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		<title>Hofstra University Press Releases</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases</link><description>Stay up-to-date with Hofstra press releases</description><language>en-us</language><item><date>May 15, 2013</date><title>Dance Students Praised at ACDFA Regional Conference</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/051513_ACDFAdance.html</link><description>Hofstra Dance Students Praised at ACDFA Regional Conference</description><hofcats>DANCE,CULTURAL,STUDENT,HCLAS</hofcats></item><item><date>May 15, 2013</date><title>Hofstra Honors Its 2013 Mentor of the Year </title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/051513_MentoroftheYear2013.html</link><description>Justin DiAngelo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology, has been named this year’s Mentor of the Year, a new award in its second year which honors outstanding faculty supervision of advanced undergraduate research. </description><hofcats>RESEARCH,HSHS,MUSEUM,ADMISSION,GRADUATE,SOE,DANCE,FACULTY,ALUMNI,SOC,SOM,STUDENTAFFAIRS,HUHC,ASIA CENTER,STUDENT,HCLAS,ZARB,SEAS,COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>May 14, 2013</date><title>"Coping With the New Normal: Life After Sandy"</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/051413_SaltzmanBreakfast.html</link><description>"Coping With the New Normal: Life After Sandy"</description><hofcats>COMMUNITY,RESEARCH</hofcats></item><item><date>May 13, 2013</date><title>Hofstra University Launches Master of Arts in Public Relations</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/05132013_MAPR.html</link><description>Hofstra University is launching an innovative new Master of Arts program in Public Relations (PR) that will help students meet the demands of a rapidly-evolving communications field by emphasizing key areas such as management, research, best practices, writing and effective communications tools.</description><hofcats>ADMISSION,SOC,STUDENTAFFAIRS,HCLAS,STUDENT,GRADUATE,DIVERSITY,FACULTY,HUHC,CULTURAL,ALUMNI,COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>May 10, 2013</date><title>Hofstra University’s Frank G. Zarb School of Business and  U.S. Commercial Service Sign Strategic Partnership</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/051013_zarbcommerce.html</link><description>Hofstra University’s Frank G. Zarb School of Business and the U.S. Commercial Service of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration have forged a partnership to increase awareness in the U.S. business community, particularly among small- and medium-sized businesses, about exporting and the tools and resources our organizations provide to help them succeed.</description><hofcats>ASIA CENTER,COMMUNITY,FACULTY,GRADUATE,ALUMNI,DIVERSITY,ZARB</hofcats></item><item><date>May 09, 2013</date><title>Hofstra's ASCD Student Chapter Participates in Effort to Help Chicago's Hungry</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/050913_ASCDChapter.html</link><description>Hofstra's ASCD Student Chapter Participates in Effort to Help Chicago's Hungry</description><hofcats>STUDENT,COMMUNITY,SOE</hofcats></item><item><date>May 09, 2013</date><title>Hofstra University Recognizes Its Teachers of the Year</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/050913_TeachersoftheYear.html</link><description>Hofstra University Recognizes Its Teachers of the Year</description><hofcats>SOC,ZARB,SOM,HSHS,HCLAS,SOE,SEAS,FACULTY</hofcats></item><item><date>May 09, 2013</date><title>ROTC Students Honored at Awards Ceremony</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/050913_ROTCAwards.html</link><description>ROTC Students Honored at Awards Ceremony</description><hofcats>STUDENT,HCLAS</hofcats></item><item><date>May 08, 2013</date><title>Hofstra Hillel Executive Director chosen to take part in international think-tank.</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/05082013_HofstraHillelExecutiveDirectorchosentotakepartininternationalthinktank.html</link><description>Rabbi Dave, executive director of Hofstra Hillel: The Center for Jewish Life on Campus, recently attended a prestigious five-day international program about communicating the Jewish faith and identity in a multi-cultural environment. </description><hofcats>DIVERSITY,STUDENTAFFAIRS,CULTURAL,COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>May 08, 2013</date><title>Hofstra Installs Sculpture Dedicated to Alumna and Songwriting Legend Ellie Greenwich</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/050813_EllieGreenwichSculpture.html</link><description>Hofstra Installs Sculpture Dedicated to Alumna and Songwriting Legend Ellie Greenwich</description></item><item><date>May 06, 2013</date><title>Teaching the Joys of Dance</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/050613_DanceAHRC.html</link><description>May 8 Performance by Hofstra's Dance Programs and AHRC-Nassau</description><hofcats>HCLAS,CULTURAL,FACULTY,COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>May 03, 2013</date><title>Hofstra Students Win Fox News Channel College Challenge </title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/05032013_SOCFoxChallenge.html</link><description>Three students from the Hofstra School of Communication have won the 2013 Fox News Channel College Challenge.