campus news Menâs and Womenâs Lacrosse Added to Ranks of Saints Athletics Emmanuel College is pleased to announce the addition of both menâs and womenâs lacrosse to the Saints roster. Womenâs lacrosse will be played in 2009-2010 as a club sport and then at the varsity level for 2010-2011. Menâs lacrosse will launch at the club level in 2010-2011 and then as a varsity sport in 2011-2012. Menâs lacrosse will bring the total number of varsity programs at the College to 17 in 2011-2012 â nine womenâs and eight menâs. The menâs and womenâs lacrosse teams will compete in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) and call the newly renovated Roberto Clemente Field home. âThe addition of menâs and womenâs lacrosse allows Emmanuel to take full advantage of our new home field and offer a program in a sport that is one of the fastest growing in the coun-
The lacrosse programs will call the newly renovated Roberto Clemente Field home.
try,â said Pam Roecker, Director of Athletics and Recreation. âMenâs and womenâs lacrosse are a great fit for our college and for the GNAC, given that several other conference schools have added these sports recently.â Emmanuel will now be one of the eight GNAC institutions to sponsor varsity womenâs lacrosse in 20102011. The other GNAC programs
include: Lasell, Emerson, Simmons, Saint Joseph (CT), Saint Josephâs (ME), Norwich and Pine Manor. As of 2011-12 there will be nine schools in the conference offering varsity menâs lacrosse (seven GNAC and two associate members). Others include: Emerson, Norwich, Lasell, Mount Ida, Rivier, St. Josephâs (ME), Becker and Daniel Webster.
Amanda Laws, a former standout goalie for Yale University, will be the head coach for the new womenâs program. Laws spent two seasons as a Division I assistant coach at the University of New Hampshire, helping the Wildcats to two American East Tournament appearances. She previously coached the Norâeaster Lacrosse Club and Medford High School girlâs lacrosse team, leading the Mustangs to a program record for wins in a season and to the programâs first-ever state tournament appearance in 2004. As a player, Laws earning All-Ivy League honors in 2003, leading the nationally ranked Yale team to an Ivy League Championship and a berth in the quarterfinals of the national tournament. A search for a head menâs lacrosse coach is currently underway. Studentathletes interested in learning more about either menâs or womenâs lacrosse can contact the Athletics Department.
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and never ventured far from home. In contrast, today we live in an extremely stimulated world where life happens on screens, itâs sensory overload.â Jarvinenâs point of view, meanwhile, focused on the neurological reaction to the type of fast-paced change people experience today. He discussed the role of brain synapses in responding to change and how the growth of dendrites assists the process. âWhen talking about the ability to change, receiving information is important to that process, and when learning something new, synapses are
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led a group of 16 students to Rome during the 2009 spring break. The travel was part of a course, âReligious Traditions of Rome,â that examines ancient Roman religion, Christian origins, Judaism, and Mithraism. Fr. Leclerc also published two articles for the journal Liturgical Ministry entitled âThe Sunday Gospels of Ordinary Time: Hearing His Voice, Entering His Mysteryâ and âResurrection: Biblical Considerationsâ (forthcoming). He also wrote two articles for the quarterly publication of his religious community La Salette America, âThe Laity in the Churchâ and âThe Gospel Meets the World: Translation and Inculturation.â Associate Professor of History and Interim Dean of Arts and Sciences William Leonard had two works published last April. One, entitled âPeople of Color, People of Faith: 200 Years of Diversity in the Archdiocese of Boston,â was published in Two
where communication takes place,â said Jarvinen. âEnvironmental enrichment increases dendrites and leads to improvements, so in that way, stimulation and technology go hand in hand.â
about,â said Kwiatkowski. âIt promotes interaction between different disciplines and challenges all student groups to work together throughout the year.
As part of the interdisciplinary theme being implemented throughout campus this academic year, Vice President of Academic Affairs Frank Scully is encouraging student organizations and faculty advisors to find ways to collaborate on events as well. Kwiatkowski looks forward to seeing how students and faculty respond to the challenge.
âAs for the faculty lecture series, I would love to hear that in a year from now, faculty members found common ground to collaborate or it led their research in a different direction that they would not have otherwise come across,â she said.
âFor the students, this yearlong theme is something they can get excited Centuries of Faith: The Influence of Catholicism on Boston 1808-2008. The second, âBlack and Irish Relations in Nineteenth Century Boston: The Interesting Case of Lawyer Robert Morris,â was published in the Historical Journal of Massachusetts. Leonard also had his reworked excerpt of a chapter drawn from the book Two Centuries of Faith: The Influence of Catholicism on Boston, published in Boston College Magazine. The essay is titled âKeeping the Faithful.â Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing Mary Elizabeth Pope was interviewed on âMichigan Writers on the Air,â a radio talk show which airs on the NPR affiliate Interlochen Public Radio (IPR). Pope, who is a Michigan summer resident, discussed the balance of writing and teaching in her life. Milda Richardson, adjunct faculty in the Art Department, contributed two chapters to the book, Lithuanian-
Additional segments of the series include âMathematics of the Senses, Music of Reasonâ by Special Instructor of Mathematics Tim Lewandowsky and Assistant Professor American Culture Heritage: The Built Environment (Lithuanian American Cultural Affairs Council, 2009). Her chapters covered cultural landscape, public spaces and memorials. Associate Professor of Chemistry Faina Ryvkin has been a part of a group of Boston-area scientists that received a $505,049 grant from the National Science Foundation for the acquisition of an electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) X-band spectrometer capable of cryogenic temperature experiments. The equipment is cyber-enabled to allow for remote access by a user group that includes five different institutions in New England â Emmanuel College, Boston University, Tufts University, Boston College and UMass-Dartmouth â putting the full functionality of the instrument at the disposal of researchers and educators in the region. The EPR spectrometer will provide an essential resource both in the classroom and in research training in the New England area. This successful effort by Dr. Ryvkin in
of Performing Arts Tom Schnauber on November 4th, âBone Marrow to Brain Cells: A Scientific and Ethical Journeyâ by Assistant Professor of Biology Josef Kurtz and Director of Values-Based Education and Professor of Philosophy Raymond Deveterre on February 10th, and âClay and Chemistryâ by Assistant Professor of Chemistry Christine Jaworek-Lopes and Associate Professor of Art Megumi Naitoh on April 7th. For additional information on âMaking Meaningful Connections: Interdisciplinary Discussions by Emmanuel Faculty,â including an article on the November 4th installment, visit www.emmanuel.edu. conjunction with colleagues from four area research universities shows how Emmanuel College, as a liberal arts and sciences undergraduate institution, is an equal participant in state-of-the-art scientific research. It is on such research that Dr. Ryvkin will be working intensively during the spring semester utilizing the instrument and faculty contacts. Associate Professor of English Lisa M. Stepanski received a two-week summer research fellowship at the Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston and spoke about her research on August 20th. She also presented her Eddy-Alcott research at the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) last October. Stepanski is writing an article on the friendship between Mary Baker Eddy and Bronson Alcott, father of Louisa May Alcott. She had a book review published in August and will have another published this fall in the Journal of Popular Culture.