Seawolves Club Goal to Raise $700K Record-Breaking Blood Drive
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FACULTY / STAFF / FRIENDS NEWSLETTER VOLUME 8 NO. 13 March 14, 2001 BR«#K STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK National Women's Seawolves Club Goal Tonge Selected as History Month Sloan Fellow Peter Tonge, Associate Professor in Wednesday, March 14 to Raise $700K the Department of Chemistry, has Lynnsey M. Blume (Community been selected as an Alfred P. Sloan Educator, Suffolk County Coalition "Scholarships Build Champions" Research Fellow for 2001. This is Against Domestic Violence) will an extraordinarily competitive talk about the dynamics of dating Campaign Runs Through March award, and the Fellowship carries and domestic violence and what to with it a grant of $40,000 for lhehe Stony Brook Seawolves Club „ M Y do if you or someone you know is two years. kicked off its annual P.A.W.S. experiencing dating or domestic vio The Sloan Research Fellow Campaign on Friday, February 23, lence. 12:40 p.m.-2:00 p.m. Peace T; mi ships, established in 1955, provide announcing a goal of $700,000 for Center, Old Chemistry support and recognition to young scholarships within the next five weeks. scientists who are often in their first Thursday, March 15 P.A.W.S. (Providing Athletes With appointments to university faculties Marci Lobel (Associate Professor of Scholarships) is the driving force behind * a * and are attempting to set up labora Psychology) will speak about "PMS the success of Stony Brook's 19 Divi tories and establish independent and Menopause: The Truth Is Not sion I teams. Since state funds cannot be research projects with little or no What We've Been Sold." 4:00 p.m.- used for athletic scholarships, the campus community must lend its support to outside support. The Fellowships 5:00 p.m. Peace Center, Old Chemistry the teams so the athletic program can thrive and win on a national level. are awarded in applied mathemat At the kick-off event, the Athletics Department unveiled the slogan for this Wednesday, March 28 ics, chemistry, computer science, year's campaign—Scholarships Build Champions—and debuted a video show This one-day conference, "Gender economics, neuroscience, physics, casing the talents of the University's student-athletes, many of whom would not Equity in Education: Students and and pure mathematics. be attending Stony Brook if it were not for the scholarships they received. Educators as Partners for Change," is Selection procedures for the In its first three years, P.A.W.S. has raised more than $1 million, which presented by the Center for Excel Sloan Research Fellowships identi enables the team coaches to recruit talented athletes who are the best in their lence in Learning and Teaching fy those who show the most out sport. Now that Stony Brook is a Division I university and will compete in the (CELT) in community partnerships standing promise of making funda America East Conference, there is an even greater need to increase the support of with the Long Island Fund for mental contributions to new knowl its athletes and encourage more high-caliber students to choose Stony Brook. Women and Girls. It offers work edge. Sloan Research Fellows, once Throughout March, P.A.W.S. volunteers will be reaching out to faculty, shops for students, educators, and chosen, are free to pursue whatever staff, and students for their support. There are many benefits to investing in community leaders interested in fur lines of inquiry are most compelling the future of Stony Brook's students. In addition to making a difference in a thering gender equity in education. to them. Their Sloan funds can be For details, "call 632-1057 or visit usee! Tor a wide variety of expenses of the Club will enjoy the opportunity to get great seats for Seawolves foot www .celt .sunysb .edu. for which other, more restricted ball, basketball, and lacrosse games; invitations to the prestigious Hardwood funds —such as research project Speaker Traci Nix (Intern at Univer Golf Outing, discounts toward Seawolves merchandise; and much more. grants—cannot usually be applied. sity Counseling Services) presents There are many ways to join the team. University employees can request a The Program Committee "The Life and Art of Rose O'Neill: payroll deduction, write a check to the P.A.W.S. Campaign, or charge their reviews nearly 500 nominations Kewpies and Monsters." 1:00 p.m.