Costello Lecture Features Brooklyn College Professor

Dr. Margaret King, professor of history at Brooklyn College and the graduate center of the City University of New York, will deliver the eighth annual Costello Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 8 at 4:30 p.m. in Smith Auditorium. A Renaissance specialist, King has published numerous works on the history of women and gender. Her 1994 book, The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello, received the Helen and Howard Marraro Prize from the American Historical Associate for the best book in Italian history, as did her 1986 book Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance. The lecture series is named for Brother Casimir Gabriel Costello, F.S.C., former dean of the College. King’s lecture, Mothers of the Renaissance is sponsored by the history department, the school of arts and the women and gender studies cluster. It is open to the entire Manhattan College community, including alumni. For more information, please contact Jeff Horn, associate professor of history, at (718) 862-7129 or e-mail jeff.horn@manhattan.edu.

 

Best-selling Author Visits Manhattan College

Author Steven Johnson will address the Manhattan College community about his book Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter (2005), on Thursday, Nov. 12 at 4:30 p.m. in Smith Auditorium. Johnson is the best-selling author of six books on the intersection of science, technology and personal experience. His writings have influenced everything from the way political campaigns use the Internet, to cutting-edge ideas in urban planning and the battle against 21st-century terrorism. Johnson is also a contributing editor for Wired magazine and a monthly columnist for Discover magazine. He is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University’s department of journalism and lectures widely on technological, scientific and cultural issues to both corporate and educational institutions. For more information, contact Adam Koehler, assistant professor of English, at (718) 862-7546 or e-mail adam.koehler@manhattan.edu.

 

Middlebury College Professor To Lecture at Manhattan

Dr. Murray Dry, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College, will deliver the lecture Same Sex Marriage and the Constitution: Exploring the Issues of Federalism and the Separation of Powers on Monday, Oct. 19 at 4:00 p.m. in the Rodriguez Room (Miguel 311). The event, co-sponsored by the government, communication, religious studies and sociology departments, is free and open to the public. Dry is on leave this year in New York, teaching constitutional law at Yeshiva College and working on a book on same sex marriage and the law. He is the author of the 2004 book Civil Peace and the Quest for Truth: The First amendment Freedoms in Political Philosophy and American Constitutionalism, as well as numerous articles and book chapters on the American founding, the first amendment, federalism and the separation of powers. For more information, contact Pam Chasek at (718) 862-7248 or e-mail pamela.chasek@manhattan.edu.

 

Hispanic Heritage Celebration Welcomes Lance Rios

Manhattan College’s Hispanic Heritage Month celebration will feature Lance Rios, founder of the Facebook phenomenon Being Latino. Rios will deliver the talk The Latino on Facebook on Wednesday, Oct. 21 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. and from 1:00-2:00 p.m. in Smith Auditorium. The event is open to the entire Manhattan College community. Since launching in May 2009, Being Latino has amassed more than 18,000 fans while providing resources and education to an untapped audience. It is designed as a communications platform to educate, entertain and connect all peoples across the global Latino spectrum. Rios is also the co-founder of Latino BIGS, a division of Big Brothers, Big Sisters that serves the unique needs of urban Latino youths in the Bronx. For more information, contact Rosemary Jimenez at (718) 872-7105 or e-mail rosemary.jimenez@manhattan.edu.

 

News from Human Resources

Employees who have dependent children between the ages of 19 and 23 and are currently covered under CIGNA Health Plan are required to verify their dependents’ full-time student status by completing a CIGNA Questionnaire for Verification of Full-Time Student or Handicapped Adult Dependent Eligibility Form. If you have any questions, please call CIGNA Member Services at 1-800-CIGNA24. Dependents that are 23 years old will be covered under your health plan until Dec. 31, 2009.  Effective Jan. 1, 2010, your son and/or daughter will be offered COBRA. Please call Eileen Armstrong at (718) 862-7393 if you have a dependent in this category. For more human resources information regarding flu vaccinations, tuition exchange and Premium TransitChek, click Here.