POINTS of PRIDE
Compiled by Samantha Cheyenne Miller ’13
Awarded NOAA Research Grant
The St. Joseph’s University Department of Biology has been awarded a three-year grant that will support research investigating the effects of ocean acidification on harmful algal blooms (HABs). The grant, awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), will provide approximately $25,000 per year for three years to fund SJNY faculty and student research.
Mission Program Grant
St. Joseph’s received $155,000 from the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph (CSSJ) to support the University’s service-learning trips, also known as mission trips, for students from both its Brooklyn and Long Island campuses. The Office of Campus Ministry hosts mission trips as an opportunity for SJNY students to visit underserved areas of the country and provide assistance at local shelters, soup kitchens and other organizations that serve their communities.
Mission Program Grant
St. Joseph’s received $155,000 from the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph (CSSJ) to support the University’s service-learning trips, also known as mission trips, for students from both its Brooklyn and Long Island campuses. The Office of Campus Ministry hosts mission trips as an opportunity for SJNY students to visit underserved areas of the country and provide assistance at local shelters, soup kitchens and other organizations that serve their communities.
Coach of the Year
Jim Crowley celebrated his 25th year as head coach of the Long Island Campus cross country teams with not one but two 2022 Skyline Conference Coach of the Year honors. The men and women both tied for second at the conference championships, and the women’s team won its third-straight ECAC championship.
Skyline Stardom
Victor Naci ’25 — who trained in youth football academies in his native France — led the nation in goals, goals-per-game, and points-per-game at the NCAA Division III level, while powering the Brooklyn Bears to their first non-losing season since 2014-15. He was named Skyline Conference Men’s Soccer Offensive Player of the Year.
Creating Scholarships
The Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in June 2022 established the S. Jane Carolyn Fritz Scholarship in Computer Science. The scholarship honors the late S. Jane Carolyn Fritz, CSJ, a professor emerita who dedicated 59 years to the congregation and 37 of those years to St. Joseph’s University and its students.
SJNY Reaching ‘New Heights’
St. Joseph’s University, New York once again ranked as one of the nation’s best universities by U.S. News & World Report — this time moving up 30 spots from last year’s ranking, to No. 48 in the Regional Universities – North category.
Supporting a Hurricane-Ravaged Elementary School
St. Joseph’s alumna Kristen Pennisi ’22 partnered with the Long Island Campus Ministry on a donation drive that helped victims of Hurricane Ian in Florida, who lost their homes and loved ones, within the Dr. Carrie D. Robinson Littleton Elementary School community in the Lee County School District.
New Student Veterans Success Grant
St. Joseph’s University was awarded more than $559,000 by the U.S. Department of Education’s Centers of Excellence for Veteran Student Success Grant Program. With the grant funding, SJNY aims to increase student veterans’ recruitment and ensure their academic success by coordinating services to address their financial, health and wellness, academic, career and social needs.
Published
Cleyvis Natera, an instructor at the Writer’s Foundry MFA program at the Brooklyn Campus, published her first novel, “Neruda on the Park,” this past spring with Penguin Random House.
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz
Medal of Freedom
Heralded as “a ray of light in our nation’s dark hours,” St. Joseph’s University alumna Sandra Lindsay ’99, RN, DHSc, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom this past summer from U.S. President Joe Biden during a powerful White House ceremony.