Via Sapientiae Award

The Via Sapientiae Award is the highest academic award that the university can bestow upon a member of its community. This award recognizes both faculty and staff members who have made distinctive and extraordinary contributions to the university throughout their professional lives. Recipients must have contributed a minimum of 15 years of service to the university, and nominations are made at the time of retirement, or posthumously. Awards are presented at the appropriate commencement ceremony in June of each year.

The recipients of the Via Sapientiae Award for 2010 are:
John Milton Physics Department
Effat Moussa Mathematics Department
Margaret Power University Library
The recipients of the Via Sapientiae Award for 2009 are:
M. Cherif Bassiouni College of Law
Kristine Garrigan English Department
Peter Pereira School of Education
Carol Wren School of Education
The recipients of the Via Sapientiae Award for 2008 are:
Bob Acker University Library
Rosemary Bannan Sociology Department
Donald DeRoche School of Music
Betsy Hamilton Theatre School
Sr. Frances Ryan, D.C. School of Education
The recipients of the Via Sapientiae Award for 2007 are:
Anthony Behof Physics Department
David Justice Lifelong Learning and Suburban Campuses
Philip Kemp Marketing Department
Marilyn Woitel College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
The recipients of the Via Sapientiae Award for 2006 are:
Fred Arditti College of Commerce
Ashok Batavia College of Commerce
Doris Brown Teaching & Learning Resources
Thomas Gunty College of Commerce
The recipients of the Via Sapientiae Award for 2005 are:
Enrique Arias School for New Learning
Paul Camenisch Religious Studies Department
Jerry Goldman Mathematics Department
John Kordek Associate Vice President for External Relations
John Leahy Religious Studies Department
Sara Melford Chemistry Department
Gerald Paetsch College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Gemma Welsch College of Commerce
The recipients of the Via Sapientiae Award for 2004 are:
Tom Murphy Environmental Science Department
Roger Jones Mathematics Department
Mark Zinger School of Music
The recipients of the Via Sapientiae Award for 2003 are:
George Flynn School of Music
Jeanne LaDuke Mathematics Department
Nancy Rospenda Psychology Department
John Schoulz Director of Financial Aid

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  • Film Screening: Band of Sisters

    3/7/13
    Panel discussion to follow, Facilitator: JoAnne Zielinski; Panel: Mary Fishman, Srs. Pat Murphy and Joann Persch, Sisters of Mercy and Sr. Katie Norris, DC. 6PM, Student Center 120.
  • Winter DRMA Lecture

    3/4/13
    Title: Toward a New Reading of the Political Thought of the dévot faction: the opposition to Cardinal Richelieu's ministeriat. Lecturer: Dr. Caroline Maillet-Rao. Time: 11:30AM, Richardson Library, 115
  • Lousie De Marrillac Lecture

    2/20/13
    Title: Vincentian Mission—Hope and Healing for Victims: Daughters of Charity Civil War Nurses Deliver Comfort, Lecturer: Sister Betty Ann McNeil, D.C., 12:00 PM, Location: Richardson Library, Room 115
  • Annual Vincent de Paul Lecture

    10/24/12
    3:30pm to 4:30pm, Richardson Library, 380. Topic: The top ten issues facing homelessness charities today: an international perspective. Speaker: Mark McGreevy
  • DRMA Fall Lecture

    10/9/12
    11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Richardson Library, 115, Title: Evangelizing Slaves: French missionaries in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean.