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Information
Sessions are offered throughout the year. These are good
opportunities to:
- talk with the
admission counselor, program director, financial aid
officer, and faculty
- learn how to
prepare a competitive application
- hear about the
best times to apply
- discover how
applications are evaluated, the interview process,
etc.
Contact: Jimmerson@setonhill.edu,
or 724-838-4231 for more information.
Tentative dates
for Fall 2003 Information Sessions are:
Dietetics
February
16, 2004
Administration
Building
Room
204
6:30pm
to 8pm
Physician
Assistant
November
19, 2003
Bayley
Hall
Room
205
6pm-7:30pm
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Volume 1, Number 2. November
2003
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Division
Updates
Potluck Dinner
 
On
Sunday, October 5th, the Division of Natural and Health Sciences
hosted the First Annual Potluck dinner at Bayley 112. Those in
attendance shared their decadent culinary skills for all to enjoy.
Sr. Ann, who won the door prize for being the first person to
respond to the Potluck dinner invitation, brought a wonderful fruit
salad while Dr. Chris Diaz's appetizers of Mexican and hot sausage
dip fired-up the first course. The entree's included Doreen
Tracy's carefully prepared pieroghis, Sr. Susan's festive chicken
enchiladas and lasagna. Dr. John Cramer supplied the
refreshments while Jan Sandrick prepared a side dish of Cajun rice.
Additional side dishes included Dr. Frances Blanco-Yu's pasta salad,
Dr. Steve Bassett's casserole, and Dr. Josh Sasmor's corn spoon
bread. Dinner was topped off with Dr. Wendy Sera's scrumptious
strawberry and
schoolhouse chocolate cakes while Denise Campbell supplied blueberry
and sour-cream peach pies to please the palate.
The
first annual potluck dinner proved to be a fortunate evening of
wonderful camaraderie and delectable fare.
We look forward to next year.
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Faculty
Updates
Dr. Wendy Sera (Biology
Program) and Cathy Early, one of Dr. Sera's former graduate
students at Baylor University, published a species account of
Microtus montanus, the montane vole, a common rodent of
higher elevations of the American West. The Mammalian
Species series is a peer-reviewed publication of the
American Society of Mammalogists; each number in the series
provides a thorough account of a single species (including all
known information about taxonomy, systematics, genetics, form,
function, fossil record, ecology, behavior, reproduction,
ontogeny, and conservation).
Sera,
Wendy E. and Cathleen N. Early.
2003. Microtus
montanus. Mammalian
Species 716: 1-10. 
Dr.
Sera has had another species account, this one of Clethrionomys
rutilus, the northern red-backed vole, accepted for
publication. In addition, she has been commissioned by the
American Society of Mammalogists to produce a species account of
Microtus californicus, the California vole, which will be
completed this summer.
Club News
 National
Chemistry Week
Earth's Atmosphere and Beyond!
October 19-25, 2003
Celebrated
annually on October 23 from 6:02 a.m. to 6:02 p.m., Mole Day commemorates
Avogadro's Number (6.02 x 1023),
which is a basic measuring unit in
chemistry.
SHU
Chemistry Club Celebrates National Chemistry Week
by
Tina Kopnitsky, Senior Dietetics/Nutrition Major
The
Chemistry Club celebrated National Chemistry Week, October 19-26
2003, with a kick off at the
35th American Chemical Society Central Regional meeting on Sunday
and Monday, where four
students presented posters. On Tuesday the club held a chapter
enrichment meeting to
teach the experiments being presented on Saturday at the Carnegie
Science Center. Mole Day
was celebrated Thursday with a table in the cafeteria with guess the
number of moles of candy.
(Moles are a unit of measurement in Chemistry.) On Saturday, October
25th, chemistry club
members participated in the Pittsburgh celebration of National
Chemistry Week at the Carnegie Science Center. Two experiments
were conducted dealing
with the selected theme "The Earth’s Atmosphere and Beyond."
Magic paper towel demonstrated gas evaporation while the effects
of acid rain on granite
was shown by the addition of vinegar to Tums. The gas
produced from the Tums reaction, carbon dioxide, was collected in
balloons to visually
show how CO2
is released into the atmosphere. The week
concluded with the cleaning of the club’s 2.5 mile stretch of
highway in Twin
Lakes Park for Adopt-a-Highway. A total of six bags of garbage was
collected.
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Division of Natural & Health Sciences