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Canisius East West Community Garden

All members of the college community are invited to a dedication ceremony and groundbreaking for the new Canisius East West Community Garden this Saturday, April 21 at 1:30 p.m. at 1032 Lafayette Ave. The community garden is a cooperative garden on Canisius’ campus in partnership with Oxford Square Block Club, PS #17, PS #74, The Congolese Refugee Communities and others. The garden is at the center of the college’s sustainability initiative. It is a place where Canisius community members, students, neighbors can meet, play, work on their raised beds, grow food, eat food and get to know one another. Read more about the garden here.

Before the groundbreaking, come take a look at the seedlings currently awaiting warmer weather for transplant (meet outside the mail room in Science Hall at approximately 1 p.m.). Following the dedication, get your hands dirty by helping to prepare the grounds for the community beds. Please join us in celebrating the start of this endeavor in sustainability between Canisius and local community organizations. Stay for light refreshments and an opportunity to lend a hand in construction of our garden!

Submitted by: Canisius College Sustainability Initiative

Wadkins Receives Distinguished Faculty Award

The Canisius College Alumni Association will confer the Kenneth L. Koessler Distinguished Faculty Award upon Timothy H. Wadkins, PhD, during Spring Honors Convocation on Friday, May 18 at 2 p.m. The award, presented annually, recognizes a faculty member for teaching excellence and outstanding contributions to the academic world.

As a professor of religious studies and theology at Canisius since 1992, Wadkins is highly respected by his peers. An accomplished researcher and scholar, he is well-known for the academic rigor of his in-class courses, his transformative international seminars, and a long list of publications, including his recent book, The Rise of Pentecostalism in Modern El Salvador:  From the Blood of the Martyrs to the Baptism of the Holy Spirit (Baylor University Press, 2017).

In 2001, Wadkins founded the Institute for the Global Study of Religion (IGSOR), which was created to promote interest in the study of religion within the Canisius College community and the wider community of Western New York.  One continuing product of IGSOR is the Ignatian Seminar Program, a series of international immersion seminars led by Wadkins and various other faculty that expose students to religion in countries outside of the West, such as the Philippines, El Salvador, Argentina, India, Mexico and Tanzania.

Read more about Wadkins here.

Canisius Student Receives Prestigious Fulbright Scholarship

Canisius student Caitlin Orgek ᾿18 is the college’s most recent recipient of a J.William Fulbright Scholarship for 2018-19.

The J.William Fulbright Scholarship is named for Senator J.William Fulbright and is the U.S Government’s premier scholarship program. It is designed to foster mutual understanding among nations through educational and cultural exchanges, which provide recipients with tuition, fees, travel and research funds for a full year.

Orgek is a senior international relations, German, history and European studies quadruple major in the All-College Honors Program.

Orgek will use her Fulbright to work as an English teaching assistant at a school in Germany. She will also volunteer at a local refugee resettlement agency.  Orgek wants to learn how Germany is handling the refugee and migrant situation beyond language education.

Read more here.

Submitted by: College Communications

#Kittens on Campus

Miranda Workman’s Animal Learning (ABEC 220) students are officially entered in the #NationalHighFiveDay contest through The Jackson Galaxy Project (a program of GreaterGood.org) and Halo Pets.

Founded by animal advocate Jackson Galaxy, the star of the hit Animal Planet show “My Cat from Hell,” the project seeks to improve the lives of shelter animals and their dedicated advocates.

Students are utilizing The Jackson Galaxy Project’s transformative Cat Pawsitive program to train kittens to give a high five!

See our students’ entries here.

All entries are judged by Jackson Galaxy himself and winners receive donations of cat food to the shelter of their choice.

Submitted by: College Communications

How Are We Doing?

Now that you’ve had some time to read the latest issue of Canisius Magazine, we’re curious to hear your thoughts.

Take a minute (literally) to tell us what you like (or don’t like) or what you want to read more of (or less) by completing our Canisius Magazine survey.

Your feedback matters, as we’re continually trying to improve the alumni publication.

Submitted by: College Communications