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Registrations are now being accepted for Salve Regina’s 17th annual 5K Mansion Run and Walk, a unique event that starts and finishes on the University’s campus.

The event will be held at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 22 during Fall Festival Weekend. Back for a sixth year is the Kids Fun Run, which starts at 8 a.m.

Registration is $10 for current Salve Regina students and $20 for all others. Team discounts are available at $15 per runner. Registration for the Kids Fun Run is free and all children will receive a prize.

• Register online

Open to the general public, the U.S.A. Track & Field-sanctioned 3.1-mile course weaves participants in a scenic tour past many Gilded Age mansions. Proceeds from the event will support Friends of Seahawk Athletics, which is comprised of Salve Regina alumni, parents and friends who have a special affinity for the University’s intercollegiate athletic teams and the role that athletics play in the community.

The road race annually attracts several hundred participants from the Salve Regina community and the general public. Prizes include $150 for the first place male and female, $100 for the second place male and female and $50 for the third place male and female.

Free T-shirts are guaranteed for the first 400 paid registrants. Refreshments will be available. For more information, call Matt Boxler at (401) 341-2156 or visit the road race website at www.salve.edu/run.

The McKillop Library will once again sponsor “Library Lessons,” a series of workshops open to all members of the Salve Regina community, throughout the fall 2016 semester. Topics include conducting research, learning APA and MLA citation styles and using bibliographic citation managers.

While most workshops are available by appointment only, three sessions focusing on the new library catalog will be held throughout the semester:

New Library Catalog: Worldcat Discovery

• 9 a.m. Monday, Sept. 19
• 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6
• 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16

Learn about the library’s new search tool that allows you to find and request books, articles and other research materials. All sessions will be held in the McKillop Library, Room 006.

Additional sessions available by appointment include:

• APA Style: Learn about the American Psychological Association (APA) citation and format style that is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences.
• MLA Style: Learn about the Modern Language Association (MLA) citation and format style that is most commonly used to cite sources within the humanities and liberal arts.
• Introduction to Today’s Library Services: Learn about access from home, finding books and articles, and requesting from other libraries.
• How to Do Research: How do I decide on a topic? What are the steps in the research process? How do I decide which research tools to use?
• Using Bibliographic Citation Managers (Refworks): What’s a bibliographic citation manager? How can it help me organize books and articles? How can I use it to create a works cited bibliography?
• Conducting a Literature Review: What is a literature review? How do I make sure I don’t miss anything? How do I optimize library tools to keep up with new research as I’m writing?

To register for a session on the new library catalog, or to schedule an appointment for any of the other workshops, visit library.salve.edu/librarylessons. For more information, call (401) 341-2289 or email salvelibrarian@salve.edu.

A newly constructed 23,000-square-foot academic wing on Salve Regina’s campus will be named in honor of Lily Haseotes Bentas, Cumberland Farms chairman of the board, for her longtime friendship and service to the University.

All members of the University community are invited to attend the official dedication of the Lily Haseotes Bentas Center, which will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17. U.S. senators from Rhode Island, Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, will offer remarks, along with members of the Haseotes family and representatives from the Salve Regina community.

The Bentas Center is connected to the 67,000-square-foot reconstructed O’Hare Academic Building, sharing a large commons area overlooking the Cliff Walk and the Atlantic Ocean. The center will house the Department of Business Studies and Economics, along with its business outreach program, the Rodgers Family Department of Nursing, student common areas, classrooms, conference areas and faculty offices.

“Lily Bentas’ support of Salve Regina extends far beyond the boardroom, proving that the values of family, friendship, community and corporate responsibility truly make a difference in this world,” said President Jane Gerety, RSM. “Lily has contributed greatly to the excellence of Salve Regina through her generosity of time, experience and resources. We will be forever grateful for her longtime friendship and support.”

A University trustee since 2007, Bentas’ leadership and generosity have helped advance the University mission in far-reaching ways. Her support over the years helped the University to build Our Lady of Mercy Chapel, to establish the Antone Academic Center and to raise scholarship funds for students. Her generosity also supported the establishment of the Nuala Pell Leadership Program in Public Service, which prepares future generations of leaders through specialized training. She established the Lily Haseotes Bentas Scholarship in Business Studies, which is awarded to a female undergraduate who aspires to a career in business and who demonstrates a commitment to building community through ethical practice.

