Inside Bona's Archive

Nov 7, 2018

The Quick Center for the Arts Staff

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The Quick Center for the Arts Staff

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The Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts staff hosted 40 local art educators on campus for their 2018 Professional Development Day. Centered on the theme “Arts & Access: Building a Community of Learners,” the event featured a keynote presentation by Dr. Corrie Burdock assistant professor of education & director of the Art Education Program at Alfred University, titled “’What are you doing here?’ Autism Enters the Art Room.” It also featured a series of workshops covering the newly instituted P-12 New York State Learning Standards for the Arts, the Choice Based Art Education paradigm, and the development of STEM to STEAM pedagogy led by Burdock, Sean Conklin (assistant curator, Quick Center for the Arts), Nicole Missel (middle school art teacher, Allegany-Limestone Central School), and Jacqueline Philp (elementary education, St. Bonaventure University, Class of 2019).

The center also held its annual "Cutco Family Day at the Quick Center" welcoming 300 visitors to campus. This year’s theme, “A Storyland Adventure,” featured various art making experiences and imaginative play that transported visitors through the worlds of dragons, wizards, fairies and merpeople for an afternoon full of fantastical artventures and activities. The day ended with a performance of the Theaterworks USA production of “Dragons Love Tacos and Other Stories” in the Quick Center's Rigas Family Theater. All activities were open to the public at no charge, thanks to a generous grant from the Cutco Foundation.

Oct 24, 2018

Dr. Christopher Mackowski

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Professor; Journalism, Mass Communication

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Dr. Christopher Mackowski, professor of journalism and mass communication, has an article in the Fall 2018 issue of Hallowed Ground magazine, published by the American Battlefield Trust. The theme of the issue, “Future Presidents Under Fire,” highlights different presidents whose active military service eventually led them to the White House. Mackowski’s article, “Revisiting Cold Harbor,” looks at one of Ulysses S. Grant’s most infamous battles and Grant’s own regret at not being able to write more about it when he was writing his memoirs. By the time Grant wrote about that portion of his military career, he was in the last weeks of his life, dying of terminal throat cancer. In his handwritten notes from those days, Grant said he would have liked to improve on that section of the book if he'd had the strength.

Oct 24, 2018

School of Business

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Dr. Carl J. Case, Darwin L. King, Julie A. Case

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Dr. Carl J. Case, professor of business information systems, Darwin L. King, professor of accounting, and Julie A. Case, adjunct instructor of business law, earned a Distinguished Research Award from the Institute for Global Business Research for their paper titled “Undergraduate Business Students Social Media Usage and Trolling: A Longitudinal Investigation.” The paper was also published in the Proceedings of the Institute for Global Business Research International Conference.

Oct 24, 2018

Fr. Ross Chamberland, O.F.M.

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Assistant Vice President, Student Affairs

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Fr. Ross Chamberland, O.F.M., is the first-author of a recently published article in the Catholic Social Science Review. The second-author is Dr. Guillermo Montes, Ph.D., a professor in the Doctorate in Executive Leadership program at St. John Fisher College. The article is titled "Canonized Leadership: A Contemporary Leadership Study of Saint John Fisher, Scholar, Bishop, and Martyr." This research project used a contemporary, empirical, 5-point model of Transformational Leadership theory (Kouzes and Posner) and searched for evidence of it in the historically revered Catholic saint, scholar and leader, Bishop John Cardinal Fisher. The goal of this work is to use contemporary scholarship in the field of leadership and to find evidence of it in recognized Catholic leaders from the tradition in order to develop leadership formation models for future Church ministers.

Oct 10, 2018

Fr. Michael Calabria, O.F.M.

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Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Director

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On September 26, Fr. Michael Calabria, O.F.M., received a donation on behalf of the Center for Arab & Islamic Studies from the Islamic Society of the Southern Tier in the amount of $10,000.

Fr. Michael also gave a two-day program titled "Foundations of the Qur'an: Sacred Texts in Sublime Spaces" at the Franciscan Spiritual Center from September 28-29 in Aston, Pennsylvania.

Oct 10, 2018

Heather Harris

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Associate Professor and Director, Integrated Marketing Communications Graduate Program

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Heather Harris received a 2018 Moonbeam Children's Book Award. Her latest picture book, "Five Hungry Mice," won a silver award in the Picture Book category. Launched in 2007, the awards are intended to bring increased recognition to exemplary children’s books and their creators, and to celebrate children’s books and lifelong reading. Read more here.

Oct 10, 2018

Dr. Margaret Jones-Carey

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Educational Leadership Director

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Dr. Margaret Jones-Carey spoke on a panel regarding the importance of mentoring of students, faculty and staff at the Women in Higher Education Leadership conference sponsored by the National Diversity Council at the Harvard University Faculty Club on October 3.

Oct 10, 2018

Dr. Leslie Sabina

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Chair, Department of Visual and Performing Arts

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Dr. Leslie Sabina's production music library publisher, U.K.-based Gothic Storm (Harmony Music Libraries/BMG Production Music) recently made Sabina's "Emotional Piano" album from the Minim label available for non-industry, general listening use on Spotify. Minim's music is advertised as "sublime simplicity, minimal, clean and uncluttered," and Sabina's album is marketed as "beautifully evocative solo piano." Sabina composed and performed all of the album's 12 tracks. Listen to it here.

Oct 10, 2018

Dr. Paula Scraba, O.S.F.

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Physical Education, Associate Professor

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Dr. Paula Scraba, O.S.F., has written a book review that will be published in the October issue of St. Anthony Messenger, a publication of Franciscan Media. The subject, "The Journey Never Ends" by Mary Petrosky, F.M.M., guides readers to consider a "spiritual will" and to define their true self and the life that they want to be remembered for. The afterward was written by alum and president of Siena College, Br. Ed Coughlin, O.F.M., and compares this manuscript to St. Francis' Last Will and Testament.

Sep 26, 2018

Dr. Kimberly Young

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Program Director, Master's in Strategic Leadership

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Dr. Kimberly S. Young, professor of communication, served as keynote speaker at the MIT Digital Media Lab Technology and Humanities Conference, sponsored by Google and The Atlantic Review, September 5, 2018.

Presented via video, the presentation focused on new trends in the internet addiction assessment field with standardized, normed measures to test children, adolescents, and adults, as well as new trends in the standard of practice among practitioners who enter the field with evidenced-based protocols.