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JHQ: Manhattan College To Host Three-Day Visit By Mexican Coffee Farmer As Part Of Fair Trade Month

October 7, 2008 · No Comments

http://www.manhattan.edu/news/news_releases/100608_1.shtml

October 6, 2008

Manhattan College To Host Three-Day Visit By Mexican Coffee Farmer As Part Of Fair Trade Month

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Manhattan College’s office of campus ministry and social action (CMSA) and the student group JustPeace will host a coffee farmer from Mexico in the Bronx and on campus from Oct. 8-10. This is possible due to a small grant from Catholic Relief Services (CRS) to promote fair trade.

Rigoberto Contreras Diaz’s visit to the Bronx will begin on Wednesday evening, Oct. 8, with a meeting at Our Lady of Refuge Parish, where he will address a largely Spanish speaking community about his work and the value of fair trade coffee to this family and community. As part of the meeting, fair trade coffee will be served and a free sample of the company’s chocolate will be distributed along with brochures on fair trade handcrafts from around the world.

On Thursday, Oct. 9, Diaz will visit Spanish classes on the Manhattan College campus and is scheduled to speak (in Spanish with translation) in the Alumni Room of O’Malley Library at 4:30 p.m. Coffee and chocolates will again be served during the event, which is free and open to the public.

Last spring, Manhattan students involved in the social justice club JustPeace received a Fair Trade Market Building grant from CRS. The grant will help the students who work closely with CMSA to raise awareness throughout October (Fair Trade Month), as well as sponsor a symposium for local Catholic colleges in the spring.

The Fair Trade Federation is the trade association that strengthens and promotes North American organizations fully committed to fair trade. The federation is part of the global fair trade movement, which builds equitable and sustainable trading partnerships and creates opportunities to alleviate poverty.

CRS is the official international humanitarian agency of the U.S. Catholic community. Its mission is to alleviate suffering and provide assistance to needy people in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality.

For more information, please contact Lois Harr, director of CMSA, at (718) 862-7142 or e-mail lois.harr@manhattan.edu.

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JHQ: Cartoonist And Comic Book Theorist Scott McCloud To Speak 11/6

September 30, 2008 · No Comments

http://www.manhattan.edu/news/news_releases/092908_2.shtml

September 29, 2008

Cartoonist And Comic Book Theorist Scott McCloud To Speak At Manhattan College

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Cartoonist and comic book theorist Scott McCloud will speak at Manhattan College on Thursday, Nov. 6 at 7:00 p.m. in Smith Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.

McCloud’s talk is the fall semester’s scheduled college writing lecture to accompany Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, a wise, funny and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.

McCloud is the author of Understanding Comics (1993), a 215-page book about comics that has been translated into more than 16 languages. He also has written Reinventing Comics (2000), a more controversial look at comics revolutions in art, culture and technology, and Making Comics (2006), an extensive look at comics storytelling techniques.

A native of Boston, Mass., McCloud in 1984 created the light-hearted science fiction/superhero comic book series Zot!, which he describes as a “cross between Peter Pan, Buck Rogers and Marshall McLuhan.” His other print comics include Destroy!!, scripts for various Superman comics, a 1998 series The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln, and various short subjects and mini-comics.

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JHQ: Jesuit Priest John Dear To Speak Sunday 11/14

September 30, 2008 · No Comments

http://www.manhattan.edu/news/news_releases/092908_1.shtml

September 29, 2008

Jesuit Priest John Dear To Speak At Manhattan College
Dear is the former executive director of the fellowship of reconciliation.

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – John Dear, a Jesuit priest and former executive director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, will speak at Manhattan College and sign copies of his autobiography on Sunday, Nov. 14 at 4:00 p.m. in the Alumni Room of O’Malley Library. The event, sponsored by the College’s peace studies program, is free and open to the public.

A Persistent Peace: One Man’s Struggle for a Nonviolent World was released this past August, and copies will be available for sale during the event. The book follows Dear’s decades-long journey and spiritual growth, including his unpopular actions before government officials, military personnel and even hostile representatives of the Church.

Dear, well-known and loved in the Catholic peace and justice community, has worked with the homeless in Washington, D.C., New York City, Richmond, Va., and El Salvador, and at a human rights center in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He taught theology at Fordham University and has edited books about Henri Nouwen, Daniel Berrigan and Nobel Laureate Mairead Corrigan.