</description><hofcats>COMMUNITY,ALUMNI,FACULTY,DIVERSITY,STUDENT,ADMISSION,STUDENTAFFAIRS,SOC,CULTURAL</hofcats></item><item><date>May 03, 2013</date><title>The Bronx Opera Company Performs Puccini’s "La bohème"</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/050313_BronxOpera.html</link><description>The Bronx Opera Company Performs Puccini’s "La bohème," May 17 and 18, 2013, John Cranford Adams Playhouse</description><hofcats>CULTURAL,COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>May 01, 2013</date><title>Do More With Your Summer at Hofstra</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/050113_summer_sessions.html</link><description>Summer Sessions at Hofstra </description><hofcats>STUDENT,SEAS,SOE,HCLAS,ADMISSION,COMMUNITY,HUHC,GRADUATE,SOC,HSHS,ZARB</hofcats></item><item><date>May 01, 2013</date><title>Hofstra Masquerade Theater Presents the Musical "Carrie"</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/050113_Carrie.html</link><description>Hofstra Masquerade Theater Presents the Musical Carrie; May 3-5, 2013, Spiegel Theater</description><hofcats>COMMUNITY,HCLAS,STUDENT,CULTURAL</hofcats></item><item><date>May 01, 2013</date><title>Hofstra University 2013 Spring Commencement Activities and Honorees</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/050113_Commencement.html</link><description>Hofstra University 2013 Spring Commencement Activities and Honorees; Sunday and Monday, May 19-20</description><hofcats>HSHS,GRADUATE,HCLAS,STUDENT,ALUMNI,SOC,SOE,SEAS,ZARB,HUHC</hofcats></item><item><date>Apr 29, 2013</date><title>2013 Hofstra University Student Art Show</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/042913_FineArtsShow.html</link><description>2013 Hofstra University Student Art Show, Presented by the Department of Fine Arts and Art History</description><hofcats>CULTURAL,HCLAS,COMMUNITY,STUDENT</hofcats></item><item><date>Apr 29, 2013</date><title>Concert in the Quad</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/t042913_DAddarioConcert.html</link><description>Concert in the Quad - D'Addario Community Music Appreciation Concert, May 4</description><hofcats>CULTURAL,HCLAS,COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>Apr 29, 2013</date><title>Hofstra Television Students Raise Money For Film Majors </title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/04292013_MaxKolbTelethon2013.html</link><description>Hofstra’s School of Communication will air the 12th Annual “Friends of Max Kolb Telethon” on Sunday, May 5, 2013 starting at 9 p.m.</description><hofcats>COMMUNITY,ALUMNI,GRADUATE,ADMISSION,SOC,FACULTY,DIVERSITY,STUDENT,STUDENTAFFAIRS,CULTURAL</hofcats></item><item><date>Apr 28, 2013</date><title>Hofstra sets fundraising record at 6th annual Relay for Life</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/04262013_RelayForLife.html</link><description>The Hofstra Community will gather at the campus intramural fields on April 27, 2013 at 7:00pm to take part in the American Cancer Society Relay for Life. </description><hofcats>COMMUNITY,FACULTY,CULTURAL,ALUMNI,STUDENTAFFAIRS,STUDENT,DIVERSITY</hofcats></item><item><date>Apr 28, 2013</date><title>Spend the Day as a Hofstra University Student</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/100812_FOH_28OCT.html</link><description>Experience Spring Open House on Sunday April 28, 2013</description><hofcats>ADMISSION,COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>Apr 26, 2013</date><title>Dr. Grant Saff Elected as Treasurer of Association of American Geographers </title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/04262013_GrantSaffElectedAsTreasureforAAG.html</link><description>At the recent  Association of American Geographers Board meeting in Los Angeles,  Grant Saff was elected to the office of Treasurer of the Association. </description><hofcats>ASIA CENTER,FACULTY,ENVIRONMENT,HCLAS</hofcats></item><item><date>Apr 25, 2013</date><title>17th Annual Hofstra Gala to Honor Dr. Lawrence Herbert '51, Inventor of the Pantone® Matching System® and Hofstra's Teachers of the Year</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/04252013_GALA2013.html</link><description>The 17th Annual Hofstra Gala honoring Dr. Lawrence Herbert ’51 will be held at an elegantly transformed David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex, North Campus, on Thursday, May 2, 2013. Dr. Herbert is the inventor of the Pantone® Matching System® and former chairman and CEO of Pantone®, Inc.  The Hofstra Gala raises more than $1 million for student scholarships and recognizes the University’s top faculty, as voted by students.