Canisius Employees Take U.S. Homeland Security Training

Caption: (l-r) Nick McGinnis, Nathan Seamon, Mike Odojewski, Gordon Anthony and Gary Everett. Missing from photo: Mark Dzielski, manager, Montante Cultural Center.

Several Canisius College employees recently took U.S. Department of Homeland Security Soft Targets Awareness Training for Stadiums and Arenas to help prepare them in the event of a terrorist threat to the college.  They include Nick McGinnis, athletic field attendant for athletic facilities; Nathan Seamon, graduate assistant/events coordinator for the Richard E. Winter '42 Student Center; Mike Odojewski, assistant director, Richard E. Winter '42 Student Center; Gordon Anthony, director of athletic facilities; and Gary Everett, director of public safety and Mark Dzielski, manager, Montante Cultural Center.

Canisius served as the local site for the training, which was held in the Richard E. Winter '42 Student Center from April 5-8.  Nearly 60 representatives from local places of worship, schools, malls and shopping centers, and hotels and large buildings came to Canisius to attend the training, which Gary Everett, director of public safety, coordinated with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.  

Creative Services Team Brings Home Three Silver ADDYs

(l-r) Rose Twardowski, associate director of creative services; Linda Prinzi, associate director of creative services; and Jennifer Paterson '95, MS '01, director of creative services.

The Canisius College Department of Creative Services was honored with three silver ADDY awards at Brainstorm's fourth annual awards ceremony at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo on March 18.  Linda Prinzi, associate director of creative services, served as art director on the three winning projects, which included the Canisius College viewbook, a poster for the Department of Admissions and the invitation series for Alumni Weekend 2004.  Brainstorm is the Communicators Club of Buffalo, affiliated with the American Advertising Federation.

2005 MLK Award Winners
Congratulations to the following Canisius College 2005 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award winners:

Evangeline Powell, dispatcher for public safety, received the staff award; LaVerne M. Seales-Saley, PhD, associate professor of modern languages, received the faculty award; and Aamina Edwards '06, an English major, received the student award. 

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Awards, presented annually in the categories of staff, administrator, faculty and student, recognize individuals at the college who have proven qualities that foster equality, fairness, human/civil rights and justice.  Honorees will be recognized during the Canisius College Spring Honors Convocation on April 29.

Sr. Brady Wins Poetry Award
Sister Patricia Brady, SSMN, associate campus minister and director of service learning, received an Editor's Choice Award from The International Library of Poetry for her poem "Like a Phoenix: In Memory of MLK Jr."  Sister Pat's poem will be included in a book entitled Eternal Portraits, which will be published later this year.

Colquhoun Featured in ArtVoice
A feature on Michael W. Colquhoun, PhD, adjunct professor of fine arts, was included in the March 6 issue of ArtVoice.  Colquhoun is a freelance musician and composer, who specializes in Hispanic music.  At Canisius, he teaches music theory, 20th century classical music and Afro-Centric and World Music.