F E A T U R E  S T O R I E S

The College of New Rochelle
Celebrates Class of 2012 at 105th Commencement

More than 1,000 baccalaureate and master’s degrees were awarded at The College of New Rochelle's 105th Commencement on May 19, 2012, at Radio City Music Hall. Carla Harris, Managing Director, Emerging Manager Platform, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, gave the Commencement address.  m o r e

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Student Profile

“If I attended a different school, I never would have followed this path. Because CNR has a NCAA Division III program, I’m able to maintain a 3.8 GPA and still attend all of my games and practices without guilt that my academics are suffering. It's easy to balance.” Christine Biskup School of Arts & Sciences Class of 2013 Graduate School Class of 2014 Major: History and Education Minor: Special Education Hometown: Highland Falls, NY m o r e

F A C U L T Y / S T A F F  F O C U S

Susan Acampora, Associate Professor, Library, attended the Yale Divinity Summer Environmental Symposium: Religion and Environmental Stewardship, June 5-7, 2012.  Professor Acampora also attended the 2012 annual conference of The Association for Gravestone Studies from June 19-24, 2012 at Monmouth University West Long Branch, New Jersey.  The conference explored current research in the study of cemetery and memorial art in the United States and abroad.  Susan is co-authoring a project that integrates art, photography, and narrative in celebration of the art of memorials.

Dr. Amy Bass, Professor of History and Director of the SAS Honors Program, gave a talk at Bates College, Lewiston, ME, on June 9, 2012.  Her talk, entitled The Road Less Travelled, featured her work as both a professor and a television consultant for NBC Olympic Sports, and the work of glass artist Fred Kaemmer, as examples of the variety of things one can do with a liberal arts education.  Dr. Bass also published a two-part piece entitled London 2012:  A Woman's Place is on the Field for the University of Minnesota Press Blog. The piece focuses on the complicated gender politics swirling around the upcoming London Olympic Games, where Bass will yet again serve as Supervisor of the NBC Research Room.  It will be her eighth Olympics working for NBC.

Lilleth Newby Beckford, Assistant Professor and Reference Librarian at the Co-op City Campus, presented at the LOEX of the West LOTW Conference at Woodbury University in Burbank, CA, June 6-8, 2012, in a session entitled A Garden of Juicy Shrubs: Librarian and Teaching Faculty Plant Little Cuttings.  The theme of the conference was Creative Landscapes: Information Literacy for All Terrains. The presentation focused on a semester-long collaboration between a CNR-embedded librarian and a teaching faculty, which facilitated the delivery of information literacy skills to students in an SNR course and resulted in the significant improvement of student learning outcomes.

Kathleen S. Mannino, Assistant Professor, Library, presented Technology Tools and Universal Design: A Librarian’s Quest for Access for All on May 11, 2012 at the Westchester Library Association Annual Conference which focused on techniques which she has used successfully to assist patrons with physical disabilities.  She has collaborated with other Gill Librarians in exploring Second Life and other virtual worlds to enhance the patrons’ use of academic libraries, particularly patrons with physical disabilities.

In May 2012, Dr. Roblyn Rawlins, Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Arts & Sciences, published the article “‘Whether I’m An American or Not, I’m Not Here So You Can Hit on Me’: Public Harassment in the Experience of U.S. Women Studying Abroad” in the peer-reviewed journal Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.  On May 11, 2012, Dr. Rawlins delivered a research paper entitled Negotiating, Reappropriating, and (Re)presenting Expert Knowledge of Motherhood: The Mothers’ Club of Cambridge, 1878-1904 at the MIRCI International Conference on Mothers and History: Histories of Motherhood in Toronto, Canada.

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