</description><hofcats>HSHS,HCLAS,GRADUATE,SOM,DIVERSITY,SOC,ZARB,RESEARCH,COMMUNITY,SEAS,STUDENTAFFAIRS,ALUMNI,FACULTY,SOE,CULTURAL,HUHC,STUDENT</hofcats></item><item><date>Apr 25, 2013</date><title>Student Journalists Win Major Media Awards</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/04252013_SOCstudentawards.html</link><description>Students and alumni of the Hofstra School of Communication recently won several prestigious awards from top media organizations for their work as student journalists. </description><hofcats>ADMISSION,STUDENT,RESEARCH,ALUMNI,STUDENTAFFAIRS,MUSEUM,FACULTY,SOC,COMMUNITY,DIVERSITY,CULTURAL</hofcats></item><item><date>Apr 24, 2013</date><title>Hofstra University Office of Admission Offers  Preview Day for High School Sophomores</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/042413_preview_day.html</link><description/><hofcats>HUHC,ZARB,SEAS,ADMISSION,SOC,HSHS,HCLAS,COMMUNITY,STUDENT,SOE</hofcats></item><item><date>Apr 22, 2013</date><title>Hofstra Dance Performs Annual Spring Dance Concert</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/041913_DanceConcert.html</link><description>Hofstra Dance Performs Annual Spring Dance Concert</description><hofcats>STUDENT,FACULTY,HCLAS,CULTURAL,COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>Apr 19, 2013</date><title>"The Queen of the Toy Piano" in Concert at Hofstra</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/041913_MargaretLengTan.html</link><description>"The Queen of the Toy Piano" in Concert at Hofstra</description><hofcats>COMMUNITY,DIVERSITY,CULTURAL,ASIA CENTER</hofcats></item><item><date>Apr 15, 2013</date><title>300 High School Students Examine Racial Divisions, Nationally and Locally</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/041513_EmancipationDay.html</link><description>300 High School Students Examine Racial Divisions, Nationally and Locally</description><hofcats>CULTURAL,SOE,COMMUNITY,FACULTY</hofcats></item><item><date>Apr 12, 2013</date><title>"We Hold These Truths," celebrates 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/041213_WeHoldTheseTruths.html</link><description>"We Hold These Truths," celebrates 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation</description><hofcats>COMMUNITY,MUSEUM,CULTURAL</hofcats></item><item><date>Apr 11, 2013</date><title>Dive Into Writing This Summer</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/0411_SummerWriters.html</link><description>Hofstra University's English Department and Creative Writing Program Present the 39th Annual Summer Writers Program, July 8 to 19, 2013</description><hofcats>HCLAS,CULTURAL,COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>Apr 11, 2013</date><title>Panel Examines Gun Violence Prevention, April 15</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/041113_ANTIGUNPANEL.html</link><description>Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy and others who have been directly affected by gun violence will be featured speakers at a program at Hofstra University.</description><hofcats>SOC,HCLAS</hofcats></item><item><date>Apr 11, 2013</date><title>The Rain Always Rises</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/102312_ZapataSymposium.html</link><description>The Rain Always Rises - April 26; A Symposium on the Poetry of Miguel-Angel Zapata  </description><hofcats>RESEARCH,CULTURAL,DIVERSITY,HCLAS,FACULTY</hofcats></item><item><date>Apr 08, 2013</date><title>Hofstra University among a dozen sponsors of 2013 Empire State Games</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/04082013_EMPIREGAMES.html</link><description>Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano announced that Nassau will once again host the Empire State Games for the Physically Challenged with the support of a dozen private sector sponsors, including Hofstra University.</description><hofcats>STUDENT,ADMISSION,ALUMNI,CULTURAL,DIVERSITY,STUDENTAFFAIRS</hofcats></item><item><date>Apr 05, 2013</date><title>Here Come the Bridesmaids …</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/040513_FiveWomen.html</link><description>Department of Drama and Dance Presents "Five Women Wearing the Same Dress"</description><hofcats>HCLAS,CULTURAL,STUDENT,COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>Apr 05, 2013</date><title>Hofstra Dutch Festival Turns 30!</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/040513_DutchFestival.html</link><description>Hofstra Dutch Festival Turns 30!</description></item><item><date>Mar 22, 2013</date><title>English Prof. Awarded Grants from Fulbright and the NEH</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/032213_Bryant.html</link><description>English Prof. Awarded Grants from Fulbright and the NEH</description><hofcats>FACULTY,HCLAS,CULTURAL,RESEARCH</hofcats></item><item><date>Mar 19, 2013</date><title> Gray Wig Alumni Theater Company presents Accentuate the Arlen</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/031913_ArlenTribute.html</link><description>Get Happy! The Gray Wig Alumni Theater Company presents Accentuate the Arlen</description><hofcats>COMMUNITY,ALUMNI,CULTURAL</hofcats></item><item><date>Mar 19, 2013</date><title>Mideast Update With Michael Tuchfeld, Israel's Leading Broadcast Journalist</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/031813_MidEastUpdate.html</link><description>Hofstra University’s Issues in Judaism Lecture Series Presents Mideast Update With Michael Tuchfeld</description><hofcats>CULTURAL,COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>Mar 18, 2013</date><title>A Tribute to Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Jimmy Roselli</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/031813_ItalianAmericanLectures.html</link><description>A Tribute to Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Jimmy Roselli</description><hofcats>CULTURAL,COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>Mar 18, 2013</date><title>Hofstra School of Health Sciences and Human Services Sponsors National Public Health Week