Reflections Magazine Issue #80 - Spring 2014 | Page 6

Campus News

Lollo Earns Sigma Beta
Delta Scholarship

Graduate Student Presents
at National Conference

SHU Senior Mike Lollo
recently earned a fellowship scholarship from
the Sigma Beta Delta
international honor
society for business,
management and administration. Lollo earned one of only 11
$1,000 awards for academic excellence.

Roger Anderson, a student in the Graduate College’s Health Care Leadership
cohort, had his submission, “Implementation of a focused patient mobility program,” selected for presentation at the
2014 Congress on Healthcare Leadership’s Management Innovations Poster
Session from March 24-26 in Chicago.
Anderson is the director of Rehabilitation
Services at St. John Providence Health
Care System.

English Faculty Members
Publish Work
SHU English faculty members Alexander
Weinstein and Karin Barbee recently
had works published. Weinstein’s works
include “Children of the New World”
published in “Pleiades,” winter 2014;
“In the Shadows of Great Action Heroes,”
published in “Jabberwock Review,” fall
2013; and “Excerpts from the World
Authorized Dictionary,” published in
“Cream City Review,” December 2013.
Also, Weinstein recently won the Lamar
York Prize for Fiction for his short story,
“The Cartographers.” The story appeared
in the spring 2014 issue of “The Chattahoochee Review.” Barbee had two
poems featured in the most recent issue
of “Fjords,” a national literary journal:
http://www.fjordsreview.com/featured/
current_issue.html.

SHU Granted StormReady
Community Status
Siena Heights University has successfully
completed the six-year comprehensive
review to be granted StormReady Community status by the National Weather
Service. In 2008, SHU became the first
college or university in Michigan, Ohio
and Indiana—and only the 24th nationally—to be granted the StormReady
status. Today, there are 146 colleges
or universities nationwide and 17 in
Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. According
to the NWS, StormReady is a nationwide
community preparedness program using
a grassroots approach to help communities develop plans to handle all types
of severe weather—from tornadoes to
tsunamis. The program encourages
communities to take a new, proactive
approach to improving local hazardous
weather operations by providing emergency managers with clear-cut guidelines on how to improve their hazardous
weather operations.
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SHU Again Wins Gift of
Life Campus Challenge
Siena Heights University recruited the
most new organ donor registrants compared to student population for the
second straight year to win the Gift of
Life Campus Challenge. SHU had 5.27
percent of its student population register,
which was the best out of 14 state
college and universities participating
in the 11th annual event. The Gift of
Life Campus Challenge is the largest
college-based organ donor drive in the
nation. In its history, the Campus Challenge has resulted in more than 35,000
people adding their names to the
Michigan Organ Donor Registry.

Graduate College Dean
Presents in London

Evans is an author, columnist and popular
blogger from Dayton, Tenn.—home of
the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925. In addition to her writing, the 32-year-old Evans
travels around the country for retreats,
conferences, universities and churches.
She has been featured on NPR, Slate, the
BBC, the Washington Post, The Times
London, The Huffington Post and Oprah.

Counseling Program
Represents SHU in Hawaii
Three recent graduates of SHU’s master’s
level Counselor Education program, along
with a faculty member represented SHU
at the American Counseling Association’s
annual national conference March 26-30
in Honolulu, Hawaii. SHU ambassadors
at the counseling profession’s flagship
professional development event included:
• Kathy Hill ‘13/MA, LLPC, a graduate
of the Lansing program who works for
Cognitive Consultants as a therapist.
• Karen Morrison ‘12/MA, LLPC, a graduate of the Adrian program, who is in
private practice at Perspectives Therapy
Services in Lansing and serves as SHU’s
Theological Studies Program director.
• Kristy Blackmer ‘12/MA, a graduate of
the Adrian program who is a contract
therapist for Four Help Family Resource
Center in Saranac and a community
educator for RAVE (Relief After Violent
Events) in Ionia County.

Dean of the Graduate
• Linda Sandel Pettit ‘83, Ed.D., dean
College and Program
of the Graduate College, director of
Director of Counselor
Counselor Education and Assistant
Education Linda Pettit,
Professor of Counseling.
Ed.D., along with her
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