NIAGARA UNIVERSITY — Niagara University is proud to announce its designation as a National Security Agency Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense. This important recognition underscores the university’s commitment to advancing cybersecurity education, research, and developing the next generation of cybersecurity professionals to protect the United States’ critical national information infrastructure into the future. […]
NIAGARA UNIVERSITY – Father Joseph L. Levesque, CM, former president of Niagara University, passed away peacefully June 23, 2024, at St. Catherine’s Infirmary in Philadelphia at the age of 85. Father Levesque served as the 25th president of Niagara University, and when he retired from that role in 2013, the university’s board of trustees voted […]
NIAGARA UNIVERSITY — Niagara University’s Levesque Institute for Civic Engagement is hosting a community cookout and conversations for parents and their students attending Niagara Falls High School, Gaskill and LaSalle preparatory schools in the Niagara Falls City School District. The event takes place on Saturday, June 22, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. in the […]
Dr. Derron Hilts, assistant professor and school counseling program coordinator at Niagara University, along with his colleague, Dr. Yanhong Liu, associate professor at Syracuse University, received a $5,000 grant from the New York State School Counselor Association to examine the relationship between the Covid-19 pandemic and student-to-school counselor ratios on student outcomes.
NIAGARA UNIVERSITY — Niagara University’s Kiernan Recreation Center will welcome more than 200 Special Olympians and their families on April 27 as the host of the Special Olympics New York’s Western Regional Basketball Tournament. The event begins with an opening ceremony at 9:30 a.m. and concludes with team and skills awards. “I am very humbled […]
NIAGARA UNIVERSITY — Niagara University’s Vincentian tradition will inform the work of a new living-learning community designed to empower students to pursue justice in their personal and professional lives. The Vincentian Center for Justice, located in Bailo Hall on the NU campus and established along the lines of the University of Notre Dame’s Center for […]
NIAGARA UNIVERSITY — Dr. Rolanda Ward, associate professor of social work at Niagara University and endowed faculty director of the university’s Rose Bente Lee Ostapenko Center for Race, Equity and Mission, received the Katie Huntington Champion of Justice Award from the New York state chapter of the National Association of Social Workers at a virtual […]
NIAGARA UNIVERSITY — Dr. John Martin Fischer, distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of California Riverside, will present “The ‘Forever Wars’: Should You Choose to Live Forever?” at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, April 15, in the Gallagher Center Multi-Purpose Room on the Niagara University campus. The presentation, which is open to the public, is […]
NIAGARA UNIVERSITY — Niagara University’s student chapter of the Club Managers Association of America was named Student Chapter of the Year by the association at its 2024 World Conference and Club Business Expo, held March 4-8 in Las Vegas. This is the 13th time in its 15-year history that the chapter has been recognized as […]
Sister Linda Lanighan, who cared for the youngest and oldest of the diocese, died March 8, 2024, at the Sisters of St. Joseph Residence in Clarence. Sister Linda, formerly known as Sister Mary James, began her life May 2, 1943, in Lockport. The daughter of James and Mildred (Erie) Lanighan. After completing secondary school at […]
