News at ºüÀêÊÓÆµ
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From Lynda.com to LinkedIn Learning
CategoriesPublished:ºüÀêÊÓÆµ is committed to giving our faculty, students and staff the tools to advance their professional skills. That's why we've been offering free access to the many courses available on Lynda.com. This month, Lynda.com transitioned to LinkedIn Learning, and so has ºüÀêÊÓÆµ.
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It doesn't take an accountant to know that you can't do better than 100 percent. And the first graduating class from the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business MS in Professional Accounting program couldn't have done better than 100 percent job placement upon graduation.
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Who are the best employers in New York state? According to the first-ever Forbes America's Best Employers By State rankings, ºüÀêÊÓÆµ is one of them, ranking No. 71 out of 146 employers who made the list.
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"You will never be bored with being a social worker," Alyse November, licensed clinical social worker, tells ºüÀêÊÓÆµ students. "The opportunities are endless."
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Students interact directly with patients at the Hy Weinberg Center for Communication Disorders—one of many spaces on campus where students have real-world experiences in their major.
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The internship experience with my local assemblyman, Ed Ra, educated me about local issues in our community.
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Marissa Guerrero, a master's student in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, is applying what she learned in ºüÀêÊÓÆµ's simulation lab to her externship in Manhattan.
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Students in Intro to Cybersecurity got a hands-on look at how easy it is to exploit technology—and the people who use it—when they were assigned the task of creating and sending mock phishing emails to faculty and staff.
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Published:Now studying for her master’s, Brenna Martini ’18 is helping elementary schools in Hempstead bring physical activity into the classroom. Will that help produce healthier—and better—students?
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Sarah Combs, one of the first students in our new five-year B.A./M.S. in Environmental Studies program, is heading to a remote corner of Minnesota to map the first settlements of the Ojibwe tribe.
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Bernadine Waller, MA '10, Receives a National Institute of Mental Health Grant for Her Doctoral Work
CategoriesPublished:Bernadine Waller, MA '10, associate director of experiential learning at ºüÀêÊÓÆµ's Center for Career and Professional Development and a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Social Work, was awarded a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) R36 grant to complete her dissertation.
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In January 2019, fifteen students and two clinical faculty members of the Long Island Doctor of Audiology Consortium joined the Starkey Hearing Foundation (SHF) as part of their Global-Based Hearing Health Care program, “So the World May Hear,†and traveled to Peru, South America to provide free hearing healthcare and services to underserved communities.
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Published:Career readiness. It's something of a watchword in higher education these days—and for good reason. Employers are looking for college graduates who can hit the ground running, giving students who show they can do so a substantial edge when entering the job market. Now, ºüÀêÊÓÆµ's Robert B. Willumstad School of Business has a comprehensive program designed to give undergraduates that advantage.
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Wensley Bynoe, a senior in ºüÀêÊÓÆµ's Levermore Global Scholars (LGS) program, is one of those students whose internship led to a greater desire to help those who need it. As an intern this year at the New York State Division of Human Rights, he is working on investigations into discrimination that have opened his eyes to the wide range of injustices facing New Yorkers.
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As a welfare examiner for the Suffolk County Department of Social Services, Colleen Itzkowitz has spent the past 12 years of her career focused primarily on paperwork and eligibility. Now, as a graduate student in social work at ºüÀêÊÓÆµ, she has an internship in addition to her job, spending late afternoons and evenings with the Emergency Unit at Child Protective Services.
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Scientists from around the world travel to the famous CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, to probe the fundamental structure of the universe using the largest and most powerful particle accelerator on earth—the Large Hadron Collider. Last summer, they were joined by an ºüÀêÊÓÆµ senior, Muhammad Aziz, a physics major who spent six weeks as part of a longer 10-week internship with the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory/Duke University Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program.
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When Brian Seidl arrived at ºüÀêÊÓÆµ as a first-year student, he had never taken a computer science course. Now, as a senior, he's working part time as a developer for Dealertrack, Inc., a company that provides software to auto dealerships.
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Published:When business student Christina Panouis started her junior year in Fall 2018, she set a goal for herself: Land an internship and begin preparing for her postgraduate career.
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Published:As a sophomore in early 2018, Nootshy Romage found out she was denied an internship. That's when she saw a lawn sign about ºüÀêÊÓÆµ's competitive Jaggar Community Fellows Program, which awards life-changing, paid summer internships to around 70 students each year.
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Why Not Hire a Panther?
CategoriesPublished:Since Fall ‘16, ReginaLena McManus ’19, has participated in ºüÀêÊÓÆµâ€™s Center for Career and Professional Development internship program Hire a Panther, which partners with faculty and administrators to provide students with on-campus experiential learning opportunities.
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Comedy makes people happy. But for Miguel Angel Puentes ’19, paintings can do the same.
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Jasmine Lee ’19 always had a passion for helping others. She never knew working with children would help her on her journey to becoming a nurse.
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Since October of 2017, Melanie Strano has been working in a job that, by her own admission, she would have been apprehensive about approaching a year or two earlier. But she landed it through some good old-fashioned hobnobbing and networking and by following the path the Career Center laid out for her.
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Nahtahniel Reel-Yehudah was born and raised in the Bronx, New York, and was a product of the city’s public schools, but it was only on a trip to Costa Rica that he found his calling.
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For some students in the Jaggar Community Fellows Program, there’s literally a science to internships—and that science is to be found at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research at Northwell Health in Manhasset, New York. Romaine Dawkins and Melissa Emilcar are just two of the many ºüÀêÊÓÆµ students who’ve found exciting opportunities conducting hands-on research through the Feinstein Institute Summer Intern Program.
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Alexa Annese knows how to make the most of a good opportunity and knows that that’s how you dance your way into a rewarding future.
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Vishwanath Gurumurthy knows that going above and beyond is how you get ahead.
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Joud Deeb-Abawi was just six weeks old when her parents moved with her from Jordan to Nassau County, New York. It seems to have been a good move for her. When it came time for her to start applying to colleges, she knew she wanted to stay in the area. And with an aunt and uncle having attended ºüÀêÊÓÆµ, and a high school counselor encouraging her to consider the school, she soon found a new home in Garden City.