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Post Image for Language professors publish innovative Spanish text
November 20, 2019
Margarita Sánchez and Katica Urbanc are co-authors of ‘On the Move!’, which takes students on a linguistic journey to 12 global cities
 
Post Image for New book by Prof. Sánchez on AIDS in Latin American literature
April 3, 2017
Interdisciplinary study ‘creates space where voiceless may be heard’
 
Post Image for Wagner College International Film Festival, Oct. 17-21
October 16, 2016
Five nights of world films on immigration, exile and displacement
 
Post Image for Ask a professor: What’s Cinco de Mayo?
May 5, 2016
Cinco de Mayo was a celebration created by Americans of Mexico's victory over French invaders at the Battle of Puebla in 1862 — not Mexican Independence Day
 
Post Image for Sánchez & Urbanc publish a new kind of Spanish textbook
January 13, 2016
‘Students have been talking about bullfights in Spain since middle school. They’re ready for something else!’
 
Post Image for ‘Transnational Families: Staten Island & San Jerónimo Xayacatlán’
October 22, 2014
On Wednesday, Nov. 5 at 5:30 p.m. in Foundation Hall's Manzulli Boardroom, please join Comite Ñani Migrante for a seminar entitled “Transnational Families: Staten Island & San Jerónimo Xayacatlán.” The program will address the mutual needs of Port Richmond immigrants from San Jerónimo, and San Jerónimo residents who have relatives in Port Richmond. The keynote speaker will be […]
 
Post Image for Port Richmond scholar will join the Peace Corps
May 6, 2014
Graduating senior Molly Delbridge of Mission Viejo, Cal., will be Wagner College’s next Peace Corps Volunteer. Delbridge, an anthropology and Spanish major, will serve as a health resource volunteer in Belize. Delbridge has had substantial student experiences with the kind of work she will be doing as a PCV in Belize. As Wagner College’s Port […]
 
Post Image for Kellie Griffith wins Fulbright Student Award
April 4, 2014
On Monday Kellie Griffith, a graduating Wagner College senior from Riverhead, New York, got the news she’s been waiting for since last September: She has won a highly selective Fulbright U.S. Student Award to Ecuador, where she will work as an English Teaching Assistant next year. According to the U.S. State Department, the Fulbright English […]
 
Post Image for Nursing students organize wellness programs in Port Richmond
May 14, 2013
This spring, Wagner College nursing students Elizabeth Harrington and Noelle DeNome worked with other students in the Evelyn L. Spiro School of Nursing and the other health disciplines to develop wellness programs — in Spanish — for families at El Centro del Inmigrante, a member of Wagner College’s Port Richmond Partnership on Staten Island. Professors […]