Still reeling from the end of a lengthy blackout in western Queens, Consolidated Edison found itself grappling with a new power failure yesterday afternoon when 16,000 customers on Staten Island lost electricity for several hours.
The Wagner College Annual Report was recently cited in CASE's "Currents" Magazine for July/August 2006. Click here to view a copy of the Annual Report.
Still reeling from the end of a lengthy blackout in western Queens, Consolidated Edison found itself grappling with a new power failure yesterday afternoon when 16,000 customers on Staten Island lost electricity for several hours.
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE
A federally funded program that taps the brains and brawn of Wagner College students will launch here this fall and could serve as a civic model for schools nationwide.
NEW YORK, N.Y. – When professor Alison Smith joined Wagner College’s faculty in 1992, much of her teaching relied on what she calls “intensely impressive textbooks.” That’s changed, thanks in part to media-rich classrooms that feature wireless internet connections, LCD projectors, motorized writing screens, and banks of white boards.
In the course Urbanization, Civilization, and Collapse, a popular learning community for freshmen, professor Smith will project a picture of the lid of a bishop’s burial vault showing not the man in the prime of his life, but as a skeleton ravaged by the Black Death.
