Hofstra in the Community

Relay For Life: The fifth anniversary of the American Cancer
Society Relay For Life at Hofstra raised more than $107,000.

Five years ago at a meeting of the Long Island Women’s Agenda (LIWA), Hofstra President Stuart Rabinowitz addressed a large group of local elected officials and business leaders. He said that as Hofstra continues to move into the 21st century, it is vital for the University to further ex tend the use of its resources and facilities to the community and eliminate the delineation in what is termed “town and gown.”

Since that time, every contingency of Hofstra has amped up its presence in the community. Students, both individually and as groups, have been working with local residents in a variety of capacities. Faculty and various offices and centers at Hofstra plan programming to which local schools and community members are invited for free or a very nominal charge. Anita Ellis ’88, ’90, who was known for many years as Hofstra’s director of student activities, has been assigned to a new role: director of off-campus living and commuting student services. In this position she works closely with local civic associations and community organizations to address residents’ University-related concerns and also to make them aware of available Hofstra programs and services.

Since 1991, on the westernmost part of the South Campus, the Joan and Arnold Saltzman Community Services Center has enabled faculty and students from a wide variety of disciplines to provide clinical services and early childhood education to members of the Hofstra community and local residents. In recent years more clinics and institutes have been added, including the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Clinic; Anxiety and Depression Treatment Program; Child and Parent Psychotherapy Services Clinic; Institute for Family Forensic Psychology; Institute for the Study and Treatment of Anger and Aggression; and Phobia and Trauma Clinic.

On the North Campus, Hofstra’s Scott Skodnek Business Development Center is focused on enhancing the skills of local business leaders and assisting small business owners, while the Wilbur F. Breslin Center for Real Estate Studies brings together the expertise of the Frank G. Zarb School of Business and the Maurice A. Deane School of Law, as well as the Institute of Real Estate at Hofstra University to provide real estate professionals, municipal officials, developers and the public with information about complex issues in the real estate field.

The University is also home to the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University, a nonpartisan research institution dedicated to promoting objective, academically rigorous study of suburbia’s problems, as well as its promise. The National Center studies a broad range of issues from local and national perspectives. The tasks of identifying, analyzing and solving the problems of suburbia are essential for the health of the country – and central to the National Center’s mission.

This concerted effort to be not just a presence in the community, but a resource, has brought high praise to Hofstra. For three consecutive years, Hofstra University has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for “exemplary commitment to service and volunteering.” Hofstra was one of 114 colleges and universities – out of 851 that applied nationwide – to receive the “Honor Roll with Distinction” designation as an institution whose students, faculty, staff and alumni show the highest level of dedication to community service and civic engagement.

Hofstra offers students opportunities to volunteer in the community in a variety of ways, through the Office of Student Leadership and Activities. Among these opportunities are Service Days, in which students spend time during the weekends doing community service in the local area; volunteer as mentors and tutors at local elementary schools; and work in community soup kitchens and homeless shelters. For the past three years, Hofstra has offered first-year students an optional pre-orientation program, the Discovery Program, in which students learn about social and environmental issues and engage in related experiential learning activities.

Recent Community Events

Middle School Musical ...


More than 300 seventh graders played alongside 110 members of the Hofstra Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble at the ninth annual Middle School Honors Band Festival, hosted by Hofstra University on October 20 and 21.

Every fall since 2002, Hofstra University’s Department of Music has hosted the Middle School Honors Band Festival, which welcomes hundreds of seventh graders from Long Island, New York City and occasionally from New Jersey and Pennsylvania to work with members of the Hofstra Symphonic Band and a renowned guest composer/conductor who is invited to campus for the event.

Over the course of the two days, the Hofstra Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble members act as teachers and mentors to their younger counterparts. The mission of the Middle School Honors Band Festival at Hofstra is to encourage middle school students to continue their music education, as well as expose them to the excitement of a university campus.

