The Center for Intercultural Advance on Monday opened its new headquarters in Union 202, and further events are scheduled in Union 202 each day between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. to mark this achievement, including music, food, conversation, activities and a daily raffle. The Center for Intercultural Advancement supports and promotes the mission of Wagner College by creating opportunities for social justice dialogues, learning about different cultures, and assisting with initiatives to internationalize and diversify the campus. Stop by the new center this week, have some fun, and learn more about its programs.
Wagner College will host a two-hour seminar, “Brazil and the Global Energy Factor,” on Monday, March 10, in Spiro Hall, Room 2. The featured guest speaker will be Jose Alfredo Graca Lima, Brazil’s consul general in New York. Ambassador Lima’s address will begin at 4:30 p.m., followed by a question-and-answer session at 5:30 p.m. The afternoon will conclude with a reception.
Jessica Vega, a Wagner alumna, will be presenting an ACE lecture on “Pre-implantation Genetic Screening: The Ethical, Legal and Social Implications.” The lecture will be presented on Monday, March 10 at 2:40 p.m. in Spiro 2. Vega holds a graduate degree in genetic counseling from Sarah Lawrence College. (For those of us who don’t know what pre-implantation genetic screening is, the Web site of Reprogenetics, the company for which Vega works, explains that “Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis consists of the biopsy of a single cell per embryo, followed by its genetic diagnosis through different techniques (FISH, PCR, or CGH), and the subsequent replacement to the patient of those embryos classified by genetic diagnosis as normal.”)