Reflections Magazine Issue #80 - Spring 2014 | Page 7

Campus News

Tsuji Takes Home Origami
Spore Challenge Prize

Bishop of Lansing Helps
SHU Dedicate New Altar
in St. Dominic Chapel

SHU Professor of Biology
Dr. Jun Tsuji won the
American Phytopathological Society Origami
Spore Challenge. This
challenge was established to assist the APS
Office of Public Relations to educate the
general public and to promote awareness
about the impact of plant diseases. Tsuji
successfully developed a 3D origami creation from a single sheet of paper that
resembles a pathogen spore.

Jennifer Dean Named New
Library Director

SHU Biology Students
Claim Regional Awards

SHU Biology students Justin Bateson,
Chas Frey, Nicole Palm, Logan Poskarbiewicz, Lindsay Rupp and Eric Wilson presented at this year’s Northeast Region
District 4 convention of Beta Beta Beta
March 29 at the University of Findlay,
Ohio. Seventy-five students representing 11 colleges and universities were in
attendance. Bateson received a second
Sister Schnapp Publishes
place award for his poster presentation
Article and Poetry
on earthworm coelomocytes. Frey took
SHU English faculty
third place recognition for his platform
member Sister Pat
presentation on dragonflies and damselSchnapp had her article, flies, while Rupp received a second place
“Daniel Berrigan’s Lyrical award for her platform presentation on
Memoir”, published in
barred owl pellets. SHU students received
the “Merton Journal.”
a third of all awards at this convention.
She has also had poetry
Michigan Campus Compact
published in “The Southern Quarterly,”
“St. Anthony’s Messenger” and “VineHonors 10 SHU Students
yards.” Her review of Philip Kolin’s “In
Siena Heights University had 10 students
the Custody of Words” appeared in the
recently honored at the 18th annual
“St. Austin Review” this spring.
Michigan Campus Compact Outstanding
Leadership Students Attend Student Service Awards Celebration
Saturday at the Kellogg Hotel and ConChicago Conference
ference Center in East Lansing, Mich.
Six students in SHU’s Master of Arts pro- Eric Gilbert and Jacob Waldvogel received
gram in Health Care Leadership attended the Commitment to Service Award for
the 2014 Congress on Health Care Lead- their breadth or depth of community
ership sponsored by the American College involvement or service experiences. Only
of Health Care Executives in Chicago.
36 students will receive this award.
Students attending were Catherine
Amy Garno-Anderson, Koreena Hemker,
Alvarez, Roger Anderson, Shelley Corp,
Catherine Mangan, Jessica Rinehart,
Roland Gardner, Thea Picklesimer and
Samantha Staley, Tiffany Swoish, Celsie
Vicki Schroeder. Also in attendance were VanLoon and Mariann Weiss received
SHU faculty members John Fick, Ed.D.,
the Heart and Soul Award. This award
FACHE, and Lihua Dishman, M.B.A.
is given to students to recognize their
time, effort and personal commitment to
Frost Awarded Special
their communities through service. Each
year, MiCC awards students from member
Research Fellowship
colleges and universities across the state
SHU faculty member Dr. Julieanna Frost
for their outstanding commitment to
was awarded a Special Collection Reservice-learning and civic engagement.
search Fellowship at Hamilton College.
Michigan Campus Compact is a coalition
She will work with documents on the
of college and university presidents who
Kerista Commune of San Francisco.
are committed to fulfilling the public
purpose of higher education.
Jennifer Dean was named the new director of the Library in March 2014. Dean
previously served as head of Collection
Development and Acquisitions at Saginaw
Valley State. She has a BMus from Central
Michigan, a MMus from Northwestern
and an MLIS from Wayne State.

SHU dedicated its new, custom-built
altar in St. Dominic Chapel during Mass
April 29. The Bishop of Lansi