“Leading Voices”
, a speaker series held once a semester, recognizes and invites a
faculty member from St. John’s College with a distinguished record
in scholarship, research and creative accomplishment to reflect
upon her/his craft and career. In the format of a conversation with
an interviewer, this informal yet informative forum is intended to
uncover individual personalities, passions, and approaches that
have lead each of these scholars, researchers, or artists to such
excellent levels of achievement. It recognizes them as “leading
voices” in the College, who serve to enrich, encourage, and inspire
both faculty and students. This forum similarly is in line with
efforts to foster a vibrant, collegial environment of
interdisciplinary communication and collaboration at St John’s
University.
Steering Committee:
Dorah Ahmad (Eng),
José G. Centeno
(CSD; Coordinator),
Robert Delfino
(Phi), Paul Fabozzi (Fine Arts),
Beverly Greene
(Psych),
Timothy Milford
(Hist),
David Rosenthal
(Math),
Laura M. Schramm
(Bio)
Everyone
– students, faculty, administrators, and general public - is
invited to attend
SPRING 2012
Thursday,
April 12, 2012
5:00-7:00
PM
St
John’s Hall 113
Invited
Speaker
Frank J. Coppa, Ph.D.
Department
of History (retired)
Interviewer
Timothy
A. Milford, Ph.D.
Department of History
Frank J. Coppa
was Professor of History and Director of Doctoral Studies in Modern
World History at St. John’s University. In 2011,
Dr. Coppa was the first recipient of the American Catholic
Historical Association’s Lifetime Distinguished Scholarship Award
and was cited as a World Renowned Scholar of the Modern
Papacy. Among his many
other honors are awards from the
Fulbright Foundation and the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
Dr.
Coppa’s most recent books include The Modern Papacy and The Papacy, the Jews, and the
Holocaust. His
work on the latter subject has led to over twenty television
appearances. His Pope Pius XII: Between History and
Polemic will be published
by the Catholic University Press in 2013. Dr. Coppa has edited
and contributed to many key reference works in his field, including
The Dictionary of Modern Italian History, The New
Catholic Encyclopedia, and The Encyclopedia of Modern
Dictators.
Dr.
Coppa received his B.A from Brooklyn College and his M.A. and Ph.D.
from the Catholic
University of America.
He began teaching at St. John’s in 1965.
FALL 2011
Thursday, Nov. 10
2:00-3:15 PM (Common Hour)
Bent Hall 101C
Invited Speaker
Richard Lockshin, Ph.D.
Dept. of Biological Sciences (retired)
Interviewer
Laura Schramm, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, St. John's College (Staten Island)
Associate Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences.
Dr. Richard Lockshin
is a cellular biologist from the Department of Biological Sciences,
St. John’s University. He is best known for his work on programmed
cell death. Dr. Lockshin earned his bachelor's degree in
Biochemical Sciences and a doctorate in Biology at Harvard. Dr.
Lockshin’s thesis research focused mainly on developmental cell
death in insects and for which he received his Ph.D, under the
direction of Dr. Carroll Williams. In 1964, Lockshin and Williams
published their breakthough contribution to cell biology entitled
"Programmed Cell Death: Endocrine Potentiation of the Breakdown of
the Intersegmental Muscles of Silkmoths", in which they coined the
term, "programmed cell death" during a time in cell biology when
little research was being carried out on this topic. Richard
Lockshin has made significant contributions to the cell death
community throughout his illustrious career at St. John’s
University.
SPRING 2011
Wed., April 13
Invited Speaker
Elizabeth Brondolo, Ph.D.
Professor,
Department of Psychology
Director, Social Stress and Health Research Unit
Interviewer
Beverly Greene, Ph.D., ABPP
Professor, Department of Psychology
Diplomate in Clinical Psychology
American Board of Professional Psychology
Elizabeth Brondolo, Ph.D.
is a Professor at St. John's University in Queens, NY, and Director
of the Social Stress and Health Research Unit. Her research unit
conducts programmatic, mechanistic research aimed at understanding
and ameliorating social problems. Specifically, Dr. Brondolo and
her students study effects of work stress, racism, and poverty on
mood and cardiovascular health. Her research employs a variety of
methodologies, including ambulatory monitoring, to permit her to
bring the “lab to the field”. Her research has been funded by the
NIMH, CDC-NIOSH, NHLBI, and the AHA. She is also a working
clinician, specializing in the treatment of bipolar disorder and
post-traumatic stress disorder. She is the author of Break the Bipolar Cycle: A
Day-to-Day Guide to Living with Bipolar Disorder (McGraw
Hill).