Undergraduate commencement ceremonies remaining outdoors

Today’s 10 a.m. undergraduate commencement ceremony for the School of Business and College of Arts and Sciences will be held outdoors on the academic quadrangle on the Mount Carmel Campus.

At this time, the 3 p.m. commencement ceremony for the School of Communications, School of Health Sciences and School of Nursing also will be held outdoors on the Mount Carmel Campus. The university will continue to monitor the weather conditions and will notify the university community by 12 noon of any changes in the schedule for the 3 p.m. commencement ceremony.

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Interstate 95 lane closures will impact traffic from May 17-19

Lane closures on Interstate 95 northbound between Exit 46 and Exit 48, which leads to Interstate 91 northbound, are expected to cause major traffic backups, beginning Friday, May 17, and continuing through Commencement on Sunday, May 19.

These closures are expected to significantly impact travel time to Quinnipiac. In addition to the lane closures, several area universities are holding their commencement ceremonies this weekend. Please allow additional travel time when planning your arrival for Commencement.

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Relay for Life raises more than $76,000

From left, Quinnipiac University students Caitlin Ziegler, Christine Porzio, Katie Winkle, Becky Kleiman and Keith Yatauro, were all co-chairs of this year’s Relay for Life at Quinnipiac.

Quinnipiac University raised more than $76,000 during its Relay for Life, an organized community fundraising walk to raise money for the American Cancer Society, on April 19-20 at the TD Bank Sports Center.

The top three fundraising teams from Quinnipiac each raised more than $1,000 each; the first place team, Kate’s Krew, raised $3,233. More than 120 teams and 936 participants attended the event. Kate’s Krew was formed in support of Orange resident and Quinnipiac student Katie Winkle, a leukemia survivor. Winkle, a sophomore in the School of Nursing, was diagnosed with cancer in 2006 and was treated with six rounds of chemotherapy. Now in remission, Winkle served as event co-chair and has participated in multiple relay events.

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School of Law Professor William Dunlap available to comment on new arrests in Boston bombings

Bill Dunlap, a professor in the Quinnipiac University School of Law, is available to comment on the arrests of the three new suspects who were arrested in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing case.

A faculty member since 1983, Dunlap teaches constitutional, criminal, national security, counterterrorism and international law. He studied at the National Security Law Institute at the University of Virginia and the Parker School for Foreign and Comparative Law at Columbia Law School and has been a visiting scholar at Yale Law School and the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London. He is a former chair of the Section on Admiralty and Maritime Law and of the Section on International Law of the Association of American Law Schools. After law school, he practiced first amendment law and international commercial litigation and arbitration at the Coudert Brothers law firm in New York. Before law school, he was a newspaper editor and a public radio host and producer in New York. He frequently gives public lectures and advises the media on current legal issues.

To schedule an interview with Dunlap, please call John Morgan, associate vice president for public relations, at 203-206-4449 (cell).

Professor David Cadden offers insight into Yahoo’s decision to extend maternity and paternity benefits

David Cadden, a management professor in the Entrepreneurship and Strategy Department in the School of Business at Quinnipiac University, is available to comment on Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s decision to extend maternity and paternity benefits to employees. Yahoo is now offering female employees 16 weeks of paid maternity leave while new dads get eight weeks of paid leave.

“It is extremely gratifying to hear that Yahoo has decided to double the maternity and paternity leave time,” Cadden said. “CEO Mayer has recognized that employees aren’t singularly driven by just the paycheck. They look and are motivated by other benefits. These include the ability to raise a family. She had curtailed Yahoo’s employees’ ability to work at home which aided many of them in raising their family. While extremely generous by American standards, Yahoos’ policies for maternal and paternal would be merely average in the Northern European context. Such policies are critical in attracting and retaining technically competent individuals. For a period of time, Xerox Corporation had in many of its facilities on-site daycare for young children. CEO Mayer has a comparable capability for herself. She had a nursery built next to her office.”

To speak to Cadden, please call John Morgan, associate vice president for public relations at Quinnipiac, at 203-206-4449 (cell).