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WORCESTER, Mass. – Why are Americans still debating whether global warming is occurring when scientists around the world agree that human activity is creating significant climate change? Loren R. Cass, assistant professor of political science at the College of the Holy Cross, will address this question when he joins host Jim Hannon on “Worcester: Academically Speaking” on May 27 at 7:30 a.m. on WTAG AM 580.

Cass is the author of The Failures of American and European Climate Policy (2006: SUNY Press). He will explain why the U.S. has struggled to address climate change, the need for international agreements, and new directions for U.S. energy policies.

Tune in every Sunday for this half-hour radio program sponsored by the Community Relations Committee of the Colleges of Worcester Consortium.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Recognizing that students stay up late studying during finals period, administrators at the College of the Holy Cross volunteer each semester to serve the scholars breakfast late into the night.

The menu includes scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage links, assorted bagels, Belgian waffles and topping bar, assorted juices and nightly specials.

The first of the five events will kick off May 8 following the Community Mass at St. Joseph Chapel. The mass is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. and will end at approximately 9:40 p.m. at which time s’mores will be served in the plaza. Kimball Dining Hall will open at 10 p.m. and administrators, donning aprons, will serve until midnight.

Sunday, May 8
Frank Vellaccio, Senior Vice President
Stephen Ainlay, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College
Ellen Keohane, Director of Information Technology Services
Jacqueline Peterson, Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students
Ellen Ryder, Director of Public Affairs

Breakfast for the remaining four nights will take place in Crossroads in the Hogan Campus Center from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. The lineup follows:

Monday, May 9
Kristine Cyr Goodwin, Associate Dean for Student Life
Paul Irish, Assistant to Vice President for Student Affairs/Director of Judicial Affairs
Heather McDermott, Community Development Coordinator
Katherine McElaney, Director of the Campus Ministry
Mable Millner, Director of Multicultural Education
Amy Weit-Lane, Community Development Coordinator

Tuesday, May 10
Margaret Freije, Associate Dean of the College
Esther Levine, Assistant Dean, Class of 2006
Rev. Brian Linnane, S.J., Assistant Dean, Class of 2007
Earl Peace, Assistant Dean, Class of 2005
Victoria Swigert, Assistant Dean, Class of 2008

Wednesday, May 11
William Bellerose, Associate Director of Athletics
Scott Sandstrom, Assistant Professor of Economics

Thursday, May 12
Thomas Cadigan, Assistant Director of the Holy Cross Fund
Meg Devine, Development Writer
Margaret Hayden Bramley, Associate Director of the Holy Cross Fund
William Morse, Associate Dean of the College
KeriAnne Travis, Associate Director of the Holy Cross Fund

WORCESTER, Mass. – Tony Stankus ’73, a science librarian at the College of the Holy Cross since 1974, will receive the 2005 Rose Vormelker National Award at the Special Libraries Association 2005 Annual Conference in Toronto on June 5.

The award is “given to an individual member in recognition of exceptional services to the profession of special librarianship in the area of mentoring students and practicing professionals in the field,” according to the SLA Web site.

Stankus, who is a member of the Special Libraries Association, is one of the world’s most published authors on research and professional journals in the sciences. He has published 10 books and more than 100 articles in journals of research and practice, including The Journals of the Century (Haworth Press, 2002), in which Stankus, as editor, led 32 subject expert librarians to determine the most influential journals in their respective fields.

He has been an adjunct professor of Special & Scientific Librarianship at the University of Rhode Island, where he received a Master of Library and Information Science degree in 1975, for 22 years.

“Mr. Stankus was selected for his commitment to students, not only through his work at Holy Cross, but also his devotion to teaching at the University of Rhode Island,” said John Crosby, chief marketing & communications strategist for SLA.

For more than 30 years, Stankus has worked tirelessly to see his students succeed.

“On hearing I got this award via a direct phone call from the national president, I was both surprised and yet, if possible, much more satisfied than ever,” he said. “I have always looked at my students as a kind of great treasure with which I am entrusted for a short time, and that I would have to answer at my particular judgment before God, if I did not do everything I could to bolster them in whatever assignment or future career I could.”

