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Manhattan College’s Kelly

Commons Is LEED-Certified

 

Manhattan College’s Raymond W. Kelly ’63 Student Commons, which opened last fall, recently achieved LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. LEED is recognized around the world as the highest mark of achievement in the design, construction and operation of green buildings. The $45 million student commons is the college’s first LEED building on campus.

 

The 70,000-square-foot structure’s features include a green roof, materials from the local region and using recycled content, a high-efficiency lighting design that shuts off when rooms are not in use, and other environmentally friendly designs.

 

The building is named for former NYPD Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, who graduated from Manhattan College in 1963 and is one of the college’s most renowned alumni. Kelly Student Commons links the north and south parts of the campus.

 

 

Mount St. Mary Professor Is 

Academy of Medicine Fellow

 

Priscilla Sagar, a nursing professor at Mount St. Mary College in Newburgh, was among 14 leaders in nursing education, practice and administration inducted as a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.

 

The Academy addresses health challenges in urban populations all over the world through leadership, research, evaluation, education and community engagement.

 

Dr. Sagar holds a doctor of education degree from Teacher’s College, Columbia University. An RN, she helps coordinate the college’s community health nursing program and put transcultural nursing into practice. Community nursing students work under supervision in schools, nursing homes and hospices.

 

Dr. Sagar is a member of Philippine Nurses Association of America Inc.

 

Service Awards to College

Of New Rochelle Students

 

Four College of New Rochelle students received Ursuline Student Service Recognition Awards for their contributions to the College and local communities at the college’s annual celebration of St. Angela Merici’s feast day.

 

The feast was marked with a Mass in Holy Family Chapel Jan. 29.

 

Dr. Helen M. Wolf, director of campus ministry, said, “The Student Service Recognition Award, a national award, is presented to students who have been of service to their communities both locally and abroad.”

 

The award recipients are: Jessica Jawahar, class of 2015 and vice president of the student nurses’ association, coordinated activities and helped to prepare younger students for their clinical practicum; Meghan King, class of 2015, serves as a Eucharistic minister and co-captain of the volleyball team, coordinating the team to organize volunteers for the Special Olympics; Vivian Rosario, class of 2016, traveled to Haiti as part of the Plunge Service Trip to assist in establishing the first library at College Pierre Toussaint, she also returned to Haiti to bring donated supplies to an orphanage in Port-au-Prince; and Tazmin Uddin, class of 2015, served as an intern at Turning Point to assist Muslim women and children who are victims of domestic violence and also serves as a peer minister at CNR.

 

St. Thomas Aquinas

Opens Fitness Center

 

Students at St. Thomas Aquinas College in Sparkill are enjoying the newly opened Kraus Fitness Center. The project was generously funded by the support of Drs. Patricia and George Kraus.

 

The project expanded the existing center’s space by 142 percent. The 4,165 square-foot facility features more than 45 pieces of equipment, including cardio machines such as spin bikes, treadmills and elliptical machines. Additional strength training equipment includes a 10-station jungle gym, leg machines, arm machines, and chest and shoulder presses, among others. The cardio machines are outfitted with televisions and audio plug-ins, with updated cardio-training technology.

 

 

 

Correction

 

A Campus Notes item in the Feb. 5 issue incorrectly identified the gender of Dr. Mehnaz Afridi, director of the Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College. She is female.