Monday, April 20, 2009

Events

• Internal Digest

  Students to Act and Direct Plays Generated in a New Theatre Workshop Course Being Offered at Manhattan Campus 9:00 AM St. John’s students interested in a most unique theatre arts course should sign up for a course titled “Theatre Workshop,” which is being offered by Associate Professor Larry Myers, Ph.D., during Summer Session One at the University’s Manhattan campus.

• Singapore Debate Trainer Guest Lectures STJ Debate Society 9:00 AM Singapore debate legend Loke Wing Fatt dropped by St. John’s University on April 6 to give a guest lecture and critique a practice debate performed by Debate Society members that did not get the chance to travel to the National Tournament.

• Teach EVERY Child to Read: A Workshop for Teachers, K-8 Administrators, Reading Consultants and Parents 9:00 AM The School of Education will be hosting a series of Saturday Literacy Workshops on our Manhattan, Staten Island and Oakdale campuses that should be of interest to both educators and parents.

• St. John's Welcomes 29 Into Catholic Faith with Sacraments of Initiation 9:00 AM St. John’s Office of Campus Ministry culminated a year-long Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) program last night as 29 new members of the University community received the sacraments of initiation at a formal ceremony at the school’s St. Thomas More Church. Most Reverend Ignatius A. Catanello, D.D., Auxiliary Bishop in the Diocese of Brooklyn, administered baptismal and confirmation rites and 11 members also received the Holy Eucharist for the first time.

• Debate Society to Quarterfinals at National Championship; Third in Northeast Sweepstakes 9:00 AM St. John’s Debate Society emerged from a field of 132 teams ranging from California to South Africa to the United Kingdom to become one of the top 16 teams at the U.S. University National Championship Tournament held on the campus of the University of Vermont in Burlington during the first weekend of April.

• New Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Room Is Dedicated in St. Albert Hall 9:00 AM Members of the Sciarra and Kurek families along with St. John’s faculty, students and administrators gathered in St. Albert Hall on April 17 for a formal blessing and dedication of a new College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Room.

• St. John’s Doctoral Fellowship Provides Opportunity for Ph.D. Student to Co-Research National Journal Article 9:00 AM With the assistance of a St. John’s University doctoral fellowship, Ph. D. candidate Grace Kong co-researched an article on the impact of in-home cognitive-behavioral therapy in the elderly living in rural Alabama. Published by the Psychology of Aging, a journal of the American Psychological Association (APA), the article draws attention to the lack of access to healthcare among rural older adults.

• Ozanam Scholars Impact the IMPACT National Student Conference 9:00 AM Strengthening their commitment to St. John’s tradition of service and social justice, nine undergraduates in the University’s Ozanam Scholars Program joined civic-minded peers at a nationwide conference March 6-9 on university service programs.

• Academic Lecture Series: Anatomy of Prejudice - Queens Campus 9:00 AM In response to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. over 30 years ago, Jane Elliott devised the controversial and startling, “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes” exercise. This, now famous, exercise labels participants as inferior or superior based solely upon the color of their eyes and exposes them to the experience of being a minority. Everyone who is exposed to Jane Elliott’s work is dramatically affected by it.

• Committee for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Hosts Free Workshops To Benefit Local Immigrants 9:00 AM St. John’s University’s Committee for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) is offering a series of free workshops on various educational topics to benefit immigrants and their families. In addition, CLACS will offer free ESL (English as Second Language) classes at various levels on Wednesday and Thursday evenings and Saturday mornings through June.

• Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus Inspires Crowd at St. John’s; Announces Partnership Between University and Grameen America 9:00 AM Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Founder of Grameen Bank, paid a special visit to St. John’s and its Queens Campus to announce a new partnership venture between the University and Grameen America. The appearance was part of Grameen America’s Open House and Spring Fair held in Carnesecca Arena.

• Admin/Staff

  HR Workshop - Emergency Readiness Training for Employees, Queens 2:00 PM

• In Memoriam

  Sofija Skunca - Mother-in-law of Kathy Skunca 8:00 AM

• About Us

  Blood Drive and Bone Marrow Registry Testing for All Ethnic Groups, Queens campus 9:00 AM

• Academics

  Office of the Provost - UC/AC Active Learning Furniture Review, Queens Campus 9:00 AM

• Office of the Provost & CTL Event - Roundtable Lunches - Global Education: How Research Interests and Teaching Meeting - Queens Campus 12:00 PM Faculty Workshop

• Spring 2009 Advocate in the Spotlight: Advocating for a Law Enforcement Union 6:00 PM

• Admission

  Office of Graduate Admission - Graduate Open House, Queens Campus 7:00 PM

• Student Life

  Career Center - On Campus Recruiting Workshop - Queens Campus 10:00 AM Career Center - On Campus Recruiting Workshop - Queens Campus

• Student Life - Mondaes Sundaes - Staten Island Campus 11:00 AM Student Life - Mondaes Sundaes - Staten Island Campus

• Career Center - How to find an internship workshop - Queens Campus 1:25 PM Career Center - How to find an internship workshop - Queens Campus

• Campus Activities - College Challenge: Sports Night - Queens Campus 6:30 PM

• Student Services

  Career Center - On Campus Recruiting Workshop - Queens Campus 10:00 AM Career Center - On Campus Recruiting Workshop - Queens Campus

• Career Center - How to find an internship workshop - Queens Campus 1:25 PM Career Center - How to find an internship workshop - Queens Campus

• Faculty

  Blood Drive and Bone Marrow Registry Testing for All Ethnic Groups, Queens campus 9:00 AM

• Research Month: Interdisciplinary Research Roundtable Lunches 12:00 PM

• Office of the Provost & CTL Event - Roundtable Lunches - Global Education: How Research Interests and Teaching Meeting - Queens Campus 12:00 PM Faculty Workshop

• Learning & Development

  TLC Workshop - Access 2003 II: Queries, Queens 9:30 AM

• HR Workshop - Emergency Readiness Training for Employees, Queens 2:00 PM