College of Liberal Arts & Sciences News and Events

Philosophy Department News

The following article on the Socrates Café, that is run by Philsophy Deparatment Chairman, Dr. Phil Jenkins in the Marywood Library has appeared in Golackawanna. 

http://www.timesleader.com/golackawanna/aande/_lsquo_Intellectual_group_therapy_rsquo__returns_500_VINE_08-14-2011.html

Follett Books

We have a new Bookstore!  Our Bookstore is now being operated by Follett Books.  For information on textbooks, please visit the Bookstore website.

Science Department News

Marywood University Science majors Beatriz E. Vega ‘11, Adam Brager ‘11, Leah Dziopa ’10 and Dana Baier ’10 have been informed that their research article, “Morphine-conditioned Cue Alters c-Fos Expression in the Brain of Crayfish” has been published with Brain Research Bulletin.  Drs. Thomas Nathaniel, Assistant Professor and Michael Kiel, Associate Professor also participated in the research and are listed as co-authors.

 

Delta Epsilon Sigma National Scholastic Honor Society Award for First Place in the essay/non-fiction prose category to Business major Kristinia Beckage

L-R - Dr. Alex Vari, Assistant Professor, Social Science Department, Ms. Kristinia Beckage and Dr. Michael Foley, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

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College of Liberal Arts and Science

Convocation 2010

Dean Michael A. Foley and Convocation Speaker Dr. Dalton Conley

English Department

• Agnes A. Cardoni, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, English Department - together with Rich Larsen of the English and Drama Department of the University of Scranton - secured a $3,500 cooperative grant for the mounting of a new play, Tom Sawyer.  The play will be produced in conjunction with "Scranton Reads."  In addition, Dr. Cardoni presented a special literary humanities session for the pre-med majors at Wilkes University on Sunday, September 12.  The topic was the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit, by Margaret Edson.

• Laurie McMillan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, English Department - presented a paper entitled, "Undergraduate Research that Shapes Writing Programs and Instruction," at the Writing Program Administrators Conference in Philadelphia in July, 2010.  In addition, Dr. McMillan presented a paper, "Writing-about-Writing (WAW) Reinvigorates First year Composition," at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference in Montreal in April 2010.

  
  

Foreign Language Department

• Foreign Language and International Business Immersion Day - Over 90 gifted foreign language junior and senior students representing 17 local high schools were on campus in October experiencing Marywood by participating in Spanish and French games and challenging competitions.  All activities were created and directed by Marywood's Foreign Language majors and minors.

 

"Disenando una casa ideal!"

Tracy Kayla Troiani-Class of 2014 and Erin MacDuff-2014

 

"En la enfermeria"
Katlyn Beaton-Class of 2014, Tayler Simmons-2012, Emilia Sitja-2010

 

"Bureau Du Poste"
Delores King, mother of Monica Bixby class of 2010

 

"Le Teatre Francais"

Math Department

• Thomas Kent, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department - had his article published entitled, "Empty Intervals in the Enumeration Degrees" in the Annals of Pure and Applied Logic special issue for CiE 2009. 

Religious Studies Department

• Charles DeCelles, Ph.D., Professor and Chairperson, Religious Studies Department - published two articles, (1) "The Dialogue of Science with Religion: God Did Not Create the Universe in Six Days---Or Did He?" Social Justice Review, Vol.101 (January-February, 2010), pp.10-13, and (2) "St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina: Final Years at San Giovanni Rotondo," The Catholic Leader, Vol.10 (2010), pp.6-13.  In addition, Dr. DeCelles's article, "Defending the Divinity of Jesus Christ: Responding to a Contemporary Challenge," published in The Priest Vol.66, No. 10, October, 2010, pp. 16, 18-20, 22-24.

• Laurie Cassidy, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Religious Studies Department - co-edited Religion, Culture and Economics in Conflict and Conversation with Maureen O'Connell (Orbis, 2010).  In addition, Dr. Cassidy had her article "Picturing Suffering: The Moral Dilemmas in Gazing at Photographs of Human Anguish" published in the fall volume of Horizons.  Dr. Cassidy will present two papers at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting in Atlanta Georgia Oct 31, 2010: The first paper is in the Teaching Religion Section on the panel entitled Democracy's Hope: Feminist Classrooms as Counter Public Spaces.  The second paper is in the Section on the Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological and focuses on her article that appears in Horizons.

 

Department of Social Sciences

• Sr. Margaret Gannon, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of the Social Science Department - presented a paper on June 29, at the Triennial Conference on the History of Women Religious. Her paper was entitled "The Shaping of Tanzanian Religious Congregations," and drew upon her research conducted whole accompanying students to Tanzania in 2008 and 2010.  Also, Sr. Gannon, in May and June, 2010 conducted a service-learning trip to Tanzania, East Africa for 11 students from three institutions: Marywood, Rosemont and Chestnut Hill, accompanied by mentors from Rosemont and Chestnut Hill. The team was involved in coaching the students at Bigwa School in written English.

• Alexander Vari, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Social Science Department - had his article entitled, "Bullfights in Budapest: City Marketing, Moral Panics and Nationalism in Turn-of-the-Century Hungary," published in the Austrian History Yearbook 41 (2010): 143-169.  In addition, Professor Vari, presented a paper entitled, "Nationalism and the Dead: Ceremonial Burials and Re-burials in turn-of-the-century Budapest" at the Cities and Nationalisms Conference, Center for Metropolitan Research, Institute for Historical Research, University of London, UK, June 17-18, 2010.