School of Arts and Sciences

Fourth Annual CUA on Wall Street Career Evening
Thursday 29 September 2011
Great Room B, Pryzbyla University Center

Interested in a career in any facet of the financial industry? Come and hear from a panel of highly accomplished CUA alumni who work on Wall Street, learn about different aspects of finance and banking, and practice speed-networking. STUDENTS IN ANY AND EVERY ACADEMIC MAJOR AND CONCENTRATION are most welcome.

CUA on Wall Street is a career-related network, dedicated to enhancing opportunities for CUA alumni and current students.

This event is free and open to all current CUA students and CUA alumni. Light refreshments included. We ask that anyone intending to attend register ahead of time, to allow us to plan for numbers (202 319 5115 or gribbin[at]cua.edu).

ON THE TRADING FLOOR: CUA alumni and NYSE member traders Jonathan Corpina (B.A., 1994, Politics) and Columb Lytle (B.A., 1994, Philosophy), showing their true colors. They were two of the several hosts for a student field trip to New York in March 2010, as part of the initiatives of CUA on Wall Street, a networking group of current students and alumni.

DEAN’S SCHOLAR: Maureen O’Rourke (Class of 2011) is this year’s Dean’s Scholarship recipient in the Department of Drama. This scholarship raises the recipient’s financial aid to 100 per cent of tuition for the senior year of undergraduate studies. The award is made possible by the generous support of alumni and friends of Arts and Sciences; contact the Dean if you would like to join this effort.

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH: Tanja Horn (Assistant Professor, Physics), with undergraduate research assistants Nathaniel Hlavin, center (Class of 2014), and Timothy McEvoy, right (Class of 2013), in CUA’s Nuclear Physics Lab in Hannan Hall. Dr. Horn – who does much of her research at the Jefferson Laboratory (JLab), one of the nation's two flagship nuclear physics facilities – is a firm advocate for including undergraduates in faculty research, and has had undergraduates collaborating with her on basic research during spring and autumn of 2010.

Major New Publications Major new scholarly books published by CUA Arts and Sciences faculty include:

The Speaker of the House: A Study of Leadership (Yale University Press, 2010) by Matthew Green (Assistant Professor, Department of Politics)

Theatre of Crisis: The Performance of Power in the Kingdom of Ireland, 1662-1692 (Susquehanna University Press, 2010), by Patrick Tuite (Associate Professor, Department of Drama)

The Department of Biology launches a new Master of Science degree in Biotechnology.

CUA’s Department of Biology launches its new M.S. degree in Biotechnology, with recruitment underway for the first cohort of students to enter in Fall 2010. The program will take advantage of CUA’s location in the 4th largest concentration of biotechnology companies in the USA, with internships at private firms, federal agencies, and research institutions. Dr. Frank Portugal has just joined CUA as the Director of the Biotechnology Program. For more information: http://biotechnology.cua.edu

Department of Education receives Better Way Foundation grant

The Better Way Foundation, part of the Opus Philanthropy Group, has awarded $50,000 to CUA to develop a model MA program in early childhood education and special education that prepares teachers to serve young children with special needs from low-income, multicultural families. The project will also increase interdisciplinary collaboration within CUA and create a comprehensive partnership with DC Bilingual Public Charter School and other programs at CentroNia, a community-based program that serves over 3,000 families annually. The project will be led by Drs. Shavaun Wall and Carole Brown from the Department of Education, with input from Dr. Sandra Barrueco of the Psychology Department and Dr. Lynn Milgram Mayer of NCSSS.

• Calculus Cafe
  The Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce its new "Calculus Cafe", a resource for all current CUA calculus students. The Cafe will offer informal assistance (distinct from tutorials and lectures) together with coffee, tea and snacks twice a week during the semester. A longer description and schedule is at the Calculus Cafe.

• Recent major publications by faculty from CUA’s Department of Politics:

  Wallace J. Thies, Why NATO Endures (Cambridge University Press, 2009); David Walsh, The Modern Philosophical Revolution: The Luminosity of Existence ((Cambridge University Press, 2008); John K. White, Barack Obama's America: How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era (University of Michigan Press, 2009)
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  Like Freedom?
  On November 9, 2009, the German Club will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with a documentary, a replica of the wall that will be torn down, German food and music. T-shirts that are the tickets to the party, will be sold in the Pryz (Monday, Nov. 2 - Friday, Nov. 6, 11-2). Look for the replica of the Berlin Wall outside the Pryz! For questions, please contact bornholdt@cua.edu

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  Shaw and Politics
  CUA’s Department of Drama, in collaboration with the International Shaw Society and the Washington Stage Guild, will host a conference entitled “Shaw and Politics” October 15-18, 2009. Events include a reception at the Irish Embassy and performances by both the Washington Stage Guild and CUA drama students.

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  Second Annual Wall Street Career Evening
  Come and network with some of CUA’s most successful alumni! Second Annual Wall Street Career Evening, Thursday 10 September 2009, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm, The Great Room, Pryzbyla University Center.

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  Nanotechnology Center Celebrates Successful First Year
  CUA’s Nanotechnology Center (NTC), established in February 2008 to foster collaborative research among scientists in the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering, has won awards of research grants totaling $1.4 million in its first year of operation.  Its current projects include developing a common experimental facility for micro/nano technology at CUA.