by Public Relations | Nov 2, 2009 | Staff
The third open forum for the four finalists in the search for the next dean of the College of Arts & Sciences will be held today, Monday, November 2. All faculty and staff are invited to meet David Ewing, PhD, dean, College of Natural and Social Sciences at SUNY Fredonia, from 2 – 2:45 p.m. in Regis North. Application material will be available at the open forums and is also available to the faculty through their department chairs.
Submitted by: Donna Ortolani, executive associate, School of Education & Human Services
by Public Relations | Nov 2, 2009 | Staff
“Freedom Without Walls” begins today with the following events.
David Shribman (right), Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and executive editor of the Pittsburg Post-Gazette, will give a lecture entitled “Why History Never Ends” at 2:30 p.m. in the Grupp Fireside Lounge.- “The Rabbit is Me” (1965), a film created to encourage discussion of the democratization of East German society, will be shown at 7 p.m. in Lyons Hall, Room 418.
- Today is also the first day of the “wall art” contest, which includes students creating panels reminiscent of the original Berlin Wall.
“Freedom Without Walls” commemorates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the demise of communism. To learn more about this week’s events, click here.
Submitted by: Peter Böhm, associate professor, modern languages
by Public Relations | Nov 2, 2009 | Staff
The Department of Religious Studies & Theology will co-sponsor a community forum entitled “Is Healthcare a Human Right?” on Sunday, November 8 at 7 p.m. in Regis South. This event is free and open to the public.
This forum will explore one dimension of the urgent matter of healthcare in the United States. Panelists will represent legal, medical, political and religious traditions. They include:
- John Kelly, PhD, professor, Department of Philosophy, Canisius College
- Mark Lema, MD, PhD, chair, Department of Anesthesiology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute
- Syed Sajid Husain MD, MS, MAS, FACNP, associate professor, Clinical Nuclear Medicine and Clinical Associate Professor of Eadiology at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Buffalo
Moderator will be The Rev. Allen W. Farabee, director of the Religion and Human Rights Project.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares that “everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services.” In the current national debate over healthcare reform and health insurance reform, some have argued that healthcare should be considered a basic right. Others have argued that healthcare should be treated like a market commodity. As with any “human right,” there are questions about why healthcare is a right, what is the basis of its being a human right, how to implement or defend this right, and if it involves public policy, how to pay to enforce this right.
The forum is co-presented by the Religion & Human Rights Project, a program of the Network of Religious Communities.
Submitted by: Marilyn Tokarczyk, administrative associate, religious studies & theology
by Public Relations | Nov 2, 2009 | Staff
October was National Cyber Security Awareness Month. To celebrate, ITS posted a new tip or guideline every day in Under The Dome. The Adobe Acrobat PDF document located here is a collection of all of the tips that were published, along with a few extra ones. We hope you find it useful!
Submitted by: Matthew Gracie, information security administrator, ITS
