Cabrini Film Screening and Reception
Celebrate International Women’s Day with the Women of Canisius!
Women of Sport Panel Discussion
Today is your last chance to register for the Women of Sport Panel that highlights amazing Canisius women from the sporting world!
As a reminder, the Women of Sport Panel is on Thursday, February 15 @ 4:30 p.m. before the women’s basketball team’s Play 4 Kay game. This is a great opportunity for faculty and staff to hear from female leaders in sport and former Canisius student athletes about their experiences and journey to where they are now.
Please RSVP with the link below. Anyone who RSVPs will receive a free Tim Hortons gift card! We will also look to provide food for the event as well and there will be post-game ice cream after the WBB game.
Submitted by: Ethan Clarke, Director of Sponsorship Sales and Marketing Fulfillment, Athletics
Canisius Welcomes Author and Educator Robin Wall Kimmerer
Canisius will welcome Robin Wall Kimmerer to campus on Tuesday, March 5, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. in the Montante Cultural Center.
A scientist, author and educator, Kimmerer is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She will discuss her widely acclaimed book Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. The event is held under the auspices of the university’s William H. Fitzpatrick Chair of Political Science Lecture Series and is free and open to the public.
Kimmerer is a SUNY distinguished teaching professor of environmental biology and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. The center creates programs which draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for shared goals of sustainability.
As a writer and a scientist, Kimmerer’s interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities but restoration of our relationships to land. She is the author of numerous scientific papers on plant ecology, bryophyte ecology, traditional knowledge and restoration ecology.
Read more here.
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For more information, contact Richard A. Bailey, PhD, Fitzpatrick professor of history, at Ext. 2684 or bailey22@canisius.edu.
Submitted by: University Communications
Canisius Expands Reading Ready Tutoring Program
Thanks to the generous funding from the Benedict Silverman Foundation, Canisius University is able to bring Reading Ready to Buffalo in two, transformative ways: paid tutoring opportunities and embedded field work tutoring.
Eleven paid tutors have been paired with 37 second and third graders at Buffalo Public School #89. In addition, 15 students in ECCH 221: Emergent Literacy with Professor Joyce Fanning, have been placed in grades K-2 at Buffalo Public School #17. Here, Reading Ready is implemented during the 20 hours of field experience, with 30 students in their assigned classrooms. Students receive one-on-one literacy tutoring three days each week.
Finally, three teacher residents in the Canisius University Teacher Residency Program (CUTR) will be implementing Reading Ready in their residency classrooms. Together, Elizabeth Turner and Joyce Fanning will continue to support and grow the Canisius University Reading Corps through the Reading Ready tutoring initiative. Tutors can be any major at Canisius and are hired and trained at the beginning of each semester.
Submitted by: Elizabeth Turner, Director of Educational Partnerships, Teacher Education & Leadership Department
Biochemistry Major Awarded Grant for Organic Chemistry Research
Biochemistry major Jeb Braunscheidel received a grant to support his research into the synthesis of Rhytismatones A and B, in Professor Tim Gregg’s lab in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
Jeb spent the summer of 2023 working on a novel synthesis procedure for these fungal-derived natural compounds that originated in a Canadian spruce forest. The molecules have a complicated dihydropyran-2-one structure, have never been synthesized before, and have interesting biological activity that can only be investigated further if a lab procedure makes them available in suitable quantity.
The award, from the Rochester Academy of Science (RAS), will help with materials needed to complete the synthesis that Jeb detailed in his proposal to RAS. Jeb’s research project was one of nine funded this year by the RAS Undergraduate Student Research Grant Fund. The Rochester Academy of Science is an affiliate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Submitted by: Phil Sheridan, Professor and Chair, Chemistry and Biochemistry
