“No matter your physical, economical, emotional or intellectual differences or the degree are you are being awarded today, you all have one thing in common. That you had a vision for yourself that you have honored today,” King said. “While this accomplishment is yours and your families’, we will benefit from it. By graduating from college, you gained the future for yourself that your family may have always dreamed of. And you made a contribution to your community and your country.”
King, who received an honorary Doctorate of Laws degree during the ceremony from Dominican President Mary B. Marcy, addressed 356 undergraduate and 190 graduate students on a bright and sunny day at Forest Meadows Field.
Elizabeth Castellanos, who graduated with honors and a bachelor’s degree in biology and minors in mathematics and chemistry, received Dominican’s Outstanding Student Award.
Gerard Cabarse delivered the Senior Class address and Kathleen Smith gave the Graduate Class address.
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King’s career as a broadcast journalist spans 25 years and includes network stints with ABC’s “Good Morning America Sunday” and the “CBS Morning News.” She joined San Francisco’s CBS-5 (KPIX) as news anchor in 1997. In her 15 years at KPIX, King travelled extensively for the station, bringing to her Bay Area viewers reports of struggle, survival, and perseverance from around the world.
Her travels took her to Honduras to report on the consequences of Hurricane Mitch; to Rwanda to mark the 10-year commemoration of the genocide; to Ghana to report on the inhumane treatment of women accused of witchcraft; to Afghanistan to cover post-war/pre-presidential election stories; as well as to Iraq, Albania, Turkey, and Kosovo.
King’s reporting from Honduras earned an Emmy. Her work in Rwanda received two honors from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTNDA), including the Edward R. Murrow Award in 2005. She won another Edward R. Murrow Award in 2008 for her stories from Ghana. In all, King’s reporting has earned her five Emmy awards, two Edward R. Murrow awards, two Gracie awards, and four RTDNA awards.
During her tenure, KPIX’s late-night newscasts rose to the top of the ratings. In the November 2012 sweep, “CBS 5 Eyewitness News” was the Bay Area’s most-watched 11 p.m. newscast. King left her anchor post in December 2012 to pursue her art career.
King’s art includes works of classical sculpture, charcoal drawing, and oil painting. Her work has been featured at galleries throughout the Bay Area. In 2012, King received the Jan Hart Schuyers Artistic Achievement Award in recognition of her accomplishments as a sculptor.
King’s extensive community service includes work with MarinKids, The Center for Domestic Peace, Sunny Hills Services, Archangel Ancient Tree Archive, the World Affairs Council, the Women’s Initiative, the American Red Cross, Museum of the African Diaspora, National Philanthropy Day, and the Commonwealth Club. She is a member of Dominican University of California’s School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Advisory Board.
King graduated with a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. She is the mother of two college-age children.
Commencement 2013 concluded with a special tribute to John Kennedy, who will retire on July 31 after 29 years as Dominican’s Vice President for Student Affairs.
]]>President Marcy was inaugurated as Dominican University of California’s ninth President in October 2011. Prior to joining Dominican, she served as Provost of Bard College at Simon’s Rock and Vice President at Bard College from 2004 until 2011.
Throughout her 21-year career in higher education leadership positions, President Marcy has driven major education reform and diversification initiatives; secured significant gifts and grants to support new programming, student scholarships and faculty development; and enhanced the reputation and reach of the institutions she has served.
At Dominican, President Marcy has led initiatives to advance the University’s mission while building upon Dominican’s position of strength in the Bay Area. In the past year, President Marcy has introduced innovative academic programming, secured the University’s largest ever gift, and appointed to her cabinet academic leaders prepared to develop at Dominican a distinctive model of higher education focused on the integration of the best of the liberal arts with rigorous professional education.
In fall 2012, President Marcy announced the largest gift in Dominican University’s history. The $8.5 million gift will support the renovation of Meadowlands Hall, a 30,000 square-foot Victorian mansion, into a state-of-the art academic facility.