- gift. Or, they can become volunteers for the Club and help recruit more mem each year to arrive at the final 2:00 p.m. Wo/Men's Center Library bers. For more information on volunteering or contributing to the P.A.W.S. selection. The Foundation awards (Room 221), SB Union. Campaign, please call Jessica Biegaj, Director of the Seawolves Club and Spe 104 fellowships each year, bringing cial Events, at 632-4576. Thursday, March 29 total grants in the program to $4.2 The campaign continues through the first week of April. Donations will Dr. Laura Williams (Director of the million annually. Under present be accepted through June 2001. Join the team and help brighten the future of Wo/Men's Center) speaks about "The operating procedures, the fellow Stony Brook students and its athletic program. Dove and the Elephant: The Marriage ships are allocated as follows: 23 of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Its for physics, 23 for chemistry, 20 for Impact on Her Art." 7:00 p.m.-8:00 mathematics, 16 for neuroscience, p.m. Wo/Men's Center Library (Room Record-Breaking 14 for computer science, and 8 for 221), SB Union. economics. Women's Tennis: Stony Brook vs. Twenty-four Sloan Fellows Wagner, 3:00 p.m. Outside Courts. Blood Drive have won Nobel Prizes later in their careers, and hundreds have received Saturday, March 31 or five days last month, six quads —Mendel other prestigious honors. Women's Tennis: Stony Brook vs. sohn, Kelly, Tabler, H, Roth, and Roosevelt- Central Connecticut, 12:00 p.m. Fcompeted to see who could donate the most Outside Courts. blood. And the results of this first-ever student blood drive exceeded anyone's expectations. Stony Brook For more information about these students donated 348 pints of blood to the Long events, call the Women's Studies Pro Island Blood Center at a time when it was desperate gram at 632-9176. ly needed. Additionally, 277 students signed up for In Memoriam Morgan Zuch inspired the bone marrow registry. students. Martin Stevens, English Professor The blood drive, dubbed Morgan's Drive, was and Chair of the Department of Eng dedicated to Morgan Zuch, the two-year-old daugh lish in the 1970s, passed away on ter of Rod Zuch, Director of Development for the Marine Sciences Research February 24 after a long illness. Center. Morgan was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia three Professor Stevens specialized months ago. "Thankfully, my daughter's doing well right now," said Zuch. in medieval literature and edited "But there are thousands of children and adults who need blood transfusions the Towneley Mystery Play Cycle every day just to survive." for the Early English Text Society, Carl Hanes, Deputy to the President for Special Projects, spearheaded the which is the standard editing soci Me and Isaac Newton drive along with Jason DeSantis, Mora O'Keefe, Erica Cardoza, and more ety for medieval texts, based at than 100 other student volunteers. "I'm extremely proud of our students for Oxford. Tuesday, March 27 participating in such overwhelming numbers. We couldn't accommodate all He went on to become Dean of 7:00 p.m. the donors," said Hanes. "They really came through." the College of Arts and Sciences at A Statesman article and editorial, posters throughout campus, and a door-to- Baruch College, then Distinguished Staller Center door leaflet campaign combined to fuel the drive, with Roth Quad and Roosevelt Professor of English at CUNY Grad Quad vying for high honors on the final night. After all the donations were count See the documentary film featuring uate School. He retired in 1995 and ed, Roosevelt eked out a narrow victory. President Kenny will present a trophy to Stony Brook Anthropology Professor moved to San Francisco. Professor the winners in a special ceremony on March 15 at 5:30 p.m. in the Benedict Col Patricia Wright. Tickets are free. Stevens touched the lives of many lege Atrium in H Quad. and will be remembered by his col Another blood drive for faculty, staff, and students is scheduled for April. leagues at Stony Brook. Undergrad to Discussion of Perform at Staller Stony Brook Attracts Equality in Education Susan Deaver, Music Director and Wednesday, March 28 Conductor of the University Orches High Achievers tra, has announced the results from uring the past few years, Stony Brook has been making a concerted effort More than 200 educators, administra the Undergraduate Concerto Compe to attract Intel and National Merit Scholars. The research that these stu tors, and students will focus on issues tition, which was held on February dents conduct in high school is what earns them their scholarship monies relating to gender equity at a confer D ence that is one of the largest events of 20. The winner will perform at the and alerts universities to their research potential on the undergraduate level. University Orchestra's concert on Two years ago, President Kenny launched an initiative known as Presi its kind on Long Island. "Blueprint for Tuesday, April 24, on the Main Stage dential Recognition Scholarships to acknowledge achievements in the National Gender Equity in Education: Students of the Staller Center at 8:00 p.m. Merit Scholarship® Program and the Intel Science Talent Search, and to and Educators as Partners for Change," The first-prize winner is violin attract these research-oriented high-achievers.