- Doino Awards to recognize outstanding Bonaventure community members
- SBU's Quick Center receives organizational award of merit
- St. Bonaventure senior creates first workshop for arts educators
- College Bowl team advances to national competition
- Noted medievalist to speak about Bayeux Tapestry at SBU's Quick Center
- Director sought for proposed Center for Academic Excellence
- Union-Endicott High School wins Department of Computer Science programming contest
- Friday Forum
- Career Center News...
- Newsmakers...
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Doino Awards to recognize outstanding Bonaventure
community members
Has someone in the St. Bonaventure
community made your experience better? Do you feel that someone’s
Franciscan spirit goes unrecognized?
Give this person the recognition they deserve by nominating them for one of the Fr. Joe Doino, O.F.M., Honors and Awards.
The purpose of these awards is to recognize the exceptional contributions of individuals on campus. Fr. Joe, who died March 7, 1994, became the first faculty member to receive the Faculty Appreciation Award posthumously. Fr. Joe was known for his contributions to the University as a professor, scholar, musician, preacher and priest. He was also the Student Government adviser and served on the Student Government Awards Committee since its inception. In 1995, the ceremony was named in his honor.
Award categories are:
•
University Ministries Volunteer of the Year
• Fr. Bob Stewart, O.F.M.,
Adviser/Moderator of the Year
• Program of the Year
• Donald L.
Korben Community Service Award
• The Fr. Gervase White, O.F.M., Staff
Person of the Year
• Organization of the Year
• Student Leader of
the Year
• The Terry Bickel Student Life Award
• Heather Lohr
Cabinet Member of the Year
• The Leo E. Keenan Jr. Faculty Appreciation
Award
Nomination forms can be
picked up in the Office of Student Life (Reilly Center, Room 203), the
Student Activities Office (Reilly Center, Room 208) and University
Ministries. Forms are also available from the Web by clicking here: The
forms must be submitted to the Office of Student Life by Friday, March
17.
The campus community is invited to attend the awards ceremony
at 4 p.m. on Thursday, March 30, in the Robert R. Jones Board of Trustees
Room in Doyle Hall. A reception in Doyle Dining Room will
follow.
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SBU's Quick Center receives organizational award of merit
St.
Bonaventure University’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts is pleased to
announce it is the 2005 recipient of the Organizational Award of Merit
given by the Western New York Association of Historical Agencies (WNYAHA).
The award was given in recognition of the exhibition, “Glorious
Lessons: The Idea of America,” which was displayed at the Quick Center
from Sept. 24, 2004 through March 20, 2005. The exhibition assembled
documents, letters, paintings and artifacts from private collections and
institutions.
“Glorious Lessons” examined American colonial life,
the struggle for independence, the Declaration of Independence, the
Revolution and George Washington as our first national hero. Many of the
objects had never been exhibited prior to the show and represented a
unique opportunity for scholars, students and the public to view these
rare primary documents.
As part of the educational component of
the exhibition, Claude S. Harkins, one of the exhibition’s major lenders,
visited fifteen elementary and high schools in one week. He engaged the
students in a dynamic conversation about the Revolutionary War, George
Washington and his own collection of Revolutionary War
memorabilia.
“Glorious Lessons” set a new record for attendance at
the Quick Center with more than 3,000 visitors. More than 1,200 school-age
children from the 54 school districts in the University’s service area
were given tours of the show. Private groups traveled as far as seventy
miles to experience the exhibition. All of the school tours and in-school
presentations were provided free of charge.
The award commended the
exhibition’s “ambitious outreach component for local schools,” and went on
to state that, “The project serves as a model for the region’s
museums.”
The WNYAHA annually recognizes individual and
institutional achievement as well as innovative community collaborations.
Past winners have included Susan Green/Baker’s Bridge Historical
Association, the Amherst Museum, Corning-Painted Post Historical
Society/Painted Post-Erwin Museum at the Depot, Holland Land Office
Museum, and the McClurg Museum Chautauqua County Historical
Society.
