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Three St. John's professors were included in a list of the Top 50 professors on RateMyProfessors.com, a popular Web site where college students can comment on their professors. This is the first year that RateMyProfessors has compiled such a list. According to a RateMyProfessors press release, the results were gathered from more than 1 million ratings of professors posted by more than 7.
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The Acoustical Society of America recently elected Dr. Fredericka Bell-Berti, the chair of the Department of Speech, Communication Sciences, and Theatre, as one of the members of its Executive Council. Dr. Bell-Berti will serve a three-year term on the 12-year council.
Assistant Professor of History, Dr. Nerina Rustomji, has received a fellowship grant from American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). This $30,000 grant will help her to research her project on the concept of "houri" in Islam, and its contemporary representation.
St. John's will be holding its Tenth Annual President's Dinner in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel on Thursday, October 25. The black tie event, which will be hosted by University President Rev. Donald Harrington, C.M., will begin with a reception at 6:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 7:30 p.
Speech-Language Pathology and a licensed speech-language pathologist, along with colleagues, launched the first program for Spanish-English bilingual aphasia patients last month at St. Vincent's Medical Center in Manhattan. Aphasia consists of a loss of communicative skills, along with paralysis or diminished physical capabilities after suffering a stroke.
ROTC Cadet Commander Brian N. Delaplane died suddenly on October 9 on the St. John's Queens campus. According to his obituary in the Colorado Springs Gazette, Delaplane died as a result of a pulmonary embolism. "Our whole family here at St. John's mourns his loss," said Steven Papamarcos, dean of the Peter J.
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