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campus news Men’s and Women’s Lacrosse Added to Ranks of Saints Athletics Emmanuel College is pleased to announce the addition of both men’s and women’s lacrosse to the Saints roster. Women’s lacrosse will be played in 2009-2010 as a club sport and then at the varsity level for 2010-2011.

Men’s lacrosse will launch at the club level in 2010-2011 and then as a varsity sport in 2011-2012.

Men’s lacrosse will bring the total number of varsity programs at the College to 17 in 2011-2012 – nine women’s and eight men’s. The men’s and women’s lacrosse teams will compete in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) and call the newly renovated Roberto Clemente Field home.

“The addition of men’s and women’s 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,” said Pam Roecker, Director of Athletics and Recreation. “Men’s and women’s lacrosse are a great fit for our college and for the GNAC, given that several other conference schools have added these sports recently.”

Emmanuel will now be one of the eight GNAC institutions to sponsor varsity women’s lacrosse in 20102011. The other GNAC programs

include: Lasell, Emerson, Simmons, Saint Joseph (CT), Saint Joseph’s (ME), Norwich and Pine Manor.

As of 2011-12 there will be nine schools in the conference offering varsity men’s lacrosse (seven GNAC and two associate members). Others include: Emerson, Norwich, Lasell, Mount Ida, Rivier, St. Joseph’s (ME), Becker and Daniel Webster.

Amanda Laws, a former standout goalie for Yale University, will be the head coach for the new women’s 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 Nor’easter Lacrosse Club and Medford High School girl’s lacrosse team, leading the Mustangs to a program record for wins in a season and to the program’s 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 men’s lacrosse coach is currently underway. Studentathletes interested in learning more about either men’s or women’s 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, it’s sensory overload.”

Jarvinen’s 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.

“When 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, “Religious Traditions of Rome,” that examines ancient Roman religion, Christian origins, Judaism, and Mithraism. Fr. Leclerc also published two articles for the journal Liturgical Ministry entitled “The Sunday Gospels of Ordinary Time: Hearing His Voice, Entering His Mystery” and “Resurrection: Biblical Considerations” (forthcoming). He also wrote two articles for the quarterly publication of his religious community La Salette America, “The Laity in the Church” and “The Gospel Meets the World: Translation and Inculturation.”

Associate Professor of History and Interim Dean of Arts and Sciences William Leonard had two works published last April. One, entitled “People of Color, People of Faith: 200 Years of Diversity in the Archdiocese of Boston,” was published in Two

where communication takes place,” said Jarvinen. “Environmental enrichment increases dendrites and leads to improvements, so in that way, stimulation and technology go hand in hand.”

about,” said Kwiatkowski. “It 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.

“As 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,” she said.

“For the students, this yearlong theme is something they can get excited Centuries of Faith: The Influence of Catholicism on Boston 1808-2008.

The second, “Black and Irish Relations in Nineteenth Century Boston: The Interesting Case of Lawyer Robert Morris,” 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 “Keeping the Faithful.”

Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing Mary Elizabeth Pope was interviewed on “Michigan Writers on the Air,” 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 “Mathematics of the Senses, Music of Reason” 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 – Emmanuel College, Boston University, Tufts University, Boston College and UMass-Dartmouth – 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, “Bone Marrow to Brain Cells: A Scientific and Ethical Journey”

by Assistant Professor of Biology Josef Kurtz and Director of Values-Based Education and Professor of Philosophy Raymond Deveterre on February 10th, and “Clay and Chemistry” by Assistant Professor of Chemistry Christine Jaworek-Lopes and Associate Professor of Art Megumi Naitoh on April 7th.

For additional information on “Making Meaningful Connections: Interdisciplinary Discussions by Emmanuel Faculty,” 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.

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Sociology Dept.

Adds Three New Concentrations

Emmanuel College’s Sociology Department is pleased to announce three new concentrations for the fall of 2010: Crime and Justice; Human Services; and Social Inequality and Social Justice.

The Crime and Justice concentration will prepare students for graduate and professional school and the world of work. With this degree, students can pursue careers in law enforcement, the courts and corrections on the local, national and international level, as well as master’s degrees and doctoral work in criminology, criminal justice, forensics or law.

There is much excitement at Emmanuel in this, the College’s 90th anniversary year. In addition to the opening of the Maureen Murphy Wilkens Science Center and renovations to our Art Department and Roberto Clemente Field, we are celebrating the distinctive qualities, such as the ones listed above, that make an Emmanuel education special.