Series</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/031813_NationalPublicHealthWeek.html</link><description>The School of Health Sciences and Human Services will observe National Public Health Week in early April with a series of free events addressing some of the most pressing challenges facing health professionals today </description><hofcats>HSHS,COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>Mar 15, 2013</date><title>Hempstead for Hofstra/Hofstra for Hempstead</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/031513_HempsteadForHofstra.html</link><description>Hempstead for Hofstra/Hofstra for Hempstead 39th Annual Scholarship Dinner, April 4, 2013</description><hofcats>COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>Mar 14, 2013</date><title>Hofstra School of Education Named in Top 100 by U.S. News Ranking</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/031413_SOETop100.html</link><description>Hofstra School of Education Named in Top 100 by U.S. News Ranking</description><hofcats>GRADUATE,ADMISSION,FACULTY,SOE</hofcats></item><item><date>Mar 14, 2013</date><title>Hofstra Student Journalist Wins Major Media Award</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/03142013_ShannanFerryGracieAward.html</link><description>Shannan Ferry, a junior majoring in broadcast journalism in the Hofstra School of Communication, has won a national award for outstanding interview program or feature from the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation.</description><hofcats>DIVERSITY,FACULTY,STUDENTAFFAIRS,SOC,ALUMNI,COMMUNITY,ADMISSION</hofcats></item><item><date>Mar 12, 2013</date><title>NYC Programs Highlight Hofstra Dance Talent</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/031213_DanceNYC.html</link><description>NYC Programs Highlight Hofstra Dance Talent</description><hofcats>STUDENT,HCLAS,CULTURAL</hofcats></item><item><date>Mar 11, 2013</date><title>Administrators and Students Shave It Off for Childhood Cancer Fundraiser</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/03112013_AdministratorsandStudentsShaveItOffforChildhoodCancerFundraiser.html</link><description>On March 13, 2013 Hofstra University will host its fifth annual St. Baldrick’s Day event, a fundraiser  in which Hofstra administrators team up with students and shave their heads to raise money for childhood cancer research.</description><hofcats>STUDENT,COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>Mar 08, 2013</date><title>Shakespeare Festival Companion Performances</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/030813_ShakespeareFestivalCompanionPieces.html</link><description>Hofstra’s 64th Annual Shakespeare Festival Features the Festival Musicale by the Hofstra Collegium Musicum And "This Bud of Love," a One-Hour Adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet"</description><hofcats>CULTURAL,COMMUNITY,HCLAS</hofcats></item><item><date>Mar 01, 2013</date><title>Graduate Admissions to Host Open House</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/030113_GOH_24Mar13.html</link><description>Office of Graduate Admissions to Host Open House</description><hofcats>SEAS,ALUMNI,HSHS,HUHC,HCLAS,FACULTY,SOE,ZARB,RESEARCH,ADMISSION,COMMUNITY,STUDENT,SOC,SOM,GRADUATE</hofcats></item><item><date>Mar 01, 2013</date><title>Prof. Receives American Musical Instrument Society’s Highest Honor</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/030113_HettrickAward.html</link><description>Professor Receives American Musical Instrument Society’s Highest Honor</description><hofcats>FACULTY,RESEARCH</hofcats></item><item><date>Feb 28, 2013</date><title>Hofstra University to Host Specialized Reporting Institute on Suburban Poverty</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/02282013_HofstraToHostSRI.html</link><description>The School of Communication at Hofstra University will host a journalism workshop on suburban poverty that is part of a nationwide series aimed at helping reporters produce smart, nuanced coverage of the critical issues of the day.    </description><hofcats>CULTURAL,ADMISSION,ALUMNI,COMMUNITY,STUDENTAFFAIRS,FACULTY,DIVERSITY,GRADUATE,HCLAS,SOC</hofcats></item><item><date>Feb 27, 2013</date><title>Conference to Address Recovery Preparedness in the Wake of Superstorm Sandy Devastation</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/02072013_ConferencetoAddressRecoveryPreparednessintheWakeofSuperstormSandyDevastation.html</link><description>Hofstra University will host an interdisciplinary conference bringing together scholars, activists and practitioners from around the world to explore how to create more sustainable communities in densely populated regions, beginning with the suburbs.