School Notes

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A group of students from Manhattan College in Riverdale spent two weeks earlier this summer teaching at an after-school program in Namibia. The eight education students, accompanied by four faculty members, volunteered at the Bernhard Nordkamp Centre in Windhoek, Namibia. The program is dedicated to helping children enroll in school as a way to combat the effects of poverty. The students are: Sinead O’Riordan, Mary Beierle, Christina Ferrari, Michael Fogari, Laura Pattavina, Rebecca Kroll, Daniel Crawford and Katherine Murphy. They were accompanied by faculty members: Karen Nicholson, associate professor of education; William Merriman, dean and professor of the school of education; Peter McCarthy, assistant professor of special and elementary education; and Brother Augustine Nicoletti, F.S.C., associate professor of education and chair of the department.

Four students from Iona College in New Rochelle attended a five-day nanomedicine program at Oxford University in England. The undergraduate students, all majoring in science, were able to attend the program through the generosity of Iona alumnus Dr. Patrick J. Martin, who funded the full visit. The students are: Paul Sanstead, Zuzanna Michalak, Garner Soltes and Erin Morgan. The students were accompanied by Brian Nickerson, dean of Iona’s School of Arts and Science, and Sunghee Lee, chair of the chemistry department.

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