Stankus’ passion for education has been an ever-present motivation. He grew up in foster homes on welfare for his first 16 years. He arrived at Holy Cross with cardboard boxes tied with rope for luggage. He graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Russian.

“Holy Cross supplies me with a seemingly endless supply of very promising students, brilliant faculty, and highly capable librarian colleagues,” Stankus said. “Keeping up with science never leaves you finished or bored. Every new faculty hire and every new course, and even the arrival of the weekly New England Journal of Medicine or Proceedings of the National Academy of Science means I have to learn new material very fast, so as to be able to help my students and faculty. And that’s not even mentioning the increasingly webby world in which libraries today operate.”

Professionals in the field praise Stankus’ strong work ethic and continued expertise in the field of science librarianship.

“As a mentor and friend to students and colleagues alike, Tony has influenced the careers of scores of librarians over the years,” said Alex Caracuzzo, president of the Rhode Island Chapter of the Special Libraries Association. “Tony continues to be an influential force in the field of librarianship as an adjunct faculty member of the University of Rhode Island, as Science Librarian at Holy Cross, and as a prolific author.”

Stankus is also a volunteer cook and fifth grade Sunday School teacher at the First Church in Sterling, Mass. He is an enthusiastic Holy Cross football fan and long-time season ticket holder.

Since 1948, SLA has recognized those individuals who have distinguished themselves in the information profession through its Awards and Honors Program. Award winners are determined by select committees and approved by SLA’s Board of Directors. Each award winner receives “The Dana,” the official award manifestation of Special Libraries Association. The SLA Awards and Honors Program is administered by the Public Relations Office of SLA.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Six Holy Cross seniors recently received prestigious Fulbright awards to teach and conduct research in foreign countries upon their graduation from Holy Cross.

Conor Devine, an English major in the pre-med program from Orchard Park, N.Y., has been awarded a grant to work and study in Korea. He will be staying with a host family and teaching English conversation in a Korean secondary school, supervised by a certified Korean teacher. Devine’s career goal is to go to medical school and become a doctor. He would like to participate in the Doctors Without Borders organization, working with people from lesser developed nations. He is also interested in pursuing a writing career.

Carly Fowler, a history major and German minor from Roswell, Georgia, has been awarded a grant to work and study in Austria. She will stay in Vienna and teach English at a local secondary school 12 hours each week, and study diplomacy and international relations. She plans on working in the community with refugees and auditioning for a local choir. Fowler’s career goal is to work in international relations, either at the academic or policy level.

Meagan Gorman, a Russian major from West Babylon, N.Y., has been awarded a grant to work and study in Russia. Gorman’s proposal for the Fulbright includes three components: to travel to an orphanage outside Moscow and teach the children English, set up a Big Brothers Big Sisters-type volunteer group in the community between the elderly and the orphans, and to write and illustrate a series of children’s books describing “summer camp” in America. She sees this work as making the children’s transition less traumatic when they travel and stay with host families in America. In addition to these goals which she hopes to see executed when she goes to Russia, Gorman’s career aspirations include becoming coordinator of a Summer Program that brings orphans to the U.S. for the summer and introduces them to families willing to adopt.

Jennifer Hughes, a history major with a minor in Russian from North Plainfield, N.J., has been awarded a grant to teach English in Russia. She will be teaching English in a Russian secondary school (high school). At Holy Cross, Hughes is in the College Honors Program and the National History Honors Society. Through SPUD (Student Programs for Urban Development), she has been a Big Sister and has worked at Abby’s House, a shelter for abused and battered women in Worcester. She currently has an internship with AIDS Project Worcester, where she also volunteers. She is also involved in the Russian club.

Katie Lamberto, a Classics major from West Boylston, has been awarded a grant to work and study in Slovenia. She will examine how cultural institutions in Slovenia run their museums, how they design exhibitions, what they choose to display and related topics. She also plans to take a Slovenian language class. Lamberto plans on pursuing either a Ph.D. in Classics to become a professor at a liberal arts college or university or a Master of Arts degree in Museum Studies to become a curator. Her time in Slovenia will help her decide, she said.

