Welcome

To the class of 2010, new faculty members, and those of you returning to campus, we welcome you back. Please note our new hours.

The new hours for the Elizabeth Seton Library are as follows:

 Monday through Thursday: 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

 Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

 Saturday: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

 Sunday: 2:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

For those requiring access to computers, the new Stephen J. Maloney Computer Center - on the ground floor of the Elizabeth Seton Library - is open from:  

8:00 a.m. until 1:30 a.m. Monday through Thursday.

8:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. on Fridays

10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Saturdays

2 p.m. until 1:30 a.m. Sundays

Space for Peace

Russian Photo Exhibit now in the Skylight Gallery

                                                                                                             by Martha Kruy

Space for Peace, a new exhibit now on display in the Skylight Gallery of the Elizabeth Seton Library was mounted there by the students of the Russian School in Riverdale, under the direction of Alexander Musienko, Counsellor to the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations. The mission of the exhibit is to portray the peaceful efforts to explore space and technology through international cooperation, specifically between formerly opposing giants – The Soviet Union and the United States. Thus the exhibit photographically documents not only such events as the Soviet-American Soyuz-Apollo project and the joint expeditions to the International Space Station; but demonstrates the dramatic shift in relationship between the adversaries by also portraying the early days of the Soviet Space Program when its mission was to beat the United States to launching human beings into space. Among the 49 photographs included in this exhibit are such awe-inspiring images of the earth from space; the International Space Station (ISS); and American astronauts working side-by-side with Soviet cosmonauts, all of which can truly change a viewer’s perspective on any research they might be pursuing.

The Space for Peace exhibit is the direct result of a serendipitous meeting between the College of Mount Saint Vincent’s Assistant Professor of Economics, Natalia Smirnova and Counsellor to the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations’Alexander A. Musienko earlier this year when the professor first viewed the exhibit at it’s original home at the United Nations.

Coincidentally October 1-8, 2006 is the “Keep Space for Peace” International Week of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space…