From 1998 through December 2000, Dear served at the helm of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the largest interfaith peace organization in the United States. From 2002-2004, he was a pastor of several parishes in northeastern New Mexico. Currently, he coordinates Pax Christi New Mexico and lectures to tens of thousands of people each year in churches and schools across the country.

Dear earned two master’s degrees in theology from the Graduate Theological Union in California. In 2008, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

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JHQ: Heffernan, Thomas J. [MC1968] Doctor Of Humane Letters

September 30, 2008 · No Comments

September 22, 2008

Manhattan College To Award Doctor Of Humane Letters To Thomas J. Heffernan ’68 At Fall Honors Convocation

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Dr. Thomas J. Heffernan ’68 Ph.D., who holds the Kenneth Curry Professorship at the University of Tennessee (UT), will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at Manhattan College’s Fall Honors Convocation on Sunday, Oct. 19 at 4:00 p.m in the Chapel of De La Salle and His Brothers.

During the ceremony, nearly 150 seniors will be recognized for their academic excellence and inducted into Epsilon Sigma Pi, the oldest college-wide honor society. Induction into Epsilon Sigma Pi is considered the highest scholastic honor that can be earned by a Manhattan College student.

A native of New York City, Heffernan is a member of the departments of English and religious studies and the program in Medieval Studies at UT. He earned his doctorate in religious literature and reform in late antiquity and the Middle Ages at Cambridge University, where he was the recipient of the Emmanuel College scholarship.

Upon completion of his Ph.D., Heffernan was awarded a fellowship by the Medieval Academy of America for the study of Latin palaeography at Harvard University. He is the author of The Popular Literature of Medieval England (1978), Sacred Biography (1988), and the co-author of The Liturgy of the Medieval Church (2001) and Scripture and Pluralism (2006).

In addition, Heffernan is currently completing a critical edition of the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis for the series Ancient Christian Authors, and he edited the prestigious journal Studies in the Age of Chaucer for 10 years. He has written some 50 plus scholarly essays and reviews and has lectured and taught in the United States and abroad.

His scholarship has received numerous awards, including the Medieval Academy of America’s Van Courtland Eliot Prize and most recently the National Endowment of the Humanities. He has been the recipient of several fellowships and received the Alumni Outstanding Teaching Citation by UT, the most significant teaching award presented by the university.

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JHQ: MC adds a “Lasallian Community” link to the homepage.

September 26, 2008 · No Comments

http://www.manhattan.edu/lasallian_community/index.shtml

# Lasallian Community

* Introduction to Lasallian Heritage

* Religion and the Lasallian Vision

# News

# Global and U.S. Community

# Brothers at Manhattan College

# Lasallian Education Committee

# Faculty External Experiences

# Student Opportunities

# De La Salle Week

# Office Of Mission

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JHQ: Authors James Patterson And Michael Ledwidge

September 6, 2008 · No Comments

http://www.manhattan.edu/news/news_releases/082908_1.shtml

August 29, 2008

Acclaimed Authors James Patterson And Michael Ledwidge To Speak At Manhattan College
College to officially launch the next generation of its communication department.

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Best-selling authors James Patterson ‘69 and Michael Ledwidge ‘92 will speak at Manhattan College on Tuesday, Sept. 9, highlighting the official launch of the College’s “next generation” communication department in the school of arts. The department is designed for students planning to enter the rapidly evolving field of mass communication, and features state-of-the-art facilities, outstanding faculty and an updated curriculum.

The event, to be held at 7:00 p.m. in Smith Auditorium, is free and open to the public. Following their talk, Patterson and Ledwidge will conduct a book signing.

Dr. Thom Gencarelli, chair of the department, will begin the presentation with an overview of the development of the recently completed communication studios in Leo Hall.

“The field of mass communication has always been a fascinating and incredibly fast and vibrant field in which to work,” Gencarelli says. “But this has never been more true than over the past decade. Professionals in the field are faced with changes such as the rise of citizen journalism through the blogosphere and the quantum shift from network television to cable and satellite.”

With YouTube, the introduction of the Internet into the political process with e-mail blasts and social networking sites for candidates, and the changing face of what is now called the “mainstream media,” Gencarelli notes that higher education institutions must adapt new ways to prepare current students for careers in the field.

