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Former School Administrator Named to Niagara University Board of Trustees

June 20, 2024

Robert L. Bradley Jr., a retired school administrator in the Niagara Falls City School District, has been elected and named to the Niagara University Board of Trustees. The appointment was announced by the Rev. James J. Maher, C.M., president of the university.

Dr. Laura Kremmel Authors Chapter in “Religious Horror and the Ecogothic”

June 20, 2024

Dr. Laura Kremmel, assistant professor of English, authored a chapter in “Religious Horror and the Ecogothic,” a recently published collection that illuminates the ways in which a Christianized understanding of hierarchy, dominion, fear, and sublimity shapes reactions to the environment and conceptions of humanity’s place therein through a survey of Ecogothic texts from the 18th century to the present day.

Niagara University students outside of Canada's Wonderland

Niagara University in Ontario Hosts Day at Canada’s Wonderland for Newcomers

June 18, 2024

On Saturday, June 15, more than 30 Niagara University in Ontario students and friends enjoyed a day at Canada's Wonderland. The event, part of NUO’s Newcomer & Family Support program, was the second in the Urban Excursion series.

Niagara University’s Master’s Degree Program in Information Security and Digital Forensics Receives National Security Agency Validation

June 17, 2024

Niagara University’s Master of Science in Information Security and Digital Forensics program has been validated by the United States’ National Security Agency, recognizing it as a top advanced degree program that will contribute to the greater national mission of preparing a qualified and robust cybersecurity workforce. The designation was awarded after a review completed by the NSA in partnership with a committee of academic peers.

Dr. Patricia Briscoe and NU alumnus John Della Fortuna, M.S.Ed.’06, M.S.Ed.’21, co-authored “Elite High-Level Sports Coach and the School Leader: What Can We Learn from Them?”

NU Professor Co-authors Article with NU Alumnus in the Open Journal of Leadership

June 13, 2024

Dr. Patricia Briscoe, Niagara University in Ontario associate professor of education, and NU alumnus John Della Fortuna, M.S.Ed.’06, M.S.Ed.’21, co-authored “Elite High-Level Sports Coach and the School Leader: What Can We Learn from Them?” which was published in March 2024 in the Open Journal of Leadership.

Dr. Patricia Briscoe and and NU alumna Jody-Ann Robinson, ’19, M.S.Ed.’22, co-authors of“Surviving and Thriving: An Autoethnography of a Black Afro-Caribbean Early Career Teacher in a Northern Ontario First Nation Community.”

NU Professor Co-authors Article with NU Alumna Detailing Experience of Black Afro-Caribbean Early Career Teacher

June 13, 2024

Dr. Patricia Briscoe, Niagara University in Ontario associate professor of education, and NU alumna Jody-Ann Robinson, ’19, M.S.Ed.’22, co-authored “Surviving and Thriving: An Autoethnography of a Black Afro-Caribbean Early Career Teacher in a Northern Ontario First Nation Community,” which was published in the Journal of Teaching and Learning.

Niagara University’s Vincentian Mission Institute cohort 8 at the VMI Commencement on April 12, 2024. Left to right: Dr. Mark Frascatore; Dr. Tamara Minor; Jeremy Colby; Dr. Carol Doyle-Jones; the Rev. James Maher, C.M., NU president; the Rev. Greg Semeniuk, C.M., NU vice president for mission integration; and Dr. Vennessa Walker.

Vincentian Heritage Sustained Through Vincentian Mission Institute

June 11, 2024

The voice of St. Vincent de Paul can be “heard” in classrooms, hallways, and common areas throughout the Niagara University campus on artwork featuring some of his most popular quotations. The installations were the capstone project undertaken by Niagara’s cohort in the Vincentian Mission Institute, an 18-month program sponsored by Niagara, St. John’s, and DePaul universities that seeks to prepare lay senior leadership to support the distinctive Vincentian and Catholic mission and identity of their institutions.

NU Professor Named Editor of Journal of Classroom Research in Literacy

June 10, 2024

Dr. Carol Doyle-Jones, academic associate dean, Niagara University in Ontario, and associate professor in the College of Education, has been named editor-in-chief for the Journal of Classroom Research in Literacy, an online, peer-reviewed journal highlighting research conducted by teacher candidates and teachers. It is published annually each spring.

Students learned about Caseificio Bio Reggiani’s “zero km supply chain” during a tour of the organic parmesan cheese factory.

Niagara University in Ontario MBA Students Gain International Business Perspective During Trip to Italy

June 7, 2024

Dr. Galina Boiarintseva, assistant professor of management at Niagara University in Ontario, believes that an international viewpoint is critical for learning. That’s why she facilitates an opportunity each year for her students to travel abroad, where they can see how the theories, concepts, and practical exercises they learn in class are applied outside of the North American market.

Former School Administrator Named to Niagara University Board of Trustees

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