Megan Osborne, an anthropology and history double major with a concentration in Asian Studies from Redding, Conn., has been awarded a grant to work and study in Singapore. She will work in Asian Civilisations Museum, a new and innovative museum in Singapore. Osborne plans to earn a degree in museum studies and a doctorate in anthropology, leading her into a career as a museum curator.

Each year about 1,000 college students are awarded grants through the Fulbright Program, the U.S. government’s flagship program in international educational exchange. Fulbright grants are made to U.S. citizens and nationals of other countries for a variety of educational activities, primarily university lecturing, advanced research, graduate study and teaching in elementary and secondary schools. Since the program’s inception in 1946, more than 250,000 participants – chosen for their leadership potential – have had the opportunity to observe each other’s political, economic and cultural institutions.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The College of the Holy Cross will host Academic Conference 2005 from Wednesday, April 27 through Saturday, April 30. Now in its fifth year, the conference has expanded to encompass four days of programs, projects, poster sessions, and performances by students – all designed to showcase students’ independent work in the performing and visual arts, social sciences, humanities, and physical sciences over one or two semesters under the guidance of Holy Cross faculty.

Approximately 300 Holy Cross students will be involved in the conference this year. The events are free and open to the public.

“The whole purpose is to celebrate the academic development of our students – and give them an opportunity to publicly display the fruits of their labors,” said William Morse, associate dean. “It really is the culmination of their work at Holy Cross, and allows their professors, friends, and family to celebrate with them.”

The conference will open with a lecture by this year’s Fenwick Scholar. The Fenwick Scholar Award is one of the College’s oldest and most prestigious academic distinctions. Departmental nominees design, with several advisors, a program of study leading to a significant research or creative project that will be an entire senior-year curriculum. Ordinarily, one Fenwick Scholar is selected each year after intense reviews. This year’s scholar is Mark Ferraguto, who has spent the academic year working with Jessica Waldoff, professor and chair of the music department. His lecture, “Reading the ‘Program’ in Beethoven’s Instrumental Music,” will be presented at 4 p.m. in the Rehm Library on Wednesday, April 27.

A reception open to the entire Holy Cross community will follow the lecture at 5:15 p.m. in Moran Lounge, on the 4th floor of Smith.

Other highlights of the conference include:

* On Thursday, April 28, eight studio art majors will participate in Synthesis: Works From the Senior Concentration Seminar at the Cantor Art Gallery. The opening exhibition and reception for the artists will be held from 5-6:30 p.m. Preceding the opening will be presentations by the students from 3-4 p.m. The exhibition will be open to the public through May 27.

*  American Sign Language/Deaf Studies – this year celebrating its tenth anniversary at Holy Cross – will present In the Deaf Community: Students’ Experiences in Language and Cultural Immersion through Community Based Learning on Thursday, April 28, from 4:30-6:30 p.m. in Hogan, Room 408. Twenty-three students will speak about their research and field work in a variety of locations, including the Boys and Girls Club in Worcester, The Learning Center for Deaf Children in Framingham, with the Big Brother/Big Sister Program, and in computer tutoring with deaf adults.

* Readings by Bill Roorbach, Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters, and three of his creative writing students will take place in the Dinand Browsing Room on Thursday, April 28, from 7:30 – 9 p.m.

* 75 students studying dance at Holy Cross will present a series of short programs in concert at Fenwick Theatre on Thursday, April 28 from 8-10 p.m.

* China: An Inside View is the title of a panel discussion by the seven students who participated in the College’s first-ever study tour to China, which took place over Spring Break. The discussion will be held on Friday, April 29 from 3:20 to 4:30 p.m. in Hogan, Room 328.

Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, Academic Conference 2005 is free and open to the public.

A complete schedule of events is available at: http://www.holycross.edu/publicaffairs/features/academic_conference_05

WORCESTER, Mass. – College of the Holy Cross student Matthew Reynolds ’05, of Charlton, has received a national fellowship from the Collegiate Network, affiliated with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Reynolds will serve a year-long internship with Roll Call, the Washington, D.C.-based newspaper covering Capitol Hill.

