COLLEGENOTES
Mental Health Counseling Program Gets Boost
With a shortage of mental health care providers to meet the needs of children in the greater Rochester region, the Mental Health Counseling graduate program has launched the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Counselor Training Program thanks to a $292,000 grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration. With the program, the School will provide expanded support and training for 22 mental health counseling graduate students. “It is imperative that we increase the
number of mental health counselors who are properly equipped to provide effective mental health counseling services to the growing number of young people who need it, but at present, are not receiving it,” said Dr. Robert Rice, clinical director of the program, which is housed in the School of Nursing.
Fisher Holds Bone Marrow Registry Drive
A recent campus campaign aimed at raising awareness of bone marrow donation added an impressive 60 individuals to the worldwide registry. According to Michael Garbin, senior community engagement representative of Be the Match, a typical bone marrow
registration drive results in around 2025 individuals joining the registry.
A Makeover for the Media Arts Lab
The Media Arts Lab has been transformed into an interactive learning space, thanks to a $99,255 grant from the Gladys Brooks Foundation. The lab serves students in the Department of Media and Communication specializing in video and film production, web and graphic design, video game production, and graphics programming, among other interactive media. In honor of the Foundation’s gift, the lab was named the Gladys Brooks Media Arts Lab. The grant helps the department expand its inventory of technical production
From The Angle to Angles
On December 1, the English Department celebrated the end of one era and the beginning of another. The end? Fisher’s literary magazine, The Angle, was published continuously from 1956 to 2011, with poetry, fiction, and artwork contributed by Fisher students and occasionally Fisher faculty. The beginning? As of 2017, the magazine has transformed to a digital publication and is renamed Angles. An enthusiastic group of alumni, current students, and current and former faculty gathered at the launch party to honor the print magazine and introduce the new digital format. In spring 2016, a group of students combed through all the print issues and selected 20 poems and stories from the seven decades of The Angle. They then sought out these writers and interviewed them about their time at Fisher and the role of writing in their lives then and now. These 20 works, and the interviews, are published as the Best of The Angle, which is available for sale and will also be archived in Lavery Library. During the launch party, alumni Jim Bond ’60, Mark Bowers ’98, ’01, and Meg Pritchard ’07, whose works were selected for Best of the Angle, read those poems and stories as well as more recent work. The new Angles will cast a wide net, soliciting submissions from college-age individuals across the country.
perspectives on ourselves and our world,” said Dr. Deborah Uman, chair of the department. Students in ENGL 356 Editing and Publishing created a mission for the magazine, which is to seek fresh, urgent writing that cares about language and pays close attention to it, that uses form and structure purposefully, and that isn’t afraid to take risks. The students emphasized that they value traditions but are keen on challenging them, and believe emerging voices need to be heard, Uman explained. The first online issue will publish in spring 2017, under the guidance of Writer in Residence and department faculty member Stephen West and the students enrolled in ENGL 378 Literary Writing and Publishing.
“It will publish brief prose and poetry that reveals distinct, unique, and important
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