Admission to the Quick Center galleries is always free and
open to the public. Regular hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through
Friday, and noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Group tours can be
scheduled by calling Jason Trimmer at (716) 375-7686. For more
information, call (716) 375-2494, visit our Web site at www.sbu.edu or
e-mail Quick@sbu.edu.
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St. Bonaventure senior creates first workshop for arts educators
For the
first time, St. Bonaventure University will offer a workshop highlighting
effective public relations tactics for arts educators. The workshop is
called Arts Smarts and was created by senior Andrea Michnik as the focus
of her honors project.
The event is slated for 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 1, at the Quick Center for the Arts. The event is invite only. Invitations were sent out to various educators from Erie, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties.
All senior honors students at
St. Bonaventure are required to propose and complete a yearlong research
endeavor. In the beginning of the school year, students write a formal
proposal to the honors board for acceptance. As Michnik was preparing her
proposal in August she wanted to work on something different than the
traditional research paper.
“I wanted to do something unique with
public relations and service work, but I also had to make an event that
was journalism/mass communication related. This way I am including three
of my passions: the arts, education and public relations. The arts have
always been a part of my life and I feel my project is important because
it is the perfect mix of all my passions,” said Michnik. “I get to use my
public relations skills for a cause that I feel strongly about, the arts
in education.”
Because Michnik is not a fine arts major or an education major, she had to employ the help of the QCA staff and Dr. Peggy Burke, dean of the School of Education for the University, to help with gaining experience in the education and arts fields.
Michnik also received a
$3,700 grant from the Journey Project for Arts Smarts, a grant that she
wrote herself. Out of 16 people who applied, she is one of the four people
to get the full amount requested.
Chris Mackowski, associate
professor of journalism and mass communication, is serving as Michnik’s
adviser for the project, as well as speaking on community relations for
the event. Mackowski said Michnik’s project is unique because of its
scope. He feels Michnik’s project is impressive because she has been
working at a high degree of professionalism while managing an event of
great complexity.
“She did a great deal of research to find out the areas that are of the most concern for local high school teachers who oversee school arts programs. Based on that research, she was able to create a line-up of programs that will help teachers address those challenges,” said Mackowski.
“She wanted this to be a very
service-oriented project, which has turned out great because it actually
involves many different levels of service: Andrea’s service to the
University and the Quick Center for the Arts, the Quick Center for the
Arts’
service of arts-in-education to regional schools and teachers,
the teachers’ service
to their students, the students’ service through
the arts to their communities,” said Mackowski. “Andrea’s work will touch
a lot of people.”
Michnik is a native of Elma, N.Y. She lives with her parents, Ken and Donna Michnik and her two younger sisters Leanna and Jessica. She is a senior honor’s journalism/mass communication major with a minor in marketing and has made the dean’s list every semester at St. Bonaventure.
She is also member of the American Marketing Association and currently helps design ads and manages the Web site for the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. She also does public relations and free lance work locally for Mellon Technology in Olean. She will be attending graduate school at St. Bonaventure next fall to study integrated marketing communications.
The tentative schedule on
April 1 is as follows:
8:30 a.m. – registration
9:00 a.m. – welcome
from Andrea Michnik and Joseph LoSchiavo of the QCA and University
president Sr. Margaret Carney, O.S.F., S.T.D.
9:30 a.m. – two sessions
of presentations:
1) Chris Mackowski, associate professor of
journalism and mass communication, to speak on community relations.
2)
Karen Buchheit, director of Institutional Advancement and assistant to the
president at The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, to speak on
fundraising for the arts departments
10:20 a.m. – break
10:30 a.m. –
second double session of talks
1) Panel discussion led by executive
directors of the Erie, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua county arts councils -
Dave Shien, Celeste Lawson, and Kim Driscoll.
2) Helga McKinnon of the
Buffalo Chapter of Young Audiences to speak on special organizations that
help arts educators.