The Collegiate Network offers the fellowships to soon-to-graduate seniors who write for Collegiate Network-affiliated conservative campus newspapers. Reynolds contributes to the Fenwick Review, Holy Cross’ conservative newspaper.

Reynolds plans to pursue a career in conservative journalism. His goals include to write for a major publication, such as the National Review, and to one day publish a book. Reynolds also writes opinion pieces for the Crusader, the College’s weekly newspaper, and served as the editor of the opinion section for several semesters. He is a member of the campus group Students for Life, and has served on the executive board of Campus Christian Fellowship. For three years over spring break, he participated in the Appalachia Service Project, in which students take part in community outreach and service projects in the Appalachian region of the United States. He is a tutor at the Writers’ Workshop and has played on the Holy Cross club soccer team.

As a junior, Reynolds received the 2004 spring semester’s Maurizio Vannicelli Washington Semester Away program award at Holy Cross, given to the Washington Semester participant who writes the best research paper. While in Washington, Reynolds worked for the Christian Coalition of America, where he helped lobby members of the House of Representatives to pass the Federal Marriage Amendment and the Houses of Worship Freedom of Speech Restoration Act. His paper was about the unfolding gay marriage debate.

Reynolds was recently accepted in the National Political Science Honor Society, Pi Sigma Alpha.

WORCESTER, Mass. – College of the Holy Cross student Matthew Reynolds ’05, of Charlton, has received a national fellowship from the Collegiate Network, affiliated with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Reynolds will serve a year-long internship with Roll Call, the Washington, D.C.-based newspaper covering Capitol Hill.

The Collegiate Network offers the fellowships to soon-to-graduate seniors who write for Collegiate Network-affiliated conservative campus newspapers. Reynolds contributes to the Fenwick Review, Holy Cross’ conservative newspaper.

Reynolds plans to pursue a career in conservative journalism. His goals include to write for a major publication, such as the National Review, and to one day publish a book. Reynolds also writes opinion pieces for the Crusader, the College’s weekly newspaper, and served as the editor of the opinion section for several semesters. He is a member of the campus group Students for Life, and has served on the executive board of Campus Christian Fellowship. For three years over spring break, he participated in the Appalachia Service Project, in which students take part in community outreach and service projects in the Appalachian region of the United States. He is a tutor at the Writers’ Workshop and has played on the Holy Cross club soccer team.

As a junior, Reynolds received the 2004 spring semester’s Maurizio Vannicelli Washington Semester Away program award at Holy Cross, given to the Washington Semester participant who writes the best research paper. While in Washington, Reynolds worked for the Christian Coalition of America, where he helped lobby members of the House of Representatives to pass the Federal Marriage Amendment and the Houses of Worship Freedom of Speech Restoration Act. His paper was about the unfolding gay marriage debate.

Reynolds was recently accepted in the National Political Science Honor Society, Pi Sigma Alpha.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a grant to promote the study of great speeches and public debates in undergraduate humanities classrooms. Patricia Bizzell, chair and professor in the English department at the College of the Holy Cross, serves as one of 16 advisors across different disciplines from colleges across the country on Voices of Democracy: The U.S. Oratory Project.

The Voices of Democracy Project seeks to reinvigorate the study of U.S. oratory by fostering an understanding of the nation’s principles and history. Its ultimate goal is to promote civic engagement among undergraduate students.

When the Web site is launched in 2008, the Voices of Democracy Project will offer a vast collection of great speeches and debates. The Web site will offer authenticated primary texts, with audio and video versions when available. The material will be organized under seven topic headings: Citizenship, Civil Rights, Freedom of Speech, Religion and Public Life, Social and Economic Justice, Internationalism, and War and Peace.

Bizzell, author of Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993) and co-author of The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001), will be contributing text to the Web site by offering background on speeches, among other things.

“We hope to correct the knowledge deficit about American history and rhetoric and also create excitement among undergraduate students and get them inspired to be activists themselves,” Bizzell said.

Bizzell will take part in a workshop in September at the University of Maryland, where the project directors and the advisory board will discuss and plan sample units related to the seven topics.