President Marcy currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Liberal Education, the Academic Advisory Council of the Panetta Institute, and the Higher Education Advisory Board of the National Council on Education and the Economy. She is a member of the Board of Governors of the Commonwealth Club of California and sits on the Board of Directors of the North Bay Leadership Council.
Prior to her role at Bard College, President Marcy worked in both public and private institutions of higher education. Her experience includes leading of a national grant-funded Project on the Future of Higher Education through Antioch University, working as the first Dean of University Relations and Planning at Antioch University Seattle, and serving as the lead researcher and policy advisor to the President of Western Washington University. She was appointed by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick to serve as a commissioner on the Commonwealth’s Public Education Nominating Council.
A political scientist, President Marcy earned her Doctorate of Philosophy and Master of Philosophy from the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on women in American politics, and she has published extensively on issues of diversity, leadership, and strategy in higher education. Born and raised in western Nebraska, President Marcy received her Bachelor of Arts with honors from the University of Nebraska.
Media Contact: Sarah Gardner, Dominican University of California News Office, 415-485-3239, Sarah.Gardner@Dominican.edu.
Ensler, a Tony Award-winning playwright, performer, activist and founder of V-Day, the global movement to end violence against women and girls, is the midst of a 19-city U.S. book tour for her new book In the Body of the World, a visionary memoir of separation and connection to the body, the self, and the world.
The Vagina Monologues has been translated into more than 48 languages and performed in more than 140 countries, including sold-out runs at Off-Broadway's Westside Theater, on London's West End (2002 Olivier Award nomination, Best Entertainment), and 11-year runs in Mexico City and Paris.
Tickets for the Ensler event, which includes an autographed copy of In The Body of the World, are $30. To purchase tickets, contact Book Passage at 415-927-0960x1, or visit www.bookpassage.com/ensler.
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The Leadership Lecture Series is a cooperative effort between Dominican’s Institute for Leadership Studies and Book Passage. Each year, the Leadership Lecture Series features some of the country's leading figures from the world of business, politics, entertainment, academia, and literature. All lectures are open to the public.
The ILS Spring 2013 Leadership Lecture Series is sponsored by Private Ocean, the Marin-based wealth management company.
Media Contacts:
Sam Barry, Book Passage Marketing Director, 415-671-9807, sbarry@bookpassage.com
Sarah Gardner, Director of Communications, 415-485-3239, sarah.gardner@Dominican.edu.
On Saturday, at an anniversary luncheon in the Shield Room at Caleruega Hall, Alexandra Slatoff and Gerard Cabarse, Class of 2013, were recipients of the Spirit of Alumni Award, Sr. Maureen McInerney O.P. '68, received the Sr. Patricia Lyons, O.P. Award and Sr. Marie Sagues, O.P. '51 and Former Trustee Robin Daly were named winners of the Sr. Aquinas Nimitz, O.P. Award.
More than 178 alumni representing the Classes of 1948, 1953, 1958, 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998, 2003, and 2008 attended the two-day event capped by a young alumni social at the Mayflower Pub.
]]>Latinos Unidos has been an active student group at Dominican since 2008. Some key group activities include Dia de los Muertos celebration, the annual Posadas (dinner and a movie), Noche de Baile, and the Latinos Unidos Mentorship Program with students at Canal Alliance.
For more information about the Spring Festival, please contact Krystalyna Montano at 510-374-9802, krystalyna.montano@students.dominican.edu.
]]>For the past 25 years, Pollan has been writing books and articles about the places where nature and culture intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in the manufactured environment. In 2010, he was named to the TIME 100, the magazine’s annual list of the world’s 100 most influential people. In 2009, Newsweek named him one of the top 10 “New Thought Leaders.”
The Leadership Lecture Series is a cooperative effort between Dominican’s Institute for Leadership Studies and Book Passage. Each year, the Leadership Lecture Series features some of the country's leading figures from the world of business, politics, entertainment, academia, and literature. All lectures are open to the public. The ILS Spring 2013 Leadership Lecture Series is sponsored by Private Ocean, the Marin-based wealth management company.
