Icons Display in library for April

Stop by and take a closer look:

For more information about icons, see this page from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
To locate images of icons, try searching in ARTstor. This image of the Trinity is available in ARTstor.

NYTimes: Persevering for a Saint of Their Own

This article appeared in Sunday’s (3/23/08) New York Times. It details efforts made by the Sisters of Charity to make the case for canonization for Sister Miriam Teresa Demjanovich, a Sister of Charity and CSE graduate. Click the link below to read more about Sister Miriam Teresa’s story.
Persevering for a Saint of Their Own
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New Books on Display – Theology, History, Social Sciences & Education

New E-Journals Collections from Sage and ACS

Mahoney Library has 2 new collections of full text journals online.
The first is quite large – around 450 scholarly and trade journals – and offers content across all disciplines. Sage Premier Journals is a great collection, with full text from 1996 through the present. Sage covers the following areas:
Humanities: Area Studies, Language Studies, Music, Religious Studies
Life Sciences: Biochemistry, Endocrinology, [...]

Study of Spirituality in Higher Education

The Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA has been studying the developments and patterns of spirituality and religiousness of college students since 2003.
A recent report indicates a pattern of spiritual growth among many students between their freshman and junior years of college: http://www.spirituality.ucla.edu/news/Spirituality_on_Campus_release_12.18.07.pdf
For additional information from the 5-year study, see http://www.spirituality.ucla.edu/news/index.html for news releases, and http://www.spirituality.ucla.edu/publications_reports/index.html for published journal [...]