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The CCSU Alumni ENews is designed to keep
alumni and friends up-to-date with news
from the University, including important
announcements, student and alumni achievements,
athletic news and upcoming events. |
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New Director of Intercollegiate
Athletics Named
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CCSU President Jack
Miller named Paul Schlickmann the
new Director of Athletics early
in April. Schlickmann comes to New
Britain from Stony Brook University,
where he was the Executive Associate
Director of Athletics. Click
here for more of the story. Click
here for video of the announcement. |
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Around
Campus
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CCSU students
received a number of awards
recently, as did the University
itself, which was selected
by Princeton Review as one
of 286 “Green Colleges”
in the nation. CCSU was
identified as an “exemplary
Green institution.”
Theatre major Gabbi Mendelsohn
received the national award
for directing at the Kennedy
Center American College
Theatre Festival in DC (think
of it as an Oscar) for directing
a play she cowrote with
Marissa Ann Grande.
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Marketing major Samantha
Magri won the Personal Venture
Division of the Spring 2010
Connecticut Collegiate Business
Plan Competition ($1,000);
she also won the state-wide
Elevator Pitch Competition
for a Personal Venture ($500).
Mechanical Engineering student
Tim Maver won the overall
award for top engineering
paper at the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers
(ASME) student paper competition.
Fourteen engineering students
competed in the 17th Annual
Great Moonbuggy Race, held
at the US Space & Rocket
Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Jeffery Cloutier, Walid
Alhomari, Hitesh Shah ,
Jason Williams, Joseph Wickham,
Arsalan Shamin, Majidullah
Dehlavi, Mounir Elrassmani,
Nicholas Monacchio, Pawel
Abramek, Carly Woodward,
Emanuel Figueroa, Massab
Hashmi, and Jenna Kimble
designed, built, and raced
the CCSU Moonbuggy to 7th
place out of 54 teams drawn
from around the nation.
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Alumni Association Awards & Hall
of Fame Inductions
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The CCSU Alumni
Association honored CCSU alumni
with its highest honors, and inducted
7 alumni into the CCSU Athletics
Hall of Fame. Awardees included:
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CCSU Athletic Hall of
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Young Alumni
Award: Jack J. Burriesci
’97
Kaiser Service Award: Mike
Ryan ’85
Distinguished Alumni Service
Award:
Norman Hausmann ’54 |
Joseph DiCosimo
’70
Rick Fusari ’70
Charles Jones, Jr. ’69,
MS ’72
Kate Mullen ’78
Brent Rutkowski, Posthumously |
For more information and a photo gallery of the event,
click here.
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On Campus in May
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Shakespeare’s
“As You Like It,” May 4-8.
Information.
A mural commemorating
the 40th anniversary of the student
massacres at Kent and Jackson State
will be created by art professors
Mike Alewitz and Jerry Butler.
Information.
June Baker Higgins
Gender Conference, May 7-8, featuring
keynoters New York Times columnist
Gail Collins and documentary filmmaker
Rachel Lloyd.
Information.
Completing the
Journey Back Home. Hispanic-American
Veterans of Connecticut 3rd Annual
Veterans Benefits Symposium. May
15, 2010. CCSU Student Center. 8:00
am-3:00 pm. For active duty, discharged,
or retired veterans and their spouses
or significant others. Information
for registration: Lucia Goicoechea-Hernandez
and Major Lesbia I. Nieves. www.havoct.org
or 860-721-5849.
CCSU School of
Business Hall of Honor Award Dinner,
May 15. Information.
Blue Devils Classic, Stanley Golf
Course, May 14.
Click here to register.
Save-the-Date
CCSU & SCSU Alumni Travelers Championship,
June 25
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The next issue of the Central
focus will publish in July, so there
is still time to send in a letter to the
editor:
Centralfocus@CCSU.edu;
tell us about your recently published book:
alumnibooks@CCSU.edu;
or place an ad:
advertising@ccsu.edu. |
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current and future students have access
to the educational excellence that defines
CCSU. To make a secure online gift,
please click here.
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Student Center Alumni
Featured in New Britain
Herald
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Read alumna, and
Assistant Director for Student Center
Services, Tiffany Moffo Simpson's
article on Central alumni who worked
at the Student Center,
here.
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