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Ursulines Celebrate 475th Anniversary
As part of a series
of worldwide
celebrations, Ursuline Sisters gathered at The College of New
Rochelle's Main Campus on
November 20, 2010 to commemorate
the 475th anniversary of the founding of the Order of St. Ursula. A
Mass
honoring this event was
held in the College's Holy
Family Chapel where Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of the Archdiocese of
New York delivered the homily.
The Company of St. Ursula was
established in 1535 in Brescia, Italy, by St. Angela Merici and the
Ursulines came to New York in 1855. First known as The College of St. Angela, The College of New Rochelle was founded by the Ursulines in 1904,
becoming the first Catholic college for women in New York State.
Reception
Opens Castle Gallery's
Collection of Gordon and Toni Parks' Photographs
Toni
Parks was in attendance at the opening reception of Bridging The Gap.
A
reception was held for the opening of the Castle Gallery's winter
exhibition Bridging The Gap
on December 12, 2010. The exhibition features selections from the
College's collection of Gordon Parks and Toni Parks photographs. The
exhibition will be on view through February 20, 2011.
For more information about Castle
Gallery's exhibition Bridging The Gap,
click
here.
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CNR’s Kate Canty Crèche Collection
In conjunction
with this exhibition, CNR will simultaneously mount its annual Holiday
Exhibition from CNR’s Kate Canty Crèche Collection in Leland
Castle parlors.
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“My
children say I was born to be a nurse, but I don’t think so. I just
treat my
patients like I’d want my family to be treated. It
took me about three years [to complete my degree] because I took one
class at a time, I wasn’t
counting. Before I knew it, it was over. Everyone at CNR was so helpful
to me.”
Anne Marie Mingot
SN’07
Cancer Care
Technician
Calvary Hospital
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The Office of Mission and Identity
Presents a Lecture by Rev. Leo J. O'Donovan
(L.-r.): Vice President of
Mission and Identity Dr. Joan Bailey, CNR President
Stephen J. Sweeny, Rev. Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J., and
President-elect Judith Huntington.
The College of New Rochelle Office of Mission and Identity presented a
lecture by Rev. Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J. entitled “The Holy Family’s
Flight Into Egypt and Today’s Refugees” on December 8, 2010, on the
Main Campus of the
College.
Rev. Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J. is
president emeritus of Georgetown University, past president of the
Catholic Theological Society of America, and esteemed Trustee of The
College of New Rochelle. Father Leo studied with Fr. Karl Rahner, S.J.,
at the University of Muenster and has written extensively about
Rahner’s theology, including an introductory volume, A World of Grace. In addition
to publishing theological articles in systematic theology, he has
written art criticism for America,
Commonweal, The Washingtonian, Stimmen der Zeit (Munich), and The National Catholic Reporter.
TO
WATCH VIDEO of “The
Holy Family’s Flight Into Egypt and Today’s Refugees” Lecture, click here.
CNR
Blue Angels Volleyball Team wins
HVWAC Championship and recognizes Player of
the Week
Congratulations
to the CNR Blue Angels volleyball team who defended their title
and
successfully repeated as Hudson Valley Women's Athletic Conference
(HVWAC)
Champions. HVWAC Sports Information wrote that it was "one of the
closest
and most exciting seasons of HVWAC volleyball." CNR student Elizabeth
Johnston was named the Tournament MVP, and two CNR students, Elizabeth
Johnston
and Patrice Marshall, were selected for the All-Conference Team.
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HVWAC also
named junior Zena Jamal Volleyball Player of the Week on October 12.
Zena, a
nursing major, is a setter for the Blue Angels Volleyball team. On the
HVWAC
website announcement, it said that “In a five-set conference win over
St.
Joseph’s, Jamal dished out 34 assists and served up 11 aces, nearly
posting a
triple-double with eight digs.” She is from Poughkeepsie, NY, and a
member of
the Student Government, LEEP, and SAAC organizations.
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The
Hunger Banquet Raises Hunger Awareness
First row (r-l): Tazmin Uddin SAS’13, Nelsi Peguero SAS’13, Gene Green
SAS‘12 Second row (r-l):
Mary-Elizabeth Smith-Mitchell SAS’12, Karina Adlawn SN’12,
Akosuah Agyei SAS’13, Christine Biskup SAS’13, Alicia Hinton
SN’11, Jazmin
Davis SN’12, and Hellen Konyango SAS ‘11
Participants
at the Hunger Banquet, hosted by Campus Ministry on November 10, 2010,
had a
first-hand experience of the unequal divide of the world’s food
resources.