Media Contacts:
Sam Barry, Book Passage Marketing Director, 415-671-9807, sbarry@bookpassage.com
Sarah Gardner, Director of Communications, 415-485-3239, sarah.gardner@Dominican.edu.
Lowe served as vice president of business development and strategic relations at Netflix. He later co-founded Redbox and served as chief operating officer and president. The Mill Valley resident left Redbox in 2011 to pursue entrepreneurial and other interests.
"Marinnovation 2013 is a celebration of entrepreneurs, designers and inventors,” said John Stayton, director of the Venture Greenhouse and co-founder of Dominican’s MBA in Sustainable Enterprise (GreenMBA). “The Venture Greenhouse is a growth accelerator for budding social and environmental entrepreneurs, a learning laboratory for the University’s business students, and a community resource for innovators, investors, sustainability advocates and new ventures.”
Local innovative businesses, along with more than 20 of the Venture Greenhouse’s current residents and graduates, participated in Marinnovation 2013. Among the Venture Greenhouse clients and recent graduates that were present:
• PulpWorks, which designs and manufactures sustainable packaging for the consumer packaged goods industry. The company recently placed third out of nearly 650 competitors from 37 countries in the annual Global Social Venture Competition at UC-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
• PiMobility, which produces electric bikes that are made from recycled aluminum with a lifespan of 30 years.
• Cadtrak Engineering, a technology development company specializing in cleantech.
• Clean Focus Energy, a renewable energy analysis and commercial solar installation, promoting solar energy.
• Dominican Renewables, a San Rafael-based fully integrated biofuels enterprise setting up facilities in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
• Living Mandala, which offers courses of holistic education and organization that support personal, social, and ecological regenerative practices.
• Skip To Renew, a company whose goal is to replace petroleum-based products with alternative sustainable algae-based products.
• GreenSave, a web portal that brings together resources to facilitate group purchasing of energy efficiency upgrades, and also acts as a social network for customers who want to share information on saving energy and money.
For more information about Venture Greenhouse or Marinnovation 2013, visit www.venturegreenhouse.org/marinnovation or call 415-497-3308
Media Contact: Sarah Gardner, 415-485-3239, sarah.gardner@dominican.edu.
]]>The Planetary Dance is a participatory dance rather than a theatrical performance. At its heart is the Earth Run, a simple dance during which participants run, walk, or simply stand in a series of concentric circles and move to the sound of drums. Participants can call out dedications for a person in need of healing.
The Planetary Dance was preceded by two half-hour workshops for drummers/musicians and dancers/walkers.
Dominican’s School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences hosted the event, in partnership with the University’s Intergenerational Conversation Project. The Intergenerational Conversation Project matches Dominican students with older adults to bring about fellowship and understanding through meaningful activities.
The Dominican event was held in celebration of Earth Day 2013, and also in tribute to the career at Dominican of Arthur Scott, assistant professor of history and cultural studies, upon his retirement from full-time teaching.
“This seemed like a fitting tribute since Arthur has worked for many years to expand and deepen the study of, and reflection upon, environmental issues, and Native American cultures at Dominican and beyond,” said Nicola Pitchford, Dean of Dominican’s School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
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]]>Elaine Petrocelli, president of Book Passage, appeared on stage at Angelico Hall in conversation with Allende.
Admission was free to the Allende event at Dominican with the purchase of Maya’s Notebook ($32).
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The Leadership Lecture Series is a cooperative effort between Dominican’s Institute for Leadership Studies and Book Passage. Each year, the Leadership Lecture Series features some of the country's leading figures from the world of business, politics, entertainment, academia, and literature. All lectures are open to the public.
