A team of 19 Canisius students are preparing to head off on an annual medical mission trip to Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The students will be traveling from May 23 – June 6. The group just received word from the in-country coordinators that access to children’s vitamins is their greatest challenge right now. About 20-30 vitamins are typically prescribed in addition to other medications to help prevent children from contracting common ailments including parasites and strep throat.

If you would like to contribute a bottle of children’s vitamins, donations will gladly be accepted until the groups’ departure on May 23.

Please contact Allyson Backstrom, PhD, director, Pre-medical Center at Ext. 2539 or by email at backstra@canisius.edu with questions or for more information.

Submitted by: Allyson Backstrom, PhD, director, pre-medical center

Barbara Burns, PhD, professor of teacher education, developed her scholarship as a true intermingling of three academic areas: teaching, service and scholarship. Her recently published articles and presentations at state and national conferences are focused on the implementation of the newest education certification exam, the edTPA. Burns’ research allows her to work with student teachers and their cooperating teachers in the field. In addition, the research is a collaborative effort with faculty in other departments at Canisius College including teacher education, graduate education and leadership, and kinesiology, to best support our teacher education candidates.  Showing this connection between her teaching and scholarship, Burns authored a chapter, Mathematics Teacher Education and edTPA:  Complex Assessing in the forthcoming Handbook of Research on Professional Development for Quality Teaching and Learning.

Burns connects her service with her scholarship as co-founder of the Math Circle at Canisius College. This group provides mathematics tutoring to students in grades 3 – 8 through the mathematics tutoring program and recently held a conference for mathematics teachers throughout Western New York. Burns and her students are co-authoring articles about these endeavors.  Burns demonstrates how faculty use passions to create many opportunities for students and to improve education.

Submitted by: Sara Morris, PhD, associate vice president, academic affairs

Services for Jesse E. Nash, Jr., HON. ’93, professor emeritus of anthropology and sociology, who died last week at the age of 90, are as follows.

The wake will be held today, Tuesday, May 17 at St. Phillip’s Episcopal Church, 18 Sussex Street, Buffalo, NY and will begin at 5:00 p.m. The wake will conclude with a vespers service at 7:30 p.m. President John Hurley will attend the wake and offer remarks on behalf of the college at approximately 5:30 p.m.

The funeral service will be held on Wednesday, May 18 at St. Phillip’s Episcopal Church.
Final visitation hour will begin at 10:00 a.m. and the Mass of the Resurrection will begin at 11:00 a.m.

The family will continue to receive condolences after the Mass in the Lower Parish Hall of St. Phillip’s, located at 15 Fernhill Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14215.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to:

The St. Phillip’s Memorial Fund
15 Fernhill Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14215

or

The Nash House Museum
36 Nash Street
Buffalo, NY 14204

Submitted by: Mike Hayes, director, campus ministry