Bizzell earned her Ph.D. in English literature from Rutgers University in New Jersey. A nationally recognized authority on the teaching of composition, she has lectured and conducted workshops at other institutions and at scholarly meetings. She is an expert on American literature, rhetoric and rhetorical theory, and composition and composition theory. She joined the Holy Cross faculty in 1978.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Holy Cross will hold the 34th annual Classics Day on April 25. Designed to familiarize students with the Holy Cross Classics department, its faculty and current students, the event features a variety of activities relating to the study of Roman culture.

Approximately 400 students will attend the event this year. Participants include Boston College High School, Classical High School (Providence, RI), Coyle Cassidy High School (Taunton), Holyoke High School, Lunenburg High School, St. Bernard’s Central Catholic High School (Fitchburg, Mass.), St. George’s School (Newport, RI), St. Mark’s School (Southborough, Mass.), St. Sebastian’s School (Needham) and Walpole High School.

The schedule of events is as follows:

* Welcoming Address
9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m., Hogan Campus Center Ballroom

* “The Malleable Monarch: Agamemnon from Homer to Hollywood” (Lecture by Professor Timothy Joseph, of the Classics department)
9:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m., Hogan Campus Center Ballroom

* Upper and Lower Division Certamen (Certamen is Latin for “competition.” Student teams will compete College Bowl style, answering questions concerning Roman history, mythology, culture and the Latin language.)
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., Hogan Campus Center

* Costume Contest
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., Hogan Campus Center Ballroom

* Chariot Races (Student teams build their own chariots. Each team consists of a rider and student “horses.”)
11:30 a.m. – Noon, Hart Center

* Lunch
Noon – 1 p.m., Kimball Dining Hall

* Final Round Certamen
1 p.m. – 2 p.m., Hogan Campus Center Ballroom

* Awards Presentation
2 p.m. – 2:15 p.m., Hogan Campus Center Ballroom

WORCESTER, Mass. – Hundreds of children and their parents are expected when the Department of Public Safety at the College of the Holy Cross hosts its first Children’s Safety Day Fair on Sunday, May 1 from noon to 4 p.m. in the Hart Recreation Center’s ice rink. The free event is intended for children and families in Worcester, particularly the College Hill and South Worcester communities.

Law enforcement personnel, Holy Cross campus safety officers, community volunteers, and students will participate in the program, which will be held rain or shine.

The fraternal order Freemasons of Massachusetts will offer its comprehensive Child Identification Program, or CHIP, to all children free of charge. Parents who choose to participate will be provided a videotape of the child, a fingerprint card of the child’s fingerprints and a dental impression of the child’s teeth. More than 200,000 children in Massachusetts have participated in the Mason-sponsored CHIP Program.

In addition, children are welcome to bring their bikes as the Department of Public Safety Officers at Holy Cross will provide a bike safety check and a safety obstacle course for children to run through. Bike safety helmets will be given out to the first 100 participants. Bike safety information will also be available.

The Massachusetts State Police will present the “Roll Over Simulator,” demonstrating what happens to car occupants when a car flips over with occupants wearing seat belts and not wearing seat belts. Additional information on seat belt use and car safety will be provided.

The Worcester Police will display two police motorcycles.

The fair will also feature face-painting by Holy Cross students, along with free balloons, cookies, brownies, and refreshments.

Photographers are welcome.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The music department at Holy Cross, in collaboration with the Firebird Ensemble, present “Contemporary Music Concert,” featuring works by three Holy Cross composers, on May 2 at 8 p.m. in Brooks Concert Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Osvaldo Golijov, associate professor: “Lua Descolorida” and “How Slow the Wind” for soprano and string quartet.

Shirish Korde, professor: “Songs for Phoolan” for soprano and chamber ensemble “Dancing Cranes” for violin and string quartet.

Thomas Licata, visiting assistant professor: “from…to circuits” for solo violin.

The program also includes: “Rebond” by Yannis Xenakis and “Xi” by Karlheinz Stockhausen.

The Firebird Ensemble includes Alicia DiDonato, flute; Alison d’Amato, piano; Gabriela Diaz, violin; Rohan Gregory, violin; Kate Vincent, viola; David Russell, cello; and Aaron Trant, percussion.