</description><hofcats>HCLAS,COMMUNITY,RESEARCH,CULTURAL,ENVIRONMENT,FACULTY</hofcats></item><item><date>Feb 24, 2013</date><title>Student from Paul J. Gelinas Middle School Wins Hofstra LI Regional Spelling Bee</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/022413_SpellingBee.html</link><description>Student from Paul J. Gelinas Middle School Wins Hofstra LI Regional Spelling Bee</description><hofcats>COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>Feb 20, 2013</date><title>"Antony and Cleopatra" Reign at Hofstra</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/022013_AntonyandCleopatra.html</link><description>"Antony and Cleopatra" Reign at Hofstra - Presenting the 64th Annual Shakespeare Festival</description><hofcats>COMMUNITY,STUDENT,CULTURAL,FACULTY,HCLAS</hofcats></item><item><date>Feb 20, 2013</date><title>Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day Early …</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/022013_IrishFestival.html</link><description>Hofstra Hosts 15th Annual Irish Festival, March 10, 2013</description><hofcats>DIVERSITY,CULTURAL,COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>Feb 19, 2013</date><title>Hofstra Long Island Regional Spelling Bee</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/020613_SpellingBee.html</link><description>Hofstra Long Island Regional Spelling Bee</description><hofcats>COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>Feb 12, 2013</date><title>Bioethics Center Wins Grant to Host 'Humanism and Ethics' Night </title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/02-12-13_BIOETHICSGRANT.html</link><description>Hofstra University’s Bioethics Center, under the director of Dr. Janet L. Dolgin, was awarded a $5,000 grant from the Arnold P. Goldman Foundation to sponsor a “Humanism and Ethics Night” that focused on the uses of neuro-imaging.</description><hofcats>HSHS,RESEARCH,HCLAS,FACULTY,SOM</hofcats></item><item><date>Feb 05, 2013</date><title>"Go Red for Women" –</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/020513_GoRedForWomen.html</link><description>Hofstra Dance Students Performed  at North Shore-LIJ in Memory of Their Professor</description><hofcats>COMMUNITY,STUDENT,CULTURAL,HCLAS</hofcats></item><item><date>Feb 04, 2013</date><title>"Drawings, Proposals, Plans, Diagrams" - Works by DeWitt Godfrey</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/020413_DeWittGodfrey.html</link><description>"Drawings, Proposals, Plans, Diagrams" - Works by DeWitt Godfrey, February 11-April 7, 2013</description><hofcats>HCLAS,CULTURAL,COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>Feb 04, 2013</date><title>"The Lyon, the Which, and the Warhol"</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/020413_MuseumPhotography.html</link><description>Photography Exhibition Helps the Hofstra University Museum Commemorate 50th Year</description><hofcats>CULTURAL,MUSEUM,COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>Feb 04, 2013</date><title>50 Works Celebrate 50 Years of Excellence</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/020413_Museum50thAnniversary.html</link><description>Hofstra University Museum Celebrates Its Golden Anniversary</description><hofcats>MUSEUM,COMMUNITY,CULTURAL</hofcats></item><item><date>Feb 04, 2013</date><title>Alums with Sterling GPAs Receive Da Silva Scholarships </title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/020413_DaSilvaScholarship.html</link><description>Alums with Sterling GPAs Receive Da Silva Scholarships </description><hofcats>SOC,HUHC,ALUMNI,HCLAS,ZARB</hofcats></item><item><date>Jan 29, 2013</date><title>Take to the Stage ...</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/012913_DanceFestival.html</link><description>Hofstra University Dance Program Presents the Third Annual High School Dance Festival</description><hofcats>HCLAS,FACULTY,ADMISSION,COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>Jan 24, 2013</date><title>A Musical War of the Sexes …</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/0124_PrincessIda.html</link><description>Hofstra Opera Theater Presents Gilbert &amp; Sullivan's "Princess Ida"</description><hofcats>COMMUNITY,HCLAS,STUDENT,CULTURAL</hofcats></item><item><date>Jan 24, 2013</date><title>Hofstra Hosts Conference on Real Estate, Transportation Development After Hurricane Sandy</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/012413_BRESLINSANDY.html</link><description>The Wilbur F. Breslin Center for Real Estate Studies at Hofstra University is hosting a free conference February 7 about development and transportation, with a particular focus on post-Hurricane Sandy restoration. </description><hofcats>CULTURAL,ALUMNI,ZARB,COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>Jan 23, 2013</date><title>Hofstra Dance Wins World Title, Cheer Upholds National Title</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/01232013_HofstraCheerWinsWorldTitle,CheerUpholdsNationalTitle.html</link><description>The Hofstra Dance team took home a World Championship title, while the Pride Cheer team upheld its national first place title for a fifth consecutive year at the 2013 Universal Cheerleaders Association (UCA)/Universal Dance Association (UDA), College National Championship in Orlando, Florida. </description><hofcats>STUDENT,STUDENTAFFAIRS</hofcats></item><item><date>Jan 18, 2013</date><title>Hofstra Online Graduate Programs Earn Top Rankings From U.S. News &amp; World Report</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/0118213_ONLINERANKINGS.html</link><description>Hofstra University’s online graduate program in computer science are the 10th best in the nation, while its business and education online graduate programs rank in the top 100, according to U.S. News &amp; World Report.