CSI President Elected to SI Foundation Board
The Staten Island Foundation has elected College of Staten Island President
Dr. Tomás D. Morales to its Board of Directors at its 11th Annual Meeting. The
Staten Island Foundation is an independent, private foundation serving the
borough of Staten Island, NY, interested in outcomes in the areas of education,
health and human services, and the arts. The Foundation funds projects as well
as management assistance, and professional development (including leadership
development) for the staff of not-for-profit organizations serving Staten
Island.
"I am delighted to be a part of the Board of The Staten Island Foundation,"
Morales said. "It is an honor to serve an organization that provides such
crucial support for the Staten Island community."
The current board also includes: Alice Diamond, John G. Hall, Denis P.
Kelleher, John R. Morris, Lenore Puleo, Kathryn Krause Rooney, Jill O'Donnell
Tormey, and Allan Weissglass.
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Despite Obstacles, Sophomore Excels, Nets Awards
 CSI sophomore Marybeth Melendez has been very fortunate, lately.
She has recently won the 2009 Michael D. Solomon Scholarship Award, and the 2009 Women's Opportunity Award and $5,000 North Atlantic Regional Award from the SI Chapter of Soroptimist International.
If that weren't enough, she also received a scholarship from the American Association for University Women for outstanding leadership and academic success.
This news is even more remarkable when one considers that Melendez, a single mother of three with a double major in Clinical Psychology and Sociology, is visually impaired. "When I came here to CSI," Melendez recalls, "I had my goals set, but I wasn't entirely sure how I was going to meet the challenges. You have to stop and think, how does a blind person become a student in the classroom with the other students? "I remember walking into a classroom," Melendez continues, "and as the professor was writing on the blackboard, it was hieroglyphics to me-all I heard were the sounds and the smell of chalk, [and there was] the business of writing and the textbooks I couldn't read, and for one moment, my heart stopped. Then I realized in this school there is the Office of Disability Services. That was one of the definitive factors in my success here. That office had all the tools that I needed to become a productive, visually impaired student..." Read More> |
Student Wins Award at Eastern Colleges Science Conference
 Sherry Browne, a Biology major at the College of Staten Island who graduated with honors last May, has recently been awarded an Excellence Award at the Eastern Colleges Science Conference [ECSC] that took place at Wagner College.
Saying that she feels "extremely proud and accomplished," Browne's winning poster was entitled "Dynamic Studies of Alzheimer-Like Pseudophosphorylated Tau Proteins and Microtubles."
Explaining the research, Browne's mentor Dr. Alejandra del C. Alonso, Associate Professor in the Department of Biology and Program in Developmental Neuroscience, says "There is a protein that gets modified because of disease, which destroys the structure of the cell. In the cells, there are structures like train tracks that take things from one part of the cell to the other and when this modified protein appears in the brain, then those tracks get destroyed. [Sherry] wanted to see the process while it was happening, so she made the cell express this modified protein and she made the modified protein express light so she could videotape that and see the process as the tracks were getting destroyed in the cell." Read More> |
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New Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management
Following a nationwide search and extensive campus participation, Dr. William Fritz, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at the College of Staten Island, is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Mary Beth Reilly as the Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management at the College, effective August 3, 2009. Read More> | |
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