Students who concentrate in Human Services will be prepared to seek jobs in the local, state and federal government human and social service agencies. They can also pursue opportunities with non-profit organizations ranging from neighborhood development agencies to child and elder services to health care institutions to immigrant support systems. Some typical job titles would include case manager, youth development worker and patient advocate.

We invite you to visit the “Celebrating 90 Years” feature on the main page of www.emmanuel.edu to see a new photo gallery commemorating Emmanuel’s first 90 years. As always, our “News” and “Events” sections will keep you up to date on all happenings during the College’s anniversary year.

Emmanuel Students Named COF STEM Scholars Emmanuel’s Erina Depina ’13 and Nicole Robinson ’13 have been selected to the Colleges of the Fenway (COF) STEM Scholars Program for the 2009-2010 school year. They represent two of nine first-year students selected to the new program, made possible by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The program is aimed at supporting local students committed to majoring in science, technology, engineering and/or mathematics (STEM) at one of the six colleges in the Colleges of the Fenway consortium. Each recipient is awarded an annual scholarship of up to $6,500. Robinson and Depina, both biology majors, took part in intensive academic preparation activities in August along with their fellow schol-

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ars and will receive academic support and mentoring from faculty throughout their four years at Emmanuel.

“The most beneficial thing about this program is the help from my mentor, [Assistant Professor of Biology] Dr. Todd Williams,” said Depina. “He will lead me on the pathway to achieving my goals by making sure I start now, as a freshman, and not when I am a senior.”

As a part of the STEM Scholars Program, students are required to maintain a 3.0 grade-point average as well as participate in multiple group events, including a kick-off dinner that took place on September 24th with faculty, academic administrators, parents and keynote speaker Dan

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Worth from the National Association of Environmental Law Societies, who praised students’ interests in the STEM fields. The scholars will meet regularly throughout each semester to share insights and to learn about nontraditional careers in STEM-related fields, particularly those in demand in the local area.

“I believe I will benefit most from the STEM Scholars Program by having the motivation to maintain a high gradepoint average, and I’ll have the help of my mentor if needed,” said Robinson. “Being a pre-med major is very challenging and there might be times of doubt, but I believe with the STEM Scholars Program it will keep me on track, right where I belong.”

Degree and practical experience prepares students for a license in social work; pursuit of a master’s in social work, non-profit management or public administration and doctoral studies.

The Social Inequality and Social Justice concentration enables students to pursue jobs in local, national and international agencies, which deal with issues of poverty, war and human rights. Students could work for nongovernmental organizations ranging from refugee resettlement to social advocacy to public health. Oxfam, the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the Center for Disease Control and the Urban League are just some of the places where a concentration like this would apply.

This degree would prepare students to pursue advanced degrees in the social sciences, law, public health and public policy.

For more on these concentrations, visit www.emmanuel.edu.

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campus news Take a Stroll through Campus, Boston with Emmanuel’s New Virtual Tour In September, Emmanuel launched its all-new virtual tour, which features an interactive map of the campus and surrounding Boston landmarks. Without taking a single step, visitors have the opportunity to explore the campus and gain an inside look at all that the College has to offer.

In addition to Emmanuel’s buildings, visitors can read about and view photos of Roberto Clemente Field, Merck Research Laboratories-Boston, the Longwood Medical and Academic Area, the Emerald Necklace, Fenway Park & Downtown Boston.

To take the tour, visit www.emmanuel. edu.

Screenshot of Emmanuel’s virtual tour

COF’s Global Education Opportunities (GEO) Center Moves to Emmanuel Emmanuel is pleased to announce that the Colleges of the Fenway (COF) Global Education Opportunities (GEO) Center is now located at Emmanuel College. The Center’s office is on the mezzanine level of the Cardinal Cushing Library and is a shared COF resource for preparing students to experience the global environment. The Center’s main objectives are to provide access to study abroad opportunities and to guide students and faculty seeking international experience.

The GEO Center will be staffed by Director Robin Melavalin and an assistant director, as well as interns and Emmanuel students. GEO Center hours are Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Melavalin and the assistant director will work with faculty and staff to develop, plan and market travel courses to students at Emmanuel and the Colleges of the Fenway. The Center will also work with administrators and faculty to advise students about travel abroad opportunities through information sessions held here on Emmanuel’s campus, study abroad fairs and

pre-departure orientation sessions for students.