11:20 a.m. – break
11:30 a.m. – third double
session of talks
1) Tentatively scheduled for a presentation on school
policy on the arts, such as censorship, ownership and copyright
2)
Peggy Moffitt from the Coalition of the Arts Providers For Children
will be joined by Lucinda Ingalls, Executive Director of Musicians
United for Superior Education and Chair of the Advocacy Committee of CAPC
will speak and present a PowerPoint presentation on education resources.
12:20 p.m. – break
12:30 p.m. – lunch in the University Club w/
roundtable discussion – topics will be submitted that day.
2:00 p.m. –
reconvene in the QCA main auditorium for the keynote speaker Cynnie
Gaasch, arts editor for the newspaper ArtVoice, who will present on
“The importance of media coverage and the arts or schools.”
2:50 p.m. –
Joseph LoSchiavo will speak on the QCA and its resources, new programs,
scholarships and grants.
3:30 p.m. – tours of the Quick Center for Arts
will run until 5 p.m.
The morning discussion sessions will be held upstairs at the QCA in the two choral rooms simultaneously.
If the project is a success, Michnik would like to see this event carried out in coming years, perhaps with a different focus, but still containing the central theme of arts education.
Michnik is looking for volunteers for that week. For more information, e-mail her at michniag@sbu.edu.
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College Bowl team advances to national tournament
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y., Feb. 29, 2006 — St. Bonaventure University’s College Bowl team decisively won its regional tournament and will advance to the national championship tournament April 21-23 in Hartford, Conn.
With an 11-1 record, the SBU team defeated the University of Rochester, who won the competition in 2005. SBU also decisively defeated many teams from New York and New England including Northeastern University, Providence College, Rochester Institute of Technology and Syracuse University.
The team is co-captained by Sam Orlando, a five-year accounting major from West Branch, Mich., and Jason B. Schultz, a journalism and mass communication major from Rochester, N.Y. Other team members are Tim Randel, a Spanish major who was the second-highest scorer in Saturday’s games and the top scorer in Sunday’s playoffs; Bill Kenney, a journalism and mass communication major from Fairport, N.Y.; and Ray Prendergast, a history major from Little Neck, N.Y.
“This has been a great experience. When we left for Marist University, I don’t think any of us went expecting to win. I think we knew we had a chance and our confidence just kept growing after every match,” said Randel
College Bowl at SBU is sponsored by the School of Arts and Sciences and is moderated by Dr. Lauren De La Vars of the Department of English and Dr. David Matz of the Department of Classics.
De La Vars thinks the team has represented the University well and also believes that the team’s success is a direct correlation of the academic standards of St. Bonaventure. “I think our team’s success represents the quality of education students receive at St. Bonaventure. I am convinced that Clare College allows students to obtain a core understanding of all different facets of academic knowledge,” she said.
Matz has helped moderate the College Bowl team for many years and says that the Bonaventure team exhibits a unique confidence in competition. “It’s kind of like a David vs. Goliath situation in a sense when you are going against institutions who really practice for this kind of thing. But our team is composed of remarkably bright young men who are also in touch with the University. They represent Bonaventure values, but they are also just typical Bonaventure students.”
College Bowl is a rapid-recall game of general and academic knowledge. The questions range from all categories, including physics, European history, music and much more. The team usually practices at least once a week with different trivia games and occasionally competes against a team on campus made up of faculty members.
At the national tournament
Bonaventure will face these teams who won their regions: UCLA, University
of Illinois, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, The Ohio
State University, Washington University-St. Louis, Baylor University,
Seton Hall University and Bucknell University.
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Noted medievalist to speak about Bayeux Tapestry at SBU's Quick Center
World-renowned medievalist Jacques Dalarun will present a free
public lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 14, at The Regina A. Quick Center
for the Arts at St. Bonaventure University.
