The Saint Rose calendar is filled with fun and informative cultural events, including music, sports, art, and the prestigious Vickery Speaker in Ethics and Leadership.

October 25:

• 6 p.m. – Women’s Soccer vs. Pace (live streamed on http://www.gogoldenknights.tv)

November 2:

• 7 p.m. – 2017 Vickery Speaker in Ethics & Leadership: Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble, MD, Ph.D., University Professor of Medical Humanities, George Washington University, discusses equity and justice in U.S. medicine and public health. Carl E. Touhey Forum, Lally School of Education. Author of “Making A Place for Ourselves: The Black Hospital Movement: 1920-1945,” Dr. Gamble chaired the 1997 Tuskegee Syphilis Study Legacy Committee that secured a Presidential apology for the treatment of African-American patients. The talk is free and open to the public.

November 9:

• 5:30 p.m. – “Disagree with Dignity – Understanding the First Amendment,” The College of Saint Rose 2017 Jurist in Residence Program, is a panel discussion with the Honorable Loretta A. Preska, U.S. District Judge; Eve Burton, Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Hearst; and Alfred D. Chapleau, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Pre-law Advisor at The College of Saint Rose. The panel will be moderated by Daniel P. Nolan, Esq., Partner and CEO of Hugh Johnson Wealth Advisors, with opening remarks by Rex Smith, Vice President and Editor of the Times Union. The event will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the Carl E. Touhey Forum, Thelma P. Lally School of Education, 1009 Madison Ave., Albany. The event is free and open to the public. Register by emailing crastoc@strose.edu.

Ongoing:

• Through December 6: “Reaching for the Sky,” an exhibition by Lothar Osterburg, at the Esther Massry Gallery, 1002 Madison Ave., Albany. The gallery is closed for Thanksgiving, November 22 to 26. Open 1st Fridays: November 3, December 1 from 5 to 9 p.m.

*Sports: See more events at http://gogoldenknights.com.

Saint Rose alumni are invited to register for the 2017 HOME.COMING & Family Weekend, which will be held September 22 through 24.

The weekend will be packed with opportunities to connect and reconnect with your Saint Rose classmates. Activities include a tour of Albany, musical performances, a walk/run at the nearby Crossings park, plenty of sports to take part in or watch, and for the first time, the 15 Minutes Max Student Film Festival, which will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday.

To register, see who’s coming, and view the schedule, click here. The registration deadline is Monday, September 18.

Watch our Facebook page for a weekly contest leading up to the event, in which you could win two tickets to HOME.COMING Fest on Saturday, September 23.

Almost everyone can name a special teacher they may have had as a child. At The College of Saint Rose, we have a long history of producing educators who go on to inspire students throughout their lives.

Schools in South Carolina hired two of those types of Saint Rose graduates. Shannon Peterson ’06 G’12 and Tiffany Smith ’04 G’05 were named Teacher of the Year in their school districts recently and went on to be honored during the South Carolina Teacher of the Year banquet.

We caught up with both of them here.

Scientists have long known that women who consume alcohol during pregnancy greatly increase their risk of having babies with physical or cognitive delays. They also know that the damage can be observed in the cerebellum, the region of the brain that controls balance and motor function.

However, as she studied brain development, Dr. Rebecca Landsberg, a Saint Rose biology professor, noticed that researchers focusing on fetal alcohol syndrome seemed to look at the cerebellum without considering the lesser-known system it relies on.

A developmental neurobiologist who earned her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Landsberg has studied the precerebellar system for 14 years. Since her arrival at Saint Rose six years ago, she has investigated how the system is damaged in individuals with fetal alcohol syndrome. Now, scores of her students have benefited from her work.

Read more about it here, or watch a video of Landsberg in the lab with one of her student researchers here.