Archive - Sep 2007

Event kicks off a month of events sponsored by the Grymes Hill college

By KIAWANA RICH
Staten Island Advance, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2007

 

Artist Gregory Perillo talks with friends at the DaVinci Society dinner. 

 

            A celebration of all things Italian got a joyful start last night, courtesy of the DaVinci Society of Wagner College.

Project Hospitality dinner salutes selfless efforts
By KIAWANA RICH
Staten Island Advance, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007

  Project Hospitality President Beverly Garcia-Anderson (left) and Executive Director Rev. Terry Troia (right) with Carin Guarasci and Wagner College President Richard Guarasci, honored with the Les Trautmann Memorial Award for Outstanding Contribution to the People of Staten Island.

            On Friday, Sept. 28, from 9 a.m. to noon, the Wagner College circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, the national leadership honor society, and the Wagner College Student Government Association will host their annual Leadership Forum. This year’s theme is “Cleansing Your Conscience: Socially Responsible Leadership.”

            The conference keynote address will be delivered by William R. “Bill” Johnston.

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            The Atrium Gallery in the Wagner Union currently features the figurative ceramic sculpture of Matt Groves and works on paper by Sarah Nishiura. The show will run through Saturday, Nov. 3.

Matt Groves’ highly glazed ceramic sculptures are carefully crafted and yet brutally confrontational. Figurative and narrative, these richly encrusted sculptures hint at a personal history and fascination with transgression, transformation and tradition. They embody ideas of war (within the self and with others), sickness (from loss of power and by separation from nature), and repression of the ego. They reference metamorphosis, transformation, and involution, and the ego as set apart from others. Groves intentionally jolts our expectations, expertly manipulating the traditional medium of fired clay to address prescient contemporary issues.

            Blair Horner, special adviser on policy & public integrity to New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, will speak at Wagner College on Monday, Oct. 1 at 5 p.m. in Spiro Hall, Room 4.

            Horner, former legislative director for the New York Public Interest Research Group, will deliver the 2007 Al and Frances Hochman Memorial Lecture, “A Look at the Nexus of Power and Money in Albany — and What You Can Do About It,” for Wagner College’s Hugh L. Carey Center for Government Reform.

            As part of Wagner College’s celebration of Latino Heritage Month, the school’s Office of Co-Curricular Programs will present a screening of the prize-winning documentary film, “Señorita Extraviada (Missing Young Woman),” on Thursday, Sept. 27, at 6 p.m. in Spiro Hall, Room 4.

            The public is invited.

            “Señorita Extraviada” (2001, 74 min.) was written and directed by Lourdes Portillo, a self-scribed “Mexico-born and Chicana-identified” filmmaker. The film won a Special Jury Prize at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.

            Author and documentary filmmaker June Cross will speak at Wagner College next Monday, Sept. 24, at 4:30 p.m. about her memoir, “Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away.” The program in Spiro Hall, Room 2 -- not Room 4, as previously announced -- is open to the public.

            June Cross is a journalist and an award-winning television producer. Her most recent series, “This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys” aired nationally on PBS in 2003. Prior to that, Cross worked for PBS’s Frontline, CBS News, and PBS’s MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.

The public is invited to a lecture on Thursday, Sept. 20 at 4:30 p.m. by Vladimir Kvint, president of the International Academy of Emerging Markets and a member of the Bretton Woods Committee. Kvint's lecture, "Forecast on the World Economy," will be delivered in Wagner College's Spiro Hall, Room 4.

Introducing Vladimir Kvint will be August Morar, an assistant professor of international business at Wagner College and director of the school's Center for International Business Strategic Studies, which is sponsoring the lecture. To visit the CIBSS on the Web, click here.

For more information about the seminar, telephone August Morar at (718)
420-4509 or e-mail him at august.morar@wagner.edu.

This year's Constitution Day program on "Interrogation as a Means of Intelligence Gathering" at the Seton Hall Law School will be simulcast in Wagner College's Spiro Hall, Room 2, on Monday, Sept. 17, from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. Members of the public and the press are welcome to attend all or part of the simulcast broadcast.

For more information about the Constitution Day simulcast, contact political science professor Patricia Moynagh at (718) 420-4492, or e-mail her at patricia.moynagh@wagner.edu.

1:30 to 1:45 p.m.—Welcome & Introductions—Mark Denbeaux, Seton Hall Law School