The Golden Griffins ice hockey season came to a close in Fargo, ND, last night when No. 1 Minnesota scored eight unanswered goals to erase a 2-1 deficit and defeat Canisius, 9-2, in the NCAA Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Championship regional semifinal contest. Though the loss was tough it doesn’t overshadow the outstanding effort made by the team and Head Coach Trevor Large throughout the entire season: The Ice Griffs finish with a winning percentage of .500 or higher for the fourth time in six season under Coach Large. The Griffs also recorded 20 wins in a season for the third time in the Division I era of the program, and the first time since 2016-17.
Canisius College Giving Day – an annual tradition showcasing the power of community and collective generosity – is right around the corner on Wednesday, April 5!
But you don’t need to wait that long to make your 2023 Giving Day gift. VIP giving for faculty and staff is open now at https://www.canisiusgivingday.com/vip
So don’t wait – make your Giving Day gift now and give us a head start in making this Giving Day the most impactful one yet!
Submitted by: Erin Zack, Sr. Director for Annual Giving and Stewardship
The Patrick P. Lee Foundation, headed by its namesake Patrick P. Lee HON ’99, awarded Canisius College $150,000 to provide scholarships to graduate students pursuing degrees in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program.
The Lee Foundation is committed to addressing the local mental health workforce shortage and selected Canisius College because of its preeminent reputation of producing well-trained professionals fill the ranks of area local mental health departments of hospitals, human service agencies, and medical clinics in Western New York. Student recipients have to commit to working in one of the eight counties of WNY, upon graduation.
Michael Wood, PhD, professor of physics and chair of the Department of Quantitative Sciences, Alexis Grassl, a junior physics and biochemistry double major, and Aaron Szczepankiewicz, a junior chemistry major, recently visited Occidental College in Los Angeles, CA for an experiment in neutron efficiency.
From March 16-20, Wood and the students collaborated with their Occidental colleagues, Drs. Daniel Snowden-Ifft and Jean-Luc Gaurveu, to test the efficiency of a gas electron multiplier (GEM). The GEM detectors were developed in the late 1990s at CERN, the world’s largest particle collider located near Geneva, Switzerland, as compact particle tracking devices.
The GEM is filled with a mixture of Argon and CO2. When a particle ionizes the gas, the free electrons create an avalanche of more electrons that are picked up by an array of sensing wires. A GEM is very good at detecting electrically-charged particles like electrons and protons.
The Canisius and Occidental team are investigating how well the detector works at identifying neutrons. This trip was part of a project funded by a grant from the Department of Energy to find novel neutron detectors.
Submitted by: Dr. Michael Wood, physics professor and chair, Department of Quantitative Sciences
Videos, whether a screen capture or a monologue, are valuable for educating our students. However, videos are not immediately accessible to all students. This is especially true for students that are hard of hearing or students that are not in situations where they can listen to your video (ex, they are on a commute to/from work/campus).
Luckily, Panopto makes editing captions easy. Similar to YouTube, Panopto will automatically caption videos. However, automatic captions are usually not 100% accurate. This can be helped somewhat by making a request to add a custom word to the Panopto Dictionary, but even then you should manually check and edit the captions. Check out this video on Editing Captions in Panopto!
In general, to edit captions in Panopto, you:
Go to the Panopto Dashboard
Hover over the video and click on the pencil icon to Edit your video
Click on “Captions” on the left-hand sidebar
Click on the textbox you want to edit
Make your edits
Go on to the next textbox
Click on Apply in the upper-left corner to save your changes
