Additional events will be held as the semester continues, in partnership with the Student Association. “We will come together as a Queens College family in the future,” said Interim President Tramontano at the end of the 45-minute session, wishing good health to all students and their families. Patched in from remote locations, panelists fielded student questions submitted in advance-including from Student Association President Joseph Cobourne-on an array of topics (see sample Q&A, immediately below). Queens College inaugurated its virtual Town Hall with “Going the Distance” on the evening of April 1 with an all-star administrative lineup, moderated by Interim Chief of Staff Meghan Moore-Wilk, of Interim President William Tramontano, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Elizabeth Hendrey, Vice President for Student Affairs Adam Rockman, Vice President for Enrollment and Student Retention Richard Alvarez, Associate Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs Alicia Alvero, and Associate Provost for Innovation and Student Success Eva Fernandez. Michael Finkel ’01, director and senior counsel at the Global Investment Bank Societe Generale, is to be nominated director of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation. John Dennehy (Biology) received attention for the protocol he developed with Monica Trujillo (Biological Sciences and Geology, Queensborough Community College) for determining the local prevalence of COVID-19 by measuring the level of the virus in New York City sewage.
He also wrote music for two other videos, including “This Time Next Year,” shown on the convention’s final night. Peter Calandra (ACSM) wrote the score for the Democratic National Convention video, “We the People,” which aired on Monday, August 17. In addition, the editors for the culture and gender department of The Clinical Neuropsychologist (TCN) invited Byrd to provide a commentary on white privilege in neuropsychology. Desiree Byrd (Psychology) was made a fellow in the American Psychological Association, Division 40, Clinical Neuropsychology.
Current students, such as Cayla Kempf, Kathy Arroyo, and Andre Benjamin, fielded questions from newcomers.Īndrew Beveridge (Sociology), recently retired, gave a virtual presentation-Will the 2020 Census Fail? Four (or maybe More) Risks to Census 2020-on August 10 to a session of the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. Welcome Day, on Tuesday, August 26, continued a longstanding campus tradition, celebrating the start of the QC journey for all incoming students.
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The event included inspiring guest alumni speakers such as Olivier Noel ’11, founder of an online DNA bank that provides researchers with samples from all over the world, and Vallaire Wallace ’20, who received a full scholarship to pursue doctoral studies in African American literature and the culture of the Harlem Renaissance at the University of Virginia. Ubuntu, a resource fair and networking opportunity focused on the Black student experience, was offered for the first time on Monday, August 25. Wu, senior academic and student affairs administrators, and Student Association leaders.
There were virtual and video presentations by President Frank H. First-year students received warm introductions to Queens College and the first days of classes through back-to-back events last week.
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