College News
September
09/25/2009
Lavery Library at St. John Fisher College made history this summer as it was one of the first libraries in the world to complete a fully automated article request. The library used ALIAS, a new tool designed to help streamline the Interlibrary Loan process. Developed by a New York State cooperative called the IDS Project, ALIAS has been so successful that the information giant OCLC has agreed to take ALIAS global.
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09/24/2009
Three Fisher faculty members presented "Putting Rochester on the Map: George Goler, M.D., and Health Care for All" on Friday, October 2, as part of the College's First Friday Faculty Lecture Series. The presenting professors were: Dr. Carolyn Vacca, Assistant Professor of History; Dr. Lisa Jadwin, Professor of English; and Dr. Timothy Madigan, Assistant Professor of Philosophy.
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09/23/2009
Poet and artist Mark Yakich will present a poetry reading during a visit to St. John Fisher College. The event is free and open to the public. Yakich is a creative writing professor at Loyola University.
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09/22/2009
The National Research Center for College & University Admissions (NRCCUA) announced the appointment of Dr. Gerard Rooney to the organization's Board of Advisors. Dr. Rooney brings with him nearly 30 years of experience in education from both secondary and higher education, as well as executive administration levels. He currently serves St. John Fisher College in Rochester, N.Y., as the Senior Vice President for Enrollment Management and Planning.
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09/21/2009
Michael McCarthy, Director of Safety and Security, is the author of the recently published From Cork to the New World: A Journey for Survival. The book is a work of historical fiction based on a true story: rather than watch their children weaken and starve, the McCarthy and Sullivan families leave poverty-stricken Ireland to become part of the Peter Robinson Settlement in Canada.
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09/21/2009
Dr. Todd Sodano, Instructor of Communication/Journalism, received his doctoral hood from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University on Saturday, May 9. Dr. Sodano was awarded the All-University Doctoral Prize, which recognizes students who have demonstrated particular excellence in scholarship and research at the doctoral level. Dr. Sodano's dissertation examined HBO's series "The Wire."
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09/18/2009
Jeremy Sarachan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication/Journalism, presented at three conferences over the summer.
First, he presented "Your Biggest Fan: Using Facebook Pages as a Course Management Tool" at the SUNY Conference on Instructional Technologies in Oswego, N.Y. on May 20, where he spoke about his experiences using the social networking site for online course management.
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09/18/2009
University Press of America has published
Sports: Why People Love Them! by Dr. Tim Madigan, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at St. John Fisher College, and Tim Delaney, Associate Professor of Sociology at SUNY Oswego. The book examines the reasons why billions of people, from all over the world, love sports.
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09/10/2009
The Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program of the National Science Foundation has awarded the School of Arts and Sciences at St. John Fisher College a prestigious federal grant worth $889,665. The funds will support the Fisher Scholars for Rural Schools (FISCHRS) Project, which is a cooperative effort among St. John Fisher College, local community colleges, and rural K-12 school districts to increase the number of middle school and high school math teachers in Western New York.
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09/10/2009
Lavery Library's latest exhibit, "Vicious Scissors: Paper and Fiber Collage by Ren Vasiliev," is on display through October 30 at St. John Fisher College. Vasiliev's involvement in experimental textile works has been to expand the conventional tessellations of textiles into the medium of art collage, both in fiber and paper, and sometimes both together. In celebration of the exhibit, an opening reception will be held on Thursday, September 17 from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at Lavery Library.
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