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Getting to Know: Office of Disability Services Director Paula Possenti-Perez
Office of Disability Services Director Paula Possenti-Perez looks at the realm of disability in terms of social justice as well as a matter of diversity. “It’s creating a new context around disability as being a positive asset and empowering and engaging students to see disability as a source of where additional strength and skills have been developed and enhanced—literally because they have a disability,” she says.
Ph.D. Student Earns National Fellowship (Video)
Research by Elizabeth Droge-Young, a Ph.D. student in biology, has caught the attention of the American Association of University Women. This past fall, she received AAUW’s annual American Dissertation Fellowship for her continuing work with the evolving reproductive traits of flour beetles.
Free Smoking Cessation Support Groups Begin this Month
Quitting smoking is one of the most common New Year’s resolutions. Beginning in July 2015, SU becomes a smoke-free and tobacco-free campus. In support of the variety of ways that people utilize to quit smoking, and in recognizing that stopping…
Transcript: Elizabeth Droge-Young Video
Liz: So right here we are looking at female reproductive tracks of females who where mated to two different males. So this area here is called the bursa. It’s where sperm comes in and also where eggs will come down…
Free Faculty/Staff Tobacco Cessation Groups Offered
Free tobacco cessation support groups for faculty and staff. Registration now open Beginning in January, the University will offer free, six-week tobacco cessation programs on campus for faculty and staff. Session 1 begins Tuesday, Jan. 27, and runs for six…
Free Tobacco Cessation Groups Offered for Students
Free tobacco cessation support groups for students. Registration now open. Beginning in January, the University will offer free, six-week tobacco cessation programs on campus for students. Session 1 begins Monday, Jan. 26, and runs for six consecutive Mondays, 4-5 p.m….
iSchool Names Stripling as Senior Associate Dean
School of Information Studies (iSchool) Interim Dean Jeff Stanton has named Assistant Professor of Practice Barbara Stripling as senior associate dean, effective Jan. 1. Stripling joined the faculty at the iSchool in a full-time capacity in January 2012, after serving…
Art Historians Make Publishing Debuts
December was a good month for the Department of Art and Music Histories (AMH) in the College of Arts and Sciences, as two of its assistant professors made their authorial debuts. Luis Castañeda, an expert on urban, visual and design…
Accreditation Assessment Team Invites Public Comment
A team of assessors from the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) will arrive on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, to examine all aspects of the Department of Public Safety’s policy and procedures, management, operation and support services, Interim…
Stanton on Importance of Connection, Collaboration, Stewardship
As a software engineer and manager at several Boston-area startup firms, Jeff Stanton became increasingly intrigued by the ways software development teams functioned. Some teams meshed well and were nimble and highly productive. Other teams worked poorly, produced buggy code,…