Terrier Volume 78, Number 1 - Spring 2014 | Page 11

Faculty Notes
Psychology Professor Uwe P. Gielen and
Dinesh Sharma from the St. Francis College
Institute for International and Cross Cultural
Psychology spoke at the New York Academy
of Sciences in a presentation entitled Obama
as a Global Leader.

Bridge Park as a laboratory as well as the
College’s new state-of-the-art labs.
Criminal Justice Professor Nickie Phillips
spoke about her book, Comic Book Crime:
Truth, Justice, and the American Way at
Leeds Metropolitan University in England as
part of the University’s Centre for Applied
Social Research guest lecture series.

Professor Gielen also participated in a joint
conference of the Society for Cross Cultural
Research and the International Division (52)
of the American Psychological Association,
in Charleston, SC. Dr. Gielen is a former
president of both organizations.
Students from Kathryn Grant’s Theater
Production Workshop created The Secrecy
Project this spring, which included
multi-media performance of three Bertolt
Brecht works, The Playwright’s Song, The
Jewish Wife, and The Informer as well as
original response pieces written and
performed by St. Francis students.
The Chair of the Biology and Health
Promotions Department Kathleen Nolan
and seven students are taking part in the
American Eel Monitoring Project with
the New York Aquarium and the NYS
Department of Environmental Conservation.
Dr. Nolan also ran a free 10-week afterschool
science program for students from MS 8 and MS

Communication Arts Professor Kathryn Grant, Nicole
Dontantonio ’15, Michael Serpe ’15, David Arthur ’17, Nicole
Spataro ’16, Rachel DeFluri ’15, Matthew Velez ’15, Javier
Rodriguez ’15, and Nicole Molinelli ’16. A B O V E : Trang Cao ’17,
Elaine Rendon ’16, Toriane Agostino ’16, Miranda Paljevic ’15,
Edward Schook ’14 and Michelle Steven with Katie Couric.
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447. Biology Professor Alison Cucco and President
of the Chemistry Club Kate Selivanovitch ’14
helped out with the program that uses Brooklyn

Scholar-in-Residence
Fred Siegel has received
favorable reviews for his
new book , The Revolt
Against the Masses:
How Liberalism Has
Undermined the Middle
Class (Encounter).
Publications that gave him the thumbs
up include the Wall Street Journal, the
National Review, and the New York Post.

Communication Arts Professor Michelle
Steven brought her class to a recording of
Katie. They met with the show’s star, Katie
Couric, after the taping and got some good
advice on a career in journalism. Professor
Steven also brought to campus Victoria
Fleary, Director of Interactive for WBLS/
Emmis Broadcasting, for one-on-one discussions
with Communication Arts students. ●

I SUPPORT ST. FRANCIS BECAUSE…

“After everything I gained at St. Francis
personally and professionally, I can’t think
of any better use of my money.”

M

Through a bequest in her will, Betty Gatto
’94, is leaving a portion of her estate to
St. Francis College. She earned both her
bachelor’s and master’s from St. Francis
and stayed on to teach in the accounting
department.

y heart belongs to the Franciscans—what can I tell you, they practically raised
me. I grew up here in Brooklyn and I went to Catholic schools. My brother went
to SFC and my mother would bake lasagna for his fraternity brothers on Sundays. When
I was looking to complete my college degree—at age 48—it was Brother George, in
particular, who encouraged me to come study here at St. Francis. I stayed on, got my
masters at LIU, and then began teaching accounting here in 1998 until I married and
moved to Florida in 2002.

I truly miss St. Francis. I really loved studying and working there. I’ve taught
elsewhere but this was the only college where you could feel the warmth of the place—
the professors have a real interest in the students, and the students truly care about
their education.

I’m giving to St. Francis because after everything I gained there personally and
professionally, I can’t think of any better use of my money.

ST. CLARE SOCIETY

PLANNED GIVING

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