Dalarun will be speaking as part of the closing-week events for the center’s exhibition of a 210-foot-long replica of the Bayeux Tapestry, “Stitches in Time: The Bayeux Tapestry – A Medieval Narrative Recreated,” which closes Sunday, March 19. The exhibition will be open an hour before and after the lecture.
Dalarun refers to the Bayeux Tapestry as a “strange strip cartoon, which actually works more like a movie,” that tells the story of the conquest of England by William, Duke of Normandy. Scholars continue to debate its dating, origin and sponsor, as well as its exact meaning. However, there is no doubt that this embroidered story is an exceptional testimony to the material and mental aspects of medieval life.
Dalarun is senior researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. Previously he worked as director of the Medieval Department at the French Academy in Rome and was the former director of the Institute of Research and History of the Texts.
He spent last year in Olean as the Joseph A. Doino Visiting Professor of Franciscan Studies at the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure. Dalarun has written numerous books, mainly on religious life in the Middle Ages.
The Bayeux Tapestry is seen
as an important primary historical document intended for a sophisticated
audience, many of whom had lived through the events it portrays. Its
illustrations provide scholars with much information regarding daily life
and depict more than 1,500 different objects, animals and figures. Still,
it remains a remarkably unified and comprehensible narrative
account.
The original Bayeux Tapestry was created around 1077 as a
narrative account of the Norman conquest of England. Though actually
embroidery, the work has come to be known as the Bayeux Tapestry after the
town where it has been displayed for hundreds of years.
As well as documenting an important historic event, the original work is critically important as a record of costumes, arms, customs, styles and details of early medieval life. It is surprisingly sophisticated in its approach to storytelling, as each part of the story is given its own section and the actions of the figures are easily decipherable providing momentum to the reading of the narrative.
The recreation on display at
the Quick Center was created over a period of 11 years by Raymond J.
Dugan, a professor of French at the University of Waterloo who became
fascinated by the Bayeux Tapestry on his many trips to the small town of
Bayeux in the north of France.
Admission to the Quick Center
galleries is free and open to the public, Tuesdays through Fridays 10 a.m.
to 5 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays from noon until 5 p.m. For more
information, call 716-375-2494. For information on group tours, please
contact Jason Trimmer at (716) 375-7686. For general information, call
(716) 375-2494, visit www.sbu.edu or e-mail Quick@sbu.edu.
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Director sought for
proposed Center for Academic Excellence
St. Bonaventure is submitting
an application to the U.S. Department of Education Title III:
Strengthening Institutions grant program. One of the purposes of the
5-year grant is to improve and strengthen academic quality at the
institution to which it is awarded.
The main activity in our
proposal is the creation of a Center for Academic Excellence. The Center
would serve as the main University resource for faculty development.
Initial topics to be addressed by the Center include:
1) use of
classroom technology (the grant has a budget of nearly $500,000 for
classroom technology)
2) effective teaching methods
3) working with
students with disabilities; 4) writing across the curriculum
5)
advising
In addition, the Center would sponsor competitive grant
programs for course improvement and development as well as student-faculty
research.
Should the grant be awarded, the position of director of
the Center for Academic Excellence would be created and begin in October.
The position would be a 10-month appointment (academic year plus one
summer month). It would be full-time with the option of teaching one
course per term until June, 2008. The position would then reduce to a
2-course release per term until June 2010, followed by a reduction to a
1-course release per term, where it would remain.
The grant would
provide funds to replace the director in his/her department at a Visiting
Professor level until May 2008, with support provided at the adjunct level
thereafter. The director would oversee a programming budget of
approximately $400,000 over the 5 years of the grant.
Reporting to
the provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, the director of the
Center for Academic Excellence would have as direct reports a half-time
disabilities education coordinator and a half-time administrative
assistant.
The successful candidate will possess excellent written
and oral communication skills, strong organizational skills, a
demonstrated commitment to teaching excellence, and the ability to work
constructively with faculty. Tenured faculty status
preferred.
Interested individuals should submit electronically a
1etter of application and current curriculum vitae to Dr. Carol Fischer,
Chair, Search Committee (cfischer@sbu.edu) by Friday, March 24,
2006.
