Science students display
5 years’ work in ‘Hormesis’ exhibit
School to give Civic Engagement Recognition awards
On Thursday, April 10 at 4:15 p.m., Wagner College will host its second annual Civic Engagement Recognition Day awards program. The guest speaker for the program will be Josephine Olsen, deputy director of the Peace Corps. The program will take place in Wagner College’s Spiro Hall, Room 2.
The Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity, the Student Government Association and the Omicron Delta Kappa honor society will jointly hold a dance marathon the evening of Saturday, April 12, in the Sutter Gymnasium. Ticket sales and pledges for the dance marathon will benefit the American Cancer Society. Entry tickets are $10 per person in advance, $15 at the door (or $12 each at the door for a group of 5).
The Wagner College Hillel Foundation will be hosting the 2nd Annual Charity Powderpuff Football Game this Sunday, April 13, from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., to help raise money for Autism Speaks (www.autismspeaks.org). The event will take place in the Wagner College football stadium, directly across Howard Avenue from the main campus. Admission will be $2 at the front gate; children 5 years and under are admitted free. Raffles will be held during the game for prizes.
The Powderpuff Football Game will pit freshman girls against senior girls, and sophomore girls against junior girls, in a flag football contest. The winners will then play each other to determine the overall winners.
Prof. Jean Halley’s “Queer Lives” class will screen a documentary film by Hima B., “Straight for the Money: Interviews with Queer Sex Workers,” on Monday, April 14, at 2:40 p.m.
Wagner College will host a preview screening of a documentary film by Donny Moss, “Blinders” (USA, 2007, 53 minutes), on Monday, April 14 at 6 p.m. in Spiro Hall, Room 4. The screening, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker, is free and open to the public.
Wagner College welcomes Jeff Gomez, author of the book, “Print is Dead: Books in our Digital Age,” who will speak on Tuesday, April 15 at 5:15 p.m. in Spiro 4. Gomez’s lecture, subtitled “From the Gutenberg Bible to OMG,” will address the fate of the book, the future of communication, and the role of the Internet in our daily lives. An ice cream social will follow the lecture, which is sponsored by the Office of Co-Curricular Programs. In addition to “Print is Dead” (Macmillan, 2007), Jeff Gomez is the author of four novels. He is senior director of online consumer sales and marketing for Penguin USA. Gomez has been involved in electronic books and the world of digital reading since the industry's beginning in 1999, and he has been a featured speaker and panelist at publishing industry events throughout America.
From April 15 through 26, the Wagner College Gallery will exhibit work by fourth-year students in Professor Bill Murphy’s “Artists Workshop” tutorial, a largely independent class that is the cumulative studio experience for art majors at Wagner College.
David Handschuh, a New York Daily News photographer, will present a visual lecture at Wagner College about covering the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. His presentation, “A Survivor’s Story,” will be given on Thursday, April 17 at 7 p.m. in Spiro Hall, Room 2. The public is invited.
