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April 2010 NEWSLETTER

 

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College Set To Host Honors Convocation and Commencements

Manhattan College will host the Spring Honors Convocation and two Commencements during the month of May.

The Spring Honors Convocation on Thursday, May 20, will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel of De La Salle and His Brothers. Dr. Gordon Silverman, professor of electrical engineering, will present the faculty address. Students from the five schools of the College will be inducted into honor societies. The evening will also include the presentation of the medals and prizes.

Manhattan College will award more than 700 degrees in some 40 major fields of study from its five schools in arts, business, education, engineering and science at its 168th Undergraduate Commencement on Sunday, May 23. The ceremony will be held in Draddy Gymnasium at 1:00 p.m. The College will award an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters to Brother Louis DeThomasis, F.S.C., chancellor, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, and president, Christian Brothers Investment Services-European Union. He will serve as the keynote speaker. Br. Louis was founder and served as chairman of the corporation of Christian Brothers Investment Services, Inc., an investment advisory firm registered with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. He also was a director of the Galaxy Funds, Boston, which managed mutual funds with collective assets of c.20 billion dollars. He continues to speak and write about the power of an ethical financial world as a dynamic tool for creating a better future for humanity. Br. Louis has written extensively and co-authored the book Paradigms and Parables — The Ten Commandments for Ethics in Business, which frames the current issues in business ethics through the creative use of engaging, modern-day parables to achieve transformations in the thoughts and actions of today’s leaders. His latest book, which he co-authored, Doing Right in a Shrinking World, explains how corporate America can balance ethics with profits to benefit of all.

The College’s Spring Commencement will take place on Wednesday, May 26 at 4:30 p.m. in the Chapel of De La Salle and His Brothers. Dr. Nel Noddings, the Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education, Emerita of Stanford University, will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Pedagogy and serve as the keynote speaker. She is a past president of the National Academy of Education, Philosophy of Education Society and John Dewey Society. In addition to 17 books — including Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education; Women and Evil; The Challenge to Care in Schools; Educating for Intelligent Belief or Unbelief; and Philosophy of Education — she is the author of more than 200 articles and chapters on various topics ranging from the ethics of care to mathematical problem solving. Her latest books are Happiness and Education; Educating Citizens for Global Awareness; Critical Lessons: What Our Schools Should Teach; When School Reform Goes Wrong; and The Maternal Factor: Two Paths to Morality (forthcoming, 2010). Her work has so far been translated into 12 languages.

 

Faculty Recognition Convocation Honors
Lasallian Educator and Faculty Marking Special Anniversaries

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The Manhattan College community gathered on April 19 in the Chapel of De La Salle and His Brothers to announce the 2009-10 Lasallian Educator and honor faculty marking special anniversaries. The College honored faculty members, including for the first time, those with more than 50 years of service: Dr. William Brown (54 years), associate professor of civil engineering; Prof. Alfred Manduley (52 years), assistant professor of marketing; Dr. Chester Nisteruk (60 years), professor of electrical engineering; and Dr. Lou Theodore (50 years), professor of chemical engineering. Dr. Brennan O’Donnell, president, awarded the Bonus et Fidelis Medal for 25 years of service to: Br. Christopher Dardis, professor emeritus of education; Dr. Behruz Fardanesh, associate professor of electrical engineering; and Dr. Lisa Toscano, assistant professor of physical education. Dr. Michael McCausland, assistant professor of psychology, was recently named the Distinguished Lasallian Educator for 2009-2010. According to the citation, presented by Dr. Mary Noberini, associate professor of psychology, “Mike’s commitment to teaching is absolute and he is meticulous in his preparation. His lessons are models of clarity, impeccably organized so that students at every level of ability can understand important concepts and follow the flow of ideas. He is a master of the art of storytelling, supplying unforgettable examples of the behavioral concepts he is teaching. And his engaging sense of humor lightens up the classroom and tickles the fancy of his students.” Click Here to read more.

 

 

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