support the implementation and evaluation process of her Caring-Healing Nursing Practice Model;

  • Dr. Judith Gordon, Associate Professor of Social Work, SAS
    and Dr. Ruth Zealand, Assistant Professor of Education, SAS
    They combined their awards to provide funding towards a study-abroad curriculum to Oaxaca, Mexico;

  • Linda LoPresti, Associate Professor of Business, SAS
    For research and development of business curriculum in Corporate Ethics and Responsibilities in the Global Community; and

  • Dr. Lynn A. Petrullo, Professor of Biology, SAS
    For research into family stories and how they are used to study and popularize human genetics.

The Faculty Development Fund was created to support research efforts that CNR faculty members undertake on their academic specialties.  Fund applications are open to full-time faculty in the College’s School of Arts & Sciences, School of Nursing, Graduate School, and the Library.  Faculty in the School of New Resources have a similar fund for faculty development.

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The first Catholic college for women in New York State, The College of New Rochelle was founded in 1904 by the Ursuline Order. Today, it comprises the all-women School of Arts & Sciences, and three schools which admit women and men: the School of New Resources (for adult learners), the School of Nursing and the Graduate School.  The main campus of the College is located in lower Westchester County, 16 miles north of New York City.  The College maintains six other campus locations in New York City. Visit the College’s website at www.cnr.edu

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