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Robin Rosenberg

Career Center

"Spark your Career!" professional development badging platform: Through this badging platform on the Career Center e-class, students can earn the five "SPARK" badges to jumpstart their careers! Each badge requires students to complete some aspect of professional development which they describe to us through the e-class "assignment" feature.  When they earn all five badges, students will also unlock the "Shine Bright Like a Diamond" badge and earn a $25 gift card from the Career Center!  The SPARK badges are: Strategize, Prepare, Activate, Reflect, and Kindle. Completing all the badges not only prepares students to manage their careers, it will also help them reflect on their career readiness competencies to articulate the skills that today's employers are seeking!

Elizabeth Harper

Natural Science

My students in EXS1010, Introduction to Exercise Science, are exploring factors that influence physical activity attitudes on college campuses. This exploration will culminate in a research survey to be sent out to MSMC undergraduates early October 2022. The results of the survey will be used to drive research projects in our Exercise Science Research Class.

Lynn Maelia & Suparna Bhalla

Division of Natural Science

As part of their Biological Principles and Chemical Principles courses, students participate in the design and implementation of a project with a team of two or three other students.  Each team is mentored by an upperclassman who meets with the team to provide feedback and support.  Projects include composting with worms (vermicomposting), testing the vermicompost,  performing a waste audit with Parkhurst dining services, and learning about food insecurity in Newburgh.  The results of this semester-long project will be shared with the college community at the end-of-semester iROC symposium. 

Jenifer Lee-Gonyea

Social Sciences

In the Criminology Senior Seminar (CRI 4900), students selected a justice-related topic of interest as their focus for their capstone project. These individual projects are centered on the students selecting a problem related to the justice system and developing solutions to these problems based on information they have collected and analyzed over the semester. As a final project, each student will be developing a Google Site that can be shared with other students, faculty, and/or future employers. This spring, there are seniors focusing on the following justice-related problems: police brutality; racial profiling; law enforcement & prosecutor response to human trafficking; support for domestic violence survivors during the different stages of the legal process; incarcerated parents and the challenges of maintaining relationships with their children; the relationship between re-entry and probation/parole; and, the relationship between re-entry and rehabilitation efforts in jail/prison.

Michael McGuire

Social Sciences

I have a few projects under way. I'm writing and revising chapters for my book on why private American citizens' efforts at helping France recover from its World War I damages erratically influenced Franco-American relations. I'm revising a book chapter on The Heritage of France, a 1919 blockbuster docudrama whose French filming and American screening helped finance some of this work. I've just submitted an article on the American Red Cross' "arrogant" attitude toward reconstructing France during World War I and its aftermath. I also presented a paper that studies another American fundraising tool to reconstruct war-torn France: a nationwide contest that sent 300 American working women on an all-expenses paid, month-long journey through France to raise awareness of France's devastation and French attitudes toward Americans, Germany, and world peace.

James Phillips

Arts and Letters

As an Honors Project for ENG/THR 2250, Creativity and the Creative Process, student Grace O'Sullivan will present her research, "Putting Together the Pieces: A Study in Puzzling Solving Strategies. " This study will look at how people solve jigsaw puzzles and what methods are most effective for solving in the shortest time. In another such project, student Bella Giordana will be presenting her research, "Aphantasia: Life with a Blind Mind's Eye."  This research will look at the symptoms and challenges of aphantasia - a phenomenon in which people are unable to visualize imagery -  as well as coping strategies for people with this issue.

Marie-Therese C. Sulit

Arts and Letters, Honors Program, CDI, Writing Center, Schools of Business and Nursing, Division of Social Sciences

A Poetry Reading with Wang Ping: Wang Ping, or Ping as she goes by, is an accomplished writer across genres, having written novels, short-story collections, and, most notably, books of poetry. For her recent virtual poetry reading for the Mount community, she focused upon her latest book, My Name Is Immigrant, released during the pandemic in 2020. She also included selections from her two upcoming poetry manuscripts, The River Within Us and Love in the Absence of Light. 

Charles Zola

Philosophy and Religious Studies

Students in my business ethics course are engaging in a research project on DEI titled, "DEI and the Business Community: Best Practices and Impact." The class is divided into teams, and each one is researching how various businesses are implementing the values and goals of DEI, broadly understood. Special attention is paid to how DEI can enhance a business's sense of mission and its corporate culture. Each team will make a class presentation on their research as part of their final grade.

 

In addition, the Dominican Scholars of Hope are doing an oral history project on the events of 9/11. The students are conducting interviews of individuals who had been impacted by the events of 9/11. As part of their research, they will also travel to the 9/11 Museum and Memorial. In the Dominican tradition of contemplation, students will reflect upon these stories and events to discern what meaning they may have for us today.  

Sarah Maple

Philosophy & Religious Studies

In November 2021, my contributing chapter was published in God is Beauty: A Retreat on the Gospel and Art.  This is the first English translation and first ever publication of a retreat Pope John Paul II gave to artists while still Bishop in Krakow.

 

In addition, in June 2022, I will be a scholar in-residence at University of Oxford's Blackfriars Hall.  I have received an Emerging Scholars Grant from the McDonald Agape Foundation to study Aquinas' Christology.