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01:00 AM EDT on Sunday, October 1, 2006
Award winner: Donna Harris, of South Kingstown, assistant director of alumni relations and adviser to the Student Alumni Association was named Outstanding Adviser of the Year by the Association of Student Advancement Programs at its annual conference in San Antonio, Texas. She was selected from among more than 300 advisers nationwide. Harris was nominated by members of Bryant’s Student Alumni Association and has served as its adviser for the past seven years. She joined the alumni office at Bryant in 1988.
Job Fair: The Community College is partnering with the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training to host a Diversity Job Fair, Wednesday, from noon to 4 p.m., at the Field House on the Flanagan Campus, 1762 Louisquisset Pike, Lincoln. Recruiters from more than 20 area companies including Bank of America, CVS, Lifespan and Toray Plastics will be on hand to meet with job seekers. Also, community and social-service representatives from such organizations as Progreso Latino and the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce will be available to answer questions and connect visitors with services. The job fair is free and open to the public.
Certification Testing: Christopher Bannister, chairman of the Automotive Technology Department at the college, reminds all automotive technicians that the next round of ASE Certification testing will be held on Nov. 9, 14 and 16. The following are three ways to sign up for ASE tests: (1) register on-line at www.ase.com/e; (2) register toll-free at (866) 427-3273; and (3) call (877) 273-8324, “option 7” to have information faxed to you. Internet and phone registrations are open through Saturday.
Awards: The college’s architectural building engineering technology department held the Faculty Awards for Excellence in Design for this quarter. Five students were nominated to compete for the award. First place winner was Jesse Jones, of Cumberland, who presented his design entitled Senior High Rise Studio Project Narragansett Landing, located in Providence. Receiving honorable mention were: Wayne St. Pierre Jr., of North Smithfield; Martha-Dee Schindelwig, of Taunton, Mass.; Christopher Mangiocco, of Cranston; and Natalia Rey, of Providence.
Meetings: The following organizations will hold their meetings in the Hall of Fame room at the college: RI School Counselors Association, Tuesday, from 3 to 7 p.m.; Refrigeration Service Engineers Society, Wednesday, from 6 to 9 p.m.; Action Auto Parts, dinner, Oct. 10, from 5 to 8 p.m.; and RI Council of Teachers of English, Oct. 14, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Lecture: David B. Hart, an internationally renowned Eastern Orthodox theologian and the third recipient of the Rev. Robert Randall Distinguished Professorship in Christian Culture at the college, will give the lecture, Theology and Naturalism: A Response to Daniel Dennett’s Evolutionary Critique of Religious Belief, on Thursday, at 4 p.m. in the Ryan Family Concert Hall of the Smith Center for the Arts on campus.
Concert: Rebel, a New York-based quartet that features an expressive and provocative approach to its Baroque repertoire, will perform on Wednesday at 1 p.m. in Sapinsley Hall, the Nazarian Center. This free concert is the second in the five-part Wednesday Chamber Music Series presentation of Baroque To Broadway.
Exhibit: Forced into hiding at the onset of World War II, budding architect Waclaw Zalewski never imagined he would make it out alive, let alone become one of the greatest structural designers and teachers of our day. Now, 60 years worth of Zalewski’s architectural creations will be showcased at an exhibit at the university.
The exposition, “Waclaw Zalewski: Shaping Structures,” will be held in the School of Architecture Building, Room 132, on the Bristol campus, until Oct. 25 at 1 Old Ferry Rd. The event, which is free and open to the public, can be visited Mondays through Fridays from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. For more information, call the School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation at (401) 254-3605.
Top Honor: Senior Christopher Ridel, of Coventry, Conn., gained national recognition when his poster presentation and undergraduate research won him the prestigious John C. Johnson memorial award, given only once every two years, at the Beta Beta Beta national conference held in Melbourne, Fla., in May. Beta Beta Beta, an invitation-only national honor society, focuses on the biological sciences and requires a sustained 3.3 GPA in all biology courses. Ridel serves as president of the Roger Williams chapter.
Majoring in chemistry with a minor in biology, Ridel’s winning project, titled The Quantification of Cadmium Bioaccumulation in Early Zebra Fish Embryos, also won him first place in the overall undergraduate research division at the University Biotech Lecture Day seminar.
Reed’s presentation on, “Answering the Call to Public Service,” is free and open to the public and will be held at 5:30 p.m., on Tuesday, Oct.10, in the Mary Tefft White Cultural Center, in the Main Library on the Bristol Campus at 1 Old Ferry Rd.
His talk is the second in a four-part series titled Dimensions of Leadership and Service. Made possible through a gift by alumna Mary Tefft (Happy) White (’76), the series invites prominent individuals in the worlds of education, politics, forensic science and philanthropy to share how challenges have contributed to their success. Brown University Prof. Richard A. Gould and Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, are scheduled for the series’ spring presentations at Roger Williams.
Lecture: Peter W. Galbraith, former U.S. ambassador to Croatia and author of The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War without End will give a lecture tomorrow at 6 p.m. at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy. The event is free and open to the public. The topic of Galbraith’s talk is “The End of Iraq, The Rise of Iran.”
Galbraith is the Senior Diplomatic Fellow at The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation in Washington, D.C. Galbraith worked for Sen. Claiborne Pell and served on the staff of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1979 to 1993. In 1993, he was appointed U.S. ambassador to Croatia and later served as United Nations ambassador in East Timor.
As ambassador to Croatia, Galbraith negotiated the 1995 Erdut Agreement that ended the Croatia War. He later served as director for political, constitutional and electoral affairs for the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor in 2000-2001.
He also has extensive experience in Iraq, India/Pakistan and Southeast Asia. The Pell Center is in the Young Building, corner of Bellevue and Ruggles avenues. Those interested in attending Galbraith’s lecture are asked to RSVP by noon Monday at (401) 341-2927 or by e-mail to pellcenter@salve.edu. Lecture starts promptly at 6 p.m.
Counseling: The University’s Counseling Center will host a “Depression Screening Day” in the gallery of the Memorial Union from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday. Members of the University and local community are invited to attend this free, anonymous, no-obligation screening. Common signs of depression include difficulty concentrating, irritability, weight, appetite or sleep changes, lethargy, tearfulness, isolation from friends, hopelessness, and/or thoughts of suicide. If you are experiencing any of these symptoms, you may be depressed. During the event, attendees will have the opportunity to gather information, take a brief, written screening test, and meet privately with a counselor. For more information or for further assistance, contact Holly Nichols at the URI Counseling Center, (401) 874-2288.
Discussion: Special Agent Jeffrey Norwitz, of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, will speak at the next session of the university’s Forensic Science Seminar on Friday. The discussion, titled “Terrorism: Is this the 3rd World War,” is free and open to the public and will take place on the Kingston campus in Room 124 of Pastore Hall from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Norwitz has served with the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service for 22 years. He has also previously served as a member of the Army Military Police Corps specializing in security of nuclear weapons. He holds a master’s degree in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College in Rhode Island, where he also graduated from the senior officer course. He now serves as a professor of national security and counterintelligence at the college, where he offers the only counterterrorism course available at the institute.
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