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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University to host symposium on the Great Hunger May 17

Quinnipiac University will host the symposium, “Exploring the Legacies of the Great Hunger: The Cultural, Spiritual, Psychological and Political Consequences for Today’s Ireland from Centuries of Colonization,” from 1-4:30 p.m. on Friday, May 17, in the Grand Courtroom of the School of Law Center on the Mount Carmel Campus. This event is free and open to the public.

Christine Kinealy, a visiting professor in residence at Quinnipiac who is known internationally for her ground-breaking research on the Great Hunger, and Dr. Garrett O’Connor, an internationally recognized psychiatrist who specializes in addiction and healing, will present at the symposium, which is being sponsored by Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University, 3011 Whitney Ave., Hamden.

Kinealy’s presentation, “The Famine Killed Everything: Cultural and Political Legacies of Colonial Rule,” will run from 1:15-2 p.m. Kinealy’s talk will explore the Great Hunger in relation to Ireland’s colonial relationship with Britain.

O’Connor’s address, “Ireland Sober is Ireland Free!: A Laughable, Desirable or Feasible Proposition,”  will take place from 2:15-3:15 p.m. O’Connor will discuss his 1997 work, “Recognizing and Healing Malignant Shame: A Statement About the Urgent Need for Psychological and Spiritual Recovery from the Effects of Colonialism in Ireland.” He will revisit this topic, placing it in the context of both recent developments in Ireland and the longer-term impact of colonization on the Irish spirit.

The symposium will conclude with Kinealy and O’Connor facilitating the session, “Sharing Stories,” from 3:30-4:30 p.m.

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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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Founding Dean Dr. Bruce M. Koeppen testifies before U.S. Senate subcommittee

Dr. Bruce M. Koeppen, founding dean of the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University, will testify before a subcommittee hearing on Successful Primary Care Programs: Creating the Workforce We Need on Tuesday, April 23 at 10 a.m. in Room SD-430 at the Dirksen Building, Constitution Avenue and 1st Street, NE, Washington, DC.

Dr. Koeppen was invited by Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders and Ranking Member Richard Burr to testify about the new medical school, which admits its first class this fall and was created with the mission to train primary care physicians, foster collaborative, team-based care and serve as a national model of interprofessional health professions education.  Dr. Koeppen will discuss the growing shortage of primary care physicians and efforts to restructure the health care system to provide high quality, cost-effective and patient-centered care to successfully create the primary care workforce this country so desperately needs.

Dr. Koeppen’s testimony will address reasons for the primary care physician shortage and its extent; his efforts to change the traditional care model where physicians are viewed as the captain of the ship to something akin to a NASCAR pit crew, where highly efficient and effective teams, comprised of individuals with unique knowledge and expertise are all focused on a single goal-the patient; changes in the new medical school’s curriculum; programs such as the Teaching Health Center program in the Affordable Care Act, which allows Community Health Centers to establish residency programs to train physicians; and how an expansion of federally funded residence positions could encourage more people to enter primary care.

View a full copy of Dr. Koeppen’ s testimony.

View a live stream of the senate subcommittee hearing.

To interview Dr. Koeppen, email John Morgan at john.morgan@quinnipiac.edu or call 203-206-4449.

Symposium on ‘A Resurgent China in the 21st Century’ on April 18

Jonathan Spence, a renowned scholar on China and the Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University, will deliver the keynote address at “A Resurgent China in the 21st Century,” a daylong symposium that will take place on Thursday, April 18, in the Mancheski Executive Seminar Room at Quinnipiac University.

The symposium, which is free and open to the public, will run from 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The International Business Department in the School of Business and the Albert Schweitzer Institute, are co-sponsors of the event. Registration is required. Please contact Professor Mohammad Elahee at mohammad.elahee@quinnipiac.edu.

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