Students, faculty, and staff were arbitrarily divided into low, middle
and high
income groups, and served a meal appropriate to their income level. A
few
participants enjoyed waiters and fine china, while most were served a
small
amount of rice while sitting on the floor.
The Hunger Banquet is a program
which raises awareness and suggests ways to
combat hunger in the world. Participants were asked to write their
congressional representatives about the Child Nutrition Reauthorization
legislation, also known as the CNR bill, which asks that funds for SNAP
(formerly known as food stamps) not be cut. A strong Child Nutrition
bill is a
key step in reaching the President Obama’s goal of ending childhood
hunger in
the United States by 2015.
The
Wellness Center Receives 2010 American Architecture Award
The College
of New Rochelle’s state-of-the-art Wellness Center has received The
American
Architecture Award for 2010 from the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of
Architecture
and Design and The European Center for Architecture Art Design and
Urban
Studies.
The Museum received over 1,000
projects for new buildings, landscapes
architecture, and urban planning from firms across the U.S. for
consideration
by The Chicago Athenaeum. The 2010 Jury for Awards was held in
Istanbul, Turkey,
and the awarded 47 projects for 2010 were selected by a distinguished
group of
Turkish architects, educators, and journalists.
This facility, designed by ikon.5
Architects, consists of technologically
equipped learning spaces for classroom instruction, conferences and
seminars, a
state-of-the-art fitness center, a gymnasium equipped with arena-style
bleachers, competition-size basketball and volleyball courts, an
interior
running track suspended above the gym floor, and a six-lane NCAA
competition
swimming pool.
Designed to holistically address
and enhance all aspects of wellness -- mind,
body and spirit -- The Wellness Center also houses a meditation room
and
contemplation roof garden. The ecological design of the building as a
metaphor
for wellness is certificated by the U.S. Green Building Council under
its
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building
Rating
System®. Since its completion in 2008, the Center for Wellness at
The College
of New Rochelle has received ten national and international awards.
Serviam
Awards Bestowed Upon Four Students
Pictured with CNR President Stephen J. Sweeny are (l.-r.) Tanysha
Farley,
Zena
Jamal, Kristen Diaz, and Jane Fitzpatrick.
During
CNR’s
Founder’s Day celebration on October 19, 2010, four CNR students were
presented
with Serviam Awards for outstanding community
service. Established by the Ursuline Institute and continued by
the
College, the annual awards honor those students who best embody the
Ursuline
philosophy of Serviam (I will serve) and support the College’s
mission of education for service. This year’s recipients are
Kristen
Diaz of the School of Arts & Sciences, Tanysha Farley of the School
of New Resources-Co-op City Campus, Zena
Jamal of the School of Nursing, and Jane Fitzpatrick of the Graduate
School. m o r e
Domestic
Violence Awareness Event Held at CNR
Pictured here are (l.-r.) Karen D. Carroll, Dr. Judith Gordon, Rebecca
deSimone,
and Dr. Richard Thompson.
October was Domestic
Violence Awareness Month and as part of its educational mission, CNR
presented
“Sexual Assault: It’s Everybody’s Business,” a film and talk on the
topic of
domestic violence and other issues of victimization of women on October
19,
2010. The talk was given by Karen D. Carroll, RN SANE-A, NY-SAFE. Ms.
Carroll
is the Associate Director of the Bronx Sexual Assault Response Team,
and has
been a licensed registered nurse in the State of New York for more than
30
years.
The film No, The Rape
Documentary
was shown, a discussion followed, and representatives of Victims
Assistance
Services, a component of WestCOP, were available to provide additional
resources. This event was sponsored by the Social Work Department and
the
Women's Studies Program of the School of Arts & Sciences and the
Office of
Student Development.
Fifth of July Opens CNR Drama Season
CNR Drama,
The College of New Rochelle’s renowned dramatic society, opened its
2010-11
season with the award-winning play by Lanford Wilson, Fifth
of July. The production opened on
November 12, 2010 and ran through November 20, 2010.
Fifth
of
July is an eight-character
comedy-drama that takes place in the late 1970s. The first of Wilson’s
trilogy
based on the Talley family of Lebanon, MO, the play follows a group of
burned
out 1960s radicals as they attempt to come to terms with, and find
forgiveness
for, one another in this post-Vietnam era. A precursor to the film The
Big Chill, Fifth of July
captures a
benevolent spirit, one in which, as Ben Brantley wrote of a recent
revival,
shows a “boundless empathy that is Mr. Wilson's hallmark as a
dramatist.”
