Posts Tagged ‘students’

Local High School Students Compete in Annual Classics Day

April 8th, 2016 by Jessica McCaughey

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Local high school students compete in the 44th annual Classics Day, hosted by the Holy Cross classics department. The day features a series of events relating to both the study and experience of ancient Roman culture and is designed to familiarize students with the classics department, its faculty, and current students. More than 500 students from 22 area high schools attended this year’s event and participated in various challenges and contests, including a manuscripts challenge, costume contest, trivia, and an art contest.

Photograph by Tom Rettig

Counseling Outreach Peer Educators Host Week of Events Promoting Healthy Living

April 7th, 2016 by Jessica McCaughey

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Students take a break to meet and pet therapy dogs during the Counseling Outreach Peer Educators (COPE) week of programming promoting healthy coping and mental health. During the week, students had the opportunity to relax with therapy dogs and cats, take Zumba classes, learn more during movie screenings and participate in Paint Night, complete with mocktails.

Photography by Andrea Peraza Calderon ’19

Sanchez ’16 Receives Award for Mental Health Advocacy Efforts

April 2nd, 2016 by Jessica McCaughey

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Natalie Sanchez ’16, a sociology major and visual arts studio minor from Nashua, N.H., accepts the 2015 Jordan Porco Foundation Student Mental Health Advocate of the Year Award at Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut. Sanchez was honored for her ongoing advocacy to promote mental health awareness and reducing stigma, including her efforts to bring Fresh Check Day to Holy Cross.

Photograph by Brian Ambrose

Students Travel to Ecuador to Conduct Field Work Over Spring Break

April 1st, 2016 by Evangelia Stefanakos

Over spring break, 9 students traveled to Ecuador with visiting lecturer Antonia Carcelén-Estrada to conduct field work for “Sportswriting in Spanish: Haciendo Periodismo Deportivo,” a course offered through the Spanish department and taught exclusively in Spanish.

Throughout the semester, students have been studying sports journalism, a rapidly growing communications industry, simultaneously developing their linguistic capacities while learning about different media platforms. Throughout the semester, each student has been working with a media contact in Ecuador, leading up to this trip which allowed them to engage first-hand with what they have been studying at the College.

Students cover the Barcelona vs. Aucas soccer match in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

In Ecuador, the students traveled to different cities covering a range of sports. They began in Guayaquil where they provided live coverage and commentary of a match between Ecuador’s two rival teams, Barcelona vs. Aucas; they later had the opportunity to interview famous tennis player, Nicolás Lapentti.

They also traveled to Bahía where they were on a live radio show called “La Voz de los Caras,” and got to cover adventure surfing, a popular sport in the area, interviewing surfers who established a surfing school in the city.

Their trip was rounded out in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, where the students interviewed the minister of sports, Xavier Enderica Salgado, a member of the executive branch of the Ecuadorian government.

Students met with Xavier Enderica Salgado, the Ecuadorian minister of sports in Ecuador’s capital of Quito.

For Anabella Perez ’16, the class is dynamic in every way. “Every time we come to class we are either preparing for a radio broadcast, creating mini films, or working on our documentary,” shares Perez, who says this trip was the best study tour she has taken at Holy Cross. “Even while we were in Ecuador for a week we never rested, we were always filming, reporting about a game, doing interviews, this to me was one of the best components in the course.”

Students will present a collective documentary on their semester-long course that will include material from their trip to Ecuador at the Academic Conference on April 28.

Students Express Gratitude on Philanthropy Day

March 28th, 2016 by Jessica McCaughey

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Students write thank you notes to donors during Holy Cross’ annual Philanthropy Day. The annual tradition is a day where students celebrate the importance of donor generosity and express their gratitude.

Photography by Tom Rettig

Community Members Volunteer at Local Science Fair

March 20th, 2016 by Jessica McCaughey

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Holy Cross faculty, students, and librarians volunteered as judges for the 5th and 6th grade Canterbury Street Magnet School’s Science Fair. Among the judges were Barbara Merolli, science librarian; Alicia Hansen, head of research and instruction services; De-Ping Yang, professor of physics; Ann Sheehy, associate professor of biology; Timothy Roach, associate professor of physics; Rob Bellin, professor and chair of biology; and students Lauren Riley, Jeeva Jacob, and Jeff Bourgeois.

Photography by Sue Hunt

Student Entrepreneurs Compete in Annual ‘Shark Tank’ Competition

March 15th, 2016 by Jessica McCaughey

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Four teams recently competed in the fourth annual Shark Tank Competition sponsored by the Ciocca Office of Entrepreneurial Studies. Students presented their original ideas prepared through various COES workshops with the aid of alumni mentors. This year’s participants included Sean Griffin ’16, Jake Medina ’16, Matt Heffner ’16, Matt Watson ’16, Reilly Bloom ’18, and Michael Sise ’18. The judges panel included alumni members Michael Guleserian ’93, chief experience officer of Nubar and Sheraton Commander Hotel; James Horne ’98, analyst at IBS Capital LLC; Larry Naughton ’93, co-chair of the Business & Technology Group, Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP; and Michael Balmuth, partner at SV Life Sciences.

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Matthew Watson ’16, center, an anthropology major with a self-designed food studies minor, took home the grand prize of $12,000 with his pitch to start the Brewery Stewardship Alliance, a sustainability certification program that empowers environmentally-friendly craft breweries. In a turn of events, the judges awarded Jake Medina ’16 and Sean Griffin ’16 second place with $2,500 to put toward their mobile technology units to help continue to expand their non-profit, Student Empowerment Program, an organization that seeks to close the educational technology gap.

Photography by Rob Carlin

Students Discuss Genocide Prevention at Annual Presidential Scholars Symposium

February 20th, 2016 by csteuer

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On Feb. 20, Holy Cross students met to discuss genocide prevention and an emerging international policy norm known as the “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P), as part of the annual Presidential Scholars Public Policy Symposium on campus.

The annual symposium provides an intellectually challenging forum for Presidential Scholars to explore compelling issues of public policy with their peers. Previously the scholars have confronted policy challenges related to global warming, U.S. immigration, global health issues, and the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake.

Photography by Natalie Sanchez ’16

Cousins and Fellow Crusaders Travel To Mountaintop Monastery

February 16th, 2016 by Jessica McCaughey

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Cousins Casey Norton ’16 and Tommy Gallant ’12 pose during a trip to Montserrat, a mountain in Catalonia, Spain where St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order, laid down his soldier’s weapons and began a new life devoted to study, teaching, service, faith and purpose. The two traveled for 10 days touring Barcelona and Morocco last summer. “We decided to make a special trip to Monserrat because Tom had recently graduated from Holy Cross and I was going to begin senior year,” says Norton. “It was an incredible experience being at such an important religious site and words truly can’t describe how I felt. It really made me feel connected with my faith and reinforced the concept of ‘men and women for and with others.’ ” Gallant is currently in his second year of medical school at the University of New England.

Photo submitted by Casey Norton

Students Dance to Raise More Than $30,000 For AIDS Research

February 16th, 2016 by csteuer

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On Jan. 30, students, staff and alumni at the College of the Holy Cross danced the night away in the Hogan Campus Center Ballroom and raised $33,787 for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation at the annual dance marathon hosted by Holy Cross Dance Marathon (HCDM). Participants danced from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m., to the theme “Ignite the Night.” Actress Fatima Ptacek, the voice of Nickelodeon’s “Dora the Explorer” and an ambassador of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, flew in for the event.  She also blogged about the dance marathon for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation’s website.