April 20, 2016

PC News, Spring 2016

MBA Program rated #67 in Bloomberg rankings

Bloomberg Businessweek ranked the Providence College School of Business (PCSB) at No. 67 in its U.S. Part-Time MBA Rankings for 2015. This was the first year the PCSB participated in the rankings. At 67, its MBA Program was higher than other Catholic colleges such as Sacred Heart University and Santa Clara University. The rankings were based on surveys of alumni and current students in 74 part-time MBA programs.


Rev. Peter Martyr Yungwirth, O.P. Rev. Peter Martyr Yungwirth, O.P. named College chaplain

Rev. Peter Martyr Yungwirth, O.P. began serving as College chaplain and director
of Campus Ministry in January. He replaced Rev. James Cuddy, O.P. ’98, who was named pastor of St. Joseph’s Parish in Greenwich Village, a Dominican parish in New York City.
Father Peter Martyr came to PC in January 2015 as an assistant chaplain due to the pending reassignment of Father Cuddy, who had served PC since 2009.

A Hagerstown, Md., native, Father Peter Martyr graduated in 2006 from the University of Maryland, where he studied history. He entered the Dominican Order of Preachers in 2007 and was ordained in 2014.


 

Chard DeNiordChard deNiord chosen Vermont poet laureate

Chard deNiord, professor of English, was installed as the eighth poet laureate of Vermont by Gov. Peter Shumlin. The author of six books of poetry has taught in the Creative Writing Program at PC since 1998. He earned a master of divinity degree from Yale Divinity School and a master of fine arts from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. As a professor, deNiord received the 2011-12 Joseph R. Accinno Faculty Teaching Award, the College’s highest teaching honor.


The Humanities Forum enriches DWC offerings

The College community has another opportunity to deepen its appreciation of topics covered in Development of Western Civilization (DWC) through The Humanities Forum, created
by Dr. Raymond F. Hain, assistant professor of philosophy.

He said the forum’s lectures, concerts, and presentations, which will be ongoing, are intended to be “a regular time and place where faculty and students can share in the intellectual life outside of class.” This spring, eight events were planned to coordinate with subjects addressed in the second and fourth semesters of DWC, such as the founding of the United States.


 

Rendering of pedestrian walkway to replace Huxley AvenueHuxley Avenue to become walkway

Huxley Avenue will close permanently to vehicular traffic between Eaton Street and Ventura Street after commencement in May, so construction can begin on a new walkway to unify the east and west sides of campus.

The project, part of PC’s “Campus Transformation” plan, will coordinate with other construction nearby, including the Arthur and Patricia Ryan Center for Business Studies and Chapey Field at Anderson Stadium. Vehicle access to campus will be restricted to entrances at River Avenue, Eaton Street near the Smith Center for the Arts, and Huxley Avenue via Admiral Street.  