November 2007

Write Thing Reading Series Presents Maxine Chernoff

November 15, 2007 Campus Life

Fiction writer and poet Maxine Chernoff will present at the final Write Thing Reading Series event of the fall semester on Thursday, December 6, 2007. She is the author of seven books of poetry and six books of fiction. Her most recent titles are World: Poems 1991-2001 and Some of Her Friends that Year: New [...]

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Fronckowiak Publishes Article on AIM Fight

November 14, 2007 Faculty News

John Fronckowiak, clinical assistant professor in the computer information systems department, published “AIM Fight! Building a Mac OS X Dashboard Widget to Measure Your Connectedness” on the AOL Developer’s Network web site. The AIM Fight widget is available for download directly from Apple. AIM Fight’s developers describe the service: “Using a complicated algorithm, AIM Fight [...]

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Medaille's Annual Report 2006-07 Available Online

November 14, 2007 Campus Life

Medaille’s Annual Report for 2006-07 is available online as an Adobe PDF. The publication includes: a letter from the president, Dr. Richard T. Jurasek statements from the offices of Institutional Advancement, Business and Finance, Academic Affairs and Student Affairs 100 Days – Interview with Dr. Jurasek Amherst Campus Photos Student Profile: Summer Gemmati ’08 Faculty [...]

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Medaille Receives New York State Education Department Funding for Library

November 14, 2007 Campus Life

Medaille College will receive nearly $8,000 in funding from the New York State Education Department’s Coordinated Collection Development (CCD) Program to support the academic library. Medaille, along with 15 other regional academic institutions, received a total of $163,402, which is part of a $2 million appropriation given throughout New York State. Funding for this program [...]

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Danny Jamieson from MTV's Real World-Austin to Perform

November 12, 2007 Campus Life

Danny Jamieson, a participant in MTV’s Real World – Austin, will perform an interactive HIV and Sexual Awareness Speech on Thursday, November 29 at 7 p.m. in the Lecture Hall, Main Building. This event is one of thousands of local, national and international activities whose goal is to focus attention on the devastating impact of [...]

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Paquin Reads from My Thieves at Missouri Universities

November 12, 2007 Faculty News

Ethan Paquin, assistant professor of English, continued his book tour in support of his latest collection of poems, My Thieves (Salt, 2007), by reading at several universities in Missouri. Along with fellow poet-editor Michael Dumanis, Paquin read on November 5 at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville; November 6 as part of The Honors College [...]

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Burdick to Present on Prime Numbers

November 9, 2007 Faculty News

On Thursday, November 29, Jim Burdick will present “An Imposition of Order: A New Construct and Its Consequences” at 3 p.m. in Huber Hall, Room 215. His presentation is part of the college colloquium series. Burdick, of the information technology office, has independently researched this topic for thirty-five years. He proposes that by “imposing an [...]

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School of Education's Graduate Student Society Launches Site

November 2, 2007 Academic Programs

The School of Education Graduate Student Society (E.G.S.S.) has published information of use to students in the literacy, special education and elementary education programs on the Medaille web site. The E.G.S.S. began in October 2007 as a way to facilitate student engagement with the education programs and with the teaching profession. Rooted in the principles [...]

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Hill to Present "Turkey – Land of Symbols?"

November 2, 2007 Faculty News

Dr. Mary Louise Hill, assistant professor and acting chair of humanities, will present “Turkey – Land of Symbols?” as part of the College Colloquium series on Wednesday, November 7 at 12:30 p.m. in the Alumni Room. Anticipating the arrival of Turkish novelist and 2006 Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk to Buffalo, Dr. Hill talk about [...]

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Medaille Mavericks – Winter Athletics Schedules

November 1, 2007 Campus Life

Four sports teams begin their winter seasons: Men’s Basketball Schedule Women’s Bowling Schedule Women’s Basketball Schedule Men’s Volleyball Schedule

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