</description><hofcats>SOE,ZARB,STUDENT,ALUMNI,ADMISSION,SEAS,COMMUNITY,FACULTY,GRADUATE</hofcats></item><item><date>Jan 16, 2013</date><title>Honoring "Black Spirit and the Struggle for Freedom"</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/011612_BlackSpirit.html</link><description>Honoring "Black Spirit and the Struggle for Freedom"</description><hofcats>STUDENTAFFAIRS,COMMUNITY,CULTURAL,DIVERSITY,STUDENT,HCLAS,FACULTY</hofcats></item><item><date>Jan 14, 2013</date><title>Robert Noyce Scholarship &amp; Fellowship Programs Aim to Bring Talented Science and Math Teachers to High-Needs School Districts</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/011412_NoycePrograms.html</link><description>Hofstra's Robert Noyce Scholarship &amp; Fellowship Programs Aim to Bring Talented Science and Math Teachers to High-Needs School Districts</description><hofcats>DIVERSITY,ALUMNI,COMMUNITY,SOE</hofcats></item><item><date>Jan 10, 2013</date><title> Hofstra to Host Transfer Days for Spring 2013 Enrollment</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/011013_transfer_days_january.html</link><description>Transfer to Hofstra – A Move in the Right Direction</description><hofcats>ADMISSION,COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>Dec 20, 2012</date><title>Hofstra's Chorale and Chamber Singers Perform in Garden City</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/122012_ChoirandChamberSingers.html</link><description>Hofstra's Chorale and Chamber Singers Performance in Garden City</description><hofcats>COMMUNITY,CULTURAL,STUDENT,HCLAS</hofcats></item><item><date>Dec 19, 2012</date><title>Fall Faculty Dance Concert and Benefit a Beautiful and Successful First-Time Collaboration</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/121912_DanceConcert.html</link><description>Fall Faculty Dance Concert and Benefit a Beautiful and Successful First-Time Collaboration</description><hofcats>COMMUNITY,CULTURAL,FACULTY,HCLAS</hofcats></item><item><date>Dec 18, 2012</date><title>CPX Interactive and Hofstra Host Entrepreneurship Competition</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/12182012_CPXInteractiveandHofstraHostEntrepreneurshipCompetition.html</link><description>CPX Interactive, a digital advertising company, founded and led by Hofstra alumnus Michael Seiman, is partnering with Hofstra University to sponsor a student entrepreneurship competition that will award $50,000 for the best concept and business plan.</description><hofcats>ALUMNI,STUDENT,HCLAS,SEAS</hofcats></item><item><date>Dec 18, 2012</date><title>Five students attending inauguration seminar</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/INAUGURATIONSEMINAR_12-18-2012.html</link><description>Five Hofstra students will attend a 10-day presidential inauguration seminar at the Washington Center in January, getting a behind-the-scenes perspective on history, exploring potential career paths and meeting nationally recognized scholars, journalists and political leaders.</description><hofcats>STUDENT,HUHC,RESEARCH,ADMISSION,FACULTY,DIVERSITY,SOC,DEBATE,HSHS,HCLAS,ZARB,STUDENTAFFAIRS,COMMUNITY,ALUMNI</hofcats></item><item><date>Dec 17, 2012</date><title>Eric Lane Named Ninth Dean of the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/121712_lawdean.html</link><description>Today Hofstra University President Stuart Rabinowitz announced the appointment of Eric Lane as the ninth dean of the Maurice A. 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IASA Partners with Hofstra to Present Annual Conference</description><hofcats>CULTURAL,DIVERSITY,RESEARCH,FACULTY,HCLAS,COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>Nov 16, 2012</date><title>Performance for a Cause</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/111612_DanceBenefit.html</link><description>Dance Program and Music Department Present an Exciting Stage Experience, Nov. 29-Dec. 2</description><hofcats>COMMUNITY,HCLAS,STUDENT,CULTURAL,FACULTY</hofcats></item><item><date>Nov 09, 2012</date><title>"Old Wine in New Bottles: The Songs Live On"</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/110912_CollegiumMusicum.html</link><description>"Old Wine in New Bottles: The Songs Live On"</description><hofcats>HCLAS,COMMUNITY,CULTURAL,FACULTY</hofcats></item><item><date>Nov 09, 2012</date><title>Clinic Offers Counseling to Those Impacted by Hurricane Sandy</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/110912_PhobiaandTrauma.html</link><description>Hofstra's Phobia and Trauma Clinic Offers Counseling to Those Most Impacted by Hurricane Sandy</description><hofcats>HCLAS,COMMUNITY,GRADUATE,FACULTY</hofcats></item><item><date>Nov 08, 2012</date><title>Hofstra’s Center for Labor and Democracy Hosts Post-Election Conference</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/LABOR_11-8-2012.html</link><description>Hofstra University’s Center for the Study of Labor and Democracy will host a conference on Nov. 14, 2012 called “The White House and Working America: What the 2012 Election Means for Our Jobs” featuring elected officials, scholars, activists and policy analysts including Congressman Tim Bishop and Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute.