Milestones on Main Street: Question of the Day

by Public Relations | Oct 24, 2012 | Faculty, Parents, Staff, Students

Mary Beth (Riley) Metcalf, from the class of 1991, became the first woman to receive what national recognition?

Post your answer on the college’s Facebook page.

Submitted by: Marketing and Communication

Feed Your Hockey Habit

by Public Relations | Oct 24, 2012 | Faculty, Parents, Staff, Students

Do you miss hockey? Depressed the lights at First Niagara Center have gone dark? Well, here’s your chance to catch the next, best thing.

Your Canisius ice hockey team plays its home opener Thursday night at 7 pm versus defending conference champion, Air Force. The game will be played at the Buffalo State Ice Arena. It’s Uncle Bob’s White Out Night with all fans encouraged to wear white.

The Griffs are coming off a tough 2-1 loss to the nation’s 12^th-ranked team last Saturday, dropping a one goal decision at Western Michigan.

The road doesn’t get any easier with the high-flying Falcons due in Buffalo on Thursday before the Griffs venture west for a one game trip to play the nation’s second ranked team – Minnesota – on Sunday afternoon.

For additional information, visit the Golden Griffs website.  For tickets, call (716) 888-2885.

Submitted by: John Maddock, associate athletic director – external affairs, athletics

Canisius to Host Reading, Reception for Cochrane’s Fitz

by Public Relations | Oct 24, 2012 | Faculty, Parents, Staff, Students

Canisius College will host a reading, reception and book signing to celebrate the publication of Fitz, the latest book by Mick Cochrane, PhD, professor of English and Lowery Writer-in-Residence. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held on Tuesday, November 13 at 7 p.m. in the Grupp Fireside Lounge.

Fitz is Cochrane’s first young adult novel and fourth book. It is the story of 15 year-old Fitzgerald (“Fitz” to his friends), who learns that his father, who supports him but whom he has never met, is living nearby. Fitz begins to follow him, watch him, study him, and on an otherwise ordinary May morning, he executes a plan to force his father, at gunpoint, to be with him. Over the course of a spring day, Fitz and his father become real to one another. Fitz learns about his father, why he has chosen to remain distant and what really happened between him and Fitz’s mother. And Fitz’s father learns what sort of boy his son has grown to become.

Copies of Fitz will be available for sale at the event from Talking Leaves, Buffalo’s oldest independent bookstore. For more information, contact Cochrane at Ext. 2650 or visit his website here.

Submitted by:  Marketing and Communication