“The communication department’s greatest mandate and its greatest challenge are to teach its students to negotiate these changes while preparing them for professional careers in an ever-changing industry,” he says.

One of the most acclaimed novelists of his time with more than 150 million books sold worldwide, Patterson holds the record with 39 titles on the New York Times best-sellers list. He has written 19 consecutive titles that reached No. 1 on the New York Times’ list and is the only author to occupy the No. 1 slot on the Adult Fiction and Children’s Chapter Book lists simultaneously.

Patterson has created the two top best-selling detective series of the past decade. His Alex Cross series, featuring Along Came a Spider and Kiss the Girls, is the top-selling U.S. detective series in the last 12 years. The Women’s Murder Club series includes 1st to Die, 2nd Chance, 3rd Degreee and 4th of July. In 2007, he teamed with Ledwidge to launch his third best-selling series, Step on a Crack, featuring fictional New York City police detective Michael Bennett.

Last year, the Women’s Murder Club books became a new television series for ABC that stars Angie Harmon. In addition, Spiderman and X-Men producer Avi Arad is at work on the screenplay for a feature film based on Patterson’s Maximum Ride series.

The recipient of numerous awards, Patterson was the nationwide winner of the Reader’s Digest Readers’ Choice Award in 2004. He also is the first-ever author to receive the Bookspan endorsement International Thriller of the Year for Honeymoon (2005).

Born and raised in the Bronx, Ledwidge is the author of The Narrowback. He also has written Bad Connection and Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead. He also co-authored with Patterson, The Quickie, which was published by Little, Brown in 2007.

Founded in 1853, Manhattan College is an independent, Catholic, coeducational institution of higher learning offering more than 40 major programs of undergraduate study in the areas of arts, business, education, engineering and science, along with graduate programs in education and engineering. For more information about Manhattan College, visit www.manhattan.edu.

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JHQ: U.S. News & World Report Ranks School Of Engineering Among The Best In The Nation

August 23, 2008 · No Comments

August 22, 2008

Contact: Scott Silversten
Phone: (718) 862-7232
E-mail: Public Relations

U.S. News & World Report Ranks Manhattan College’s School Of Engineering Among The Best In The Nation

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – U.S. News & World Report has ranked Manhattan College’s chemical engineering program fourth in the specialty category of best undergraduate engineering programs. The College’s ranking appears in the print and online versions of U.S. News & World Report’s 2009 edition of “America’s Best Colleges” released this week.

This isn’t the first time the College’s chemical engineering program has received a top spot in the popular survey. In the 2006 edition, Manhattan’s program ranked fifth in the same category. Other schools ranked with Manhattan in this year’s survey include Cooper Union, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Rowan University, Bucknell University and the University of Minnesota-Duluth.

Overall, Manhattan College’s school of engineering earned a peer review rating of 2.9 and was ranked 38th among engineering schools whose highest degree is a bachelor’s or master’s.

U.S. News ranks only undergraduate engineering programs accredited by the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology. The rankings are based solely on a peer survey of deans and senior faculty who rate overall programs and best programs in various specialties. Forty-three percent of the individuals surveyed returned ratings.

In the Best Universities-Masters (North Region) category, Manhattan College ranked 19th. The Best Universities-Master’s category includes institutions that provide a full range of undergraduate and master’s programs, but offer few, if any, doctoral programs. The 572 universities in the category are ranked within four geographic areas – North, South, Midwest and West – because they tend to draw students from surrounding areas.

Founded in 1853, Manhattan College is an independent, Catholic, coeducational institution of higher learning offering more than 40 major programs of undergraduate study in the areas of arts, business, education, engineering and science, along with graduate programs in education and engineering. For more information about Manhattan College, visit www.manhattan.edu.

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JHQ: Manhattan College Names Dr. Tim Ward New Dean Of Engineering

August 23, 2008 · No Comments

August 22, 2008

Contact: Scott Silversten
Phone: (718) 862-7232
E-mail: Public Relations

Manhattan College Names Dr. Tim Ward New Dean Of Engineering

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Dr. Tim Ward has been named the new dean of Manhattan College’s school of engineering, effective Aug. 18.