Special featured guests include: Zorana Sadiq, soprano; Joanna Kurkowicz, violinist; David Hawthorne, guitarist; and Samir Chatterhee, tabla player.

For additional information contact Cristal Steuer at 508.793.2419

WORCESTER, Mass. – The life and work of John Paul II – as well as the issues facing the new pope and the Catholic Church – will be explored by faculty members of the College of the Holy Cross in two panel discussions on Wednesday, April 20 and Thursday, April 21. Both discussions will begin at 7:30 p.m. and will be held at the Rehm Library in Smith Hall.

The events are free and open to the public.

The eight faculty members participating in the panel discussions represent various academic disciplines – history, religious studies, philosophy, political science, among them – and will present diverse perspectives on the papacy.

On Wednesday, April 20, the evening will be devoted to perspectives on the papacy of John Paul II. William Shea, director of the College’s Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture, will moderate. The panelists and their individual talks are:

Rosemary Carbine, assistant professor of religious studies. “John Paul II on Women: A Theological Perspective.”

Rev. William Clark, S.J., assistant professor of religious studies. “Local Churches, Universal Church in the Papacy of John Paul II.”

Katherine McElaney, director of Office of College Chaplains. “The Ministry of Pope John Paul II.”

Rev. Thomas Worcester, S.J., associate professor of history. “The Pope as Prince, Patron, and Pastor: Julius II to John Paul II.”

On Thursday, April 21, panelists will address the challenges facing the new pope and the Church. The moderator will be Thomas Landy, associate director of the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture. Speakers are:

Jeffrey Bloechl, assistant professor of philosophy. “The Papacy and the Modern World.”

Theresa McBride, professor of history. “The Pope, the World, and Women.”

Maria Rodrigues, assistant professor of political science. “The Pope, the Church and Politics.”

Mathew Schmalz, assistant professor of religious studies. “The Pope, the Church and the World’s Religions.”

WORCESTER, Mass. – Dr. Roseanna H. Means, who has written and lectured extensively on issues pertaining to homelessness, will deliver the annual Katherine A. Henry ’86 Memorial Lecture titled “Health Care for Homeless Women” on April 25 at 4 p.m. in Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Founder, president, and executive/medical director of Women of Means, Inc., a non-profit organization that provides free medical care for homeless women in shelters, Dr. Means has practiced internal medicine in the Boston area since 1984, and maintains a private practice in Needham.

Dr. Means is involved with Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts Medical Society, Society of General Internal Medicine and Health Care for All. She teaches at Harvard Medical School.

For the past 15 years, she has devoted a significant portion of her professional life to issues around homelessness and women’s health, and has helped homeless and low-income women get access to health care. She has done relief work in Appalachia, Southeast Asia and Latin America.

Dr. Means is the former program medical director of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, where she was also the medical director of the Barbara McInnis House, a 75-bed residential recuperative facility for homeless persons. This lecture is part of the Katherine A. Henry ’86 Memorial Lecture Series on Women’s Health Issues. Henry’s parents endowed the lecture series in memory of their daughter who died in 1997.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The College of the Holy Cross will continue its “Hogwarts at Holy Cross” science series on April 16, beginning promptly at 1 p.m., in Swords Atrium followed by a stage show at 2 p.m. in Haberlin Hall, Room 103. The program is intended for children (through 10th grade) and families in Worcester, particularly the College Hill and South Worcester communities. The event is free.

The event, the sixth in the series, will feature a wealth of hands-on science activities emphasizing physics and the environment followed by an exciting physics show by the “Wonders of Physics” traveling show from the University of Wisconsin. The show, begun in 1984, generates interest in physics by presenting fast-paced physics demonstrations chosen as entertaining and educational.

The event is cosponsored by the Holy Cross Marshall Fund, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Holy Cross Science Ambassadors, Society of Physics Students, Student Ambassadors Developing External Relations (S.A.D.E.R.) and the department of physics.

Photographers are welcome to attend the event.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Mark W. Roche, dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame, will give a talk titled “The Catholic Liberal Arts College in the 21st Century: Opportunities, Ideals and Strategies” on April 18 at 4 p.m. in Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross.