Emmanuel students interested in study abroad opportunities will initially work with Study Abroad Coordinator Diane Bissaro, who will guide them through the process, provide information on on-campus information sessions, and direct them in next steps. Students will also have the opportunity to meet with GEO Center staff to discuss different programs and providers in one-on-one sessions held at the Center. Diane Bissaro’s office is room 324 of the Administration Building. She can be reached at 617-7359713 or bissardi@emmanuel.edu.

Emmanuel’s partnership with the GEO Center is an exciting opportunity for the College community to enhance international study opportunities.

Students from all of the COF institutions will be using this resource, so please welcome these visitors to our campus. Visit our International Programs web page for the latest information and our web site calendar for GEO Center events.

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The newly renovated Art Department reopened this fall. Swing by the fifth floor of the Administration Building to see the updated space!

Foreign Language Dept. Presents Five-Part Series on “Hispanic World” During the month of October, Emmanuel College’s Foreign Language Department, with the support of the Spanish Consulate, organized a five-part conference series titled “Art, History, Politics and the Beginning of Modernity in the Hispanic World.”

The first presentation of the series, given by Emmanuel College Associate Professor of Art Cynthia Fowler, was titled “Losing Hope: Goya and Romanticism in Spain,” and provided an overview of Goya’s artistic production, focusing on his position as one of the most important Romantic painters of the early 19th century. Professor and Chair of Romance Languages and Literature at Harvard University Luis Fernández Cifuentes also presented “Goya and Money,” discussing numerous letters written by Goya with compulsive focus on money and monetary transactions.

As the third speaker of the five-part series, Emmanuel Assistant Professor of History Javier Marion discussed “Loyalism, Liberalism, and Revolutions: The Cádiz Court and Latin American Independence,” exploring the relationship between the court and Spanish America, the

dissemination of republican-liberalism, and its imprint on Latin America’s independence movements.

The following week, Boston University Professor of Spanish and Chair of Romance Studies Christopher Maurer presented “Lorca, Buñuel, Dali: From Metaphor to Collage,” discussing visual analogies to the metaphor and verbal analogies to collage in the works of Lorca, Buñuel, Dali.

Concluding the series, Emmanuel Associate Professor of History Melanie Murphy presented “Saramago’s Journeys,” which focused on the territorial, temporal and ideological journeys of the characters in the works of the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese novelist José Saramago.

“All of these lectures have captured the audience’s imagination and attention,” said Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages José Ignacio Alvarez-Fernández, who organized the series. “I would say that one of the most interesting aspects of the lecture series was its interdisciplinary quality, a quality that allowed the public to have a look at the emergence of modernity and its discontent.”

campus news New Lecture Series Features Interdisciplinary Discussions by Emmanuel Faculty As part of a yearlong theme inspired

by Academic Convocation speaker Jonah Lehrer’s discussion of interdisciplinary learning, Emmanuel is hosting a four-part lecture series throughout the year entitled “Making Meaningful Connections: Interdisciplinary Discussions by Emmanuel Faculty.” Each lecture features two faculty members, paired across arts and sciences backgrounds, who are challenged to consider how their specific research and scholarly interests have been or could be influenced by the contrasting discipline.

October 6th in the Janet M. Daley Library Lecture Hall. Assistant Professor of Psychology Michael Jarvinen, a neuroscientist, and Professor of Psychology Michael St. Clair, whose research background focuses on connecting psychology with history and cultural perspectives, were the featured faculty presenters.

Although members of the same academic department, their distinct specialties in the field provided disparate views of the topic, “Brain Plasticity: Hints that Modern Life is Changing Our Minds.”

The idea for the series derives from a similar one attended by Assistant Professor of Psychology Jonna Kwiatkowski during post-doctoral work at Yale University, which paired medical doctors with artists for the sake of discussion. Kwiatkowski was reminded of the series after Lehrer’s book, Proust Was a Neuroscientist, was chosen as summer reading for first-year students.

St. Clair discussed the world today, taking into consideration the rapid technological, social and cultural changes that humans encounter daily, compelling all to adjust at an almost overwhelming rate. He emphasized how young people especially are under continuous pressure to respond to change, more so than past generations.

“There is an obvious theme related to academics in this book and it brought to mind this lecture series and the interrelations of arts and medicine,”

Academic Convocation speaker Jonah Lehrer provided the inspiration for the new faculty lecture series, “Making Meaningful Connections: Interdisciplinary Discussions

by Emmanuel Faculty.”

she said. “Faculty members were very interested because it gives them a chance to show a different side of themselves and share the work they do outside of the classroom with

students. Plus, we all can imagine how our disciplines can be enhanced by the opposite.”

