Investing in the Future: St. John’s Builds Community through Expanding World of eSports
In the last 10 years, the phenomenon of eSports has taken hold of the video gaming world, evolving into a billion dollar industry featuring professionally organized competitions with large financial prizes often at stake. Professional eSports gamers have legions of fans who watch tournaments on streaming online platforms such as Twitch, and many have landed lucrative brand endorsements.
D’Angelo Chair Lecture Highlights Relationship between Irish and Jewish Immigrants
Catholic immigrants from Ireland and Jewish immigrants from Europe formed a symbiotic bond upon their arrival to the United States in the middle- and late-19th century. That was the core message of Hasia R. Diner, Ph.D., during the annual D’Angelo Chair Lecture, “Twinned Histories: Irish and Jewish Immigrants to the United States,” held at St. John’s University on March 28.
Marketing and Communications Department Earns External Accolades
The spring awards season is underway, and the Office of Marketing and Communications at St. John’s University has garnered awards for both print and digital communications from prestigious...
Professor William Murphy Places First at Master Teacher Competition
Professor William Murphy, Assistant Professor, Division of Criminal Justice, Legal Studies and Homeland Security received First Place Recognition in the Master Teacher Competition at the 2019 MBAA International Conference for his innovative and creative teaching exercise known as Legal Shark Tank.
Record-Breaking Number of Visitors Flock to St. John’s Accepted Student Day
St. John’s University recorded the largest turnout in the history of Accepted Student Day when 2,292 students, along with their families, converged on the Queens, NY, campus on Saturday, April 6, to...
An Experience of Poverty Raises Awareness for Students
Seeking a better understanding of poverty in the United States, 84 St. John’s University students, faculty, administrators, and staff participated in “The Poverty Experience,” a simulation of the...
Improving the Customer Experience
In a way, the words you are reading right now are the result of service marketing and service design. Throughout much of their history, alumni magazines mostly published stories focused on the...
Journalism Program Hosts SPJ Facebook Journalism Project Training
Facebook can help journalists find and track stories along with covering the news in fresh ways. Those were some of the topics covered by Digital Trainer Kerwin Speight during his presentation on...
Articulation Agreement Creates Academic Pathway from LaGuardia Community College to St. John’s University
At a formal ceremony held on St. John’s Queens, NY, campus on March 22, an articulation agreement between the University and LaGuardia Community College was signed that creates a seamless process for...
Multidistrict Litigation Scholar Elizabeth Chamblee Burch Receives 2019 Mangano Award
St. John’s Law welcomed Professor Elizabeth Chamblee Burch, the Fuller E. Callaway Chair of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law, to campus recently to accept the Hugh L. Carey Center for...