The production featured Colin
Pritchard of Harrison in the central role of
Kenneth Talley, Jr. CNR students Amelia Ellis, Adam Welsh, Jordan
Garrett, Darianna Parra, and Ian Kreisberg were also featured, along
with Nancy
Jane Blake of Peekskill and BJ Markus of the Bronx. The play was
directed by
Laurie Castaldo, administrator and adjunct instructor at the College.
CNR Drama
has the distinction of being the campus club with the longest
uninterrupted
tenure in the College’s history.
Sustainability
Garden Harvested
This fall
students in at least five classes toured the campus garden and sampled
produce
as part of course assignments. In mid October, the student group WILDE
(Women
in Lasting Defense of the Environment) sponsored “Harvest Celebration”
by
harvesting the crops planted in May: tomatoes, Swiss chard, beets, and
spinach.
Students then shared the harvest with members of the CNR Community from
tables
outside the Student Campus Center.
CNR
Art Exhibit Raises Money for Charity
The Fine Art
Exhibition and Silent Auction, Art for Charity:
Creating Critical Linkages, held in the
Mooney Center Gallery from September 25 through October 17, 2010,
brought in
more than $2,000 for a wide variety of charities specified by each
individual
artist. Fifteen CNR graduates and former and current faculty donated
their
artwork. The event was organized, designed, and curated by Professors
Patricia
St. John and Robert Wolf.
Lecture on Ursulines Given by Scott Appleby
The Office
of Mission and Identity presented “How Ursulines Overcame Nativism,
Feminized
Higher Education and Helped Catholics Become Americans,” a lecture by
Scott
Appleby, Professor of History and the John M. Regan Jr. Director of
Kroc
Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
The lecture,
a part of the Sr. Alice Gallin Lecture Series, was held on November 9,
2010.
A historian
(Ph.D., University of Chicago) who studies modern religions and their
capacity
for both violence and peacebuilding, Appleby is the author or editor of
several
books, including Strong Religion
(2003, with Gabriel Almond and Emmanuel Sivan); The Ambivalence of the
Sacred: Religion, Violence and Reconciliation
(2000); Spokesmen for the Despised:
Fundamentalist Leaders of the Middle East (1997) and Being Right:
Conservative Catholics in America (1995).
From 1988 to
1993 Appleby was co-director of an interdisciplinary study of global
religious
resurgence; it culminated in the publication of the five-volume
Fundamentalism
Project, which he edited with Martin E. Marty. Appleby co-chaired
the Chicago
Council on Global Affairs' Task Force on Religion in U.S. Foreign
Policy, which
produced the report, "Engaging Religious Communities Abroad: A New
Imperative for U.S. Foreign Policy" (2010). A fellow of the
American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the recipient of three honorary
doctorates.
TO
WATCH VIDEO of “How
Ursulines Overcame Nativism, Feminized
Higher Education and Helped Catholics Become Americans” Lecture, click here.
CNR
Recognizes HS Women Artists at 17th Annual Event
CNR’s 17th
Annual High School Women Artists’ Exhibition closed with an awards
ceremony on
the Main Campus in New Rochelle. The annual competition, created to
offer
aspiring young female artists nationwide the opportunity to showcase
their two-
and three-dimensional works, drew 146 entries from 51 different high
schools in
New York and New Jersey. This year’s winners were: Jenny Lin of West
Babylon
High School who took first place for her work “Falling City, Burning
Sky;”
Noelia Abreu of New Rochelle High School who took second place for
“Amber;” and
Sydney Newman of Ardsley High School who took third place for
“Untitled.”
The show, which included work in acrylic paint,
photography, charcoal, pencil,
clay, mixed media, and oil, also presented Juror’s Choice Awards to:
Ariyan
Wilkenson of Essex Valley High School for “After is The Before of the
End,”
selected by Judith Weber, artist, founder of Media Loft and president
of the
New Rochelle Council on the Arts; Sydney Gray of Blind Brook High
School for
“Walking on Water,” selected by Jesse Sanchez, artist and president of
the New
Rochelle Art Association; and Carly Moreno of Pearl River High School
for
“Babysitting,” selected by Kenise Barnes, curator and owner of Kenise Barnes
Fine Art in Larchmont.
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Student Profile
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“I wasn’t growing anymore and I wanted to
start growing
again. I wasn’t really sure what I wanted at the beginning, but I knew
I wanted
more. The
administration at the School of New Resources, they believed in me and
they got me
back into school.”
Henry Wood
School of New Resources
Class
of 2011
Concentration: Psychology
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Students
Make Presentation at BACCHUS Conference
Sasha Morgan
SN’11, Hellen Konyango SAS’11, Tania Veloz SAS’12, and Yelitza Castanos
SN’11
made a one-hour presentation entitled “The Power of Partnerships:
Leveraging
Resources for Wellness Education” for the BACCHUS Network General
Assembly
Conference on November 4, 2010, in Indianapolis, IN. All four students
are
Wellness Coaches at CNR.
The BACCHUS Network is a university and community
based network focusing on
comprehensive health and safety initiatives. The BACCHUS philosophy is
that
students can play a uniquely effective role−unmatched by professional
educators−in encouraging their peers to consider, talk honestly about,
and
develop responsible habits and attitudes toward high-risk health and
safety
issues.
Dr. Adrienne Wald, Director of Wellness Education
and Wellness Coach Advisor,
along with Marie Serina, Director of Health Services, accompanied the
group.
Dr. Wald provided guidance and editorial support in preparing the
proposal and
program.
Class
Holds Mock Vienna Tribunal for Women’s Rights
The Global Perspective on Women's
Human Rights class in
the School of Arts & Sciences held a mock Vienna Tribunal on
October 27,
2010. The Tribunal was a forum for women to share their stories in
which their
human rights were violated to promote the accountability of the
individuals, governments, or groups who have violated the human rights
of women
worldwide. Pictured here is student Alexandra Artis, who is
sharing the
story of the fictional Esperanza Restrepo, a drug mule in Columbia.
Students
get “Pretty Glamorous In Pink” for Breast Cancer
At this fun
student event, “Pretty Glamorous in Pink,” students gathered in
Ursula
Hall on the evening of October 20, 2010, to get pink highlights, bake
desserts,
make personalized t-shirts, and learn more about breast cancer in honor
of
Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Students
Celebrate Diwali, the Indian Festival of Lights
Students enjoyed henna tattoos, traditional Indian music and food, and
learned
about Indian culture on November 8, 2010. Rajwant Sandhu SN’11
organized the
event to celebrate the Indian holiday Diwali, the five-day Festival of
Lights,
which began on November 5. Pictured is Samantha Avery SAS’12.
New
CNR "Be Boundless" Video
TO
WATCH VIDEO from the
Admissions Office that features Prof. Nick Smart, Chair of the English
Department, School of Arts & Sciences, discussing the advantages of
the College of New Rochelle's close proximity to New York City, click here.
F A C U L T Y / S T A F F F O C U S
Dr. Amy
Bass, Associate Professor of History in the
School of Arts & Sciences and SAS Honors Program Director, gave a
talk at
the University of Massachusetts entitled “Whose Broad Stripes and Bright
Stars?” on October 28,
2010. Dr.
Bass was invited as a Feinberg Distinguished Lecturer in History.
Dr. Kristen Berman, Associate
Professor in the Graduate School, led a break-out session entitled
“Translating
21th Century Skills into the Classroom with Aesthetic Education” at
the AGATE (Advocacy for Gifted and Talented Education) Conference on
Friday,
November 5, 2010. She also co-led the “Welcome” to the Conference with
Audrey
Dowling, President of AGATE. The Graduate School hosted the conference.
Deborah
Hunt, Assistant Professor in
the School of Nursing, received the Sigma Theta Tau National Honor
Society's Zeta Omega Research Award and will be known as a Zeta-Omega
Scholar for 2010-2011. She was also inducted into the New York Academy
of Medicine.
Deborah Hunt, Assistant Professor in
the School of Nursing; Dr. Launette Woolforde SON’03, Corporate
Director of Nursing Education at North Shore/LIU Health System; and Dr. Connie Vance, Professor of
Nursing
in the School of Nursing, submitted an abstract to the International
Council of Nursing that was recently accepted for presentation in Malta
in May 2011. The presentation is titled The First Career Stage in Nursing: A
Critical Link to the Future of Professional Nursing Practice.
Dr. Faith Kostel-Hughes, Associate
Professor of Biology in the
School of Arts & Sciences, Dr.
Diane
Quandt, Associate Professor of Education in the School of Arts
&
Sciences, and Dr. Roxanne Zimmer,
Associate Professor of Communication Arts in
the School of Arts & Sciences, presented CNR’s
“Sustainability Garden
as a Learning Tool” during a poster session at the annual Environmental
Consortium Conference in October. They were joined by SAS freshman
Kayla
Cummings who has been awarded a mentor research scholarship. The theme
of this
year’s conference was the regional foodshed in the greater Hudson
Valley.
