Category Archives: Press Release

WORCESTER, Mass. – Mark K. Shriver ’86, vice president and managing director of U.S. Programs for Save the Children, will give the annual Thomas More Lecture on Faith, Work and Civic Life on April 11 at 7:30 p.m. in Rehm … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – Approximately 250 Holy Cross students, alumni, faculty and staff will take part in the tenth annual “Holy Cross Cares Day” on March 31. Showing their appreciation for the Worcester community, participants will spend the day performing service-oriented … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – Holy Cross students, faculty and staff have provided more than 1,600 new and used books for students in grades K-8 that will be donated to Vernon Hill Elementary School. The books will be dropped off at the … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – A visit by playwright Christopher Durang on April 10 at 6:30 p.m. in Fenwick Theatre has been cancelled due to scheduling conflicts. It will be rescheduled for the 2007 fall semester. Details will be announced when they … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – This event has been cancelled due to scheduling conflicts. Christopher Durang, the award-winning playwright renowned for his theatrical spoofs, satires and parodies, will visit Holy Cross on April 10. As part of his visit, Durang will discuss … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – The College of the Holy Cross will hold its annual Easter Egg Hunt, for children ages 12 and younger, on Sunday, April 1 at 1 p.m. The free event will take place in the Field House. The … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – A group of distinguished Rwandan genocide survivors and activists will hold a panel discussion titled “Life After Genocide: Reconciliation and Justice in Rwanda” on March 28 from 4 to 6 p.m. in Room 519 of the Hogan … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – Kris Holloway will deliver the annual Katherine A. Henry ’86 Memorial Lecture titled “Lessons from a Midwife in Mali” on April 18 at 4 p.m. in Hogan Suites B/C at the College of the Holy Cross. The … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – Dr. Tricia Striano, who earned a degree in psychology from the College of the Holy Cross in 1995, will give a talk as part of a psychology colloquium titled “Social Cognition in the First Year,” on April … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – Stanley M. Burstein, professor emeritus of ancient history at California State University at Los Angeles, will give a talk titled “When Greek Was an African Language” on March 21 at 4:30 p.m. in Room 402 of the … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – Raymond A. Winbush, Ph.D., director for the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University will give a talk titled “Do We Really Want to Talk About Race?” on March 28 at 4 p.m. in Hogan Suites … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – Holy Cross junior Steven Hickey has been selected by the College’s Center for Interdisciplinary and Special Studies as the 2007 spring semester’s Maurizio Vannicelli Washington Semester Away program award. He will present his thesis, “An ‘F’ for … Continue reading →

Initiative dovetails with other planning efforts underway in South Worcester, along Southbridge Street corridor WORCESTER, Mass. – The College of the Holy Cross has convened a community advisory committee of local residents, students, and College staff to explore the feasibility … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – With their 56-48 win over American University on Wednesday night, the Holy Cross women’s basketball team won its 11th Patriot League title and an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. First year student Bethany O’Dell tallied 20 … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – Paul Riley, a senior economics major from Malden, received an honorable mention, with a $250 cash prize, in an international essay contest titled “The Benefits of a Free Market Economy.” The contest, which drew more than 100 … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture at the College of the Holy Cross is sponsoring a number of lectures by noted experts in the next month. The talks, which are free and open to the public, … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – Mark E. Lincicome, associate professor of history at Holy Cross, has been named the new director of the study abroad program at the College. The announcement was made today by Timothy Austin, vice president for academic affairs … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – Christopher A. Dustin, associate professor and chair of philosophy, will give this year’s Richard Rodino Lecture on the Aims of the Liberal Arts on March 20 at 4 p.m. in Rehm Library at the College of the … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – Organist James David Christie will perform the sixth of eight concerts commemorating the 300th anniversary of the death of the great 17th-century North German organist-composer Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707). As part of the Holy Cross Chapel Artists Series, … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – Members of the Holy Cross men’s and women’s basketball teams have been honored by the Patriot League. The men’s team captured three of the four major individual awards. Senior guard Keith Simmons was named 2007 Patriot League … Continue reading →