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Letter from the Dean
 On
behalf of the administration, faculty, and staff of the
College, I'd like to
wish you and your families a very happy new year. I hope you enjoyed the
holidays.
The semester break provides an ideal time for all of us in the College to reflect on our work to date
and devise ways to improve our work processes and systems. It is important
to ask ourselves: What am I doing well, and what could I be doing better?
Classes resume on Tuesday, Jan. 16, and on Saturday, Feb. 3, the Office of
University Admission will host Early Action Candidates’ Day, a day when the
best and the brightest high school seniors who have been accepted to
Villanova come to campus to learn if the University is right for them.
Departmental “open houses” will be held in the afternoon to help prospective
students gain further insight into the College’s unique program offerings. I
encourage all
academic departments in the College to use this time wisely; it is an opportunity to show students
and their families what makes the College so special. Feel free to invite
your current majors to the open house. Often high school seniors feel more
comfortable asking questions of their peers, and what better way to showcase
the strength of your department then by having your own exceptional students
discuss what it’s like being a student in the College.
Lastly, as we look to the new semester with renewed energy and focus, I’d
like to encourage you to make this
e-newsletter truly “yours” by sending
your news items, event announcements, and other pertinent information for
publication to Kate
Szumanski for inclusion in our e-newsletter. By doing so, you will reach
the broadest audience possible, both within the College and external to it.
Thank you for remaining connected to the
College and for your continued interest in receiving our monthly news updates. We
look forward to communicating with you in the new year.
Sincerely,
Rev. Kail C. Ellis, O.S.A., Ph.D.
Dean of the College
In College News …
Office of Undergraduate Grants and Awards Welcomes
New Staff Member
The College is pleased to welcome
Nora Pillard, '02, the new assistant director of Undergraduate Grants
and Awards, back to the University. Nora is working with
Jane Morris, director of the
Office of Undergraduate Grants and Awards, to assist students in
researching and applying for national and international scholarships,
fellowships, research grants, and internships. To learn more about Nora,
please visit the
Office of Undergraduate Grants and Awards on the Web.
College Reorganizes IT Resources to Better Serve
Students, Faculty, and Staff
In December 2006, the College reorganized internal Information Technology (IT)
resources by creating the
Office of Information Technology. The office will
consist of the current IT staff with
Christopher Driscoll, '05 GS, heading
up the new office. Services of the office include:
- Faculty and staff
onsite phone and e-mail support and training
- Departmental lab support
- Web site
maintenance
- SharePoint
- Network printing
- Scantron
- And many more of your IT needs...
The staff will move into newly renovated space on the ground floor of the St.
Augustine Center for the Liberal Arts in the summer.
Learn more at:
http://www.villanova.edu/artsci/college/it
Organization of Human Services Honored at Second
Mile's Celebration of Excellence
The Organization of Human Services (OHS) was honored on Thursday, Oct. 26,
2006, at Second Mile’s Celebration of Excellence Awards Banquet. The
Second Mile Program provides opportunities for Villanova students to mentor
elementary school children from Chester, Montgomery and Delaware counties. To
learn more about the awards ceremony, please click
here. For more information about the Organization of Human Services and
the Second Mile Program, please contact
Lori Sabino.
From left to right: Tom Mogan, director of student development; Beverely Kahn,
professor of education and human services; Apollo Wright, running backs coach/special
teams, Villanova Football; Kristen
Martin, co-secretary of the Organization of Human Services (OHS); Amanda Allen,
OHS co-secretary; Jessica Nordstrom,
OHS treasurer; Lori Sabino, OHS public relations director; Erin McKenna, OHS second mile
coordinator; Liz
Bell, OHS vice president; and Joan Capolupo, MA, NCC, LPC, the OHS faculty advisor.
Your Chance to Name the College’s E-newsletter
If you are a regular reader of the College’s e-newsletter, then you
know that the e-newsletter currently is nameless. We would like to change
that and are seeking
your input to do so.
Do you have any creative ideas? Here are some possible contenders for
e-newsletter names: CLASnotes;
NOVUS (Latin for “news”); Tolle, lege (Take it up and read); and The Voice.
The purpose of the College’s e-newsletter is to share information about the
College to a wide audience, including, College faculty, staff,
students, their parents, prospective students and their parents, alumni, and
anyone else interested in keeping up to date on all
College news,
activities, and events.
Please click
here
to log in your vote for a name the e-newsletter. We’ll tally up the results
and hope to announce a name some time soon.
Thank you.
Read the Latest Issue of the East Asian Studies
Concentration Newsletter
The latest issue of the
newsletter of the East Asian Studies Concentration, which features new
information related to scholarships and fellowships, is available
online. Be sure to check it out.
Save the Dates!
Please mark your calendars for these important events:
Early Action Candidates' Day Saturday, Feb. 3
Candidates' Day Saturday, April 14
Mendel Medal Award Lecture Saturday, April 28
Please click
here for the complete academic calendar.
Event Round-up
An Extensive Program of Events Marks the 2006-2007 Series in
Anthropology
Looking Into Culture: The 2006-2007 Series in Anthropology features a number
of events planned throughout the upcoming fall and spring semesters. For
more information on all of these events, please visit the
series' Web site.
