Canisius Economics Professor Julie Anna Golebiewski, PhD, was quoted in a Buffalo News article by reporter David Robinson regarding the current economic status in Western New York. Click here to read the article.
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President Hurley Announces $4.4 Million HECap Award for Science Hall
President Hurley formally announced that Canisius received a $4,398,329 million Higher Education Capital Matching Grant (HECap) from New York State on Friday, March 26 in Science Hall Commons. The grant will help fund the construction of classrooms and laboratory facilities on the second level of Science Hall.
The HECap program is a competitive grant program that provides critical matching funds to private college campuses, enabling them to build, renovate and renew facilities.
“We are pleased to be among the institutions to receive a HECap grant and thank our New York State representatives for their continued support of this critical program,” said President John J. Hurley. “Science Hall has become a hub of collaborative academic programming and a resource enjoyed by the community. This grant will help fund the complete renovation of the second level of Science Hall – an additional 60,000 square feet of classroom and laboratory space – further enhancing our stellar Biology and Pre-med programs and the unique and nationally-recognized undergraduate Animal Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation (ABEC) and graduate Anthrozoology programs.”
Following the announcement, New York State Senator Sean Ryan, who was in attendance, enjoyed a tour of the new PA lab space in Science Hall.
Read more here or click above to watch the announcement.
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The Women’s Business Center launched a new program – ReConnect. ReStart. ReGrow. – which received some attention in the media. The program provides Covid-19 recovery programs to help women-owned businesses improve their finances in today’s challenging marketplace.
Click here to read the article in Buffalo Rising.
Click here to read the Niagara Frontier Publications article.
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Canisius President John J. Hurley is one of 32 members of the college community named to this year’s Business First’s Power 250 list. The annual list identifies the most influential leaders throughout the Western New York region.
Click here to see the full list of college community members.
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Historian Paul Harvey, PhD, will present a live webinar on Monday, March 22 at 7:00 p.m. Harvey is Distinguished Professor of History and Presidential Teacher Scholar at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS). Harvey researches, writes and teaches in the field of American history from the 16th century to present.
Register here for the talk titled The Unadulterated Message of Nonviolence: From Howard Thurman to Martin Luther King, presented under the auspices of the college’s William H. Fitzpatrick Chair of Political Science Lecture Series.
Harvey was named Distinguished Professor of History at UCCS in 2017. That same year, he was designated to give the Shriver Lectures in American History at Stetson University in Florida. Those lectures later were published as the book Southern Religion in the World: Three Stories. He was named a Presidential Teacher Scholar in 2009.
Harvey is the author/editor of 13 books and numerous articles, including Howard Thurman and the Disinherited: A Religious Biography (2020), Christianity and Race in the American South: A History(2016), and Bounds of Their Habitation: Religion and Race in American History (2016).
Read more here.
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