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Events
Year in Review: 2008
January | February | March | April | May | June/July | August | September | October | November | December
Students from Shanghai Province in China spent the months of July and August at Hofstra Continuing Education taking classes in business, language and American history.
June
For the second consecutive year, Hofstra Law School had one of the largest numbers of students chosen for the Law Students Public Interest (LSPIN) Fellowship Program. The Charles H. Revson Foundation offers the LSPIN Fellowship Program each summer, providing summer grants for first- and second-year law students attending law school in New York and New Jersey to work with public interest organizations in the New York metropolitan area.
June 6: Student Lauren Brookmeyer became the first WRHU staff member to win a first place prize at the 48th Annual National Hearst Journalism Awards Championship. Fellow students Kim Saltmarsh and Brian Bohl were semifinalists at the Hearst Journalism Awards Program.
June 10: Hofstra University President Stuart Rabinowitz announced the appointments of Debra Sandler and George W. Bilicic, Jr. to the Hofstra Board of Trustees. Debra Sandler '82 is the worldwide president for McNeil Nutritionals, LLC, a Johnson &Johnson company and global marketer of innovative nutritional products. George W. Bilicic, Jr. joined Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts as a managing director and head of infrastructure. In July Thomas J. Sanzone '82, executive vice president and chief administrative officer for Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., was also named to the Board of Trustees. Dr. Donna Mendes '73, a senior vascular surgeon at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center and the first African-American, female vascular surgeon certified by the American Board of Surgery, was named to the board in September.
June 17: The Hofstra University Museum announced an unprecedented gift of Andy Warhol art from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The gift was made through the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program in honor of the foundation's 20th anniversary. In July the Hofstra University Museum acquired 103 Polacolor prints and 50 black and white gelatin silver prints, valued at $150,300.
June 19: The Frank G. Zarb School of Business and the Long Island Association co-hosted a panel discussion titled The Future of Health Care at the Lowenfeld Conference and Exhibition Hall. The panel examined the current state of health care in the United States and areas of concern for the business community.
June 23: Hofstra's annual Golf and Tennis Tournament to raise money for student scholarships this year honored two WDF Inc. executives -- Chief Executive Officer Larry Roman '77 and President and Chief Operating Officer Joseph LoCurto. WDF Inc. is New York's largest plumbing and HVAC contractor.
June 24: The National Center for Suburban Studies (NCSS) at Hofstra UniversitySM was designated a partner to the Brookings Institution's "Blueprint for American Prosperity" project, an ambitious, multi-year initiative to build long-term U.S. prosperity by reinvigorating the federal government's role in promoting the health and vitality of America's metropolitan areas. As part of the partnership, NCSS Executive Director Lawrence Levy was named to the Brookings advisory panel on the initiative.
June 30: Metropolitan area high school students were challenged to document a culture other than their own as part of an innovative summer program at Hofstra called "Documenting Diversity." Phil Rosenthal '81, producer of Everybody Loves Raymond, helped fund the program through a grant from the Phil and Monica Rosenthal Foundation.
July
Throughout July and August, Hofstra Continuing Education hosted 271 teenagers from Shanghai Province in China. While at Hofstra the students attended classes in business, language, and American history. They also participated in various campus activities.
July 11: Hofstra Entertainment began its summer season with Moon Over Buffalo at Monroe Lecture Center Theater.
