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-Kathryn Marshall | Monday, December 5, 2016
Students and faculty members heard more about research at Saint Mary’s during Friday Faculty Colloquium Series presentations by Dr. Jennifer Rowsell, assistant professor of biology, and Dr. Sandra Schneider, associate professor of communicative sciences and disorders. Rowsell spoke on “Insights into the Restoration of Hearing Loss.” She said there are two types of hearing loss,
Kathryn Marshall | Monday, November 21, 2016
The Saint Mary’s Faculty Colloquium Series continued Friday with presentations by Dawn Farmer, visiting assistant professor of music, and Sarah Noonan, visiting assistant professor of English. Farmer provided insight into the shifting themes and sub-strands associated with the terms “urban,” “inner city,” “at risk,” “race” and “diversity” from 1991 to 2010 in her talk “Discursive Trends
Kathryn Marshall | Monday, November 14, 2016
Two Saint Mary’s professors presented their research at a faculty colloquium Friday afternoon. Kathryn Haas, assistant professor of chemistry, shared her research on the link between Alzheimer’s, lead and copper in a talk titled “Transition Metals in Human Health and Disease.” Haas said she enjoys chemistry because it can be used to solve important problems
Kathryn Marshall | Friday, October 28, 2016
Staff members of the Cushwa-Leighton Library are organizing focus groups to hear student voices, Kaitlyn Stankiewicz, a library intern, said. The goal of the focus groups is to gather feedback from students on what barriers they feel exist between themselves and their use of the College’s library, she said. “I feel that libraries always want
Kathryn Marshall | Monday, October 10, 2016
Try as I might, I can’t help but fall into the category of people whose complexion takes on an unflattering sheen when the color yellow is adorned. However, there is one nameless lady in particular who rocks the color yellow, and I’ve been admiring her dress for years. The French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard called her “A
Kathryn Marshall | Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has studied, interacted with and written about numerous presidents of the United States. On Tuesday night, Goodwin shared some of her observations of them with a packed auditorium at her lecture, “Leadership Lessons from the White House.” The talk was the 11th annual Christian Culture Lecture Series, hosted by the Humanistic Studies
Kathryn Marshall | Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Award-winning author and documentary filmmaker Karsonya Wise Whitehead spoke about intersectional feminism in the modern era at the Saint Mary’s Plamondon Lecture on Monday, “Sisterhood, Social Justice and Scholarship: A 21st Century Conversation.” She began the evening with a poem, and a challenge to think honestly. “I always believed every mountain wants to be climbed, every ocean wants
Kathryn Marshall | Monday, September 19, 2016
In the world of Facebook, Instagram and other forms of photo-based social media, the social justice issue of facial recognition technology and an individual’s privacy is at hand, Saint Mary’s senior Kimberly Orlando said during last week’s Justice Friday event. Orlando said she first became aware of the issue after reading about Download Festival — a
Kathryn Marshall | Friday, September 2, 2016
Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross are united by a shared history, community and strong connection with the Congregation of Holy Cross. For the first time ever, the three schools are coming together in one classroom to learn about sustainability in a new course this fall. Saint Mary’s associate professor of English and environmental studies Christopher
Kathryn Marshall | Thursday, August 25, 2016
The Saint Mary’s Science Hall, which was under construction during the 2015-2016 academic year, is ready for use, and construction on the new Angela Athletic and Wellness Complex will begin later this fall. The Science Hall is almost complete despite slipping a few weeks past the intended July completion date, professor of biology Thomas Fogle said.