Farmers joined policy makers, students, staff, and faculty from area
colleges
in identifying concerns, challenges, and opportunities. The conference
was the
subject of NY Times article,
October 18, 2010, “Keeping Agriculture
Alive Near New York City,” by Peter Applebome.
Dr. Diane Quandt, Dr.
Ruth Zealand, Associate Professors of Education in the School of
Arts &
Sciences, Dr. Alice Siegel,
Assistant Professor of Literacy in the Graduate School, and Dr. Stephanie Squires, Associate
Professor of Special Education in the Graduate School, made a
presentation on
Innovative Pedagogical Practices at the Fall 2010 conference “An
Inclusive
Vision for Teacher Education: Exploring Issues of Engagement.” The
NYSATE-NYACTE conference was held in Saratoga Springs on October 21-22,
2010.
Dr. Roblyn Rawlins, Associate
Professor of Sociology in the
School of Arts & Sciences, spoke on “Making Mother Modern: Expert
Knowledge and the Discipline of American, English, and Irish Mothers,
1870-1930,” as part of the York University Graduate Program in Women's
Studies Seminar Series, on October 26, 2010, at York University,
Toronto,
Canada.
Dr. Nick Smart, Associate Professor
of English in the
School of Arts & Sciences, gave the lecture “'Never Do You Justice
in
Reason or Rhyme': The Talent of Bob Dylan” at the Larchmont Village
Center
on October 24, 2010. Dr. Smart's lecture will air on Larchmont
Mamaroneck
Community Television.
Emily Stern, Associate Professor of
Art in the School of Arts & Sciences,
participated in “Degrees of Density: Selections from the Kentler
Flatfiles” from October 19 to November 20, 2010, in the Corn Center for
the Arts' Illges Gallery at Columbus State University in Columbus,
GA. Curator Marilyn Symmes of Rutgers University
selected 54 contemporary drawings for the show based on fundamental
elements of
nature from the Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn, which
specializes in contemporary drawings and works on paper.
Dr. Ron Valenti, Director of College
and District Partnerships,
has co-authored A Regional Survey of
Teacher Leadership: Re-examining
Leadership
Preparation for the peer-reviewed Fall/Winter 2010 Excelsior Journal (Volume 5,
Number 1). The article is a profile of
teacher leadership in the Lower Hudson region of New York State during
the 2007
academic year. Excelsior
specializes
in studies on teacher leadership and learning.
Dr. Connie Vance, Professor of
Nursing
in the School of Nursing, recently had a book published by Springer
Publishing entitled Fast Facts
for Career Success in Nursing:
Making the Most of Mentoring in a Nutshell.
Dr. Adrienne Wald, Director of
Wellness Education, gave a poster presentation
at the American Public Health Association (APHA)
conference on
November 7, 2010, in Denver, CO. The conference theme was Social
Justice.
Dr. Wald 's poster is entitled “Health-Promoting Behaviors in
College Students: Association with Self-Rated Health and Academic
Performance” and was part of the chronic disease epidemiology poster
session.
Robert
Wolf, Professor of Art Studio in the Graduate
School, recently published an article entitled No One Can Hear Me Scream: The Integration
of Expressive Therapy Techniques, Creative Processing of
Countertransference Inductions and the Use of Metaphor in the
Psychoanalytically Oriented Outpatient Treatment of a Woman Artist with
a Schizoaffective Disorder which will appear in the current
issue of Psych Perspectives: an
International Journal Of Integration and Innovation, Issue 7
(2):279 - 296. This paper has been expanded with additional 'Foreword'
and full color illustrations, as a complete book.
On Sunday October
17, Robert Wolf, Professor of
art studio
in the Graduate School, photographed the Artist's Salon, sponsored by
the National Psychological
Association for Psychoanalysis, featuring the artwork of Dr. Arthur
Robbins, a
noted New York-based psychoanalyst and artist. On November 13,
2010, he made two presentations
at the first annual Creative Expressive Therapies Summit in New York
City. The
presented a paper, Creativity,
Cognition, Countertransference:
Long-term Expressive Analysis of a Schizoaffective Artist, which
will
be
published in Psychoanalytic
Perspectives, Issue 7.2, Fall 2010. He also
held a workshop, “Creative Processing of Dream
Material in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy,” which demonstrates how
clinicians can use creative
modalities such as art materials, role playing, and dramatization to
creatively
process dream material within a psychoanalytic psychotherapy treatment
structure.
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