Teaching Class Through William Kennedy’s Ironweed,” appeared in the August 2009 issue of Radical Teacher.

titled, “Bridging the Gap: Building Collaborations with High School Chemistry Clubs.” Jaworek-Lopes was selected based on the work that she has done with her local section related to outreach programs for high school students.

The opening lecture took place on

Faculty News Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages José Ignacio AlvarezFernandez submitted several entries for The Spanish Literary Exile of 1939, A Bio-bibliographic Dictionary, to be published in 2009-2010 by the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (AUB). His article, “From Camp to Camp: Places of Memory in the Literature of Spanish Republican Diaspora” will be published by Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest. His book project, “Introduction, Edition and Translation of Franco’s Prisoner,” will be published in Anthropos Editorial. His article, “The Testimonial Poetry of Celso Amieva,” will also be published in Exile and Identity in the Hispanic World: Reflections and Representations.

Alvarez-Fernandez will present his work titled, “The Asturian Author Alicio Garcitoral and Its Exile in Boston,” at the 70 Years After, The Asturian Exile of 1939 Conference this fall. He also published a review article on the novel “Desde Esta Cámara Oscura,” Letras Peninsulares, 16.3, 2002-2003: 497-507.

Associate Professor of Nursing and Chair of the Department of Nursing Diane Arathuzik gave a presentation entitled, “Living with Suffering: Coping with Metastatic Breast Cancer Pain,” at the Oncology Nursing Society Congress on May 2nd in San Antonio, Texas.

Assistant Professor of English Christopher Craig’s article, “‘Nobody’s A Bum All Their Life’:

Assistant Professor of English Matthew Elliott wrote an article published in the Spring 2009 volume of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS). His article is entitled “Sins of Omission: Hisaye Yamamoto’s Vision of History.”

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Aren Gerdon recently co-authored a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy (PNAS), one of the world’s finest science journals. The paper, “Micromagnetic Selection of Aptamers in Microfluidic Channels,” was written with collaborators at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Gerdon primarily focuses his research on the biomineralization of hydroxyapatite for bone regeneration applications.

Gerdon also established a collaboration with Henry Margolis, Chair of the Department of Biomineralization at the Forsyth Institute in Boston, titled, “Matrix Protein Regulation of Enamel Mineral Formation.” Gerdon and Margolis were recently approved for a National Institute of Health (NIH) grant funded by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institute of Health, Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Assistant Professor of Chemistry Christine Jaworek-Lopes was invited to present at the American Chemical Society National Meeting

“You will have to adapt faster and more often than your parents and grandparents,” he told the audience.

“The average person 200 years ago lived on a farm with no electricity

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Laurie Johnston had two articles published, “Catholics and Just War Theory Since 9-11: The Moral Challenge” in The Impact of 9-11 on Religion and Philosophy: The Day that Changed Everything? and “The Influence of Yves Congar, O.P. on the Spirituality and Practice of the Community of Sant’Egidio” in Catholic Identity and the Laity, Annual of the College Theology Society. Johnston presented “The Community of Sant’Egidio as a Lived Theology: A Way Forward in the Impasse Over Church-World Theology?” at the Catholic Theological Society of America Annual Meeting in Halifax, Nova Scotia in June. She will also present “Peacemaking and Realism - In the Same Breath?” at the conference, “Realism in Christian Public Theology: Catholic and Protestant Perspectives,” at the University of St. Thomas Law School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this fall.

Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Chair of the Religious Studies Department Fr. Thomas Leclerc, M.S. and Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies Michael Hartwig

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Two Through the Wire Lectures Held This Fall This fall, Emmanuel’s Office of Student Activities and Multicultural Programs hosted poet and author Staceyann Chin and Berklee College of Music Professor Lawrence Watson as guest speakers for the Through the Wire lecture series, which serves as a way to stimulate intellectual discourse on campus with an emphasis on issues of race, racism and socioeconomic status.

Chin performed her poetry and read from her memoir, The Other Side of Paradise on October 20th. Her poetry has seen the rousing cheers of audiences everywhere including the Nuyorican Poets’ Café, one-woman shows off-Broadway, and writing workshops in Sweden, South Africa and Australia. She is best known as co-writer and original performer in the Tony Award-winning, Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway.

Watson presented his latest project, “American Fruit with African Roots” on October 27th in the Janet M. Daley Library Lecture Hall. In this work, Watson uses the vehicle portraiture and music to address the impact of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on the social, political, cultural and economic lives of people of African descent in America.

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