Hitting the Streets with Shake and Rake ...


On November 12 Hofstra students participated in the Shake and Rake program, sponsored by the Office of Off-Campus Living and Commuting Student Services. The program allows students to give back to the community by assisting in cleaning local parks and neighborhoods. More than 142 students visited 12 homes in the Hempstead and Uniondale communities to provide yard work assistance to local residents.

The Healing Power of Music ...


The Hofstra Symphony Orchestra, directed by Professor David Ramael, teamed up with the Long Island Coalition Against Child Abuse and Neglect (CCAN) to present a December 4 concert featuring two famous child-themed compositions, Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and Gustav Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn. This performance was part of a continued effort to present music with social themes, and the concert was just one way that the Hofstra Symphony Orchestra worked with CCAN. Throughout the spring, Hofstra student musicians worked with and mentored students receiving services from CCAN.


Holiday Toy Drive for The INN ...


Hofstra students, faculty and staff participated in a holiday toy drive that benefited The Interfaith Nutrition Network. From November 28 through December 9, more than 300 unwrapped toys were collected to be distributed to children from families in need during the holiday season.

Commerce Plaza ...


The Hofstra University space at Commerce Plaza teaches fourth and fifth grade students the ins and outs of running an Admissions Office, University Relations Office, and Financial Aid Office. Curriculum for the space was created as a collaborative effort between the Frank G. Zarb School of Business and the School of Education. Capital One provides support for the program, a partnership between the nonprofit group Commerce Plaza Inc. and Long Island schools.

Annual Student Press Day ...


On December 12 Hofstra University’s School of Communication hosted its annual Student Press Day, where approximately 300 Long Island high school students got a close-up look at how print, TV and online journalists work in today’s changing media landscape. The day included a presentation by Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist and animator Walt Handelsman of Newsday, as well as a special panel on covering disasters that featured media professionals Michael Amon of The Wall Street Journal, Mario Diaz of WPIX-11 News, Craig Allen of WCBS Radio and Bruce Avery of WRHU Radio Hofstra University. Special workshops on social media, investigative journalism, layout and design, and sports and business reporting featured experts from The New York Times and Newsday.

Tommy, Can You Shear Me? ...

On March 14 Hofstra University and the Hofstra Roller Hockey Club raised more than $19,000 with the annual St. Baldrick’s Day event, a fundraiser at which more than 40 Hofstra students, administrators, and faculty shaved their heads to raise money for childhood cancer research. Alumnus and Roller Hockey Club member Thomas Kostiw first brought the event to Hofstra in 2009. “I attended a St. Baldrick’s fundraiser at a restaurant on Long Island and thought it was a great way to raise funds,” Kostiw said. “I thought that our team needed to do some more community service work, and the event seemed to fit us well, as many of us had very long hair.”

Hofstra LI Regional Spelling Bee ...


Dean Creedon, a fifth grader at Oaks Street School 3 in the Oceanside, NY, school district, was the champion of the first Hofstra Long Island Regional Spelling Bee at the John Cranford Adams Playhouse on March 18.

Creedon’s winning word was “mordacious.” Prior words he answered were “temerity,” “stratification,” and “heliosis.” More than 100 fourth to eighth grade students from schools across Nassau and Suffolk County participated in the Hofstra Long Island Regional Spelling Bee.

The March 18 Bee was the first to be held at Hofstra, and the head judge was Hofstra Associate Professor of Writing Studies and Composition Carole Papper. Creedon went on to represent Long Island at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., in May.

Hempstead for Hofstra/Hofstra for Hempstead ...

The 38th Annual Hempstead for Hofstra/Hofstra for Hempstead Scholarship Dinner, which raises money to help Village of Hempstead students attend Hofstra University, was held on March 29. Since the founding of the dinner, more than 300 young men and women have benefited from these scholarships. The dinner also marks the presentation of the prestigious Unispan Award, given to individuals whose professional or personal lives have enriched the Hempstead community.