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Union-Endicott High School wins Department of Computer Science programming contest
Union-Endicott High School from Endicott, N.Y., won the 18th
Annual Invitational High School Programming Contest at St. Bonaventure
University on Friday, Feb. 24. The Union-Endicott team was the only team
to solve six of the eight problems correctly and did it in a total of 620
minutes. Fox Lane High School from Bedford, N.Y., placed second, solving
four problems in a total of 289 minutes. Ithaca High School from Ithaca,
N.Y., placed third, correctly solving four problems in a total of 344
minutes.
Teams consist of up to four team members, all of whom
must be enrolled at their respective high schools. Teams were given a set
of eight problems, a computer in one of the University’s labs, and three
hours in which to solve as many of the problems as possible. Teams are
ranked based upon the number of problems that they solve and the time in
which they solve them.
Sixteen teams from Western New York and
Northwestern Pennsylvania, as well as New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware,
competed in the one-day contest which was sponsored by the St. Bonaventure
University Department of Computer Science. Also key to the success of the
competition was the assistance of Dan Donner and Wayne Oonk from the
University’s Technology Services department and Doug Patrone from Bright
Plan, IT. Approximately 20 computer science majors contributed time and
expertise to the set up, administration, monitoring and judging of the
contest.
During the competition, the teams’ faculty advisers met
in one of St. Bonaventure’s technology classrooms. Dr. Paul Tymann, from
Rochester Institute of Technology, discussed recent changes in the Java
programming language with the faculty advisors.
The winning team
from Union-Endicott consisted of Liana Greer, Jiri Stehlik, Matthew Asher
and Jeff Galkowski; Ms. Eileen Lane accompanied the team as their adviser.
The Fox Lane team consisted of Kathryn Bambino, Dana Hoffman, Andrew
Marshall and Spencer Brody; Leigh Ann Sudol served as their adviser. The
third-place team from Ithaca consisted of Rachel Zax, Seth Wraight,
Johnathan Schultz and Jeremy McCall; Roselyn Teukolsky served as their
adviser.
In addition to the top three
teams, the competition included students from the following schools:
Allegany-Limestone High School, Archmere Academy, Atholton High School,
Canandaigua Academy, Fairport High School, Hinsdale Central School, John
P. Stevens High School, Lancaster Country Day School, Livonia High School,
North Allegheny High School, Upper St. Clair High School, Warsaw High
School and Webster Schroeder High School.
Contest results,
including contest questions, previous results and contest rules, will be
available on the World Wide Web at
http://web.sbu.edu/cs/contest.html.
Further information can be
obtained by calling the contest director, Dr. Steven K. Andrianoff, at
(716) 375-2053.
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All SBU faculty, staff and administrators are welcome
to all the Friday Forums.
Date: March 3, 2006
(this Friday)
Speaker: Jason
Trimmer
Time: Lunch starts at noon, Forum goes from
12:35 to 1:30 p.m., including Q&A
Place:
University Club - Above Hickey
Title: "An Introduction
to the University's Art Collection"
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For information on "How to Make a Career Fair Work for You" and CareerFest '06 Advanced Registration, be sure to check out the Career Center Events Web page.
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Dr. Robert P. Amico, professor of philosophy, and Charles Virga, former diversity consultant for St. Bonaventure, were invited keynote speakers at Jamestown Community College for Faculty Development Day. Virga spoke on multicultural competency and Amico spoke on curriculum transformation. The Four-College (SBU, Alfred University, Alfred State College & Jamestown Community College) faculty summer seminar in curriculum transformation is entering its fifth year this summer.
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Dr. Carl J. Case, associate professor of management science, and Dr. Kimberly S. Young, associate professor of management science, presented their paper “A Gender Analysis of Student Music Downloading Behavior and Ethics” at the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences 13th Annual Conference held in Las Vegas on Feb. 23-26.
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