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October 2010 NEWSLETTER

 

Faculty

 

Faculty and Staff Accomplishments

Ricardo Dello Buono, Ph.D., chair of the sociology department and associate professor, was a visiting professor last June at the Universidad Iberoamericana, a Jesuit University in Mexico City, Mexico.

Paul Droubie, Ph.D., assistant professor of history presented, “Phoenix Arisen: Japan as Peaceful Internationalist at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics” on Aug. 30 at the 11th World Leisure Congress in Chuncheon, South Korea.

George Kirsch, Ph.D., professor of history, discussed Two Aspects of Life in Hackensack in the 1950s: Desegregation of the Elementary Schools, and the Impact of the Shopping Centers on Main Street on Sept. 23 at the Johnson Public Library in Hackensack, N.J.

Claire Nolte, Ph.D., professor of history, was invited to give a lecture at Oxford University entitled, Inter arma silent Musae? Culture in wartime Prague as part of the international symposium, “Kafka, Prague, and the First World War,” organized by the Oxford Kafka Research Center in September.

Julie Leininger Pycior, Ph.D., professor of history, presented the lecture Trans-national Labor Activism: Lessons from the Mexican-heritage Community on March 17, 2010, at Michigan State University’s Julian Samora Research Institute. 

Grishma Shah, Ph.D., assistant professor in the department of management and marketing, presented “Globalization and the Rise of Work-Family/Family Work Conflict in India,” at the Academy of International Business in Rio de Janiero, Brazil in June.

For the complete faculty and staff accomplishments, click here.

 

Welcome New Employees

Manhattan College welcomed three new employees this month including: Amy Dall (nurse practitioner), Jonathan Santos (campus security) and Pamela Bottge (director of Capital Campaign).

 

Manhattan College Milestones

Congratulations to all those who celebrated an anniversary in 2010. For the complete list of milestones that will be announced on Nov. 7 at the Staff Convocation, click here.

 

 

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