This year’s Unispan Award recipients were Evangelist Reginald Benjamin, founding executive director of Able Body of Believers Alliance (ABBA) Leadership Center, Inc.; Thelma Burnett, owner and president, Carl C. Burnett Funeral Home, Inc.; Dr. Rodney Gilmore, principal, Jackson Main School; Michael McGowan, assistant chief, Hempstead Police Department; Major General Joseph A. McNeil, USAF, Ret., one of the original four students who took part in the Woolworth sit-in on February 1, 1960, in Greensboro, North Carolina; Reginald V. Terry, director, football administration, Arizona Cardinals; and Timothy L. Terry, assistant director, pro personnel, Green Bay Packers.

Germs Be Gone ... 

Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine students worked with second graders from the Plainview-Old Bethpage Central School District to teach them about “germs” and the necessity of proper hand-washing techniques. The medical students visited four elementary schools and conducted a hand-washing lesson. Following the lesson, students were asked to go home and share what they learned about hygiene.

Remarkable Relay For Life ... 

The campus community gathered together on April 28 to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the American Cancer Society Relay For Life at Hofstra. The event raised more than $107,000 and featured approximately 1,137 participants. Event co-chair Zach Dane, a senior at Hofstra, lost his mother to lung cancer that spread when he was in the seventh grade. “I relay for my mom,” he said. “She is the reason that I am doing everything that I can to promote a cancer-free world.”

Relay For Life events are held overnight as individuals and teams camp out in tents on the campus’s intramural fields, with the goal of keeping at least one team member on the track or pathway at all times throughout the evening.

“Money & Me” Program ...

Fifth-grader Gabriel Lazo doesn’t have a bank account yet, but he knows how to write a check. He doesn’t have a credit card, but he knows when he gets one, he should pay off the balance in full every month.

That’s because for the last two months, Gabriel and his classmates at Drexel Avenue Elementary School in Westbury have been participating in a financial literacy program sponsored by the Zarb School of Business and Capital One Bank called “Money & Me.”

Taught by Hofstra business and education students, the program was launched in several Long Island school districts in fall 2011, and has served more than 1,700 fourth and fifth graders. The curriculum, designed by Hofstra and Capital One, teaches basic money management concepts and skills.

Capital One Bank’s Long Island Market President Andrew Corrado (M.B.A. ’92) and Zarb School of Business Assistant Dean Gioia Bales visited the Drexel Avenue School to see the program in action. “It’s never too early to start teaching kids about money management,” Corrado said. “This is really a building block for them.”

The “Money & Me” program includes eight interactive lessons that teach students basic financial skills involving managing savings and checking accounts, creating budgets, credit reports and debit cards.

Generating IDEAS ... 

IDEAS (Hofstra’s Institute for the Development of Education in the Advanced Sciences) provides a focus on cutting-edge issues in science and technology for the general public, local public and private school teachers and administrators, and college educators. It seeks to create public visibility and enhanced understanding of advances in science and technology. Evening lectures are free and open to the public. Spring events included “Space: The Asteroid Frontier,” presented in February by Dr. Lucy McFadden of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and a special Earth Day event in April on “Climate Change Now and in the Next Decade.”

Hofstra Dance and Dance Ed Programs Partner With AHRC-Nassau ... Hofstra University’s Dance and Dance Education Programs and AHRC-Nassau (Association for the Help of Retarded Children) hosted a celebratory, end-of-year showing, titled Picture This, on May 9. Hofstra’s Dance and Dance Education Programs have been working with AHRC-Nassau for the past four years to help adults with mental disabilities explore their creativity through dance. All Hofstra participants volunteer their time by choreographing and leading one-hour workshops each week for the AHRC-Nassau participants under the direction of Anita Feldman, director of the Dance Education Program at Hofstra.

Lead instructors for the spring 2012 semester were Keyla Hiraldo and Priscilla Velazquez, both dance education majors.

