| September 16, 2009 | Vol 11. No. 2 |
Canisius Women’s Leadership Conference Nominated for People’s Choice Outstanding Event Award
Jill Conlon, associate vice president for enrollment management (center), with panelists from the 2009 Women’s Leadership Conference included (l-r) Cherylyn Harley LeBon ’88, assistant administrator for intergovernmental affairs, Small Business Association, (SBA), Washington, DC, and member of the Canisius College Board of Trustees; Valerie Latona ’91, editor-in chief, SHAPE Magazine; Norma Nowak ’79, PhD, director of the DNA Microarray and Genomics Facility, Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Claudine Ewing, reporter, WGRZ-TV Channel 2 and adjunct professor at Canisius.
The Canisius College Women’s Leadership Conference held at the Buffalo Convention Center in October 2009, has been nominated for the Buffalo Events Network People’s Choice Outstanding Event Awards. Canisius faculty and staff from many departments were involved, which contributed to its success. Please vote for Canisius by clicking here. The deadline is October 5. An awards ceremony will be held at the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens on Wednesday, October 28.
Gansworth Collaborates On From The Western Door To The Lower West Side
From the Western Door to the Lower West Side is a recently published collaboration of Eric Gansworth, professor of English and Lowery Writer-in-Residence and photographer Milton Rogovin. The Burchfield Penney Art Center will celebrate the book’s launch with a reading on Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Burchfield Penney Art Center Auditorium at Buffalo State College, 1300 Elmwood Avenue. A question and answer period, book signing and reception will follow the formal presentation. From the Western Door to the Lower West Side (White Pine Press), is a book-length cycle of Gansworth’s poems that interact with Rogovin’s photographs to form a unique experience, which blends the written word and visual images.
From the Western Door to the Lower West Side is available from White Pine Press, Talking Leaves Books and on-line from Amazon.com.
The reading is co-sponsored by the Burchfield Penney Art Center and Canisius College. For more information, contact the Burchfield Penney Art Center at (716) 878-6011 or send an E-mail to burchfld@buffalostate.edu.
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Cochrane’s “Butterflies” Among Top Ten Sports Books for Youth
Booklist Online, a Web site of book reviews published by the American Library Association (ALA), has named The Girl Who Threw Butterflies, the latest book by Mick Cochrane, PhD, professor of English and Lowery Writer in Residence, as one of 2009’s Top Ten Sports Books for Youth. The Girl Who Threw Butterflies is available for sale at Talking Leaves, Buffalo’s oldest independent bookstore. It is also available on-line from amazon.com and from Barnes and Noble at bn.com. For more information, contact Cochrane at Ext. 2662.
Booklist is a 100-year-old journal, published by the ALA, which provides school librarians with reviews that help them decide what to buy. In recent years, Booklist has also become a valuable tool that helps librarians make reading recommendations.