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Shewolves open season with 3-1 win against JCU October 2008: Many enthusiastic fans saw the AUR She-Wolves win their season opener October 30th 3-1 against rivals from John Cabot University. Pictured: Giancarlo Cerchiara and Mara Nisdeo celebrate their new beginnings. Farewell to four of our wonderful staff AUR reluctantly said Arrivederci to four of our staff members, Giancarlo Cerchiara, Mara Nisdeo, Sascha Kugel and Anna Colasante. Giancarlo spent four years of dedicated service as the Chief Financial Officer at AUR. In addition to his finance duties and hard work to efficiently organize the Finance Department, Giancarlo was universally appreciated for his open and cooperative working style with colleagues at all levels. We will miss his personal warmth and the easy way he has to make people welcome, and he will be remembered as an impeccably honest and open friend of AUR Mara is an AUR Alumna and worked at AUR since her graduation with a BA in Italian Studies in 1999. Mara was a pillar of AUR Admissions, first as Associate Director and then, from 2003, as Director. Mara said she was looking forward to moving back to the United States after 12 years in Italy. Even from the US Mara has agreed to continue an active role in alumni relations, so we will be happy to count her as a continuing member of our family. Sascha Kugel, also an AUR alumnus, class of 1997, a BA in Communication, left AUR after two years of dedicated service as Admissions representatives to resume his studies in the US. Anna Colasante joined AUR as part-time Assistant to Admissions in May 2007 and was soon upgraded to full time Admissions Specialist in December 2007. She was an invaluable asset in the Admissions office and ensured and excellent and smooth transition to the new Enrollment Services operation. Best of luck to Giancarlo, Mara, Sascha and Anna… you will be missed! Prof. Magda Romano is new Coordinator of Career and Internship Services Associate Professor of Communication, Magda Romano, has been appointed AUR’s Coordinator of Career and Internship Services. She is responsible for working with Academic Department Chairs in arranging support and guidance for students in the development of career goals and skills for pursuing them. She organizes career workshops, related resume preparation, job searching and interview techniques and will arrange for AUR’s participation in career fairs. She assists in the development of contacts with organizations and employers who may provide opportunities and/ or internship for students and alumni. In addition she coordinates with Academic Department Chairs the credit-bearing internship courses. New coach Silvia Di Massimo had the team well-prepared and confident. Laura Dana, Kirstin Soldevilla and Elen Ustun each scored goals in a balanced offense.Defender Heidi Redlitz suffered an ankle injury but is expected to return to play this season. Commenting on the steady progress of AUR calcio, AUR athletic coordinator Stefano Stoppaccioli stated “gone are the days when league teams looked past both the Wolves and Shewolves”. Dr. John Kozup’s marketing lecture September 2008 - Dr. John Kozup, Associate Professor at Villanova School of Business and Director of the Center for Marketing and Public Policy Research, has surveyed 200 U.S. managers on their perceptions of the Italian market. He presented the results of his research and discussed the implications for short term country promotional efforts as well as longer-term trade incentives in a marketing and management oriented lecture titled: "What's in An Image? Can Branding Drive Foreign Investment to Italy?" last September. The talk was aimed at marketing, international business and management students. For further information please contact Prof. Magda Romano at m.romano@aur.edu
Kathleen Fitzsimmons Business Department Chair Prof. Kathleen Fitzsimmons was named Joint Overseas Committee Chair of Rome’s USA Girl Scouts, sharing this role with former attorney Zoe Milak. Prof. Fitzsimmons is a longtime Girl Scout leader and member of the Rome area GS Management Team. This appointment underlines Prof. Fitzsimmons’ growing volunteer commitment to the Girl Scout organization, the premier leadership experience for girls. The mission of Girl Scouts is to “build girls of courage, confidence and character.” Timothy Allen Arts & Humanities Prof. Timothy Joseph Allen unveiled a new website to showcase his art in October. Features include recent oil portraits, Roman landscape drawings, a Figure Drawing Diary and a series of watercolors from his 14 day rafting trip through Grand Canyon this past August. You can visit the website at: http://www.americanartistinrome.com Breda Ennis Arts & Humanities Prof. Breda Ennis participated in the inaugural exhibition of the Museo delle Arti e del multimediale, in Pietrabbondante Molise in August, on the invitation of the museum’s curator Lino Alvani.Prof. Ennis contributed seven pieces to the Samnium Fluxus exhibition, two of which will remain as part of the permanent collection of the Museum. Tony Villani Communication Prof. Tony Villani’s film Prof. Tony Villani’s film A Ticket to Hollywood: Europeans in Screenland, 1925-56 has been awarded “Best Documentary Short” at the Independence Film Fest in Colorado, USA, the only state wide film festival in the United States. A Ticket to Hollywood: Europeans in Screenland, 1925-56 is an innovative and visually stimulating approach to Los Angeles cultural history focusing on those men and women of arts and letters whose journey to Southern California was mostly spurred by the opportunities the motion picture industry was believed to generate. http://www.independencefilmfest.com/press.htm. The film has been selected for the Siena International Short Film Fest, taking place at the end of November. Kristen Palana Communication Prof. Kristen Palana was recently selected to copresent an animation course at the first ever ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA in Singapore to be held in December of 2008. The course is titled, “There Can Be Only One; Independent Animation for the Lonely.” In May 2008 Prof. Palana finished production on a new animation called Larry and Roz. As of October 2008 it was selected to screen in The Rome International Film Festival (USA), International Film Festival Egypt (Egypt), The Bushfire Film Festival (Swaziland), The Gold Lion Film Festival (Lesotho), and the Radar Hamburg International Independent Film Festival (Germany) where it is also nominated for the Best Art and Animation award. Kristen also recently created web graphics for the internal WINGS2 website for the UN’s World Food Programme as well as the corporate identity (logo and slogan) for UNLESA. Paolo Crocchiolo International Relations Prof. Paolo Crocchiolo’s paper entitled Il paradosso biologico dell’omosessualità (The biological paradox of homosexuality) appeared on the September issue of Prometeo, trimestrial magazine for Science and History. The paper reviews the different scientific hypotheses put forward to explain homosexuality in humans, starting from the pioneering studies of Alfred Kinsey. Special emphasis is placed on recent research in psychobiology, in the broader context of a neo-Darwinian evolutionary approach. The magazine is presently available in most newspapers kiosks.
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