Medical Scholars Pipeline Program ... 

The Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine’s Medical Scholars Pipeline Program offers a very special opportunity to outstanding, yet economically disadvantaged, high school students from surrounding communities to take part in a unique five-year summer program that puts them on the track to medical school and other careers in health care. The School of Medicine has designed this program to increase diversity of the health care workforce by providing a viable way for academically exceptional students from traditionally underrepresented minority and low-income backgrounds to attain the exposure, support and educational tools necessary to become competitive college and medical school applicants, and eventually, successful physicians. Several of the first-year medical students are working with the Pipeline students during the summer of 2012.

For more examples of Hofstra in the community, visit hofstra.edu/community.

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Hofstra Students Step It Up

Whether they were concentrating on their studies, working in the community or for charity, or establishing themselves professionally, Hofstra students had quite an eventful 2011-2012.

Service Opportunities Draw Praise ...
For the third straight year, Hofstra University was named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for “exemplary commitment to service and volunteering.”

Hofstra was one of 114 colleges and universities – out of 851 that applied nationwide – to receive the “Honor Roll with Distinction” designation as an institution whose students, faculty, staff and alumni show the highest level of dedication to community service and civic engagement. Hofstra also made the honor roll in 2008 and 2009.

The University offers students opportunities to volunteer in the community in a variety of ways, through the Office of Student Leadership and Activities. Among these opportunities are Service Days, in which students spend time during the weekends doing community service in the local area; volunteer as mentors and tutors at local elementary schools; and work in community soup kitchens and homeless shelters.

Dorm Decorating ...

Freshman Lucy Nieves and Miesha Dans
were featured on NBC-TV's Today show
in a segment on dorm decorating on
a budget. Both girls were teamed with
professional interior designers, and cameras
followed their shopping and decorating
adventures.

Excitement for the new academic year actually started weeks before the fall semester began, when NBC-TV’s Today show contacted Hofstra and asked to follow the adventures of two incoming freshmen, Miesha Dans and Lucy Nieves. The show gave each of the girls a budget of $300 to decorate two single rooms in the Colonial Square residential complex. The students were paired with celebrity interior designers, and camera crews followed their August 1 shopping sprees to area retail outlets. Woman’s Day magazine Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth Mayhew arrived at the end of the day to decide which team had done a better job of decorating and maximizing the functionality of each space. How’d they do? Visit hofstra.edu/Today2011 for the stylish details.

Something to Cheer About ...

The Hofstra cheer and dance teams both placed first in their divisions at January 2012’s Universal Cheerleaders Association (UCA)/Universal Dance Association (UDA) College National Championship in Orlando, Florida.

The cheer team’s first place finish marked the seventh national championship for the team since 2003. The Pride cheerleaders have been ranked among the nation’s top 10 teams for more than a decade. The dance team took home four first place titles, three of which were in the UDA World Competition. The fourth first place title was in the Hip-Hop competition. In addition, the team placed second in Jazz.

Student Scholars ...
At the May 20, 2012, Latin Honors Recognition Convocation at the Playhouse, Samantha Lynn Arpino (second from right), an accounting major; Jade Ayn Keena (right), a public relations and English major; and Christopher Tirri (far left), also an English major, were presented with the University’s Outstanding Senior Scholar Awards. At the same ceremony, graduates William Barna II and Etana Jacobi received the Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library Undergraduate Research Awards.

At the start of the 2011-2012 academic year, Danielle E. Shure and Dana Bergstrom, both from the Class of 2011, were named recipients of Hofstra’s Albert I. Da Silva Memorial Endowed Scholarship for earning a 4.0 GPA. The late Mr. Albert Da Silva was a noted entertainment lawyer, and his wife, Zenia Da Silva, is a Hofstra professor of romance languages and literatures, who has been on the Hofstra faculty for more than 50 years.