“I have learned that one of the most important things you have in life is your reputation,” she told graduates as Salve Regina’s Commencement speaker in 2006, during which she received an honorary doctorate in business administration. “You have only one reputation. Please don’t compromise it. Business, as life, has many ups and downs, good times and bad times. If your associates trust and respect you, they will be with you when the going gets tough, as well as in the good times.”

Bentas attended Cumberland High School, graduating in the same class as Chancellor M. Therese Antone, RSM. “This is a joyous occasion for me, particularly as I reflect on my decades-long friendship with Lily and the relationship between my family and the Haseotes family that reaches back to our days in Cumberland,” Antone said. “Having the Lily Haseotes Bentas name grace our new center in the academic heart of Salve Regina’s campus is most fitting and fills me with pride.”

Bentas is the daughter of Vasilios and Aphrodite Haseotes, who started the company as a single-cow farm in Cumberland, Rhode Island in 1939. Opening the first-ever convenience store in the northeast in 1957, Cumberland Farms has since grown into a multi-billion-dollar corporation that employs 8,000 people. Today it operates 600 retail convenience stores with gasoline in eight states throughout the northeast and Florida.

“An inspiration and role model for all business people, most especially aspiring young, professional women, Lily has been my most trusted business partner and mentor in addition to being my beloved aunt,” said Ari Haseotes, Cumberland Farms president and CEO. “Lily is the picture of humility and grace. Never forgetting the humble roots from which our family has come and always remembering that our success as a family in business is most heavily attributed to the many thousands whom we call members of our team and a commitment to continuously investing in our people and our business over the long term.”

Bentas, who has served in a variety of leadership positions at Cumberland Farms for 40 years, is a former member of the board of directors for the National Association of Convenience Stores and served for many years on the boards of Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, and the National 4H Council. She is also a member of “Leadership 100” of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America.

Dr. Ray Raymond, associate professor of government and history at SUNY Ulster, will discuss “Should We Rethink Presidential War Powers?” when he presents Salve Regina’s annual Constitution Day lecture at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 16 in the Ochre Court state dining room.

Writing in 1943, Justice Robert Jackson dissented from the Supreme Court’s majority when it upheld the constitutionality of President Roosevelt’s executive order interning more than 100,00 Japanese-Americans in wartime. His argument was that the court’s judicial order had legitimized a military order triggered by a temporary wartime emergency, which could happen again. Jackson concluded that the principle the court had established “lies around like a loaded weapon … ready for the hand of any authority that can bring forward a plausible claim of an urgent need.” Today, 15 years after 9/11, the presidency once again enjoys sweeping war powers. Is it time to rethink them?

Raymond is the director of the Institute for Constitutional Studies at SUNY Ulster. He was the 2009 Thomas Hawkins Johnson Visiting Professor at the U.S. Military Academy and is a fellow of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York City and the Royal Society of Arts in London. Raymond is a 20-year veteran of the U.K. diplomatic corps, a former senior adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair and a member of the Order of the British Empire.

Constitution Day became a national observance in 2004, when Congress passed a bill designating Sept. 17 as the day for citizens to commemorate the signing of the U.S. Constitution and learn more about the nation’s founding document.

Salve Regina’s ranking among the best institutions of higher education in the United States climbed four spots from the previous year in an annual survey conducted by U.S. News & World Report.

In the 2017 edition of U.S. News’ Best College rankings, Salve Regina is ranked 32nd among top tier Regional Universities – North, which includes colleges and universities in New England, New York and the Mid-Atlantic states. Additionally, the University’s graduate program in rehabilitation counseling was ranked 69th nationally.

According to the magazine’s methodology, regional universities offer a broad scope of undergraduate degrees and some master’s degree programs. Salve Regina also offers a Ph.D. in the humanities and the Doctor of Nursing Practice.

U.S. News annually rates more than 1,400 colleges and universities on up to 15 indicators of academic excellence, including selectivity, peer assessment, retention rate, financial resources, class size, student-faculty ratio, proportion of full-time faculty and alumni giving.