Department of Philosophy to Host Greater Philadelphia Philosophy
Consortium
The Department of Philosophy will host the Greater Philadelphia
Philosophy Consortium on Saturday, Feb. 24, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Please
click
here to learn more.
Ethics Program to Sponsor an Interdisciplinary Conference and
Inaugurate an Award in Professional Ethics
The Ethics Program will sponsor an interdisciplinary conference --
Contemporary Ethical Problems in Engineering Practice: A Dialogue -- May 31
to June 2, 2007. In addition, the Ethics Program will inaugurate the Praxis
Award in Professional Ethics on March 28, 2007. This award will highlight
and celebrate the contributions of a professional or an academic in the
field of professional ethics. For more information on the many activities
planned in the Ethics Program, please visit the program's
Web site.
VCLE to Sponsor 2007 Carlyle Studies Conference
The
Villanova Center for Liberal Education will host the 2007 Carlyle
Studies Conference on the subject of "Thomas Carlyle Resartus: Reappraising
Carlyle for Our Times.” Please click
here for more information.
Mendel Exhibit Coming to The Academy of Natural Sciences
Villanova University and The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia
proudly announce their partnership to present the traveling exhibition,
“Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics,” which will visit the
Academy at 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway from May 28 to September 28, 2008.
The exhibition will be available to only five tour venues in the United
States through 2008: Philadelphia (Villanova and the Academy of Natural
Sciences), Chicago, Washington, D.C., Columbus, Ohio, and Memphis,
Tennessee.
During the exhibition’s Philadelphia tour, all Villanova students, staff,
and faculty who present valid identification will receive free general
admission to the Academy of Natural Sciences. It is our hope that you will
find this special exhibition informative and enjoyable.
To learn more about the exhibit, please visit
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/mendel/. For more information, please contact
Kate Szumanski.
Students in the News
- Andrew Burke. '08, and Thomas Homsher, '08, both
computer science majors, are
winners of Edward Reese Scholarships for 2006-07, which are awarded by
the Integrated Systems and Services Division of the Lockheed Martin
Corporation. Andrew and Tom will receive scholarships for the Spring
2007 semester and internships at Lockheed Martin for Summer 2007. The
competition was open to sophomore and junior engineering and computer
science students at Villanova.
Faculty in the News
- Chara Armon, Ph.D., an adjunct assistant professor in the
Villanova Center for Liberal Education, was published in a special
report section of
USA Weekend. Dr. Armon's article is entitled,
"Why
Joseph Matters Today."
- Gary S. Meltzer, Ph.D., a professor in the
Villanova Center
for Liberal Education, gave a talk for the Bryn Mawr Classics Colloquium
on "The Poetics and Politics of Nostalgia in Late Euripidean Drama." The
talk, which took place on Oct. 27, 2006, at Bryn Mawr College, provided
an overview of his book, Euripides and the Poetics of Nostalgia.
The book was recently released by Cambridge University Press.
- Mercedes Juliá, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of
Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures, has recently published
an article titled, "Francisco Ayala en
su centenario," in Campo de Agramante Vol. 6 (Fall
2006): 5-17.
Professor Juliá was invited by the University of Maryland
to give the opening key-note address at the International Symposium: "Zenobia
Camprubí and Juan Ramón Jiménez: From Maryland to the Nobel," which was
held Oct. 8, 9, and 10, 2006, at The University of
Maryland, College Park. Her conference on the latest prose works of
Juan Ramón Jiménez will subsequently be published in a bilingual volume
by the University of Maryland. On Nov. 9, l0, and 11, 2006, Professor
Juliá participated at an International
Symposium organized by the University of Huelva, Spain, titled,
"Zenobia Camprubí: Mujer y escritura autobiográfica." Dr. Juliá gave
the closing key-note address at the Symposium: "Zenobia maestra de Juan
Ramón: La mujer y el amor en la poesía última de JRJ." In addition, Dr.
Juliá has been chosen by the University of Huelva to be a
member of the Scientific Organizing
Committee for the Trienium 2006-2008. The function of the
committee is to organize Symposia and events to celebrate the 50th
Anniversary of Jiménez´concession of the Nobel Prize and his death in
1958.
- Craig Wheeland, Ph.D., a professor of political science, was
featured in an article entitled,
"Reading Past Zero," in
The Suburban and Wayne Times.
Alumni in the News
IT Corner
- Windows Explorer Error Fix
(NEW) Does your laptop crash often? Please visit
this page for instructions on how to fix this common problem.
- New Web sites Launched – The following departments or
programs launched new Web sites recently:
Chemistry,
East Asian Studies,
and English.
- SharePoint Upgrade – SharePoint hardware and software (new
version) will be upgraded January 7 to 9 and will be unavailable at this
time. Look for an e-mail following the upgrade on how to take advantage
of some of the new features.
Send Your News Items and Event Notices for Publication Do you need help broadening your outreach efforts, publicizing events, and
getting the word out about the accomplishments of your faculty? Please
submit your announcements or events via our
online submission form or directly to Kate Szumanski at
kathryn.szumanski@villanova.edu.
Kate will include it in the next issue of the College’s e-newsletter. |