Present at the Primary ...
More than 50 Hofstra students experienced the excitement of the 2012 presidential race when they traveled to New Hampshire, January 7-9, to take part in various Republican primary events, including private sessions with the candidates, town hall style meetings, campaign headquarters tours, and Q-and-A sessions.

Dr. David Green, professor of political science, has led Hofstra students to New Hampshire for previous primaries. This time around the students took more ownership of the trip and planning its agenda. After a town hall meeting with then-Republican candidate Rick Santorum, the students invited him onto their bus for a private Q-and-A session. “The trip was the highlight of my undergraduate career,” said David Zuniga, then-president of Hofstra’s Student Government Association and former chairman of The College Republicans.

Dr. Meena Bose (second from left) with Sidney Madden,
Simran Nanda and Marina Pino - three of the four students
who are interning at the national political conventions.

Students Work the Presidential Conventions
Hofstra students are studying and working as interns at the Democratic and Republican national conventions as part of Hofstra’s Debate 2012: Pride, Politics & Policy initiative – a slate of programs and events planned around the University’s hosting of the second presidential debate on October 16. The participating students are broadcast journalism major Sidney Madden and political science major Simran Nanda, who are attending the Republican National Convention in Tampa, FL, August 18-31, and political science majors Jesse Crosson and Marina Pino, who are attending the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC, August 25-September 7.

This opportunity to participate in the Campaign 2012 National Convention Seminars is sponsored by The Washington Center, a nonprofit organization that offers programs and seminars for credit for college students.

In the Schools

Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Medical Jeopardy ... Question: A 60-year-old man has symptoms that include fever, malaise and chest pain two weeks after he suffered a heart attack. He is suffering from ...? The answer is: What is Dressler’s Syndrome? A team of Hofstra students won bragging rights as New York’s sharpest physician assistant students after correctly answering this question, and were named the 2011 champions in the New York State Society of Physician Assistants (NYSSPA) Medical Jeopardy competition. The three-student team from Hofstra’s Physician Assistant Studies Program – Jason Wieland, Edward Wansor and Jaclyn McQuade – triumphed over students from P.A. programs from nine other colleges and universities in the state.

LTC David Daniel (right) at the Winter
Commissioning ceremony for 2LT Shelton
Thelismon, who completed his studies as
a Distinguished Military Graduate.

Commissioning Ceremony Honors Young Officers ... Hofstra’s Military Science Department held its Winter Commissioning Ceremony on December 19, and 2LT Shelton Thelismon, who received a B.B.A. in management from Hofstra at midyear commencement on December 20, took his oath of appointment and became a commissioned officer in the United States Army. 2LT Thelismon, from Brooklyn, NY, completed his studies as a Distinguished Military Graduate (DMG), a designation awarded to the top 20 percent of ROTC seniors in the nation.

On May 17, the ROTC’s Spring Commissioning Ceremony saw a total of 10 Hofstra students – 2LT William Barna II (DMG), 2LT Matthew Clements, 2LT Francesco Fanelli (DMG), 2LT Prescilla John, 2LT Kryslyn Lotspeich, 2LT Joshua May (DMG), 2LT Christopher Morrison, 2LT Mikhal Polan, 2LT Brittany Rose and 2LT Alexandria Wiedenbaum – take their oaths of appointment to become commissioned Army officers.

Design Inspirations ... An exhibition of student design from Professor Bez Ocko’s First- Year Connections (FYC) class was on display at the FORM Gallery in Calkins Hall in March. The exhibition included more than 100 works of student art from the years 2008, 2009 and 2011. Design Inspirations is a freshman-level course offered by the Department of Fine Arts and Art History. The class utilizes historical examples as a framework for creating new graphic works.

The exhibit included large posters in the style of the object poster, monograms modeled after Vienna Workshop designs, music festival posters referencing Victorian wood type posters, and personal identification designs inspired by a Paul Rand ad of the 1940s.

