Change in Overnight Hours at the Queens Library
St. Augustine Hall will close Saturday, September 23 @ 6:00pm and reopen Sunday, September 24th @ 12noon. Therefore there will be no overnight study hours on Saturday, September 23rd @ 6:00pm as originally scheduled.
TimeTrade for Library Research Appointments
"Did you know that you can make a one on one appointment with a Reference Librarian? You can make an appointment via phone, email, and a through the software system called TimeTrade. This will allow you to select a date and time and make an appointment with one of our Reference librarians. To access it, please link to the following page:"
Support for Women in the Sciences Starts Early at St. John’s
Inspiring young women from local middle and high schools to pursue degrees in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields, St. John’s University hosted 50 eighth- and ninth-graders for a day of hands-on learning this summer as part of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum’s GOALS for Girls program.
Trip across the Atlantic Complements Students’ Africana Studies Course Work
When six St. John’s undergraduates joined Konrad Tuchscherer, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director of Africana Studies, on a two-week trip through Cameroon in May, they not only got an inside look at the country of more than 23 million, they saw firsthand the benefits of experiential learning.
Chemist Discusses Science Communication with Alan Alda
At the request of the American Chemical Society (ACS), an organization that has honored him many times over his career, Chemistry Professor Neil D. Jespersen, Ph.D., attended the World Science Festival from May 30 – June 4, 2017 in New York City. At the event, Jespersen met actor Alan Alda, founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University, and the two discussed how to improve chemistry teaching.
PhD Student Granted Access to Dominican Studies Archives
Raquel Corona ‘20Ph.D. first applied for a CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI) Archives and Library Research Award in 2016 without success, but after some mentoring from Assistant Professor of...
Biology Professor Wins First NIH Grant to Combat ALS
Though Wan Seok Yang, Ph.D., is only in his second year at St. John’s University as an assistant professor of Biological Sciences, he has already been awarded his first National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for the research proposal, “Determination of Cell Death Pathways Activated in ALS.” The amount of the award is $492,000 and extends for three years until 2020, at which point Yang may apply for another NIH grant with a larger funding amount. The current grant is part of the Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) Pilot Project Award (SC2) program.
Professor Becomes Double Grant Recipient for Sustainability Research
After a semester’s research leave working on her project, “Industrial Entanglements: The Black River as Political Ecological Agent in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica,” Associate Professor of Anthropology Anne M. Galvin, Ph.D., has secured two separate grants to support her continued work in this area. One, the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Global Research Grant, is being offered for the first time at St. John’s University. The other is a prestigious postdoctoral research grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the preeminent source of grant funding for international anthropological research.
Research Month Highlights Student and Faculty Scholarship
St. John’s annual Research Month activities in April showcased the breadth and quality of student and faculty scholarship across the University.
Research Month Highlights Student and Faculty Scholarship
As a junior at St. John’s, Haley Manchon ’17C was on a University service trip to Ecuador when she began studying the ways that public health education can help people to avoid pollution-borne illnesses.