The ILS Spring 2013 Leadership Lecture Series is sponsored by Private Ocean, the Marin-based wealth management company. For more information or to purchase tickets to the Allende event through Book Passage, visit www.bookpassage.com/allende or call (415) 927-0960, ext. 1.
Media Contacts:
Sam Barry, Book Passage Marketing Director, 415-671-9807, sbarry@bookpassage.com
Sarah Gardner, Director of Communications, 415-485-3239, sarah.gardner@Dominican.edu.
Together, the Chamber Players performed the works of Telemann, Franck, Beethoven and North Bay composer David Smith. Smith also presented a world-premiere work at the April 21 event.
The Sunday concerts, sponsored by Dominican’s Department of Music, Dance and Performing Arts, start at 3 p.m. Free parking is available in the nearby Conlan Center lot off Grand Avenue in San Rafael.
The concerts are free to students under the age of 18 including middle school and elementary school children if accompanied and supervised by an adult. In addition, community college students with a valid I.D. and music and art teachers in grades K-12 will be admitted free of charge along with Dominican faculty, staff and students with a valid I.D.
“This is a wonderful opportunity for music lovers of all ages to experience world-class performers in an acoustically superior concert hall that’s easily accessible in Marin County’s backyard at a very affordable price,” Oh said.
The St. Lawrence String Quartet, which appeared in Carnegie Hall last year, pianist William Wolfram, the Del Sol String Quartet and members of the San Francisco Symphony have appeared in the Guest Concert Series this season.
For more information on the Guest Concert Series schedule, call 415-482-3579, email concerts@dominican.edu or visit http://www.dominican.edu/events.
]]>Roach, who has authored Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife and Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, has written for Outside, National Geographic, New Scientist, Wired, and The New York Times Magazine. She also reviews books for The New York Times.
One Book One Marin is a program of the County of Marin Library in cooperation with the city libraries and Book Passage. Each year the selected author is read in book clubs across the county.
The Leadership Lecture Series is a cooperative effort between Dominican’s Institute for Leadership Studies and Book Passage. Each year, the Leadership Lecture Series features some of the country's leading figures from the world of business, politics, entertainment, academia, and literature. All lectures are open to the public.
The ILS Spring 2013 Leadership Lecture Series is sponsored by Private Ocean, the Marin-based wealth management company. The Roach lecture was free, but autographed copies of her book Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void are available from Book Passage by calling (415) 927-0960, ext. 1 or visiting www.bookpassage.com or CLICKING HERE.
Media Contacts:
Sam Barry, Book Passage Marketing Director, 415-671-9807, sbarry@bookpassage.com
Sarah Gardner, Director of Communications, 415-485-3239, sarah.gardner@Dominican.edu.
As a producer, Pearlman is recipient of numerous Gold and Platinum Albums, for titles having sold some 40 million copies.
“In teaching communication and especially mass communications courses it's always great to bring in someone who has actually been a part of that process,” says Brad Van Alstyne, chair of Dominican’s Department of Communications and Media Studies. “We can always talk theory, but the real-world experience that only someone like Sandy can bring to the table is a priceless commodity for any student. He is an integral part of music history, someone who only comes along once in a lifetime.”
Pearlman may be best known as founder, writer, and producer of the band Blue Öyster Cult, and for producing records by The Clash. He also was one of the pioneers of digital music downloading before iTunes, as a co-founder of the company emusic.com. A graduate of Stony Brook University who attended Brandeis University, Pearlman’s academic appointments have included holding the Schulich Distinguished Professor Chair at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Montreal. Pearlman is currently both a visiting faculty member at McGill and the Dean's Professor of Interdisciplinary Innovation at the University of Toronto.
The 69-year-old music icon, owner of Alpha and Omega Recording in San Rafael, also has been a guest lecturer at Stanford, Harvard and the University of California Berkeley. In 2009, he was appointed as an at-large member of the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress.