Matthew Neugeboren
collaborated with musician,
composer and producer
Mitch Allan to release his
second EP, I Would Run.

Reaching for His Musical Dreams ...
English major Matthew Neugeboren released his second EP, I Would Run, with songs currently available for download on iTunes. The 19-year-old, whose album was released under the name Mat Brandon, has been playing piano since the age of 5 and songwriting since he was 12. Then his work was brought to the attention of SR-71 front man Mitch Allan. Allan, who has produced and written for Daughtry, the Jonas Brothers, Hannah Montana, Bowling for Soup and Simple Plan, was so impressed with Mat’s homemade demos that he invited him out to Los Angeles where they recorded and produced I Would Run together. Almost as an afterthought, Allan shared a track he co-wrote with Kara DioGuardi, “I Am.” Mat was given creative license to rework the song, and it became a last-minute addition to the album.

“Chinese Bridge” Competition ... Hofstra sophomore Eric Leonardis placed second in the third “Chinese Bridge” East USA Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students, organized by the New York Service Center for Chinese Study Fellows, under the guidance of the Chinese Counsel in New York. This event is an international contest that aims to persuade students in various countries to learn Chinese and strengthen the world’s understanding of Chinese language and culture. Eric, a triple major in psychology, history and Chinese studies, has also participated in the Hofstra in China study abroad program.

Fine Arts Student Exhibits Her Work ... Kaitlyn Yale ’12, a fine arts major with a specialization in painting and portraits, was given a prestigious opportunity during the spring 2012 semester to show three of her works at the Director’s Cut exhibition at the Long Island Art League. Director’s Cut is a talent showcase for students from the art departments of Long Island’s colleges and universities. Kaitlyn previously had a show at Hofstra’s Axinn Library titled If You Only Knew. Also during the spring semester she spent two days a week in Manhattan interning in the art department of The Rachael Ray Show.

Engineering Student Receives NSF Fellowship ... Steven Miller ’12 has been awarded a three-year graduate research fellowship from the National Science Foundation that will provide him with an annual stipend of $30,000. This fall Steven enters the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering Program at Cornell University, on a full academic scholarship.

Steven’s honors thesis, titled “Trellis Demodulation of Two-Level Read-Solomon-Modulated FH-CDMA Wireless Communication Systems,” was written with the guidance of Professor of Engineering Wing C. Kwong. The research involved improving the sending and receiving of data – for example, the encoding of one’s voice during a cell phone call and the decoding of it on the receiver’s end.


All the Right "Moves"...
Dance major Katherine Mayo '12 was selected to perform her original choreography, "Augusta Moves," at the gala performance of the prestigious National College Dance Festival, at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., in May 2012.

Katherine, a native of Augusta, Maine, explained that the performance, while a great honor, was the culmination of a long process and series of performances, both for Hofstra faculty and later for regional judges from the American College Dance Festival Association (ACDFA).


School of Communication

SOC Professional Club Recognized ... Ed2010, an organization of rising professional and aspiring magazine editors, praised Hofstra’s “Ed on Campus” (EOC) chapter for its accomplishments during the 2010-11 school year. Hofstra was noted for organizing two large-scale events connecting students with top magazine-industry leaders and for a compelling essay written by its president, Gennifer Delman ’12. EOC at Hofstra was founded in 2008 by Priscilla Rodriguez ’09.

Journalism Major Receives Opportunity at Fox News ... Luz Peña ’12 was named an Ailes Rising Apprentice for 2011, winning a $10,000 scholarship and a paid summer internship with Fox News. The Ailes Rising Apprentice program identifies and nurtures promising journalists at the college level.

(L to r) Melanie Rubin, Jackie De Tore, and Beth Laschever
won the opportunity to work with KABC-TV's On the Red
Carpet (OTRC) team and report live during the "On the Red
carpet at the Oscars" pre-show.

