Archive - Sep 2006

Wagner College president elected chair of NYS Higher Education Services Corp. Board of Trustees

          Richard Guarasci, president of Wagner College on Staten Island, was recently elected chair of the board of trustees of the New York State Higher Education Services Corp. (HESC), the state agency that helps people pay for college.      

          Trustees receive no compensation for their service on the HESC board.

The following is a list of Wagner College events, open to the public from Nov. 10 through Dec. 10.

November 10, 2006
“How do People Differ in their Intimate Relationships? Assessing Intimacy Negotiation”
Speaker: Dr. Hilda Speciher
11:30
Spiro Hall 4
Free
For more information please contact, Larry Nolan, Associate Professor of Psychology, at 781-390-3358.

November 11, 2006
Lutheran Heritage Concert, Evensong - Wagner College Choir
Dr. Roger Wesby, director
Trinity Lutheran Church, 309 St. Pauls Ave. 10304
4:00 PM
For general information contact Shirley Bock 718-390-3313.

Television news anchor Rosanna Scotto will be the guest speaker at the third annual Wagner College DaVinci Society awards dinner.

Proceeds from the event, scheduled for Sept. 28 at 6 p.m. in the Hilton Garden Inn, Bloomfield, will fund the DaVinci Society's "Adopt-a-Scholar" scholarship.

Click here to read the rest of this article printed in the Staten Island Advance. 

Wagner College, the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum and the Wagner DaVinci Society invite the campus and the community to events throughout the month.           

Date                                       Event/ Location/ Time

Community youth participating in any sport or extracurricular activity are invited to attend a fun filled day of sport clinics and college football this Saturday, September 23.

Click here for further information. 

Mirta Ojito, author of Finding Manana, will be on-campus for a talk, Q&A, as well as a booksigning on Thursday, September 28th, 2006.  She will be speaking at 4:15pm in Spiro 2, the booksigning will follow her talk. 

Click here to link to her bio. 

Iranian Scholar, Dr. Mahmoud Sadri, will be the inaugural speaker of Wagner's Faith & Life Lecture Series which will take place next Wednesday, September 20 at 7:15pm in Spiro 4. The Faith and Life Series is sponsored by the Qualben Fund and its key goal is to foster inter-religious understanding and dialogue.

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Mahmoud Sadri is a full professor of sociology at the Federation of North Texas Area Universities that includes Texas Woman's University, University of North Texas, and A&M University, Commerce.  He is stationed at Texas Woman's University.  His major interests include Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Culture, and Theoretical Sociology. More specifically, he is interested and involved in "interfaith dialogue" and "Islamic reform".

Calling all Science and Math Alumni! 

For Alumni with degrees in Biology, Bio-Psychology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Micro-Biology, Math and Physics or who have obtained an M.D or DDS, please click here to fill out an on-line survey. The information gathered from this survey may be used to obtain funding from the Clare Boothe Luce Program/Henry Luce Foundation and the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Scholars Program.

Thank you for your participation. 

Natalie Johnson, director of corporate and foundation relations, will be featured on a billboard in Times Square on Monday, September 18 at 11:30 a.m.   The billboard located at Broadway and West 51st will be revealed during the filming of her episode for Cover Shot, a new reality tv show on The Learning Channel.

Natalie is the 15th woman to spend 2 days as a super model  learning from super model Frederique Van der Wahl and fashion photographer, Richard Dean.  Natalie got a behind the scenes look at the processes of developing a cover shot and for developing a tv show.

Her show will air in October which will coincide with Breast Cancer Awareness month.  Natalie was diagnosed with stage II breast cancer in 2004 and completed all treatments in September 2005. Come  to the reveal and help her celebrate a year without cancer treatments!