</description><hofcats>FACULTY,HCLAS,HSHS,DIVERSITY,HUHC,SOM,SOE,SOC,CULTURAL,ALUMNI,SEAS,GRADUATE,MUSEUM,DEBATE,COMMUNITY,RESEARCH,STUDENTAFFAIRS,ZARB,STUDENT</hofcats></item><item><date>Oct 24, 2012</date><title>Professor's Work Added to MOMA's Permanent Collection</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/102412_MOMA.html</link><description>Hofstra Professor's Work Added to MOMA's Permanent Collection</description><hofcats>CULTURAL,HCLAS,RESEARCH,FACULTY</hofcats></item><item><date>Oct 24, 2012</date><title>Student Artists Channel Their Views on Contemporary Issues </title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/102412_SocialRealism.html</link><description>Student Artists Channel Their Views on Contemporary Issues </description><hofcats>CULTURAL,SOE,DIVERSITY,HCLAS,DEBATE,COMMUNITY,FACULTY</hofcats></item><item><date>Oct 23, 2012</date><title>Hofstra Cultural Center Presents Klezmer "Hot and Spicy"</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/102312_KlezmerConcert.html</link><description>Hofstra Cultural Center Presents Klezmer "Hot and Spicy"</description><hofcats>CULTURAL,COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>Oct 22, 2012</date><title>Chamber Music Sunday</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/102212_MozartFest.html</link><description>Chamber Music Sunday - A Two-Part Event; 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Households and communities that saw much of their wealth disappear now find themselves unable to rebuild it, likely widening the racial wealth gap on Long Island.</description><hofcats>DIVERSITY,RESEARCH,ZARB,FACULTY,COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>Sep 19, 2012</date><title>Authors Announced for Hofstra Reading Series</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/091912_GreatWritersGreatReadings.html</link><description>Authors Announced for Hofstra Reading Series</description><hofcats>HCLAS,FACULTY,CULTURAL</hofcats></item><item><date>Sep 14, 2012</date><title>Transfer to Hofstra – A Move in the Right Direction</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/091412_TOH_05OCT12.html</link><description>Learn How Your Credits Go Further at Hofstra – Attend Transfer Open House</description><hofcats>ADMISSION,COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>Sep 14, 2012</date><title>“Larry Kirwan’s Rock &amp; Read Tour” Back at Hofstra</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/09142012_LarryKirwan2012.html</link><description>Larry Kirwan, playwright, author, and lead vocalist and guitarist for New York City-based Celtic rock band Black 47, returns for a second year to Hofstra to perform songs and read from his latest  novel, “Rockin’ the Bronx,” on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. in the Helene Fortunoff Theater at Monroe Lecture Hall, South Campus. </description><hofcats>STUDENTAFFAIRS,FACULTY,HCLAS,STUDENT,ALUMNI,CULTURAL,DIVERSITY,ADMISSION,COMMUNITY,HUHC,MUSEUM</hofcats></item><item><date>Sep 12, 2012</date><title>Hofstra University Museum Celebrates Partnership with  Bethpage Federal Credit Union;</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/091812_MuseumPartnership.html</link><description>Hofstra University Museum Celebrates Partnership with Bethpage Federal Credit Union</description><hofcats>CULTURAL,COMMUNITY,MUSEUM</hofcats></item><item><date>Sep 10, 2012</date><title>Start and Expand a Business in a  Challenging Economy </title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/EAPrelease.html</link><description>The Entrepreneurial Assistance Program (EAP) offered by Hofstra University's Scott Skodnek Business Development Center provides participants with the "nuts and bolts" skills required to operate and grow a successful business. Participants receive training and counseling that will enable them to complete a business plan while attending the program.</description><hofcats>COMMUNITY,DIVERSITY,SOM,HCLAS,ALUMNI,SEAS,STUDENT,FACULTY,GRADUATE,ZARB</hofcats></item><item><date>Aug 31, 2012</date><title>Artist Explores Darfur Crisis and America's response</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/0530_DarfurExhibition.html</link><description>Artist explores Darfur crisis and America's response</description><hofcats>COMMUNITY,MUSEUM,CULTURAL</hofcats></item><item><date>Aug 27, 2012</date><title>On-Line MBA Program Embarks on First Global Practicum</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/GLOBALBIZ_20120827.html</link><description>The inaugural class of Hofstra University’s online MBA program traveled to China, visiting global companies, touring production facilities, and meeting senior executives as part of a global practicum designed to immerse students in foreign cultures and business practices.</description><hofcats>GRADUATE,ALUMNI,FACULTY,ZARB,ADMISSION,RESEARCH,DIVERSITY</hofcats></item><item><date>Aug 24, 2012</date><title>Hofstra Students To Report from GOP and Democratic National Conventions</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/082412_HofstraSOCStudentsatNationalConventions.html</link><description>WRHU Radio Hofstra University continues its award-winning news programming with student journalists on site at the upcoming Republican and Democratic presidential conventions  -- part of Hofstra’s Debate 2012:  Pride, Politics and Policy initiative, a slate of educational programs and events leading up to the university hosting the second presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in the fall.