Reporting Live From the Red Carpet ... A team of three Hofstra students won the opportunity to report live from the Academy Awards after winning the “On The Red Carpet” College Journalist Contest, beating out more than 200 entries from around the country.

The winners – Jackie De Tore ’12, Melanie Rubin ’13, and Beth Laschever ’12 – were in Los Angeles from February 23 to 27, covering several Oscar Week events, including the Foreign Language Film Award press event and the Governors Ball preview. They also had the exclusive opportunity to work with KABC-TV’s On the Red Carpet (OTRC) team and report live during the “On the Red Carpet at the Oscars” pre-show on Sunday, February 26, at the Kodak Theater at Hollywood & Highland Center, as well as visit backstage during the awards show and attend the Governors Ball.

School of Education and Program in Health Professions and Kinesiology

Two students from the Athletic Training Education Program
(ATEP), Elizabeth Smith and Alexandra Sperduti, received
prestigious scholarships. Here, ATEP students show off
their skills at the Fifth Annual ATEP Olympics in May 2012.

Hofstra Students Win Athletic Training Scholarships ... Elizabeth Smith ’12 and junior Alexandra Sperduti, both majors in Hofstra’s Athletic Training Education Program (ATEP), have been named recipients of prestigious scholarships within their area of study. Elizabeth won the New York State Athletic Trainers’ Association (NYSATA) Edward Abramoski Scholarship, established by the Buffalo Bills in honor of the team’s longtime athletic trainer. Alexandra was awarded the District II scholarship through the Eastern Athletic Trainers’ Association (EATA).

Elizabeth maintained a 3.8 GPA and was named a Provost’s Scholar in spring 2010. She served as a manager for Hofstra’s women’s basketball team. She said, “Being a women’s basketball manager, I have the ability to treat players and work with the professional trainers on the road, and that’s something you don’t get with many clinical experiences.”

Alexandra’s District II scholarship makes selections from applicants from Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware and New Jersey. The scholarship is awarded to 10 outstanding students from the EATA membership. The $2,500 scholarship was awarded to Alexandra on January 7, 2012, at the annual EATA Meeting in Boston, MA. 

Frank G. Zarb School of Business 

Hofstra NABA Chapter Takes Top Honors ... Zarb School of Business students took top honors in the National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) Student Chapter Reporting & Evaluation Program (SCREP). “This honor has everything to do with our chapter’s present leadership under Brittany Hinds and our present executive board,” said Eugene Maccarrone, Hofstra associate professor of accounting, taxation, and legal studies in business, and chapter advisor. SCREP is a national program that requires all NABA student chapters to report on the activities that take place within their chapter.

Alpha Kappa Psi Hosts Internship and Networking Event ... Alpha Kappa Psi hosted a November 29, 2011, internship panel that explained the benefits, as well as the steps to take, to obtain an internship. Students from each business major were represented. A networking hour followed the panel presentation. Alpha Kappa Psi is Hofstra’s only coed professional business fraternity that promotes professional development, networking skills, leadership, and unity.

Corporate Connections Networking Night ... Zarb School Graduate Career Services presented a November 30, 2011, networking night for M.B.A./M.S. marketing, marketing research, and management majors. Students had the opportunity to meet representatives from a wide variety of industries. Participating corporations included The NPD Group; ArkNet Media; Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum; IPSOS; J. D’Adarrio & Company, Inc.; Sleepy’s, LLC; United Way; and North Shore-LIJ Health System.

Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine

School of Medicine students
celebrated the publication of
their new literary journal,
Narrateur: Reflections on
Caring.

Narrateur: Reflections on Caring Gives Voice to Challenges and Celebrations of Patient Care ... Students at the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine celebrated the publication of their new literary journal, Narrateur: Reflections on Caring. The creation of the medical journal stands as a symbol of the School of Medicine’s commitment to self-expression, reflection, compassion and respect for the patient-physician relationship. Narrateur publishes works – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography or illustration – by students, faculty and employees of North Shore-LIJ Health System, Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine and Hofstra University.

