SFC Students on the Go
Kappa Delta Pi Education Honor Society members went to the United Nations , January 27 for the 18th Annual Committee on Teaching About the United Nations ( CTAUN ) conference at UN Headquarters . This year ’ s conference , Refugees : The 21st Century Challenge , was attended by Education Professor Peter Leibman ’ 71 , Tyler McKinney ’ 17 , Kristina Hernandez ’ 17 , Cristina Perez ’ 17 , Clairetza Felix ’ 17 , and Jhane Castillo-Facey ’ 17 . ●
SFC Psychology students Christine Maniscalco ’ 17 , Alexa Rutkowska ’ 19 , Ismarie Rodriguez ’ 17 , Monica Murray ’ 18 , and Alexandra Ottaviano ’ 18 won first place for best poster at the 25th Annual Pace University Psychology Conference May 12 . Their poster “ Women ’ s Dating Preferences : Comparing Dating Styles with Personality Types ” looked at whether women want to be with “ good ” or “ bad ” guys . The research was conducted as part of Professor Karen Wilson ’ s Experimental Psychology course . ●
Psychology Professor Arwina Vallejo ’ 03 took members of her Psychology of Women course to meet with chef and former owner of Anisette , Suzanne Letulle Riva ( Carroll Place , Follia , Cotta ) to talk to the students about her experiences as a female in restaurant industry . The students spoke to Riva about overcoming stereotypes and facing bias in certain careers , two topics that were part of on-going class discussions .
Attendees included Iyana Powell ’ 18 , Casey Pyle ’ 18 , Gladys Adusei ’ 19 , Tierah Fredrique , Kristal Lewis-Bullen , Erin Gonzalez ’ 19 , and Angela Hudelson with Chef Suzanne Letulle Riva and Professor Arwina Vallejo ’ 03 . ●
Growing human organs in pigs , eliminate ravaging disorders like cystic fibrosis , or stopping mosquitoes from transmitting the Zika virus ; scientists are looking for ways to achieve it all through a new forma of gene therapy called CRSPR and St . Francis College Biology and Health Care Management students heard about progress from a leading expert in the field . Chair of Biology and Health Sciences Department Kathleen Nolan brought six students to the City College of New York to learn from and meet Dr . George M . Church , a professor of Genetics and Health Sciences and Technology of Harvard and MIT at the Tenth Annual Louis Levine-Gabriella de Beer Lecture in Genetics . He spoke about how CRISPR , a technique that allows scientists to alter DNA might be able to make amazing medical breakthroughs and even help reverse the aging process . ●
Faculty Notes
Yadira Moran-Ulrich ’ 02 ( Assistant Director of Human Resources ) was featured in the February 2017 issue of Diverse : Issues in Higher Education . Yadira talked about the challenges of maintaining a diverse , inclusive environment . http :// mydigimag . rrd . com / publication /? i = 384015 & ver = html5 & p = 6
Peter Leibman ’ 71 heads the collaboration between the Education Department and Boody Junior High School , which now employs more than 30 St . Francis graduates thanks to Principal Dominic D ’ Angelo . Their story was featured on a recent episode of Currents , titled “ A Partnership Grows In Brooklyn .” http :// netny . tv / episodes / currents / partnershipgrows-brooklyn /#. WDXVQ2QrI18
Dr . Steven M . Lipson ( Biology ) presented his research paper , “ Mechanism of Anti-rotavirus Synergistic Activity by Epigallocatechin Gallate and a Proanthocyanidin-Containing Nutraceutical ” at the American Society for Microbiology “ Microbe 2017 ” conference in June in New Orleans . Professor Lipson ’ s research reported for the first time , a mechanism to explain how certain plant chemicals interact to produce an improved anti virus effect . The work is scheduled to be published in the journal , Food and Environmental Virology .
Estelle Press ( Nursing ) was featured in an issue of Women in Higher Education for the story “ Nursing Education Addresses an Evolving Health Care Landscape .” Nurse Press talked about the importance of offering all people access to equal healthcare options and treatment .
Howard Skrill ’ s ( Fine Arts ) pastel on paper creation , Daniel Webster from the Hall of Fame for Great Americans , University Heights , the Bronx , 2013 was part of the exhibition “ Picturing Social Justice and Human Rights ” at the Boston Graduate School for
Psychoanalysis in Brookline , Massachusetts . In addition , his drawing of Edward Snowdon was published in the March 2017 issue of the magazine Average Art . The Grief Diaries : A Magazine of Art & Writing about Loss featured Skrill ’ s drawings from his frequent trips to Green-Wood Cemetery .
Daniel Webster : http :// www . bgsp . edu / gallery-1581 / picture-social-justice / item-64 /
Grief Diaries : http :// www . thegriefdiaries . org / art-by-howard-skrill
Jennifer Wingate ( Fine Arts ) is now Editor of the peer-reviewed scholarly journal Public Art Dialogue ( Routledge ). She also co-chaired a panel Public Art Dialogue ( PAD ) at the College Art Association annual conference in New York in February . Professor Wingate arranged for the organization ’ s award reception held at the Queens Museum with special guest Mierle Ukeles , who came in from Israel to attend . In addition Wingate delivered the lecture “ Citizen Artists : World War I and the Creative Economy ” at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts . ●
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