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For the third year in a row, Curry
College leased facilities to Cambridge College’s National Institute for
Teaching Excellence (NITE), and hosted the annual Blue Hills Writing Institute. Both programs continue to play a role in the College’s summer campus activity, drawing educators and aspiring writers from all over the country to Curry’s beautiful retreat in the woods.
And as always, new students and their families flocked to Curry in June, July and August to attend Academic Planning Days, spending a day on campus as they prepared for the fall semester.
Faculty
Professor Marlene Lundvall showed nine sculptures at the University Place Gallery in Harvard Square in March 2004...a bird sculpture at the Cambridge Art Association in April 2004...and three pastel portraits of birds back at the University Place Gallery in July 2004.
In observance of National Science Week in April 2004, Professor Indar Kamal of the Department of Science and Mathematics gave a talk on Stellar Evolution in the Science Lecture Hall. The presentation provided information on new technological advances in understanding the universe as well as new modes of presentation that Professor Kamal developed during his recent sabbatical.
New Ph.D. at Curry - Congratulations to Associate Professor Susan La Rocco Ph.D., R.N.,, who successfully defended her dissertation on "Policies to Attract and Retain Men in Nursing” in May 2004.
Professor Emeritus Claire Maranda was named "Citizen of the Year" by the Blue Hills Civic Association in May 2004. Many from Curry joined people from the Canton community at a dinner honoring Claire for her contributions to the town of Canton.
Associate Professor of Communication Dorria DiManno led a team in the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life, a 24-hour event to raise money for the ACS and to raise awareness about their programs and services, at Dennis-Yarmouth High School in June 2004.
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Recognition and congratulations to Professor Bruce Steinberg who presented the written reports of his most recent research related to ADHD over the summer at the Organization of Human Brain Mapping conference in Budapest, Hungary.
PAL Endeavors
Professor Diane Goss’ recently completed article, “Pandora’s Box: School Memories of Returning Adult College Students with Learning Disabilities” will be printed in an upcoming issue of The Journal of Educational Therapy. Diane Goss will also speak on a panel for published authors in the field of educational therapy at the Association of Educational Therapists Conference, October 2004, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Diane Goss and Professor Jane Adelizzi appeared on station CN-8 as guests on Barry Nolan’s show NiteBeat, discussing their book, “Parenting Children with Learning Disabilities.”
Senior Lecturer George Herman’s "Land, Sea, and Sky" was exhibited at the Brickbottom Gallery in Somerville, in March and April 2004. A review of his art show and an article about George Herman was published in the April 2004 issue of ArtsMedia magazine.
Before her recent retirement, Associate Professor Grace Rooney completed research on “Providing Support Services for College Students with Learning Disabilities Who Are Not Native English Speakers: The Challenge of the LD/ESOL Student”. This document can be found on ERIC ED469337. The call number is HE035297.
Senior Lecturer Laurie Fox achieved professional membership status in the Association of Educational Therapists (AET). This national organization certifies those with substantial private practice experience and broad-based credentials in diagnostic and therapeutic teaching.
Jane Adelizzi and Instructor Patty Kean arranged for Dr. Jane Holmes-Bernstein, Director of the Neuropsychology Program at Children’s Hospital, to give a presentation on “Assessment of Children with Learning Disabilities” in April in the Science Lecture Hall. This event was sponsored by Excellence in
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Teaching (ET) and the Association of Educational Therapists (AET).
Jane Adelizzi has also implemented an Advanced Graduate Certificate in
Educational Therapy (AGC/ET)
program. This post-graduate course of studies will commence at Curry this fall. The AGC/ET program reflects the mission of the AET by striving to advance the profession through post-masters graduate coursework that speaks to the multidisciplinary nature of educational therapy. Through the foundations of developmental education and reflection-in-action, the AGC/ET provides practitioners and clinicians with opportunities to more fully develop their skills in the teacher-student relationship, and in the identification, evaluation and remediation of diagnosed or suspected learning disabilities in individuals across the lifespan. The AGC/ET curriculum prepares students for the practice of educational therapy, and differentiates it from tutoring, traditional classroom teaching, and psychotherapy.
Patty Kean attended the following Summer Institute: "Building and Sustaining Peaceable Schools and Communities in Challenging Times" at Lesley University in July 2004. She is also scheduled to take an additional BU Behavioral Neuroscience Course: “Forensic Neuropsychology”, in the fall.
Senior Lecturer Lori Lubeski recently had poems published in ART NEW ENGLAND, and will have additional pieces published in the upcoming issue of CARVE magazine. Lori also read some of her poetry in June 2004 at Wordsworth Books in Cambridge.
Anna Langenfeld and Professor Sue Pratt presented "Helping Students with Learning Disabilities Navigate the College Admissions Process" in April 2004 at the annual New England Transfer Association Conference held in Mystic, Connecticut.
Associate Professor Pat Mytkowicz recently published a book review on “The Handbook of Learning Disabilities” by H.L. Swanson, K.R. Harris & S.
Graham in “Education Review.”
This review can be located at edrev.asu.edu/reviews/rev267.htm.
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