Calkins Quad buzzed with activism and sustainable activity during an Earth Day celebration held on Wednesday, April 18. Organized by the Center for Civic Engagement, the event featured multiple student groups at Hofstra as well as local organizations from the surrounding Long Island area.

The Hofstra Master of Health Administration Alumni Association presented a panel, “Strategic Alignment in a Time of Healthcare Transformation,” as part of National Public Health Week, on Thursday, April 12.

David Frum, senior editor for The Atlantic and former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, used his latest book “Trumpocracy” as a springboard for a presentation about American identity on Thursday, April 5.

Auditi Guha, a race and justice journalist for Rewire.News, shared insight on feminism, journalistic integrity and racial justice with students during an intimate talk held in the Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center on Tuesday, March 27.

David Garlock took a man’s life in 1999 and received a 25-year prison sentence. Currently, Garlock is the program director for New Persons Ministry, a re-entry program in Pennsylvania where he works with sex offenders to rehabilitate their lives after prison. 

A recent panel organized by the Muslim Students Association (MSA), Collegiate Women of Color, Honors College and the Center for Race, Culture and Social Justice, discussed how the Muslim identity is influenced by politics, public life and activism.

The Department of Religion’s annual Critical Spiritualities Event featured a discussion with Yale University professor Tisa Wenger on her new book about the concept of religious freedom and its impact on ideas that shape American culture. “A Conversation with Dr. Tisa Wenger,” took place on Wednesday, March 28 at 6 p.m. on the 10th floor of the Axinn Library.

The Hofstra Department of Psychology invited Dr. Matthew Hall of the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth to share his research on the development of deaf youth on March 3.

Emperor Hadrian has been recorded in the annals of history as being a complex, benevolent dictator. His legacy, once a masterpiece of Roman architecture and now a desolation of debris and crumbled walls, is still being studied by many archaeological associations. Two of these groups, the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and Long Island Society (LIS), sent members to Breslin Hall on Sunday, Feb. 11 to share their recent knowledge of Hadrian’s Villa in Rome. 

This was part of a neuroscience event known as the Long Island Brain Bee competition, the local level of an international tournament, sponsored by the Zucker School of Medicine and the Department of Biology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

A five-member team from The Stony Brook School defeated a team from Jericho High School in the final round after they presented a nuanced analysis of the ethical implications of driverless cars.