Roche is the author of Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century (Yale University Press, 2004) and The Intellectual Appeal of Catholicism and the Catholic University (University of Notre Dame Press, 2003).

The lecture is sponsored by the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture and the department of philosophy.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Two Holy Cross students have received prestigious national scholarships.

Timothy Duffy ’06, an English major and anthropology minor currently studying abroad at Oxford University, is one of only 18 college students nationwide selected to receive a 2005 Beinecke scholarship. Each scholar receives $2,000 after graduating from college and an additional $30,000 while attending graduate school. He is a resident of Woburn, Mass.

Duffy’s career goal is to earn a Ph.D. in English literature, focusing on the literature of the English Renaissance, specifically the early 17th century.

“My goals reflect a desire to enter the complicated and competitive world of scholarship and teaching at the university level,” he said. “I have dreams of not only passing on my love for English literature to the next generation, but also to enter the intellectual ‘marketplace’ as it’s called, to explore, with others in the field, the complexities, demands and revelations of the field, publishing my ideas and working with colleagues to make sense of such a complicated period, The English Renaissance.”

At Holy Cross, Duffy has served as co-chair of Poetry Circle and is a member of the English Student Advisory Council. He is a writer and copy editor for the Crusader, the College’s weekly newspaper. At Oxford, Duffy has performed in a poetry festival, has written for journals and is experimenting with English style choir.

Justin Parrella ’06, a chemistry major from Lexington, Mass., has earned a 2005 Goldwater Scholarship Award. He plans on studying physics in graduate school and conducting research in quantum optics/information. The research that Parrella has proposed as a Goldwater scholar merges his interests in environmental change with chemistry.

Describing his project, Parrella said: “I wrote on the design of molecular light harvesting arrays for environmentally benign energy production.”

Parrella was selected as a Goldwater recipient on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,091 students majoring in mathematics, the natural sciences or engineering who were nominated by the faculties of colleges and universities nationwide. The scholarship will cover the cost of tuition, books, and room and board up to a maximum of $7,500 per year.

WORCESTER, Mass. – In a coordinated effort to showcase the wide range of environmental research spearheaded by local institutions of higher education, the Chief Academic Officers Committee of the Colleges of Worcester Consortium will sponsor a symposium titled “Environmental Issues in Worcester County” on April 20 from 4 to 7 p.m. in Washburn Hall, Mechanics Hall, 321 Main St.

The event is designed to introduce community and business leaders in Worcester County to the cutting-edge work of students and faculty taking place at the region’s colleges, and the impact this research can have on the area’s economy. An online registration form to attend the symposium is available at www.cowcworks.org/SymposiumRSVP.

Assumption College, Becker College, College of the Holy Cross, Clark University, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Nichols College, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Worcester State College, all part of the Consortium, will be represented by faculty and students.

Presentations are organized around five broad themes: 1) Economic Development and the Built Environment; 2) Rivers and Water; 3) Forests and Land Cover; 4) Health and Hazards; 5) Research and Education.

Some project titles include: “Strengthening Vulnerable Communities in the Worcester Built Environment,” “Eighteenth-Century Deforestation in Worcester County: The Onset of Devastation,” “Styrofoam: Throwing Away Tomorrow,” and “Elevated Lead Levels in the Drinking Water of Selected Daycare Centers in Massachusetts.”

“Our aim is to showcase the intellectual capital of the area colleges and universities,” said Stephen C. Ainlay, Ph.D., chairman of the Chief Academic Officers Committee and vice president for academic affairs and dean at Holy Cross. “We hope to make people more aware of the important work that is being done by faculty and students that has a direct bearing on Worcester County. There are many people working on environmental issues at Consortium schools.”

Each individual project will be presented in a poster format. There are approximately 35 teams presenting.

“We hope that community, civic, foundation, business leaders will attend and will learn a great deal about how the research now being conducted at area colleges and universities benefits Worcester County,” Ainlay said. “The program features faculty and students working together, so we also hope the audience will come to better appreciate that dimension of what goes on at our schools.”

A research symposium Book of Abstracts will be available as soon as it is published at: www.cowc.org/News/Reports/