University News
July 11, 2012
Jeremy Bendik-Keymer considers ethics a key path to creating community. As the university’s Beamer - Schneider Professor in Ethics, he is tasked with promoting ethics throughout ӰƵ’s undergraduate curriculum. But upon arriving on campus in 2010, he chose to embrace an even…
July 10, 2012
Mark McGee, the foreman at ӰƵ’s Squire Valleevue and Valley Ridge Farms and a 30-year employee of the university, passed away July 7 after a 15-month battle with cancer. He was 49. McGee joined the university in June 1982 at the age of 19, eventually rising to the…
July 09, 2012
“This isn’t ninth grade writing anymore” seems to be the breakthrough statement that clicks with ӰƵ students tutored in writing by Susan Dominguez. It’s no easy task to make the leap from high school to college-level writing, said Dominguez, an English department…
July 02, 2012
Jeffrey M. Halpern, a postdoctoral researcher and double alum, has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to help develop a breath test that would identify early cancers. “A goal is to create a test used during office visits—check-ups—as a first screening for cancer,” Halpern, 31, said. He will…
June 27, 2012
Weatherhead School Dean Mohan Reddy (seated, right) met with the director of Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Father E. Abraham (seated, left), and the dean of the School of Economics and Management at Tongji University, Professor Jiazhen Huo (seated, center). A newly established Global MBA…
June 25, 2012
ӰƵ’s Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences is one of seven U.S. programs chosen to help China build its social work education programs over the next five years. The Mandel School was chosen from 215 U.S. schools with accredited graduate social work programs that…
June 22, 2012
ӰƵ President Barbara R. Snyder announced today that Robert E. Widing II, dean of the Macquarie School of Management in Sydney, Australia, will become dean of the Weatherhead School of Management, effective Oct. 15. The appointment represents a homecoming for Widing, a…
June 20, 2012
ӰƵ has joined a large group of higher education institutions and businesses across the country in a voluntary electricity-reduction program. As part of power grid operator PJM’s Emergency Demand Response program, the university will lower its electricity usage when…
June 20, 2012
A dozen ӰƵ dental students and faculty members will descend 90 feet to an underground cave in Israel next month as part of an international project to search for insights to evolution from remains dating back as many as 200,000 years. Working in conjunction with peers…
June 14, 2012
ӰƵ’s efforts to provide high-speed Internet access to residents near campus won White House recognition and a $300,000 federal grant today. The news came as President Obama signed an Executive Order to make broadband construction involving federal property—including…