Pearlman reached out to Dominican last year after hearing about the University’s Big History program from a pair of Dominican students working at Double Rainbow, Pearlman’s favorite ice cream store in San Rafael. He attended last summer’s Big History Institute at Dominican as its guest and has spoken on campus twice this year as a visiting faculty member in the School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. In March, Pearlman presented “The Twelve Hallelujahs of George and Leonard, or, Handel and Cohen, Inc.” in Guzman Lecture Hall for Dominican’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
Media Contacts:
Sarah Gardner, 415-485-3239 (office), 415-350-6078 (cell), Sarah.Gardner@Dominican.edu.
Dave Albee, 415-257-1308 (office), 707-310-0563 (cell), David.Albee@Dominican.edu.
President Marcy, a political scientist with a Doctorate of Philosophy and Master of Philosophy from the University of Oxford, is conducting ongoing research on women in American politics. Last April, she was moderator of a 90-minute debate at Angelico Hall featuring all 12 candidates on the 2012 primary ballot for Second Congressional District.
In addition to Congressmen Huffman and Larson, Phillip Ung, Policy Advocate for Common Cause; Emily Rusch, State Director of CALPRIG; Sonoma State University Professor David McCuan, Consultant LeeAnn Pelham, and Susan Rouder of the Marin County League of Women Voters joined President Marcy on stage for Thursday’s forum. Students from Dominican, College of Marin and Sonoma State University, along with community leaders, attended and participated in discussion about how special interests have the ability to spend unlimited amounts of money without disclosure to try to influence government.
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"Our project, "INSIDE OUT: Facing the Gap" aims to make the faces of our invisible youth visible as well as the geographic boundaries that often divide the losses from the gains," noted Lynn Sondag, chair of Dominican’s Department of Art, Art History, and Design. Sondag and colleague Julia van der Ryn, director of Service-Learning at Dominican, worked together to develop the project.
The project is being offered as a service-learning course in which Dominican students are enrolled and the local youth and young mothers are full participants, experiencing the course material and activities alongside the college students. To prepare for the photographs, all participants are telling their social biography and interviewing each other to write a narrative statement about what education means to them.
INSIDE OUT is inspired by French street artist and TED-Prize winner JR’s call for people around the globe to turn the world “Inside Out” by sharing a photo portrait along with a statement about what they stand for. In the past year, similar projects have been created in more than 9,500 locations in the U.S. and overseas. This is the first project to be installed in Northern California.
In February, new survey data from the US Census Bureau revealed that Marin County is the most educated county in California, and among the most educated areas of the United States.
Yet, the 2012 report titled “A Portrait of Marin.” issued by the American Human Development Project and funded by the Marin Community Foundation, highlights educational disparities present in this county. These disparities include lagging educational attainment among Latinos—the fastest-growing population group in Marin and in the U.S.—which has important implications for the future workforce in Marin and across the country.
“Dominican University of California is uniquely positioned as the only four-year college in Marin County to develop and expand our role as an advocate for education justice, working with our community to increase access for all people to a full and dynamic educational experience,” van der Ryn said.
CLICK HERE to read more about the INSIDE OUT project in the Marin Independent Journal.
CLICK HERE to see photos of the images being installed on the freeway underpass.
Media Contact: Sarah Gardner, Director of Communications, sarah.gardner@Domincian.edu, 415-485-3239.
Teams walked around the perimeter of the basketball court, while activities took place in the middle of the court. Planned activities included a Zumba class, live music, improv dance, karaoke, movies and even musical chairs. Faculty and students from Dominican's Department of Nursing were on hand to demonstrate and assist. Food was served throughout the event.
There was a luminaria candle-lighting ceremony on April 12 at 7 p.m. The closing ceremony was at 10:30 a.m. on April 13.
To make a donation online, visit www.relayforlife.org/DominicanUniversityCA.
Money raised by “Relay for Life” supports American Cancer Society programs for research, education, service and advocacy.
For more information about Dominican’s “Relay For Life” event, contact Lianni Castro, at lianni.castro@dominican.edu or call (415) 482-3569.
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