by Public Relations | Sep 16, 2014 | Alumni, Faculty, Staff
Your former students will be looking to reconnect with their favorite professors during Homecoming Weekend. Don’t let them down!
Faculty and staff are encouraged to join alumni, parents and friends in the fun at our annual Reunion Tent Party on Friday, September 26 at 7:00 p.m. in the main Quad.
We are offering special pricing for Canisius faculty and staff of $25 per person, pre-sale ($40 at the door). Faculty are encouraged to check with their respective deans, as a limited number of complimentary faculty tickets are available.
Enjoy music by The Soul Providers, a fabulous food buffet and bar of beer and wine. Local food trucks, Lloyd’s Tacos and Frank’s Gourmet Hot Dogs, will have food available for purchase later in the evening. If you are interested in registering, click here or contact the Alumni Office at Ext. 2700.
Submitted by: The Office of Alumni Engagement
by Public Relations | Sep 16, 2014 | Alumni, Faculty, Staff, Students
The Canisius All-College Honors Program welcomes Sophia Veffer, a Dutch Jew who survived the Nazi Holocaust during World War II on Thursday, September 18 at 3 p.m. Veffer’s talk, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the Regis Room North. In several ways, Veffer’s story mirrors that of Anne Frank, who was also from the Netherlands. Veffer will speak about her remarkable experiences, connect the Holocaust to contemporary events, and take questions afterward. For more information contact Bruce Dierenfield, PhD, at Ext. 2683.
Submitted by Bruce J. Dierenfield, PhD, director, All-College Honors.
by Public Relations | Sep 16, 2014 | Alumni, Faculty, Staff, Students
Deaf Awareness Week 2014 is September 13-19.
St. Mary’s School for the Deaf is offering a free hearing screening to anyone in the community on September 16, 17 and 18. Call 834-7200, Ext. 193 for an appointment. If you would like to know how acute your hearing is or if you think you may have some hearing issues, take this opportunity to see an audiologist for free!. St. Mary’s School for the Deaf is just two blocks east of Canisius at 2253 Main St.
Submitted by: Dr. Marjorie Harrington, director, Deaf Education Program
by Public Relations | Sep 16, 2014 | Alumni, Faculty, Staff, Students
P.W. Singer, PhD, senior fellow and director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution, will speak at Canisius on Wednesday, September 24 at 7 p.m. in the Grupp Fireside Lounge of the Richard E. Winter ’42 Student Center. Singer’s lecture, entitled “Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know,” is free and open to the public. The event is presented by The William H. Fitzpatrick Chair of Political Science Lecture Series and is part of the Constitution Day observance by Canisius College.
Singer is considered one the world’s leading experts on changes in 21st century warfare. He was named by President Obama to the U.S. Military’s Transformation Advisory Group. Singer is the youngest scholar named senior fellow in the Brookings’ 95-year history. CNN named him to its “New Guard” List of the Next Generation of Newsmakers, he was included in the Turner Broadcasting series “26 People to Save the World,” as well as Defense Magazine’s Top 100 Global Thinkers List, of the people whose ideas most influenced the world that year. Prior to his current post, Singer was the founding director of the Project on U.S. Policy Towards the Islamic World in the Saban Center at Brookings.
Singer is the author of four books, including Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry (Cornell University Press); Children at War (Pantheon) and Wired for War (Pantheon). His most recent book, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2014), answers the key questions we all face in the cyber age.
For more information, contact the Office of Public Relations at Ext. 2790.
Submitted by Marketing & Communication