</description><hofcats>COMMUNITY,STUDENT,DIVERSITY,SOC,ADMISSION,FACULTY,ALUMNI,STUDENTAFFAIRS,DEBATE</hofcats></item><item><date>Aug 24, 2012</date><title>Hofstra University Launches New School of Health Sciences and Human Services</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/newHSHS_08242012.html</link><description>Hofstra University’s Board of Trustees has authorized the creation of a new School of Health Sciences and Human Services as part of the University’s ongoing efforts to expand offerings in the sciences and answer the region’s critical need for health care professionals.</description><hofcats>STUDENT,ADMISSION,HSHS,DIVERSITY,ALUMNI,GRADUATE,RESEARCH,FACULTY,COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>Aug 20, 2012</date><title>Hofstra Announces Debate 2012: Pride, Politics and Policy Event Series </title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/press_release SIGNATUREEVENTS.html</link><description>Hofstra University, host of the second 2012 presidential debate, will bring a slate of top political strategists, activists, scholars and journalists to campus this fall, including former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, 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University Included in Fiske Guide to Colleges 2013</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/08_02-12_fiske_guide.html</link><description>Hofstra University Included in Fiske Guide to Colleges 2013</description><hofcats>COMMUNITY,ADMISSION</hofcats></item><item><date>Aug 01, 2012</date><title>Suburban Split: President Obama and Mitt Romney in Dead Heat</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/080112_SuburbanPoll.html</link><description>National Suburban Poll shows Obama gaining ground with suburban swing voters </description><hofcats>FACULTY,HUHC,CULTURAL,MUSEUM,RESEARCH,COMMUNITY,SOM,STUDENT,HCLAS,ALUMNI,SOC,SOE,DIVERSITY,ZARB,STUDENTAFFAIRS,SEAS,GRADUATE,DEBATE</hofcats></item><item><date>Jul 31, 2012</date><title>"You May Be Right" ~ A Billy Joel Experience</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/073112_MovinOn.html</link><description>"You May Be Right" ~ A Billy Joel 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</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/07022012_DocumentingDiversity2012.html</link><description>Ten students from New York City and Long Island high schools have been chosen to participate in this year’s Documenting Diversity program, an innovative summer initiative at Hofstra University that will teach and challenge them to examine each other’s cultures through the art of documentary filmmaking.  </description><hofcats>SOC,COMMUNITY,DIVERSITY,FACULTY,CULTURAL,ADMISSION,ALUMNI</hofcats></item><item><date>Jun 29, 2012</date><title>Hofstra to Host Transfer Days this Summer for Fall 2012 Enrollment</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/062912_transfer_days_july.html</link><description>Transfer to Hofstra – A Move in the Right Direction</description><hofcats>ADMISSION,COMMUNITY</hofcats></item><item><date>Jun 27, 2012</date><title>Graduate Admissions to Host Open 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Hathaway as New Vice President and Director of Athletics</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/051512_hathawayAD.html</link><description>Hofstra University President Stuart Rabinowitz today announced that the University had hired Jeffrey A. 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Drucker, professor of journalism, media studies and public relations at Hofstra University, was awarded the 2012 Donald H. Ecroyd &amp; Caroline Drummond Ecroyd Teaching Excellence Award from the Eastern Communication Association (ECA). </description><hofcats>STUDENT,FACULTY,ADMISSION,COMMUNITY,ALUMNI,SOC</hofcats></item><item><date>May 04, 2012</date><title>Artist Pays Tribute to the Memories of Those Lost During the Holocaust with Original Retrospective Exhibit</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/032112_YoniaFain .html</link><description>The exhibition Yonia Fain: Remembrance, on view from April 19 through August 3, 2012 in the Hofstra University Museum’s Emily Lowe Gallery, provides a retrospective look at works by internationally acclaimed artist and poet Yonia Fain created between 1959 and the present. </description><hofcats>COMMUNITY,MUSEUM,CULTURAL</hofcats></item><item><date>May 03, 2012</date><title>Teaching the Joys of Dance</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/050312_DanceAHRC.html</link><description>May 9 Performance by Hofstra's Dance Programs and AHRC-Nassau</description><hofcats>HCLAS,COMMUNITY,CULTURAL,FACULTY</hofcats></item><item><date>May 02, 2012</date><title>The Bronx Opera Company Presents "Hansel &amp; Gretel"</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/050212_HanselGretel.html</link><description>The Bronx Opera Company Presents "Hansel &amp; Gretel"</description><hofcats>CULTURAL,COMMUNITY,HCLAS</hofcats></item><item><date>May 01, 2012</date><title>Geology Department to Host U.S. Geological Survey Water Science Symposium</title><link>http://www.hofstra.edu/Home/News/PressReleases/05012012_geologydepartmenttohostUSgeologicalsurveywatersciencesymposium.html</link><description>On May 3, 2012 the Department of Geology at Hofstra University will be host to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Water Science Symposium.</description><hofcats>HCLAS,COMMUNITY,ENVIRONMENT,RESEARCH</hofcats></item>
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