Ward previously served as professor of civil engineering and chair of the department of civil engineering at the University of New Mexico (UNM). He earned his bachelor’s degree in geological engineering at the Mackay School of Mines at the University of Nevada, Reno; his master’s degree in geological engineering at the University of Nevada; and a doctorate in civil engineering at Colorado State University.

“Manhattan College has a long history of being an outstanding place for undergraduate engineering education,” Ward says. “A number of National Academy of Engineering members have come through the programs at Manhattan, so there is a lot of very positive things associated with not only the school of engineering, but also Manhattan College in general.”

At UNM, Ward also had been in the roles of associate director of WERC (a consortium for environmental education and technology development) and assistant vice president for research.

Ward began his academic career in the civil engineering department at Colorado State and has held positions at the Research Institute of Colorado, the University of New Castle (England), New Mexico State University (NMSU) and the University of Nebraska.

Ward is a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineering and a Licensed Professional Engineer. His professional memberships include ASCE Environmental & Water Resources Institute; Watershed Management Technical Committee; Soil and Water Conservation Society; American Association for the Advancement of Science; and the National Society of Professional Engineers.

During his career, Ward conducted several funded research projects totaling nearly $10 million while at UNM and NMSU, and has written more than 200 publications, papers and reports. His research interests include hydraulics, waste management, watershed management, rainfall simulation studies, and erosion and sediment transport.

Founded in 1853, Manhattan College is an independent, Catholic, coeducational institution of higher learning offering more than 40 major programs of undergraduate study in the areas of arts, business, education, engineering and science, along with graduate programs in education and engineering. For more information about Manhattan College, visit www.manhattan.edu.

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JHQ: Monmouth Park Day at the Races / Thursday, August 21, 2008

August 13, 2008 · No Comments

From: alumni-bounces@listserv.manhattan.edu [mailto:alumni-bounces@listserv.manhattan.edu] On Behalf Of alumni@listserv.manhattan.edu
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 10:13 AM
To: alumni@listserv.manhattan.edu
Subject: Monmouth Racetrack Running of the Purse - Last Chance to Register

Monmouth Park Day at the Races
Thursday, August 21, 2008
12:00 noon
Monmouth Racetrack
Oceanport, NJ
Omnibus Box

$50 per person (cash bar)
Includes admission to track, lunch, and program.

Come watch the races from the luxurious Omnibus Box overlooking the entire race track. Last chance to register!

Register Here

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has a length of 311 characters and resulted in the following TinyURL which has a length of 25 characters:

http://tinyurl.com/5b6952

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Visit our other great upcoming alumni events here.

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http://www.manhattan.edu/alumni_friends/MCKIT_ONLINE.php

which redirects to:

https://dnbweb1.blackbaud.com/OPXDONATE/AddDonor.asp?cguid=B

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JHQ: It’s official; It was phishing!

August 6, 2008 · No Comments

—–Original Message—–
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 8:18 AM
Subject: Email Hoax

To: Manhattan College Community
From: Computer Services
Re: Email Hoax

Computer Services is aware of an email hoax currently circulating campus. The hoax email attempts to solicit users to send private information such as username, password, and date of birth. Please be advised that this email message is not authentic and users should not respond. Computer Services will never ask for your password, but rather ask your permission to reset your password if we need to troubleshoot your account.

Please find an example of the hoax email below:

—- Forwarded message from serge.baillargeon@3web.com —–
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:52:31 -0600
From: “FROM MANHATTAN.EDU UPDATE TEAM” <serge.baillargeon@3web.com>
Reply-To: account_up_grade@live.com
Subject: UPDATE YOUR MANHATTAN.EDU EMAIL NOW

Dear manhattan.edu Email Owner,

This message is from manhattan.edu messaging center to all manhattan.edu Email owners. We are

currently upgrading our data base and e-mail center. We are deleting all unused manhattan.edu to

create more space for new one. To prevent your account from closing you will have to update it

below so that we will know that it’s a present used account.

CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL BELOW
Email Username :…………..
EMAIL Password : …………
Date of Birth : ……………….
Country or Territory : ………

Warning!!! Email owner that refuses to update his or her Email,within Sevendays of receiving this

warning will lose his or her Email permanently.

Thanks,
manhattan.edu Team
MANHATTAN.EDU BETA
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This message was sent using Manhattan College Webmail.
http://www.manhattan.edu

mc

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