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Medaille College Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions Dr. Kush K. Bhardwaj was named Erie County Citizen of the Month for February 2018 by the Erie County Legislature at a ceremony on February 15. The award was given to Dr.

A retired special agent with more than 25 years of field experience as a homeland security investigations supervisory criminal investigator, Aida Teresa (“Tere”) Silva now teaches such courses as International Legal Systems and Systems of International Terrorism in the homeland security (HLS) program at Medaille.

Medaille College has been awarded its second Upward Bound Grant from the US Department of Education and is the only college in Western New York to receive the second grant, which is to be used specifically for education in math and science programs.

Students from Medaille College traveled to Albany, NY, on February 13 to make their voices heard on New York Student Aid Alliance Advocacy Day.

Geovanni Montes is currently a senior in the homeland security (HLS) program at Medaille College. A former criminal justice major, Montes transferred to Medaille’s online HLS program after taking a homeland security course and finding that the field greatly interests him.

Medaille College clinical assistant professor Steve MacMartin ’13 and a panel of local experts discussed how to plan for a disaster during an event at Medaille’s Buffalo campus on February 8. MacMartin, the director of Medaille’s bachelor’s degree program in homeland security and a recently retired Senior Special Agent/National Program Manager with the U.S.

Medaille’s Program of the Month (POTM) series highlighted students, faculty and alumni from the College’s master of arts in clinical mental health counseling (CMHC) program in December 2017.

Medaille’s Program of the Month (POTM) series launched this November, shining a spotlight on students, faculty and alumni from the College’s English (B.A.) program. Taken together, November’s POTM features demonstrated how an English degree is an entryway to a multitude of careers.

Watch a quick recap video on Medaille’s YouTube channel.

Highlighted items from November’s POTM series included:

English program alumna Sarah Kinne ’14 currently works as a teaching assistant at the Northeastern University School of Law, in addition to being a staff assistant specialist for the Office for Scholarly Communication at Harvard University Libraries. After completing her B.A.