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Dads and Daughters Date Set

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The Canisius women’s basketball team will host its first ever Dads and Daughters event during its season-opener on Sunday, November 13, when the Griffs host Northeastern at 2:00 p.m. at the Koessler Athletic Center. All daughters, regardless of age, will be admitted free when accompanied by their dad. All other tickets will sell at a discounted price of $3.00.

For additional information, call 716-888-2977, or visit the web site at www.GoGriffs.com. For tickets, dial 716-888-2885.

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

D2L Workshop for New Adjuncts

COLID2LThe Center for Online Learning & Innovation (COLI) will hold a special session of its introductory Desire2Learn workshop (D2L Kickstarter) especially for new adjunct professors joining the faculty in spring 2017 semester.  The workshop will take place on Thursday, December 8 at 6:00 p.m.

Department chairs and program directors may forward this invitation to their new instructors.  Any other faculty members are welcome to join too!  Register for this and our many other workshops today.

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Submitted by: Mark Gallimore, PhD, instructional designer, COLI

Lifetime Achievement Award Named in Honor of Koehneke

KoehnekeThe Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE) named its lifetime achievement award in honor of Peter M. Koehneke, professor of kinesiology and director of the college’s Athletic Training Program.  Koehneke presented the inaugural award during CAATE’s annual conference, which was held October 21-23 in Tampa, FL.

The Peter Koehneke Lifetime Achievement Award honors an outstanding leader in athletic training education who has made significant contributions of exceptional value to the field over a sustained period of service. Recipients of this award, through their dedication and work, have had a lasting influence on the course of the profession at the national and international level.

Read more here.

Submitted by: College Communications

Archives Speaker Series Wraps Up American Archives Month

The 2016-17 Canisius College Archives Speaker Series will present a multi-faceted program with local professors from Buffalo and prominent Catholic and public universities today, Wednesday, October 26 at 5:00 p.m. on the first floor of the Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library.

Bruce Dierenfield, PhD, professor of history and director of the All-College Honors Program at Canisius, will be joined by David Gerber, PhD, professor emeritus of history at the University at Buffalo, for a presentation entitled: “Catholic and Profoundly Deaf: Jim Zobrest, Disability and the Delicate Balance Between Church and State.”

The program will look at the U.S. Supreme Court Case of Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District (1993), in which parents of a “profoundly deaf” young man from Arizona won the right to have the government pay for his sign language interpreter in a Roman Catholic high school. In particular, there will be an examination of how people understand the justice system and why they seek its assistance; the shifting boundary between church and state; and the relatively new field of disability studies.

Drs. Dierenfield and Gerber will also consider the challenges of investigating contemporary history, including conducting first-person interviews, using records of Supreme Court case participants and sifting through archival materials.

The Archives Speaker Series showcases scholars who have a special understanding of archival research based on their own experiences and who have completed a book or other expression of scholarship reliant on archival research.

This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

For more information contact Kathleen DeLaney, archivist and special collections librarian, at delaneyk@canisius.edu or at 888-8421.

Submitted by: Kathleen DeLaney, archivist and special collections librarian, ALB

College to Host HS Model UN Conference Tomorrow

Tomorrow, Thursday, October 27, the Canisius College International Relations Program proudly welcomes to campus 400 students from 19 area high schools for the 38th annual High School Model United Nations Conference.

A volunteer staff of nearly two dozen Canisius College students will moderate and adjudicate the proceedings, which challenge participants to learn rules of parliamentary procedure and specific countries’ positions on controversial international issues. The staff is largely drawn from the Model UN Diplomacy Organization, a student club affectionately known as MUNDO. Many, though not all, of the club’s members are international relations majors.

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Student-delegates will represent countries from around the world – 190 delegations in all – and will discuss, debate and attempt to formulate resolutions on pressing issues of the day, including the situations in Haiti, Libya and Syria; questions of human rights, sustainable development and indigenous peoples; and concerns about fossil fuel dependency and child labor.

Please take special care when driving near Montante Cultural Center, Science Hall and the Student Center between the hours of 7:00 – 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. as there may be high school student delegates and school buses present in these areas. We are delighted to welcome the high school students and their advisors to our campus tomorrow and we hope you will help us make our guests feel welcome on our campus.

Submitted by: Jonathan M. DiCicco, PhD, associate professor, Political Science; director, International Relations