by browkaa | May 26, 2020 | Faculty
The campus community is invited to watch The Dome for special “Trivia Tuesdays” (formerly Trivia Wednesdays), which will be published in every Tuesday edition throughout the summer. The first person to respond to pubrel@canisius.edu with the correct answer will win Canisius “swag.” Additionally, once a month on Tuesdays, there will be a special giveaway in which the winner will receive some of the newly-designed Canisius Sesquicentennial gear.
Winners will be announced the following Tuesday of each week along with the correct trivia answer.
This week’s special giveaway question is:
Which sports team has had the most NCAA appearances in postseason up until 2018?
(a) softball
(b) women’s lacrosse
(c) men’s basketball
(d) women’s basketball
And here’s a first … There was no winner in last week’s Trivia Tuesday contest. Several people made guesses but no correct answer was submitted.
Last week’s trivia question was:
What 1977 event forced Canisius to postpone commencement ceremonies in May of that year?
a. A fire destroyed part of the Student Center Auditorium
b. New York enacted extreme budget cuts on all independent colleges across the state
c. The Blizzard of 1977
d. Canisius hosted the New York State Championships for women’s gymnastics
The correct answer was: (c) The Blizzard of 1977
Submitted by: College Communications
by browkaa | May 26, 2020 | Faculty
The Buffalo News interviewed Assistant Professor of Economics Julie Anna Golebiewski, PhD, for two separate stories that appeared in the Friday, May 22 edition.
Golebiewski weighed in on those industries that should see improvement as the region begins to reopen in a story by Reporter Patrick Lakamp titled “Jobs Vanish but Businesses Plot Their Comeback from the Coronavirus Shutdown.” The story can be read by clicking here.
Golebiewski also spoke with Reporter Matt Glynn about those industries hit hardest by COVID-19. The story, titled “Buffalo Niagara’s Jobs Plunged 23% but Not Every Industry Hit as Hard,” can be read by clicking here.
Submitted by: College Communications
by Lauryn Saldana | May 26, 2020 | Faculty
The Canisius College School of Education & Human Services will present a live webinar today, Tuesday, May 26 at 12:00 p.m., titled “The Impact of COVID-19 on the Sport Industry.” The webinar will be hosted by Shawn O’Rourke, PhD, director of sport administration at Canisius College and Brad Hutchins MS ’04, interim assistant director of brand management and trademark licensing at the University of Oregon. Because the webinar is live, participants will have the opportunity to ask questions of O’Rourke and Hutchins.
Click here to read more about this upcoming webinar.
To register for the webinar, click here.
Submitted by: College Communications
by browkaa | May 26, 2020 | Faculty
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Is working from home starting to wear on you? Lawley Benefits Group provides some helpful tips on avoiding burnout at your newfound home office.
Submitted by: Dawn Rotterman, benefit manager, Human Resources
by browkaa | May 26, 2020 | Faculty
Five years ago, Pope Francis wrote Laudato Sí, the first papal encyclical to focus on care for creation as a central moral obligation. His groundbreaking letter brought together the call to protect the environment and to defend the “least of these” through an integral ecology that challenges all of us. The letter is a hopeful call to action, holding that climate change is a moral test as well as a scientific reality and policy challenge.
In cooperation with the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, the Initiative is hosting an online dialogue on the powerful message, continuing importance and future implications of Laudato Sí with the following leaders:
- Cardinal Peter Turkson is prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, a leader in the development and implementation of Laudato Sí, and the leader of the new Vatican COVID-19 Commission.
- Dan Misleh is the founder and director of Catholic Climate Covenant, which engages the U.S. Catholic community at the national, state, and diocesan levels in a serious and sustained conversation about a Catholic approach to climate change.
- Kim Wasserman is the executive director of the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization in Chicago, Illinois which has led several campaigns, including one that resulted in the closure of two local coal power plants. She is the 2013 recipient of the Goldman Prize for North America.
- Christiana Zenner is an associate professor of theology, science, and ethics in the department of theology at Fordham University. Her research has focused on emerging and established fresh water ethics and its intersection with the ecological turn in Catholic social teaching.
Kim Daniels, associate director of the Initiative, will moderate the conversation.
“We are faced not with two separate crises, one environmental and the other social, but rather with one complex crisis which is both social and environmental… Today, however, we have to realize that a true ecological approach always becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.”
—Pope Francis, Laudato Sí, 2014
This online session is an Initiative Public Dialogue, Salt and Light Gathering, and Latino Leader Gathering and is held in cooperation with the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.
Click here to RSVP
Submitted by: Sarah Signorino, director, Mission & Identity
