Tag Archives: Faculty and Staff

Wildcats Named #7 Seed In Division II Elite Eight, Will Face #2 Texas Woman’s

Members of the women's basketball team celebrate after winning on Sunday to advance to the Elite Eight.

East Region champion Daemen University will be the No. 7 seed in the 2024 NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Elite Eight and will face second-seeded Texas Woman’s University in the national quarterfinals at 3:30 p.m. Monday, March 25 at the… Read More »

Wildcats Fall To Top-Seeded Purple Knights In NCAA East Region Semifinals

The Daemen University men’s basketball team saw its 2023-24 season come to an end following an 86-62 loss to top-seeded Saint Michael’s College this evening in the East Region semifinal of the 2024 NCAA Division II Championship. The game was… Read More »

Two Appointed to Daemen Board of Trustees

The Daemen University Board of Trustees approved the appointment of Brian Higgins and Gail Mitchell to the university’s board. Higgins serves as the President & CEO of Shea’s Performing Arts Center where he will oversee an expansion of the campus… Read More »

Daemen to Honor Mary Wilson with Community Excellence Award

Mary Wilson, a Life Trustee with the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation, will receive this year’s Daemen University Community Excellence Award at the Annual Scholarship Gala – the university’s premier event to raise scholarship support for students – on… Read More »

Daemen Announces Commencement Speakers

An ariel view of the Daemen University 2023 undergraduate commencement ceremony.

Daemen University is proud to announce that Lana Benatovich and Robert Gioia, both members of the university’s Board of Trustees, have been selected as the 2024 commencement speakers. Benatovich will serve as the undergraduate ceremony speaker, and Gioia will… Read More »

Sports Management Students Get NHL Experience

Sports management students and faculty members attend a Buffalo Sabres game at the KeyBank Center.

Before the puck even dropped, some Business Administration majors at Daemen University had a winning experience at a recent Buffalo Sabres game. Students in the Sports Management Program and members of the Sports Management Club, along with three faculty members,… Read More »

Daemen Extends Enrollment Deadlines Due to FAFSA Delay

Three students walk up the stairs in the Research & Information Commons

Daemen University has extended enrollment deadlines in the wake of the delay with the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or the form commonly known as FAFSA. Students can usually fill out the financial aid application starting in October,… Read More »

Animation Alums Take Home Annie Award

An animated Jack Black is seen on a horse in his music video "Video Games

Four Daemen University animation alums won an Annie Award for the music video they produced for actor and comedian Jack Black. “Video Games” took home the trophy in the Best Sponsored category at the 51st annual award ceremony held in… Read More »

Coach MacDonald Featured in Local Magazine

Daemen University men’s basketball coach Mike MacDonald is featured in the newest issue of Traffic East, a visual and literary magazine dedicated to stimulating the mind, taking the restraints off its artists, and engaging its readers in a diversity… Read More »

Daemen Launching Criminal Justice and Doctor of Nursing Programs

Daemen University has received approval from the New York State Education Department (NYSED) to establish two degree programs: a new bachelor’s of science in criminal justice and a newly updated Doctor of Nursing Practice. “Offering new and contemporary curricula and… Read More »

Longtime Enrollment Leader Passes Away

Dr. Patricia Ruppert Brown, a former vice president for enrollment management at Daemen University, passed away on February 3, 2024, at the age of 72. Dr. Brown joined Daemen in 2002 as the dean of enrollment management and was later… Read More »

All High Art Weekends Showcase High School Artists

Daemen University continues to celebrate local aspiring artists during its annual All High Art Weekends. The 56th annual All High Art Exhibition opened on Saturday, February 3, in the Elizabeth C. and Peter Tower Gallery in the Nancy Haberman … Read More »

Original Trustee Scholar Inspires Top Prospective Students

Dr. Megan Herr '09 serves as the keynote speaker at Scholars Day

Halfway through her interview on Scholars Day two decades ago, Dr. Megan Herr ‘09 decided she wanted to attend Daemen University. “Not the day, the interview itself,” Herr told a room full of the institution’s highest-achieving prospective students. “The person… Read More »

Grants to Fund Research on the Impact of Road Salt

Students collect water samples in a local creek.

Two Daemen University researchers will lead a consortium of institutions on a statewide survey of the year-long effects of winter road salt on stream organism biodiversity and biochemical properties. Dr. Sarah Whorley and Dr. Jeffrey Law, both associate professors of… Read More »

University Dedicates Scott Bieler College of Health Professions

Scott Bieler and his wife Kathy cut the ribbon at the ceremony with President Gary Olson and Chairman John Yurtchuk

Daemen University celebrated the naming of the Scott Bieler College of Health Professions during a dedication ceremony on Tuesday in honor of Scott Bieler, a member of the university’s board of trustees and the president and CEO of West Herr… Read More »