Mentoring Grant Awarded ... 

The School of Medicine received a $5,000 grant from the Association of American Medical Colleges, Northeast Group on Educational Affairs (NEGEA) Educational Research/Innovation Grants Program to study the best way to advise and mentor medical students at schools with new, developing medical programs. The Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine is one of 17 schools in the United States known as “Millennial Medical Schools,” schools for students born between 1982 and 2002. The School of Medicine has a mentoring and advisement plan in place, administered by “Society Masters.” Society Masters provide students with a layer of support and advisement that carries them through their undergraduate medical education and beyond. Researchers will look at advising/mentoring programs in place with a focus on career counseling, student-faculty connection, humanism and professionalism, stress reduction, and ongoing support and guidance.

Grad Student Earns First Place in Poster Contest ... 

James Carrion, a student pursuing a Ph.D. at the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, earned a $1,000 scholarship for his first place finish in the Empire State Medical Association’s fifth annual research poster competition, held at the Mentoring in Medicine Conference in New York City. James’ project, titled “Metabolic Response to Acute and Sub- Chronic Morphine in Rodents,” looked at changes in brain function during opiate use in rodents and how this information might help predict eventual widespread damage. James is pursuing a Ph.D. in molecular basis of medicine and, as part of his education, also conducts research at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research.

Inaugural Year Comes to a Close ... 

As Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine wraps up its founding year, the 40 students have an extensive collection of patient experiences to look back on, usually reserved only for medical residents. These patient experiences, which have included attending surgeries, delivering babies and rotating through many of the North Shore-LIJ Health System’s hospitals and physician group practices, are at the curriculum’s core and teach biomedical science through real-life patient encounters. 

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Hofstra Athletics: Arcadia Publishing and Author Chris R. Vaccaro ’07 to Release Book on Hofstra Athletics

In collaboration with Arcadia Publishing, author Chris R. Vaccaro is proud to announce the forthcoming release of his fifth book, Hofstra Athletics, in Arcadia Publishing’s Images of Sports series.

Hofstra Athletics is set for release in mid- to late-January, and orders are now being accepted for presale. The cost of the book is $21.99 plus $4 for shipping and handling (USPS Priority Mail). For bulk orders or for more information, please call 516-HOF-TIXX. The book may also be ordered online at GoHofstra.com.

Since its founding in 1935, Hofstra University has built a strong reputation in the collegiate sports world. Thousands of athletes have represented one of Long Island’s finest private universities, winning countless championships and helping to create a foundation of history that is remembered today. Hofstra Athletics strings together a pictorial history of Hofstra’s well-known coaches and athletes, championship teams, and players who achieved success on the professional level.

This book captures nearly 200 images of student-athletes, coaches, administrators, facilities and many other aspects of the Hofstra community. With captions accompanying every image and photos dating back to the 1930s, this book is a must for any Hofstra fan. Hofstra Athletics features a foreword by Craig “Speedy” Claxton, one of the most prolific athletes to attend Hofstra. He was selected in the first round of the NBA draft in 2000 and spent 10 seasons in the league. He led the Pride to an NCAA tournament appearance, was inducted into the Hofstra Athletics Hall of Fame in 2011, and had his jersey number (10) retired.

Chris R. Vaccaro, an award-winning journalist from Long Island and a 2007 graduate of Hofstra University, is the author of four previous books on Long Island sports history and has written for more than 100 publications nationwide. He is an editor with AOL’s Patch.com, adjunct professor of journalism at Hofstra University, and a board member for the Press Club of Long Island.

Arcadia Publishing is the leading local history publisher in the United States, with a catalog of more than 6,000 titles in print and hundreds of new titles released every year.

Established in 1993, Arcadia has blended a visionary management approach with the innovative application of state-of-the-art technology to create high-quality historical publications in small local niches.

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